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- From: berger@atropa (Mike Berger)
- Subject: Re: 6th Ave. Electronics--OPINIONS?
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- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 15:31:48 GMT
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- kester@mte.ncsu.edu (Dan Kester) writes:
- >In article <16e699INN4qn@agate.berkeley.edu> henken@ocf.berkeley.edu (Matthew
- >J. Henken) writes:
- >>With all of the discussion of J & R Electronics, I find myself in need of
- >>an opinion of another mail-order store: 6th Avenue Electronics City.
- >>
- >Every few days someone asks this question. The general answer is: Stay away
- >from 6th Ave. Their products are mostly grey market, meaning they are not
- >authorized dealers for that product. Therefore Adcom won't honor the warranty,
- >and you have to hope that 6th Ave. has as skilled technicians for repairing
- >Adcom products as does Adcom. Don't count on it. Other complaints about 6th
- >Ave are that people have all kinds of problems with their orders, then have
- >trouble getting the problems resolved. J&R generally is considered much
- >better.
- *----
- I'd say they were comparable to J&R. But regarding gray market
- merchandise:
-
- There is no rule that you must buy something from an authorized
- dealer to receive warranty service. And dealers that are not
- factory-authorized don't necessarily sell gray-market merchandise.
- However, when something has a "store warranty", it's a good bet
- that it's gray market or distress merchandise.
-
- While most companies would prefer that the gray market didn't
- exist, they are anxious to protect their reputations, and most
- of them will stand behind their products. Sony, for example,
- will fix any of their products, no matter what market it was
- intended for, under warranty at any authorized service center.
- If Adcom won't, then I'd avoid Adcom products. Who knows what
- excuse they'll find to avoid fixing a U.S. market product?
-
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- Mike Berger
- Department of Statistics, University of Illinois
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