We lost a piece of specialty equipment, and as a condition for replacement, the vendor is requiring us to basically buy up their entire back stock (to the tune of $32k USD or so) if we want any of them.
They won't repair unless we purchase either.
Capitalism: efficient!
I mean, we're locked to this vendor, so we have no choice.
But this is gonna cost us in terms of other equipment we won't be able to deploy, and student jobs we won't be able to offer over the summer term.