Repair almost same price as product

I have a Hisense Infinity H3 smart phone. I got the phone towards the end of last year and have been happy with the phone. Yesterday morning I dropped it and the screen cracked from the top corner outward across the whole face. I tried to get quotes to fix the screen and found out normal cell phone repair shops don't fix Hisense, so I contacted the supplier and got a quote for R1035. The phone is now selling for R1500 so it doesn't make sense that the repair costs almost the same as a new phone especially if you add the cost of driving from PTA to Kempton and back to fetch it later. I would like to continue using the brand but have chosen to get something else because if something else goes wrong it will cost me a lot to fix it. This isn't the best way to build a brand