extended warranties on electrical items

[Pamela]

The one you got is also cheap.

After you mentioned radio range and interference, I checked my thermometer. The range is crazy good. With the senders inside two freezers, both senders transmitted 50 feet through the steel walls of each freezer, 3 internal walls and one external wall. I'm using two Duracell Industrial AA's which probably helps a bit but also shouldn't run out quickly.

The Japlish instructions are incomprehensible but I think the unit is clever enough to account for freezer door opening when deciding to trip the alarm and it waits 10 minutes (or something which looks like that in Japanese) before using the temp value to indicate up or down trend.

Best thing I've bought all year.

It even has four decent neodymium mounting magnets which saves me supergluing a proper magnet on the back of the display which I had to do with my old probe thermometer and also any digital timers.

[Pamela]

Absolutely. A printer only fails when you have an important document to print. :)

[Pamela]

A Betamax C9 was very posh. We only had a C7 and thought it was the last word in swankiness but that C9 was another thing indeed.

It wasn't the VCR that was troublesome as much as the valve colour telly which forever needed the repairman to adjust the picture.

[Jim GM4DHJ ...]

best thing I bought this year was a double cereal dispenser ...got a black one and a white one and a single one in black ....

[tim...]

ITYF that ongoing maintenance of a purchased item is not the type of service that is considered separately from goods under EU regs.

There wont be a specific problem with this when we leave

tim

[Steve Walker]

I have only ever bought one and I think that one was a pretty good deal.

I bought a twin cassette unit to add to my separates system (in the late

90s). It cost me £120 at Richer sounds. An extra £20 bought a 10-year warranty, plus free head cleaning and free head re-alignment throughout that period. It also gave a 1/3 (1/2 if you still had the original packaging) refund against an upgrade purchase in those 10 years.

SteveW

[harry]

A man after my own heart! If anything goes bust I spend quite a while trying to fix it.

[dennis]

I think you will find they can't take your statutory rights away by contract.

[Andy Burns]

If 1999/44/EC was a EU Regulation, it would apply directly in all EU countries, but it's a EU Directive, which means it needs to be implemented individually into each country's laws.

The relevant UK Statutory Instrument is "The Sale and Supply of Goods to Consumers Regulations 2002" which claims to implement 1999/44/EC, but makes no mention of any two year guarantee period.

[tim...]

because there is no such thing as an EU mandated warranty period

tim

[DJC]

I bought a small cheap washing machine, a temporary measure until I get the tuits to reorganise the house. It cost £200, extended warranty £70 or thereabouts. So I pointed out to the sales-droid, when I lived in a small flat I was spending over £300pa at the launderette, so if it lasted a year I would consider it good value, after which I would probably be replacing it with something better. Comming up to two years now and still ok.

[Harry Bloomfield]

Dave Plowman (News) pretended :

Of course I do. I try to avoid rushing into making a forced purchase. Sometimes I will have it in mind to buy something, idly doing odd bits of research before settling on a make and a model which suits. Then I research costs from various sources.

Our boiler failed a few months ago, so my processing of model research and pricing was much more hurried. None the less I still managed a very good deal on the replacement.

[DerekF]

I have a Nationwide credit card that gives me an extra two years warranty if I use it to pay for mainly electrical items. It does not apply to all versions of the Nationwide card. It is so bloody good that in about twenty years I've never had to claim on it:-) Derek

[Harry Bloomfield]

ARW used his keyboard to write :

Perhaps they (your mate) ought to move somewhere less troubled by such things, a low crime area.

[DerekF]

I had a US Robotics modem/answer phone that died during a storm. It was well out of guarantee so I contacted them to ask if it could be repaired. They said that their products had a six year warranty and to send it back for examination and they replaced it for me. I had an IBM Hard Disk that failed I thought was probably out of warranty. I phoned them and they asked for its serial number saying that they had a batch with a high failure rate. It turned out to be from that batch and they replaced it. Derek

[DerekF]

Ours once went wrong the night before we went on holiday. We called a repair man who said it could not be repaired (£35 please). My wife went round neigbours asking if they had any spare space and it all got spread around. Derek

[Andy Burns]

You had 2.5x the crime of my area (in May 2018)

[Jock Green]

Ten times actually with burglary. Corse that in a tiny sample.

[Indy Jess John]

I was the kind soul who accommodated my neighbour's frozen food when their freezer went wrong. By taking all my frozen stuff out of my freezer and then packing it back in very neatly and with the very minimum of wasted space, I managed to get nearly all of the neighbour's frozen food in the space freed up.

But it wouldn't all go in so I asked what they were prepared to leave out. The kids immediately said to leave the big tub of ice cream because they would eat it now. :-) The parents were a bit more practical and suggested the loaf of bread and the carton of milk because they didn't cost much and took up a lot of room, and were only there in case they ran short.

The parents won!

Jim

[Andy Burns]

But the EU trumpets ...

"Under EU rules you always have the right to a minimum 2-year guarantee at no cost"