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- From: jerry@hnrc.tufts.edu (Jerry Dallal)
- Newsgroups: rec.video
- Subject: Re: SONY.....may they rot in hell !!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.131056.677@hnrc.tufts.edu>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 18:10:56 GMT
- References: <199301272036.AA22307@europa.eng.gtefsd.com> <1993Jan27.225730.1302@cmkrnl.com>
- Organization: USDA HNRC at Tufts University
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- In article <1993Jan27.225730.1302@cmkrnl.com>, jeh@cmkrnl.com writes:
- >
- > >> I would wholeheartedly purchase another Sony tv set in the future.
- >
- > The only way I will buy *any* 27" (or larger) set, from any manufacturer,
- > in the future is to ask that it be un-boxed in the store, and then I will play
- > selected bits of Reference Recordings' _A Video Standard_ LD on it, checking
- > for this and other problems.
- >
-
-
- A better option is to buy only from those stores with a liberal return
- privilege. That's what I do and I probably return items 25% of the time. But
- the store doesn't mind because they can sell them in their outlet and turn a
- smaller profit--but a profit just the same--and they still make money on me
- because I then go and buy from them the item that will eventually make me
- happy.
-
- If you can hold off, the best time to do this is right after Thanksgiving
- because most store offering return priveleges won't start the clock 'till
- Christmas.
-
- You may pay a tiny bit more (but not if you shop the sales) and isn't it worth
- it for 30 to 60 days to evaluate the item?
-
- Would the orignal poster have saved him(her?)self the aggravation had he/she
- adopted this strategy?
-