Re: [tlug] UPS batteries

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

David Santinoli writes:

 > That's expensive.  Here in Italy the original replacement for your UPS
 > (APC RBC2 battery) is sold at 36 euro -- more or less one quarter of the
 > prices you found.

Welcome to the Soviet Corporate-Socialist Republic of Japan!

There's a regulation in Japan that says that companies must stock
parts for seven years after ending production.  There's no price cap
on said parts.  So ....

Note that if you have to go to a repair shop to get the work done, the
manufacturers tend to post more reasonable prices and often kickback
to the repair shops; the relationship there is symbiotic.  Then the
prices are painfully, but not quite prohibitively, high.