To reduce the amount of work he sold the B&O part of his company
to his assistent. For the next two months he will not acept any
order. This way he hopes to reduce the weighting time for his repairs.
The waiting time also depends from the complexity of repair.
My Sony XL 88 D is regarded as irreparable but he deed try for
more than two years. As far as I know he never ''ripped off'' any
of his customers. Besides he does not ask any payment in advance
while there is no sensible reason to assume that he wants to keep
your Technics carts with (probably) defective suspension. If this
was the case he obviously has much better choices (grin).