Ok, here’s my corporate greed call-out of the day.
I was dispatched today for a no-cool call. The indoor unit was running, but the outdoor unit wasn’t.
The system was a 10-year-old Bryant Evolution high-end variable-capacity inverter system. After running the factory diagnostics, I found Code 77, indicating the inverter board was detecting excessive compressor startup current.
Following the manufacturer’s diagnostic procedure, I disconnected the compressor leads to determine whether the fault was in the compressor or the inverter board. The results confirmed the inverter board had failed. The system is only 8 months out of warranty.
At that point, I started preparing myself to tell the customer the repair would probably be around $1,500–$1,900. I figured the board would cost somewhere in the $800–$1,000 range. After all, it’s just a printed circuit board.
Before giving the estimate, I called Carrier Enterprise for pricing.
$8,900.
Not for the entire outdoor unit.
Not for a complete system.
Just the inverter board.
That’s not a typo. $8,900.
In my opinion, this is the definition of engineered obsolescence. There is no reasonable justification for a replacement circuit board on a 10-year-old residential HVAC system to cost nearly nine thousand dollars. At that price, you’re essentially forcing the homeowner to replace the entire system instead of repairing it.
This is exactly why I’ll never sell Carrier equipment. They make decent equipment, but pricing replacement parts like this turns a repairable system into a disposable one. Homeowners deserve better than that.
Carrier Carrier Enterprise or anyone that’s sells this shit, care to elaborate why this board is so expensive?
🎩 Patrick Henning
This woman claims to be on the Board of Pardons and Parole in Texas
She allegedly posted this after Karmelo Anthony was found guilty.
We reached out to @TDCJ but they declined to respond
EXCLUSIVE
Deborah Venteicher, a teacher at Independence High School @friscoisd in Texas, allegedly posted this on her IG following the recent failed Trump ass*ssination attempt
We reached out to the school multiple times, but they did not respond.
This is the kind of person who is teaching your children.
🚨 WOW. Southwest Airlines is facing nationwide calls to FIRE leftist flight attendant Michele Carpino after she reportedly posted “WE NEED BETTER ASSASSINS” after President Trump survived the WHCD
DO THE RIGHT THING, @SouthwestAir!
She does NOT belong taking care of American air travelers.
Disgusting.
H/t @libsoftiktok
I’d love to hear how United Health Care plans to respond to the company’s social media manager mourning the fact that President Trump survived Saturday’s assassination attempt
@UHC, whats your reaction?
Meet Hugo Carrillo, Carrier Manager at Giltner Logistics in Frisco, TX.
After a deranged gunman tried to assassinate President Trump at the WHCD, Carrillo was openly calling for Tyler Robinson, the cold-blooded murderer of Charlie Kirk to finish the job.
This is the sick, violent rhetoric that gets people killed. You know what to do!
Americans gave Republicans the trifecta with one clear mandate: mass deportations. We made that promise.
Not only have deportations slowed from their earlier pace, but a growing number of House Republicans are now pushing for amnesty.
This is a full-scale betrayal of the voters who put us in power.
@CarolLago128065@CENTCOM lol. That’s a 258 ton boat. Probably a 85 ft shrimp trawler. Oil tankers weigh up to 550,000 tons. I also heard a guy in a rowboat slipped through.
@cjdelgross@LangmanVince The Clash report has it wrong. The only thing that was agreed to was a 2 week cease fire contingent on the strait opening. Those 10 items are demands that Iran has just presented for negotiation. The US has agreed to none of those items.