I sometimes wonder if we really own the products we buy.  It feels like I&#x27;m theoretically leasing, more and more products.  Item breaks down, you need to send it back to the company. &quot;We don&#x27;t sell our service manuals.&quot;  I need to buy their toner, ink, etc?<p>I repair watches.  Their are certain brands I cannot buy parts for.  Even as a certified watch repairer, most companies won&#x27;t sell parts to me, or anyone else--no matter how much experience you have.  You are forced to send that watch back to the factory, and pay outragious prices for repair and service.<p>So you did ok financially.  You go out and buy a fine watch. A watch designed to be taken apart--over and over again.  A watch you plan to hand down to your kids.  The only problem is you, and everyone else who owns that watch needs to send it back to the factory for service(cleaning, and oiling), and parts when it stops keeping time.  You don&#x27;t own the watch, you are mearly leasing it.  It&#x27;s not about quality service; it&#x27;s about money.<p>If you happen to own one of these watches.  If it ever stops don&#x27;t think you have the right to repair it yourself, or decide who repairs your timepiece.  It has to go back to the factory.<p>A. Lange &amp; Sohne
Alfred Dunhill
(Rolex, and Omega sell to some certified watch repairers, but are trying to find ways to eliminate 3rd party watch repairers.)
Audemars Piguet
Bertolucci
Blancpain
Breguet
Breitling
Bulgari
Cartier
Certina
Chaumet
Chopard
Daniel Mink
David Yurman
Dior
Diesel
Doxa
Fossil
Franck Muller
Frederique Constant
Glycine
Guess
Harry Winston
Hublot
Jaeger-LeCoultre
Krieger
Luminox
Marcel Watch
Meylan Stopwatches
Mont Blanc
Nixon
Parmigiani
Piaget
Pierre Balmain
Raymond Weil
RGM
Sector
Skagen
Tourneau
Tutima
Ulysse Nardin
Vacheron Constantin
Van Cleef &amp; Arpels
Zodiac<p>Yes, the watch analogy is little off topic, but I believe relevant.  If consumers don&#x27;t smarten up, more and more companies are going to be &quot;milking&quot; you for money, or we will be forced--economically to just buy another expensive  unit of their product?  (It&#x27;s not just ostentatious watches, it&#x27;s car companies that won&#x27;t sell 3rd party auto repairers scan codes in order to repair their complicated&#x2F;mess of wires, and computers?  It&#x27;s more product than people realize?  I believe in recycling&#x2F;repairing goods?  I don&#x27;t like this throw away society.