Method of repair for new tv"s, v.c.r"s, d.v.d.platers, etc.

[rca2000]

Here is the 5 step plan to repair modern, cheap electronic items::

1- Take into shop--if it needs more than 30 minuites to repair, go to step 2.

2- Sit on shelf ,until garbage day.

3- Place outside for garbage man.

4- Watch the item(s) as they are placed into truck by garbageman, and crushed.

5-Wave good-bye, and say GOOD RIDDANCE.

I know this sounds cynical, but ,it comes from experience. In this area, people do not want to pay 50.00 to repair a 25" or smaller t.v. anymore. and ,try to sell one. As for dvd players, they were disposable from the start!!

I had to give up trying to find a decent job in t.v. repair, and go back to college, for computer networking. No one will pay a decent wage anymore, and i have been doing this as a carrerr for over 16 years.

It is sad to see electronics come to this point.

[Rob]

Jack,

You and John Shorva (sp?) shud get together and discuss remedies to this situation. He's currently working on the problem.

Rob

[jshorva65]

Maybe we'll re-learn something because of this war that we seem to have forgotten as a nation at some point between the end of WWII and the end of the Vietnam War ... which is :"If you want something done right, do it yourself." I'm tired of American workers having to settle for crummy jobs and American consumers having to settle for crummy products because the jobs that used to allow us to earn a good living making good products have moved overseas where virtual slaves make products that can barely survive until their warranties expire. It seems that the consumer electronics industry has become a revolving door. As soon as we mastered the art of building good, reliable TV sets we were put out of business by the Japanese who at the time had no idea how to make good products. By the time the Japanese had started learning to make better products, the Koreans came along with cheap products and put Japan's economy into serious trouble. As Korean companies like Samsung were starting to get it together, along came China. Who's next?

The guy at Best Buy said "be sure to purchase the extended warranty because there is no one in the state of Maine that repairs HDTV projection TV's and if it breaks in the next four years we will just replace it" I said what about after 4 yrs??? He said that hopefully someone in the state will fix them by then.

So move to Maine

[Steve D.]

Well, after China you're next RCA may have a tag that says "Made in Occupied Iraq".

[jshorva65]

The guy at Best Buy said "be sure to purchase the extended warranty because there is no one in the state of Maine that repairs HDTV projection TV's and if it breaks in the next four years we will just replace it"

Of course if it does break down during the warranty, they'll find a way to blame you for it and void the warranty, or just claim that there's a "prorated deductible" or some such nonsense. Sales people will say anything to sell one of those extended warranties, and the truth comes out later. I bought a cellphone at Radio Shack once, and the sales pitch for the extended warranty was "The extended warranty will replace the battery pack, since Lithium batteries only last about 6 months." I wrote down the name of the sales guy and his manager's name, didn't buy the extended warranty, and filed a deceptive sales practices complaint with the company after another sales rep looked at me like I was nuts for quoting the original salesman's claim two days later at another Radio Shack store.

Well, after China you're next RCA may have a tag that says "Made in Occupied Iraq".

That would, of course, have to be after one of the Chinese companies learns how to make a semi-reliable VCR. That's just like what happened to Sony. In the early 60's, their products were scrap; by the early 70's, they started to make decent gear; then Samsung came along in the late 70's and nearly ran the Japanese economy out of business by the late 90's.