Would you Repair or buy new?
Do you ever repair things or are you more likely to bin it and go buy a new one?
Reason I ask is my trusty old Carlton airtech hard shell case wheels bit the dust when I was on holiday in April, instead of happily pulling along 23kg of suitcase on nice spinning wheels, I ended up dragging 23kg of case and luggage through the packed Sydney streets to the hotel. When I got back I thought I would just purchase a nice new shiny case of the same make, only to find out they do not make that type anymore and all the new ones are these flimsy plastic type with zip fastners, having witnesed the current cases being thrown around at various airports around the World I reckoned a new one would not last five minutes. Anyway I did a search online and found one punter selling the exact wheels I needed to fix the case on ebay! I bought the wheels for less than £20, fixed the case and I am quite chuffed to have the thing working again....
So the question is repair or buy new?