Be careful with John Lewis Price Guarantee now.

wrote:
Dickie Mint wrote:
I tend to search on Google Shopping (alias froogle) for the best
prices and, although JL are listed there I have *never* bought from
them because they are simply too expensive compared with on-line
sellers. ...........

John Lewis currently are amongst the cheapest for the Humax Foxsat HDR.
I bought one in January, its audio output has started producing white
noise. Rang JL yesterday, no quibbling, new one has been reserved for
me to pick up Saturday.

Quick search
John Lewis - £224
Cheapest - £143 and there are several around £160

... so hardly "amongst the cheapest" IMHO.

Are you sure you are looking at prices for the 500GB?

Bill

"Alan" wrote in message
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In message , Allan
wrote


Judging by some of their prices there is no such thing as a "free"
warrantee.
--

The people I think who do good extended warranties are Richer Sounds.
You pay extra at time of purchase but if you make no claims you get the
extra money you paid back at the end of the warranty.
Regards
David

In article ,
David wrote:


"Alan" wrote in message
...
In message , Allan
wrote


Judging by some of their prices there is no such thing as a "free"
warrantee.
--

The people I think who do good extended warranties are Richer Sounds.
You pay extra at time of purchase but if you make no claims you get the
extra money you paid back at the end of the warranty.


If you remember to claim it back. There's quite a short time window if I
remember correctly.

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On 18/02/2011 17:27, Jumbo Jack wrote:
wrote in message
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See

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-vow-door.html

Regards
David

I have NO problems with JL, nice sales, good products, long guarantees and
absolutely NO questions asked when its needed.


Agreed.

Rob

In message , "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote

Please quote the prices for the non JL ones including a 5 year warranty
and delivery.


JL don't give a "free" 5 year warranty on that product so also factor in
£45 for a 3 year extended warranty when buying from JL.

JL are no different to any other retailer, sometimes they are cheaper
and sometimes they are not. I have been in JL and overheard the salesman
talking b******s about a product he was trying to sell so their training
is probably no better than that given in any other high street chain.
Any "free" extended warranty is either passed on from a manufacturer's
agreement or it is built into the selling price of the item.
--
Alan
news2009 {at} admac {dot} myzen {dot} co {dot} uk

In article ,
Alan wrote:
In message , "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote

Please quote the prices for the non JL ones including a 5 year warranty
and delivery.


JL don't give a "free" 5 year warranty on that product so also factor in
£45 for a 3 year extended warranty when buying from JL.

JL are no different to any other retailer, sometimes they are cheaper
and sometimes they are not. I have been in JL and overheard the salesman
talking b******s about a product he was trying to sell so their training
is probably no better than that given in any other high street chain.
Any "free" extended warranty is either passed on from a manufacturer's
agreement or it is built into the selling price of the item.

I also suspect that that they don't stock products which have the
reputation of being unreliable.

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Using a RISC OS computer running v5.16

On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:08:25 -0000, "The dog from that film you saw"
wrote:



"David" wrote in message ...


See

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-vow-door.html

Regards
David

fair enough - if JL sell a tv with a 5 year warranty you should take the
curry's price plus 5 year warrant as a comparison - not with a 1 year
warranty.
can't see how you could complain about that.

Or as I said elsewhere if JL is offering to 'match' the price arguably
they should supply at the competitor's proce without the five year
warranty.

In article ,
J G Miller wrote:
Hope it never gets like airline prices where you think you've paid for
the journey, but rarely have.

Sounds like you have got airline ticket prices in reverse.

First of all you get the price for the journey, then you add the airport
taxes, then you add the baggage handling fee, then you add the
reservation fee, then you add any optional travel insurance fee, then
you add the credit card handling fee if paying by credit/debit card.

And if you want tickets snail mailed to you, then there will be
an additional fee

And maybe there will be a fee for onboard washroom facilities as well

I used journey to differentiate from 'flight'. To mean from arriving at
airport A to departing from airport B.

--
*Laugh alone and the world thinks you're an idiot.

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

"Peter Duncanson" wrote in message
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On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 22:14:13 +0000, wrote:

Alan wrote:
In message , Allan
wrote

It probably means that JL will never have to price-match again, because
they offer a 5-year warrantee which nobody else does.

They are currently advertising a range of "free" warrantee periods
including 1!!!, 2, 3 and 5 years on electrical/electronic goods with
extended warrantees for an extra payment of around 25% of their price.

Judging by some of their prices there is no such thing as a "free"
warrantee.

It's WARRANTY for heavens sake. :-)

Indeedy.

In law the warrantee is the person to whom a warranty is given.
The person who gives the warranty is the warranter.

The second entry in the OED for warrantee is:

2. Misused for warranter n. or guarantee n. 1, and (U.S.) for
warranty n. 1.

It has this quote:

1980 Verbatim Autumn 17/1 We have three perfectly good words in
English, guarantee, warranty, and guaranty, all of the same origin
and having the same meaning. Now some people are trying to add a
fourth, warrantee. A TV salesman says, ‘We have a great warrantee on
this product.’

I wonder whether that was a change in pronunciation of the "y" rather
than a change in spelling.

It may be that that "warranty" is making the transition to "warrantee"
the way "guaranty" changed to "guarantee" (before we were born).

--
Peter Duncanson
(in uk.tech.digital-tv)

I humbly crave the group's forgiveness for my uncharacteristic misuse of the
word "warrantee" when I meant to use the word "warranty".

I must ask, however, whether it is correct that the terms "guarantee" and
"warranty" have exactly the same meaning? I have always been given to
understand that that there is a shade of difference in their meaning,
although I cannot find any reference on the web which explains it to my
satisfaction.

Allan

In article ,
Alan wrote:
I have been in JL and overheard the salesman
talking b******s about a product he was trying to sell so their training
is probably no better than that given in any other high street chain.

Your experience is rather different to mine.

My prime hate of Curry's etc, is they are intent on selling you 'extras'
to the virtual exclusion of all else. To the point of making visiting them
an unpleasant experience.

JL (to me) seem more interested in customer satisfaction.

--
*I'm really easy to get along with once people learn to worship me

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.