Digital camera repair than to buy to the price tag for the new period

With extensive use of digital camera, digital camera repair has become more and more consumers concerned about the topic. All kinds of existing in the repair process of the trouble also allow consumers to repair a camera fell dejected, sent to the field, the first half was repaired; open the body fixed or repair bad to hundreds of dollars; a camera repair down even the money you have to buy a new one, because of technology and products the monopoly of the high maintenance costs of digital camera has so many consumers and the various line be struck dumb, conventional overlord regulations also is infringing the interests of consumers, the camera is maintenance of the pipe.

Case 1: a few hundred dollars to open the fuselage

Home of Dong Yang told reporters, at the end of last year, a Pentax digital camera lens cannot open, because the warranty has expired, get the Garden Hotel near a camera repair shop to repair. The store clerk after a while to tell Mr. Yang, whether or not repaired, the fuselage is open to give 200 yuan. Mr. Yang feel very strange, what problems are not checked out to pay?

According to industry sources, the camera maintenance costs generally include technical fees that check fees and material costs two. The cost of technology is also divided into three levels: mild maintenance, general maintenance and repair. Even the technology fee minimum price maintenance projects do not have tens of dollars to a hundred dollars, but if you need to remove the internal, technical fees are much higher, and the higher the more expensive camera technology.

Case two: repair a camera to repair half a year

A photography enthusiast from Hubei told reporters yesterday, he bought in Hubei last year a Canon digital SLR camera, searched the Wuhan repair shop, no one can be repaired, finally had to be sent to Guangzhou to repair, repair later repaired, to return to the mailing and maintenance costs. Such cost is down to spend 3000 yuan to 3000 yuan, "this can now buy a new 5 million pixel camera." The reader told reporters.

Case three: the price is all maintenance providers say

At the beginning of last year, who lives in the original Dongshan District where he bought a SONY P73 digital camera, the use of a year after the operation can not be normal, and then take a repair shop tianhe. A transformer and the camera inside the contact is not good, the technology and material costs a total of 480 yuan." The service center staff told Mr. He, the machine has passed the warranty period, the cost of maintenance needs the user to pay. And if it is the problem of sensitive components, the cost of technology alone will be five hundred or six hundred yuan, plus the cost of materials will be over a thousand dollars.

It is reported that the price without a standard has become one of the focus issues reflect. To the need to update the main parts in liquid crystal display, camera lens, lens replacement contraction, circuit board, motherboard, transfer port, if is the key imaging components such as CCD, maintenance price will be higher. The individual maintenance personnel in order to maximize the pursuit of profit and may be able to repair some of the money may be used for a few dollars, often take the overall replacement method, often better than a few hundred dollars.

The industry calls for: camera maintenance should be marked price

It is reported that the opaque, home appliance repair service industry price is not open, the price of fraud occurred frequently and other issues, the national development and Reform Commission issued the "home appliance repair service price tag" provisions, from 2006 January, engaged in household appliance repair services must be implemented in accordance with the provisions of the price tag. But in the camera, especially the maintenance of digital cameras in the maintenance of price regulation has been in a gray area.

This professional camera repair industry needs professional service personnel, but the talent quality of our entire camera maintenance field is generally low, the results would spend a little money can fix things, but because of the quality of personnel problems, consumers have to pay more. Insiders also suggested that the camera maintenance personnel to set up a threshold, whenever the camera repair qualified personnel to engage in the industry.