Re:Declining quality of consumer-grade products – 2009 fridg...
by ornornor on Monday August 15, 2022 @02:12AM
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Some brands have gotten around this by offering a 10 years warranty*
* insert terms so onerous you’re very unlikely to claim, you have to ship the item on your own dime halfway across the world, if defect is deemed not covered (and you bet it won’t be) disposal at your expense or return as is at your expense, extended warranty void if you didn’t do $frivolousThing at time of purchase and not a day later, extended warranty doesn’t transfer to new owner, etc.
Re:Declining quality of consumer-grade products – 2009 fridg...
by fomine3 on Sunday August 14, 2022 @10:29PM
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The problem is that the confident is just a confident by brand B, and possibly the warranty term is not decided from confident but from competitor's warranty term. Personally I don't want very long warranty term for some products (I came up with PC PSU 12yr warranty). Warranty increases product cost that I should pay finally, but some products never be used so long by me.
Re:Declining quality of consumer-grade products – 2009 fridg...
by ouid on Sunday August 14, 2022 @10:33PM
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warranty has been replaced with AAS.
If I was choosing between brand A and twice as expensive brand B, and brand B said "we trust that our stuff will last so we offer a 10-year, no questions asked warranty", I would go for B in a heartbeat. (As long as it was a brand with some history so I can trust they don't just go out of business.)