Customer smashes SIX display TVs in shop

"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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| 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?

"Angela" wrote in message
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"David" 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
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up to 6 years?



But not without hassle and ambiguity, (show me hardly anyone who's even
aware of it) far better to have legislation in place that states that a
piece of electrical equipment I have doled out £500 for is guaranteed for
at least a minimum of three to five years, I mean, if a manufacturer isn't
prepared to give that sort of guarantee on a piece of of expensive
equipment, then frankly imv they shouldn't be in business.

I've just purchased a stainless steel electric rice cooker steamer from Lidl
for the paltry sum of £9.99, yet despite its cheap price it still carries an
automatic three year warranty.. likewise a cheap large screen LCD TV bought
from an Aldi store also comes with a three year warranty.

In message , Kay Robinson
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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.

But -
Frozen food loss is often covered in your basic house contents
insurance so possibly no benefit here.

A fridge or freezer is likely to be one of the most reliable of
electrical items in your house because they have so few working parts.
The chances of you claiming is statistically small. How old was your
previous freezer when it failed?

The salesman and store took most of your £120 as commission so the true
cost of providing the cover was more like £30. For instance, Argos only
charge around £60 for an extra 4 years for the same cover and they also
are getting a large commission from that.

Electrical goods often fail very quickly or after a long life (the
classic bath tub failure curve). In the first case you are already
covered with at least a one year's manufactures warranty. In the second
case it un-insurable.


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.

They are not pushy when you are looking - they are pushy when you are
parting with your money and they sell you overpriced insurance, as you
have now found to your cost If you didn't go into the shop actually
wanting to pay £520 for a £400 fridge then the salesman has worked a bit
of sales trickery on you. Did he at any time mention how unreliable a
combined fridge-freezer was or how much any repairs may cost?


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"Ivan" wrote in message
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| On Tue, 20 May 2008 23:15:44 +0100, "D Mac"
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I've just purchased a stainless steel electric rice cooker steamer from
Lidl for the paltry sum of £9.99, yet despite its cheap price it still
carries an automatic three year warranty.. likewise a cheap large screen
LCD TV bought from an Aldi store also comes with a three year warranty.


About 3 years ago the EU adopted a 2 year minimum warranty,
but Tony B-liar got an opt out for the UK

I'm sure that his friends like retailer Lord Sainsbury had no influence
over his decision for our common good

Steve Terry

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"Ivan" wrote in message
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I've just purchased a stainless steel electric rice cooker steamer from
Lidl for the paltry sum of £9.99, yet despite its cheap price it still
carries an automatic three year warranty.. likewise a cheap large screen
LCD TV bought from an Aldi store also comes with a three year warranty.


About 3 years ago the EU adopted a 2 year minimum warranty,
but Tony B-liar got an opt out for the UK

I'm sure that his friends like retailer Lord Sainsbury had no influence
over his decision for our common good



Well said Steve I was going to add something similar, didn't I recall him
saying something about it imposing too much of a liability onto
manufacturers?

"Ivan" wrote in message
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"Steve Terry" wrote in message
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"Ivan" wrote in message
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I've just purchased a stainless steel electric rice cooker steamer from
Lidl for the paltry sum of £9.99, yet despite its cheap price it still
carries an automatic three year warranty.. likewise a cheap large screen
LCD TV bought from an Aldi store also comes with a three year warranty.

About 3 years ago the EU adopted a 2 year minimum warranty,
but Tony B-liar got an opt out for the UK

I'm sure that his friends like retailer Lord Sainsbury had no influence
over his decision for our common good

Well said Steve I was going to add something similar, didn't I recall him
saying something about it imposing too much of a liability onto
manufacturers?

The liability and costs are always on the retailer to effect the warranty,
which they then can take up with the manufacture to try and recover.

Lord Sainsbury seeing millions of quid flying out of the window
had no effect at all.

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.

UK PLC the new Sim City game, vote with your feet.

Steve Terry

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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)

That company's entire trading ethos deserves special praise. They really do
seem to try to provide the customer with what they want with no nonsense, and
to live up to any promises they make. (As any company should, of course).

At one time they offered an optional "buy-back" guarantee, valid up to three
years from purchase, whereby provided the item was in good condition and you'd
kept the packaging, they'd give you half its original price against the
purchase of something new. I did rather well out of this because I happened to
buy a DVD player just before prices plummetted from hi-fi to supermarket
level, so by the time I decided to change it, the half price refund was more
than the full price of an equivalent new machine, so I bought a much more
advanced new machine for about a tenner. Not surprisingly, they'd stopped
doing this particular buy-back deal by then, probably realising that they were
making a loss with it, but they honoured the deal they'd already made with me
without any hesitation. Top marks.

Rod.
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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.

Bill

On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:10:28 +0100, "Bill Wright"
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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.

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.

Anyway, back to watching the sleepers in the BB house!