France Edict To Dictate Life Expectancy of Consumer Products:...

danielb59 Loc: The South

http://vacuums.reviewed.com/news/france-cracks-down-on-planned-obsolescence?utm_source=usat&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=collab

Just think if Canon or Nikon or Ford or Honda had to do that with their products?!

Kraken Loc: Barry's Bay

I guess Iv'e been lucky, the only thing that broke down on me prematurely was my $1,4OO 47 in. Samsung TV just after 13 months. Samsung rep told me the warranty was 12 months, to bad we can't help you. The problem was not repairable so off to the dump it went. There should be a law here for companies like Samsung. I will never buy anything again that is manufactured by Samsung.

tschmath Loc: Los Angeles

Kraken wrote:

I guess Iv'e been lucky, the only thing that broke down on me prematurely was my $1,4OO 47 in. Samsung TV just after 13 months. Samsung rep told me the warranty was 12 months, to bad we can't help you. The problem was not repairable so off to the dump it went. There should be a law here for companies like Samsung. I will never buy anything again that is manufactured by Samsung.

You bought the TV in full knowledge of their warranty. They upheld the warranty that you agreed to. So why are they wrong? If it had been 15 months would you still complain? 24 months? What is the cutoff? Seems like it's 12 months, and you just don't like it. Too bad for you.

mwalsh Loc: Houston

tschmath wrote:

You bought the TV in full knowledge of their warranty. They upheld the warranty that you agreed to. So why are they wrong? If it had been 15 months would you still complain? 24 months? What is the cutoff? Seems like it's 12 months, and you just don't like it. Too bad for you.

Are you a professional irritant, or is it just a hobby?

tschmath Loc: Los Angeles

mwalsh wrote:

Are you a professional irritant, or is it just a hobby?

The man was bitching about a company that didn't deserve it. Just calling him out for being unfair.

boberic Loc: Quiet Corner, Connecticut. Ex long Islander

danielb59 wrote:

http://vacuums.reviewed.com/news/france-cracks-down-on-planned-obsolescence?utm_source=usat&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=collab

Just think if Canon or Nikon or Ford or Honda had to do that with their products?!

Actually all Camera makers already do this. The all have shutter click predictions

Kraken Loc: Barry's Bay

tschmath wrote:

The man was bitching about a company that didn't deserve it. Just calling him out for being unfair.

When it happens to you I hope you will be happy about it. Glad to hear that you are so well off that throwing out $1,400 doesn't bother you. :thumbdown:

tschmath Loc: Los Angeles

Kraken wrote:

When it happens to you I hope you will be happy about it. Glad to hear that you are so well off that throwing out $1,400 doesn't bother you. :thumbdown:

So, according to you, if an item breaks one month after the warranty expires the company should still be responsible. How about two months? Five months? What is the time frame? Sorry but if the warranty is for one year, then on day 366 you and I are shit out of luck. I bought the item fully aware of the warranty, so I'm out of luck. Plain and simple. Can I afford it? No, but that's my bad luck. The manufacturer upheld their part of the warranty deal.

Kraken Loc: Barry's Bay

tschmath wrote:

So, according to you, if an item breaks one month after the warranty expires the company should still be responsible. How about two months? Five months? What is the time frame? Sorry but if the warranty is for one year, then on day 366 you and I are shit out of luck. I bought the item fully aware of the warranty, so I'm out of luck. Plain and simple. Can I afford it? No, but that's my bad luck. The manufacturer upheld their part of the warranty deal.

I didn't give you the whole story since the topic was about companies being more responsible when selling a product that is designed to break down shortly after the warranty is over. If you look up 47 in. LCD Samsung TV class action suit you will find out that I am not the only one that got screwed. There were thousands of us.

tschmath Loc: Los Angeles

Kraken wrote:

I didn't give you the whole story since the topic was about companies being more responsible when selling a product that is designed to break down shortly after the warranty is over. If you look up 47 in. LCD Samsung TV class action suit you will find out that I am not the only one that got screwed. There were thousands of us.

I'm certainly not a lawyer, and don't profess to know the law. But based only on what you've shared, if I were the judge I'd toss the class action suit. There must be more to the story, but what you've shared with us shows that Samsung performed as promised. What else aren't you telling us?

Kraken Loc: Barry's Bay

tschmath wrote:

I'm certainly not a lawyer, and don't profess to know the law. But based only on what you've shared, if I were the judge I'd toss the class action suit. There must be more to the story, but what you've shared with us shows that Samsung performed as promised. What else aren't you telling us?

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Here you go.

JimBart Loc: Western Michigan

Buy an extended warranty if you expect a problem or get a rider on your homeowners policy.

Kraken Loc: Barry's Bay

Txauditr wrote:

Buy an extended warranty if you expect a problem or get a rider on your homeowners policy.

I did on my new 50 in. 5 yr. warranty. I guess I was too complacent being used to getting 25 years out of my last TV, actually it is still working in my son's house.

Racin17 Loc: Western Pa

I do sympathize with something Just going out of warranty and pooof its junk. I have been burned myself With warranty and obsolesence With different products. Car makers get hammered every year (exception recalls) for eg a transmission going out at 85k miles and they still want it covered under warranty.

tschmath Loc: Los Angeles

Kraken wrote:

I did on my new 50 in. 5 yr. warranty. I guess I was too complacent being used to getting 25 years out of my last TV, actually it is still working in my son's house.

So will you complain when the new TV breaks down in month 61? It would be the same situation as your last TV, so would you still rail about how horrible the company was?

And the damn TV is still working? Are you for real? All your kvetching and it's stil working?