tvguy
Question anything the facts don't support.
- Joined
- Dec 15, 2003
isn't that the truth. same thing w/appliances. mom did laundry for a family of 6 w/ the same mid range cost washer/dryer set for over 20 years (and lots of those loads were heavy men's jeans laden with grease and dirt). what's the shelf of a set now-maybe 10 or 11 years? dishwasher-over 30 years, now one lasts maybe 9 or 10. her freaking maytag freezer finally died over 30 years after she got it-I've gone through at least 3 over the past 20 years b/c even if we can find replacement parts it ends up being cheaper to replace than repair. just had a repair guy over this past week, he and I were talking about different brands and their reliability and estimated lifespan-he said that one of the reasons it's so hard to find appliance repair people anymore is b/c the field is dying out due to the appliances no longer being built to be repaired-w/the exception of the realy high end stuff the manufacturers make um so they are next to impossible to repair or so costly for the consumer that they will just decide to opt to put out a few hundred more and get new.
Funny thing is, in California, if an electronic device cost more than $100, the manufacturer is REQUIRED to have replacement parts available for 7 years.* My brother ran a TV repair business for decades, and he says these days that doesn't always happen. Of course, your only ultimate recourse is to go to court. My brother was a Sony dealer, and he had to go to bat for a few customers with Sony, and in the end they always ended up providing a new comparable product for free to avoid legal problems
*(b) Every manufacturer making an express warranty with respect to an electronic or appliance product described in subdivision (h), (i), (j), or (k) of Section 9801 of the Business and Professions Code, with a wholesale price to the retailer of one hundred dollars ($100) or more, shall make available to service and repair facilities sufficient service literature and functional parts to effect the repair of a product for at least seven years after the date a product model or type was manufactured, regardless of whether the seven-year period exceeds the warranty period for the product.