Court rulings on repairs just after Warranty finished

Thomas wrote:
On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 06:13:20 -0700, Jethro
wrote:


But bear in mind, for every "it failed after 12 months 1 day" story, you
won't hear the "it lasted for 16 years without fail" story.

I'm shopping for a new mattress. The old one finally wore out after 19.5
years. The tag on it says "20 Year Warranty." Almost all mattresses sold
today come with a 10 year warranty. Any bets how long the new one will
last?
I don't know how old you are, but you are starting to use the new
mattress at the age when you stopped using the old one. So it will
probably last much longer.

When one of my daughters was teenage we bought a new bed for her room.
Since we knew she would soon be getting shacked up and moving out we
just got a cheap one, the sort of thing you'd put in a spare room for
when granny came to stay. It took her and the boyfriend less than a
fortnight to totally wreck the bed. All the wood was smashed. The man in
the bedshop, a friend and customer of ours, was highly amused.

Bill

Bill Wright wrote:

When one of my daughters was teenage we bought a new bed for her
room. Since we knew she would soon be getting shacked up and moving
out we just got a cheap one, the sort of thing you'd put in a spare
room for when granny came to stay. It took her and the boyfriend less
than a fortnight to totally wreck the bed. All the wood was smashed.
The man in the bedshop, a friend and customer of ours, was highly
amused.

I had to buy an ex-girlfriend a new bed for similar reasons when I was
a teenager. Her religious parents were less than amused as she'd only
had the bed for 3 months before she met me and it only took us 3 or 4
goes to smash it.

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On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 19:52:58 +0100, Bill Wright
wrote:

When one of my daughters was teenage we bought a new bed for her room.
Since we knew she would soon be getting shacked up and moving out we
just got a cheap one, the sort of thing you'd put in a spare room for
when granny came to stay. It took her and the boyfriend less than a
fortnight to totally wreck the bed. All the wood was smashed. The man in
the bedshop, a friend and customer of ours, was highly amused.

"Slumberland - Built for Shagging"

On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:52:58 -0700, Bill Wright wrote:

Thomas wrote:
On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 06:13:20 -0700, Jethro
wrote:


But bear in mind, for every "it failed after 12 months 1 day" story,
you
won't hear the "it lasted for 16 years without fail" story.
I'm shopping for a new mattress. The old one finally wore out after
19.5 years. The tag on it says "20 Year Warranty." Almost all
mattresses sold today come with a 10 year warranty. Any bets how long
the new one will last?
I don't know how old you are, but you are starting to use the new
mattress at the age when you stopped using the old one. So it will
probably last much longer.

eh, no. The calisthenic damage was nothing compared to 19+ years of 8+
hours a day of sleeping on it. It's a good sturdy metal bed and the odd 30
seconds of gymnastics now and then were trivial.

Thomas wrote:

I don't know how old you are, but you are starting to use the new
mattress at the age when you stopped using the old one. So it will
probably last much longer.

eh, no. The calisthenic damage was nothing compared to 19+ years of 8+
hours a day of sleeping on it. It's a good sturdy metal bed and the odd
30 seconds of gymnastics now and then were trivial.

Thirty seconds? Blimey! No wonder she left you!

Bill

On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 19:52:58 +0100, Bill Wright
wrote:


When one of my daughters was teenage we bought a new bed for her room.
Since we knew she would soon be getting shacked up and moving out we
just got a cheap one, the sort of thing you'd put in a spare room for
when granny came to stay. It took her and the boyfriend less than a
fortnight to totally wreck the bed. All the wood was smashed. The man in
the bedshop, a friend and customer of ours, was highly amused.

I solved that problem when young by having a mattress on the floor.

Now I need the springs, and probably an electric motor too.

More seriously this sounds like "occasional furniture" which
description means you aren;t actually supposed to use it.

In America they also have "dummy kitchens" where nothing actually
works.