Post #281,879
4/15/07 1:35:09 PM
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One thing you should know is that it damn near NEVER pays to
get those extended service plans. Stores often make more money on the extended service plans than they do on selling you the item in the first place. Employees are often motivated with a bonus to sell them.
That being said, Home Depot needs to step up to the plate when called to honor their obligations. Now that Nardelli is history, they are hiring about 10% more employees and trying to improve their customer service. Good luck, I say!
Myself, I mostly shop at Lowe's. It's closer and has a more knowledgeable and helpful staff. But, on bigger purchases, I check them both.
In full dislosure, even after lightening up some this past year, I'm still an HD stockholder. So what are you doing writing investor relations? :) Write fricking Francis S. Blake, the CEO! The HQ is in [link|http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=HD|your neck of the woods].
Alex
When fascism comes to America, it'll be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross. -- Sinclair Lewis
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Post #281,880
4/15/07 1:37:49 PM
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I NEVER buy the dam things
hope that I will get a gift certificate equal to the cost of the contract. If not Im boycotting.
thanx,
bill
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Post #281,885
4/15/07 2:00:47 PM
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The exception being AppleCare
I always come out ahead with that.
We posture as apostles of fair play, as good sportsmen, as professional knights-errant-- and we throw beer bottles at the umpire when he refuses to cheat for our side...We save the black-and-tan republics from their native [statesmen]--and flood them with "deserving" democrats of our own. We deafen the world with our whoops for liberty--and submit to laws that destroy our most sacred rights...We play policeman and Sunday-school superintendent to half of Christendom--and lynch a darky every two days in our own backyard.
H.L. Mencken, 1914
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Post #281,890
4/15/07 2:08:42 PM
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Re: I always come out ahead.
It must be because you're atypically hard on your equipment! :)
If Apple did proper data mining on their customers, they would send you a coupon for $500 off on an HP laptop with Vista.
Alex
When fascism comes to America, it'll be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross. -- Sinclair Lewis
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Post #281,893
4/15/07 2:14:37 PM
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Two words - laptop hinge
Figure you will wreck it once over the life of the computer - dropping it or something. Now check the price.
FWIW, I just scored a new $135 laptop battery because the original one failed to hold a charge. Thanks to AppleCare you see.
-Todd
We posture as apostles of fair play, as good sportsmen, as professional knights-errant-- and we throw beer bottles at the umpire when he refuses to cheat for our side...We save the black-and-tan republics from their native [statesmen]--and flood them with "deserving" democrats of our own. We deafen the world with our whoops for liberty--and submit to laws that destroy our most sacred rights...We play policeman and Sunday-school superintendent to half of Christendom--and lynch a darky every two days in our own backyard.
H.L. Mencken, 1914
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Post #281,937
4/15/07 9:39:33 PM
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I think it depends on the item.
I bought an extended warranty on an expensive VCR quite some years ago. The salesman added it on at no extra price because I was vacillating at spending AU$2000 on it. :-) When it was about 4 years old, it developed a fault and needed repair. This was outside the normal warranty, but inside the extended warranty, so it was repaired for nix.
OTOH, I would expect an expensive VCR to last a long time - it does, in fact, still go and runs well.
Wade.
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Is it enough to breathe
Somebody rip my heart out
And leave me here to bleed
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Post #281,996
4/16/07 8:37:46 AM
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splutter!!!
2k on a vcr? was that with a lifetime subscription to a porn shop?
thanx,
bill
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Post #282,009
4/16/07 11:57:32 AM
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Custom made ones at that.
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. (Herm Albright)
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Post #282,049
4/16/07 7:03:53 PM
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Sony HF-2000, -2100 for just a couple in that bracket
(No doubt PAL versions for Oz, etc.)
Bitchin Super-Beta Is-speed editing decks.. made unlike your average VHS throw-away (of the day, let alone the drugstore $88 remnants seen now.) SVHS could never equal the color quality of the Betas, depite sl. higher BW than Beta Is
Then too - there were even 'D' machines, special tape - intro'd too late to effect any market penetration: just the perfectionists. Over $2K, too.
Heavy machines; lots of stuff inside there, from micro-inch machining on to reliable electronics. At the time, I marvelled at Sony's ability to mass produce such lab grade mechanical designs. A 10 \ufffd-in. finish is mirror-like.
(And.. My HF-650 Super-beta continues on.. .. .. (with one replacement of the metallized rubber pad in the remote.)) It will play (but not record) the faster, higher def'n tapes. It was the poor slob's HF-1000 du jour.
Note the eBay prices on well-preserved specimens of the above or HF-1000 (an editing deck with a monstrous remote: designed 23+ years ago.) Some folk have hundreds of tapes - I suspect that recent sales of these may have to do with needing the fine playback quality for a media change(?) amidst those who: simply define the best tape performance as adequate. And computer-free, (more likely.. Doze-free.)
ie not as silly as you imply.
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Post #282,073
4/16/07 10:52:05 PM
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First consumer S-VHS deck in AU.
Quite a physically robust machine, actually. The only niggle on the featurelist is that it was PAL only, but that was never a problem for me. More recent S-VHS decks do everything, though. I later bought an S-VHS-C camcorder.
And yes, Ashton, I know it wasn't really a patch on SuperBeta, but it was a good-enough--better-than-VHS for me, particularly since not only did I still needed VHS compatibility, but my church had access to S-VHS editing gear so it was a natural fit.
Wade.
Is it enough to love
Is it enough to breathe
Somebody rip my heart out
And leave me here to bleed
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Is it enough to die
Somebody save my life
I'd rather be Anything but Ordinary
Please
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Post #282,098
4/17/07 4:41:10 AM
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Actually..
A friend recently passed along a near-new JVC S-9600U. I must concede that it handles tapes with as much finesse as the Betas, does amazing things at EP and otherwise just seems very good. Looks as if its editing is no slouch either, were I so inclined. (Not.) Does better on VHS than a previous hors de combat Sony managed, though it may have a strange / infrequent glitch; I can live with less than perfection.
(I have yet to run down an S-VHS tape on which to experiment; best attend to that before the local ... If Everybody doesn't want it - nobody Gets It ... marts drop them.)
It really IS amazing IMO - what recent machines can do with EP! (Some folks, unclear-on-the-concept of Vision - persist in using that sluggish pace on off-air material.. oh well.)
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Post #282,130
4/17/07 10:46:41 AM
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thought as much
I had one of the first S-VHS decks too, cost a pretty penny. I used until a year ago when it died.
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