Why is an old A1502 retina LCD, twice the price of the newer A1706 LCD?

The older displays are no longer being made so they are getting harder to find so the price goes up. Plus many 2013 & 2014 displays had the anti-reflective coating issue making good displays even harder to find.

DKP1973 wrote:

Well, Im just not paying five hundred for a screen for an eight year old laptop. Supply and demand, is deliberate inflation. Apple have priced me out of the market. It would be preferable to deal with a company who keep a supply of affordable parts for valued customers, instead of concentrating purely on the profit motive. Time to look at Windows again. :(

It is your choice. If you don't want to pay $500 for the repair so be it. I would not spend $500 on an eight year old computer either. There are excellent Windows computers available. I have several. But I also have a couple of MacBook Pros. I like those as well. So good luck with whatever you decide.

Apple provides hardware support for a minimum of five years and now when the computer goes "Vintage" you may have another two years of hardware support if the necessary parts are still available. Some models such as the MBPro 13" (mid-2012) non-Retina model will have about nine years of hardware support. Good luck finding another manufacturer that supports the hardware for five years much less than nine years!

I am trying to repair my eight year old refrigerator and all I need is a $5 part, but it is no longer available so I must buy the whole board (it is only a few inches on each side -- very tiny and sits in the palm of your hand) and the part from official channels is $300! There are other unofficial replacement boards available for around $50 (unknown quality) and that price is even too much for what the board is and does. The technology on this board is from fifty years ago, there is no high end special chips on it just a simple relay and a few physically large resistors and diodes (available since the 60's) on it along with the relay (there are only a couple physically large surface mount components). It is just the way things are and your laptop uses more advanced and unique parts than my refrigerator does, but I still cannot get the official part at a proper price. How does this make sense? My refrigerator probably even cost less than your MBPro.