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Funny - Spectre 32" Monitor
Walmart online, pickup at the nearest store.
Walmart advertised it on sale for $79. Walmart really, really needs to sell it for $35, but no one's interested, and plenty can't wait to buy one. I have a theory: Spectre chips the monitor to fail at 363 days. A Spectre warranty is 364 days. |
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Funny - Spectre 32" Monitor
Flasherly wrote:
Walmart online, pickup at the nearest store. Walmart advertised it on sale for $79. Walmart really, really needs to sell it for $35, but no one's interested, and plenty can't wait to buy one. I have a theory: Spectre chips the monitor to fail at 363 days. A Spectre warranty is 364 days. The Walmart protection plan is 3 years for $11. https://www.walmart.com/ip/Sceptre-3...BV-SR/55427159 Paul |
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Funny - Spectre 32" Monitor
On Wed, 05 Dec 2018 11:41:43 -0500, Paul
wrote: The Walmart protection plan is 3 years for $11. https://www.walmart.com/ip/Sceptre-3...BV-SR/55427159 Check into it. BestBuy's PP is 3, optionally and possibly 5 -- they take some pains to promote it, along an exclusion for theirs and their in-house "Geek Squad". Last year, BB came under scrutiny for sending out their "squads" vehicles, into people's private homes, to effect warranty repairs. If a squad-member then detected illegality within the premises, BB turned over that ancillary information to local law enforcement. BB subsequently stood it ground and disclosed that its standards are required training for its warranty "Geek Squad" personnel, in strict procedures of policy -- as a repair and parttime quasi-enforcement agency. Pretty exciting a perfunctory technician qualifications. I wonder what Wallmart has ... a contract, offhand, with one the several national affiliations offering extended warranty services? Opinions and ratings diverge in that capacity, similar to car dealerships, their recommended affiliates, policies and stipulations, alongside a field of direct competition with non-affiliates, alongside, promoting their services. Exclusions and restrictions of services, sheering wording, even before implementation and practical interpretation. Neither a pretty picture to fight over, when its in need, nor a business about giving away service contract profits, in deed, businesses protecting themselves from no doubt a potential field of mis-claimed abuses. And that's what the reality check is about to BestBuy's marketing their in-house services, a unique assurance factor to corner a draw on customers. Walmart is more ticked about having been undercut by Amazon, in many ways since a contingent to have modeled and restructured their business. Basically, with either, a 30-day Amazon standing return on their warehouse stock, at their expense and responsibility to process, and 90-days, similarly on inside merchandise stock reserves, for any local Walmart supply center to honor. A length of initial purchasing-agreement time, beyond which, many factors may intercede within interests of a so-called warranty. Which BestBuy, as an impression I have, has attempted to further solidify: by reasonable assurances of normal product usage, that unreasonable demands on claims of failure will be no less than expeditious. I suppose. I didn't need to make that claim on the $40 I paid for a extended 5-year-warranty on the 40" monitor I bought. I saw someone mention it was higher-grade parts, of a Toshiba, rebranded into a cheaper BestBuy-exclusive brandname carried at the time of my purchase. |
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Funny - Spectre 32" Monitor
Flasherly wrote:
On Wed, 05 Dec 2018 11:41:43 -0500, Paul wrote: The Walmart protection plan is 3 years for $11. https://www.walmart.com/ip/Sceptre-3...BV-SR/55427159 Check into it. BestBuy's PP is 3, optionally and possibly 5 -- they take some pains to promote it, along an exclusion for theirs and their in-house "Geek Squad". Last year, BB came under scrutiny for sending out their "squads" vehicles, into people's private homes, to effect warranty repairs. If a squad-member then detected illegality within the premises, BB turned over that ancillary information to local law enforcement. BB subsequently stood it ground and disclosed that its standards are required training for its warranty "Geek Squad" personnel, in strict procedures of policy -- as a repair and parttime quasi-enforcement agency. Pretty exciting a perfunctory technician qualifications. I wonder what Wallmart has ... a contract, offhand, with one the several national affiliations offering extended warranty services? Opinions and ratings diverge in that capacity, similar to car dealerships, their recommended affiliates, policies and stipulations, alongside a field of direct competition with non-affiliates, alongside, promoting their services. Exclusions and restrictions of services, sheering wording, even before implementation and practical interpretation. Neither a pretty picture to fight over, when its in need, nor a business about giving away service contract profits, in deed, businesses protecting themselves from no doubt a potential field of mis-claimed abuses. And that's what the reality check is about to BestBuy's marketing their in-house services, a unique assurance factor to corner a draw on customers. Walmart is more ticked about having been undercut by Amazon, in many ways since a contingent to have modeled and restructured their business. Basically, with either, a 30-day Amazon standing return on their warehouse stock, at their expense and responsibility to process, and 90-days, similarly on inside merchandise stock reserves, for any local Walmart supply center to honor. A length of initial purchasing-agreement time, beyond which, many factors may intercede within interests of a so-called warranty. Which BestBuy, as an impression I have, has attempted to further solidify: by reasonable assurances of normal product usage, that unreasonable demands on claims of failure will be no less than expeditious. I suppose. I didn't need to make that claim on the $40 I paid for a extended 5-year-warranty on the 40" monitor I bought. I saw someone mention it was higher-grade parts, of a Toshiba, rebranded into a cheaper BestBuy-exclusive brandname carried at the time of my purchase. With the protection plan, take it to the store, say "it's broken", and they should provide a monitor as a replacement. The terms of the plan will describe the service. It's supposed to be a warranty extension, not a service call. Paul |
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Funny - Spectre 32" Monitor
On Wed, 05 Dec 2018 13:42:12 -0500, Paul
wrote: With the protection plan, take it to the store, say "it's broken", and they should provide a monitor as a replacement. The terms of the plan will describe the service. It's supposed to be a warranty extension, not a service call. From SquareTrade, possibly, or another. Walking in the a Walmart store three years after purchase for a replacement may not work. Walmart wants to be out of the loop at that point. At the minimum that would appear to involve a online Walmart corporate claim to wherever that leads. BestBuy, I'd even have paid that $40 to walk into the store and walk out with another. But if they want to drive up in a van with Geek Squad painted on the side, unpack and put a replacement on the floor after checking it, that's cool with me. I believe BestBuy does that once, after three unsuccessful attempts at a repair, you're given the replacement of similar, like and comparable value. From then on that's it -- time's up: your warranty has now been voided. |
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