Value-added is a struggle to achieve, but the struggle must go on.
Threw my Timex in the trash the other day. Kept pretty accurate time for as long as it worked, but failed to keep on tickin' beyond the couple of years I owned it.
Maybe it wasn't even broken. Maybe it just needed a new battery. But I'd feel foolish taking a $35 Timex into a jewelry store asking to change the battery. That probably would cost about as much as a new watch. Plus, I didn't feel like sitting through a jeweler's pitch for something more expensive.