You’ve dropped your phone and the screen shattered. Now you’re facing a costly repair until you can get a new phone. Swapping out one piece of glass or a button doesn’t seem like it should be that expensive. Why does it cost so much to fix your stuff?
All of this, and disincentivizing repair over purchasing new product. They have buckets of those screens at a cost of a couple of dollars to the company, but of they jack the price up enough you’ll start thinking to yourself, “repairing this is going to cost almost as much as just getting a new one,” and thus you rationalize the purchase and the vendor sells more product.
It’s strategic pricing, and IMO it’s so unethical it should be illegal.
No, the screens are absolutely not cheap. They are usually the most expensive part of a phone. No idea where you get that “couple of dollars” from. Hell, I usually source used screens because new would simply be too expensive. Even with literal defects in OLEDs you can still get a decent price for them.