Dell Warranty - Not Bad
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From: Clocky on 13 May 2010 14:10 atec7 7" <""atec77\"@ hotmail.com wrote: > Dr. Sir John Howard, AC, WSCMoF > wrote: >> jonz wrote: >>> >>> hmmmm, bought a Goldstar microwave nearly thirty years >>> ago.........still working fine.. >> >> Goldstar isn't LG (Lucky Goldstar). > ALong with the corp name change name a noticable change in quality > we have quite a bit of higher end Lg in the house and so far the > bedroon tv dropped an audio board which was repaired out of warranty > and the front loader dropped the go switch which cost only $19.00 to > repair So far nothing else has been a problem but then being a huge > retail supplier does tend to make a similar percentage of failures to > the others They make junk that is designed to fail and uneconomical to fix.
From: atec7 7 ""atec77" on 13 May 2010 18:23 Clocky wrote: > atec7 7" <""atec77\"@ hotmail.com wrote: >> Dr. Sir John Howard, AC, WSCMoF > wrote: >>> jonz wrote: >>>> hmmmm, bought a Goldstar microwave nearly thirty years >>>> ago.........still working fine.. >>> Goldstar isn't LG (Lucky Goldstar). >> ALong with the corp name change name a noticable change in quality >> we have quite a bit of higher end Lg in the house and so far the >> bedroon tv dropped an audio board which was repaired out of warranty >> and the front loader dropped the go switch which cost only $19.00 to >> repair So far nothing else has been a problem but then being a huge >> retail supplier does tend to make a similar percentage of failures to >> the others > > They make junk that is designed to fail and uneconomical to fix. > AN immodest claim with no proof so where is the cite and url ?
From: Clocky on 13 May 2010 22:41 atec7 7" <""atec77\"@ hotmail.com wrote: > Clocky wrote: >> atec7 7" <""atec77\"@ hotmail.com wrote: >>> Dr. Sir John Howard, AC, WSCMoF > wrote: >>>> jonz wrote: >>>>> hmmmm, bought a Goldstar microwave nearly thirty years >>>>> ago.........still working fine.. >>>> Goldstar isn't LG (Lucky Goldstar). >>> ALong with the corp name change name a noticable change in quality >>> we have quite a bit of higher end Lg in the house and so far the >>> bedroon tv dropped an audio board which was repaired out of >>> warranty and the front loader dropped the go switch which cost only >>> $19.00 to repair So far nothing else has been a problem but then >>> being a huge retail supplier does tend to make a similar percentage >>> of failures to the others >> >> They make junk that is designed to fail and uneconomical to fix. >> > AN immodest claim with no proof I don't need proof when I'm surrounded by LG customers with similar stories of goods failing just out of warranty. > so where is the cite and url ? You can go better and ring any service centre you like.
From: terryc on 13 May 2010 23:15 On Fri, 14 May 2010 02:14:48 +0800, Clocky wrote: > It's cheap if it lasts 40 years ;-) Make sure you mention it in your will.
From: terryc on 13 May 2010 23:18
On Fri, 14 May 2010 09:25:19 +1000, Brad wrote: > Jugs are funny things, growing up we had the old type with the 2 wires > running down the inside to the element. they went for years and a > replacement element was cheap and took 2 minutes to replace. They were > ugly, noisy, potentially fatal and leaked water if overfilled. Damn they > would last though. Until you dropped the, I still have two of them. The biggest belonged to my grandmother. The trick with wire elements was to replace them with the two parallel plate element. They never blew out. |