bgsengine wrote:dart451 wrote: It's like it's built to fail!
It is. Like pretty much anything else in the economy consumer model category - they are built just well enough to last through warranty period, any longer is just a bonus.
Agree...Even what was once durable goods such as washing machines and refrigerators just barely make it pass the warranty periods.
And now we got OEM dealers that will not honor warranties; unless, they actually sold the machine themselves.
It like buying a tool with a 90 day and it breaks on 91st day. And manufactures will not even honor a warranty during the warranty period unless you have a readable hard copy of the invoice or sales receipt. I had HFT decline their warranty just they could not read the receipt, that why I scan every receipt now and the original to it. Thermal paper has a bad habit of either fading or going all black.
And boy I love those lifetime warranties that is just for life of the product; otherwords, when it breaks the warranty is expired. And of course those lifetime warranties that must have the purchase receipt for in order to coverage even you have the original box with lifetime warranty printed on the box.
Now there is a few companies that still honor their lifetime warranties without question like Snap-on tools. Even Sears will try to get out their lifetime Craftsman tool warranties. I had several broken Blackhawk tools with lifetime warranty that I couldn't even get replaced as no one honors the warranty since no one around here even sells them anymore just like my Vermont American taps and dies. I just don't buy them anymore even online.
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