If you could buy a cordless phone that took standard batteries,would you buy it?

@RealIolo (1854)
United States
October 26, 2006 7:25pm CST
Why do we have products that are so consumer un friendly? A specific example is cordless phones. These devices generally have a battery pack that you must replace sometimes yet no one makes a cordless phone that uses standard batteries. So you must go to the store and spend far too much then is necessary to replace the batteries. Often it costs as much to replace the battery pack as it did to buy the product in the first place! What is even more amazing is that these products often do actually use regular batteries packaged with a special connector so that you must get their special replacement battery. One of these phones a friend gave me had a hard plastic frame with connection points on the back. The phone had issues so I broke open the frame and removed three Nickel Cadmium batteries which I am still recharging and using in other devices. Seems this is an untapped market to me. I mean WHAT A NOVEL IDEA! A company that offers consumer friendly products that people want to buy because they make sense, they are user servicable and ment to last. If a company decided to wise up and offer this product I WOULD BUY IT!
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@varuntr (643)
• India
27 Oct 06
i will buy....
@RealIolo (1854)
• United States
27 Oct 06
Roo showing some tongue - 
  Isn't see special!
Thanks for your response. How do you feel about this little scam that companies have going on? Oh, this pic is my Roo kitty. The picture I am using for myself is her sister Tigger.
@RealIolo (1854)
• United States
5 Nov 06
I am a little suprised that this isn't a bigger issue with people.
@RealIolo (1854)
• United States
11 Nov 06
Doesn't the fact that this is not a product you can find bother anyone? It has irked me for years! If I had the capital I would seriously consider starting a company with 'Consumer Friendly Products' as its motto and aim. And the cordless phone I described above would be one of the products we would offer to public. Along with consumer friendly versions of the products that people have major complaints about. Car companies have lowered quality of their products ON PURPOSE because they were not getting enough revenue in sales and repairs and that is just wrong! This topic has potential and could go on and on. So what would you like to see offered that companies won't produce for you? What is your biggest complaint about products that you have. Time to vent!
• United States
27 Oct 06
Yes I would! Makes it cheaper!!
@RealIolo (1854)
• United States
27 Oct 06
Thanks for your response.
@RealIolo (1854)
• United States
18 Nov 06
I am surprised that this discussion doesn't get more attention. Guess most people just don't actually care about this, except me.