Those okes out there never ceased to amaze me.
When I ran the after sales service for Bosch Power Tools SA in Johannesburg nearly 20 years ago, the country was number 98 in the world's population ranking and the purchase of Power Tools from our parent company per head was the same.
However, we (Bosch SA) was the largest purchaser of spare parts in the world. The second largest parts purchasers then were the USA and we ordered twice the amount they did.
It used to annoy our Managing Director that the German HQ would pay more attention to me than him from the sales side.
They will always give precedence to repairing something before replacing it. The throw away concept was never understood by the majority of South Africans. It's foreign to most of them. If it's broken - fix it - simples
Spruce