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Posted by Rod Speed on November 4, 2008, 3:50 pm
Please log in for more thread options >> I in fact got the use of a very decent Logitech keyboard and mouse
>> for 5 years for the cost of that money for that time just by choosing
>> a mouse that they didnt continue to produce, claiming under warranty
>> just before the warranty expired and since they couldnt replace the
>> mouse with another with the same button collection etc, they had to
>> give me a full refund of the original purchase price instead.
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>> misterf...@yahoo.com wrote:
>>> How to get your money back on most any product that fails just after
>>> its flimsy, short-term, worthless warranty expires:
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>>> Good examples of junk products that fail in less than 180 days:
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>>> Belkin (cigarette lighter plug-in) cell phone chargers
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>>> SONY microcassette tape-recorders
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>>> any compact flourescent light bulb
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>>> digital cameras, electronics equipment, etc
>>
>>> SIMPLY:
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>>> 1. Buy the SAME product at any store.
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>>> 2. Take advantage of the store's return policy! Wait two weeks; then
>>> put the failed product in the new product's packaging and return it
>>> to the store with the new product's sales receipt. Get your money
>>> back!
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>>> The more people who do this- the sooner these sloppy manufacturers
>>> will make a quality product and give a reasonable warranty! That
>>> even goes for the cheap Chinese items at the Dollar Store.
>
> Along those lines I always enjoyed the hard drive failure (3 year
> warranty) that happened just shortly before that 3 years was up since
> the company would no longer have that 20GB HD, you get a considerably
> bigger one to replace it.
And if it wont fail when required, it isnt hard to kill it undetectably.
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