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"Peter Duncanson" wrote in message
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Bill, I live in Northern Ireland and I can tell you that about
twenty years ago a few people here were looking at Britain and
expressing those same fears. They could see this division
occurring and could see the risks based on their own experience.
They didn't speak up because they knew that no one would listen.

What many decent people do not understand is that sometimes
dangerous divisions can arise even when everyone on all sides is
benign and well-intentioned.

Let's hope that the powers-that-be are prepared to invest heavily in
whatever it takes to avert this social catastrophe.


Anyway, back to watching the sleepers in the BB house!
I watch the motorway.

Bill

Customer smashes SIX display TVs in shop
 

I've actually found comet staff to be basically honest and helpful and not
pushing extra warranties myself.

Brian

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"Kay Robinson" wrote in message
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On Tue, 20 May 2008 23:15:44 +0100, "D Mac"
sharpened a new quill and scratched:

After paying 360quid insurance for the set

This seems rather excessive. Why-oh-why do people pay this much

Still chuckling after my local PC World tried to sell me insurance on a
router that came with a lifetime guarantee

I agree, it's far to expensive. I have recently purchased a
fridge-freezer from Comet, cost, just over £400. I did take insurance
out, covering failure, for repair and replacement of foodstuffs. That
cost only £120 and given that I recently lost over £60 of frozen food
when my existing freezer went on the blink, it may be worth it.

Earlier posts regarding pushy staff at Comet amazed me though. I find
it hard to find anyone to help or advise at my nearest Comet, and
that's a mega-store.

Kay

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Customer smashes SIX display TVs in shop
 

Yes, and they run a very helpful charity called The Persula Foundation as
well...

Brian

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"Kay Robinson" wrote in message
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On Tue, 20 May 2008 23:15:44 +0100, "D Mac"
sharpened a new quill and scratched:

After paying 360quid insurance for the set

This seems rather excessive. Why-oh-why do people pay this much

My next door neighbour went to Richer Sounds on Saturday for new TV
extended warranty was 10% extra.
Also the TV was £70 less than the retail sheds.

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Customer smashes SIX display TVs in shop
 

The thing to look for is who is underwriting these deals. Often, as hs been
noted recently by the demise of set top boxes, the sale of goods act is of
no use in real terms. If its underwritten by a good insurance company and
its expected to be a lasting item, then get the warrenty. I'd not suggest it
on tvs though as in the current climate the whole format may change next
week and leave everyone up the junction... Cynical comment...

Brian

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"Angela" wrote in message
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"David" wrote in message
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| "Kay Robinson" wrote in message
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| On Tue, 20 May 2008 23:15:44 +0100, "D Mac"
| sharpened a new quill and scratched:
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| After paying 360quid insurance for the set
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| This seems rather excessive. Why-oh-why do people pay this much
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| My next door neighbour went to Richer Sounds on Saturday for new TV
extended
| warranty was 10% extra.
| Also the TV was £70 less than the retail sheds.

why buy extended warranty when you are covered by the sale of goods act
for
up to 6 years?

Customer smashes SIX display TVs in shop
 

"Mike Henry" wrote in message
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In , "David"
wrote:
"Kay Robinson" wrote in message
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On Tue, 20 May 2008 23:15:44 +0100, "D Mac"
sharpened a new quill and scratched:

After paying 360quid insurance for the set

This seems rather excessive. Why-oh-why do people pay this much

My next door neighbour went to Richer Sounds on Saturday for new TV
extended
warranty was 10% extra.

Richer Sounds extended warranties are in a different league from most of
the high street rip-offs and so deserve special praise. You can claim back
the entire cost of the extended warranty at the end of the period if you
haven't used it! (That used to be the case anyway)

Also the TV was £70 less than the retail sheds.

Another point in their favour.


I wish I'd have looked at their website a few weeks ago when I purchased my
37 inch Philips LCD TV, John Lewis online wanted £599 which included a five
year warranty, Makro were selling the same model in store for £399.99 (with
VAT £470) yet still wanted an extra £130 for an additional four year
extended warranty.
After seeing them mentioned here, out of curiosity I decided to check out
Richer Sounds only to find that they are selling the same TV for £399 'inc
VAT' or £439.90 with a full five year warranty!.. so much for 'so called'
trade outlets such as Makro, we live and learn!

Customer smashes SIX display TVs in shop
 

Angela wrote:
"David" wrote in message
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| "Kay Robinson" wrote in message
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| On Tue, 20 May 2008 23:15:44 +0100, "D Mac"
| sharpened a new quill and scratched:
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| After paying 360quid insurance for the set
|
| This seems rather excessive. Why-oh-why do people pay this much
|
| My next door neighbour went to Richer Sounds on Saturday for new TV
extended
| warranty was 10% extra.
| Also the TV was £70 less than the retail sheds.

why buy extended warranty when you are covered by the sale of goods act for
up to 6 years?



I agree in principle, and do not take out insurance myself on the basis
that they are making money from you, it is cheaper to fund your own
insurance across all your items, for things like TVs/kitchen appliance
you can easily afford to replace these from the money you save unless
you get flooded or something. Car insurance is mandatory and cars do
come with a high risk so it is fair.

However the SOG act only covers 'defects inherant at the time of sale'
this means design defects or early failure due to under rated
components. The onus is on the consumer to prove their case after the
product is 6 months old. It is relatively hard/expensive to prove and
they can provide only a partial refund if you have had significant use
of the product. In practice most people do not bother claiming and
retailers rely on this and are prepared to goto court and lose as the
number of payouts are usually small.

The SOG act is very weak and, I believe, does not promote long lasting
quality products. As a result fewer and fewer manufacturers actually
test their products properly before comming to market. Brand names are
pretty meaningless, and things are so cheap that many people don't even
bother bringing stuff back within the warranty period.

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Tony

Customer smashes SIX display TVs in shop
 

"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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"Steve Terry" wrote in message
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"Ivan" wrote in message One way to regain your
lost longer warranty and rights, is to join the
quarter of a million Brits who are now migrating every single year.

This is one factor. Here's another. Given the higher birthrate of some
immigrant groups compared to the indigenous population, and given the
reluctance of some members of the same groups to integrate and become part
of British society, it seems that we will have a great deal of civil
strife in the years to come. I do wish we could all get on and live
happily together, but I fear a Northern Ireland-type situation on the UK
mainland within thirty years. I can see the resentment of the indigenous
population (including the Poles who settles here in 1946!) reaching levels
where trouble will break out. The white working classes are already rife
with race hatred and tales of anti-white discrimination by the
authorities. Please tell me my fears are unjustified.



Seems to me that the government is at long last beginning to formulate a
similar Point of view, unfortunately the horse bolted decades ago and no
amount of introducing police state legislation with ID cards and DNA
databases is ever going to get him back inside the stable!. 'It's like
watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre'.

Customer smashes SIX display TVs in shop
 

"Kay Robinson" wrote in message
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As you are unlikely to be around

Don't count your chickens. I could live longer than you. You might not be
here this time next year.

then I can assure you your fears are
totally unjustified.
My fears are for future generations, not for myself.

Only if you and your kind can create a new race
of dinasours like yourself to carry your racist ideals on to further
generations is that scenario ever likely. My father thought as you do,
father to nine but he died alone, was cremated alone and has no
memorial.
Your family must be lacking in forgiveness and humility. Perhaps the way you
treated your father -- showing high principle but no compassion -- is
symptomatic of a mindset which caused you to react so badly to my reasoned
post. Without stopping to consider whether my comments represented a valid
viewpoint your highly principled but blind pavlovian response was to scream
'racist!'.

So I'm a racist? My post expressed fears for everyone, not for any one
section of society. You do anti-racism a great disservice by accusing
someone who attempts to have a sensible dialogue about social problems of
being racist. Don't you see that what I was saying was that we (all of us)
need to look at the danger of social unrest and act now? Why do you want to
stifle debate? What have you to fear? Many of those in the US in the 1950s
who expressed concern about the future were black -- were they racist?

I dispair that we will ever make progress with this when people have your
attitude.

Bill

Customer smashes SIX display TVs in shop
 

On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:10:28 +0100, Bill Wright wrote:
it seems that we will have a great deal of civil strife in the
years to come.

Do you like the Roman, seem to see "the River Tiber
foaming with much blood"???????????????????????????

I can see the resentment of the indigenous population

However the people of the Upper Parliament Street district of Liverpool
showed in 1984 that people of all races can join together to riot and
loot, rather than attacking each other.

Customer smashes SIX display TVs in shop
 

On 26 Aug, 17:38, Kay Robinson wrote:

You have no idea of what my attitude is, only that I am vehemently
against Fascist ideals.


Not wanting to stir anything up more than it is, you can't seriously
say:

"You have no idea of what my attitude is, only that I am vehemently
against Fascist ideals."

after telling Bill

"If you don't wish to be included in the derisive comments and
accusations they get then you must learn to think carefully before
allowing words and opinions that can be based on such hated principles
to spew from your posts."

Bill hasn't said anything controversial, and if you seriously believe
he has, then you probably should investigate what real racism does to
people and their families, and how it is propagated. I speak from
first hand experience.

All you have done so far, Kay, is to recycle someone else's tired, ill
thought out, pseudo-PC platitudes which do nothing other than
highlight your own naivety regarding the subject. I to have a dislike
for all things fascist, but at least I have a keen eye for spotting
them, rather than a reactionary tic to tabloid key-words.