Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Hey John,

Shaky ground indeed. I blame US mentality for a lot of
the ills in the world, but "keeping the box" seems
like stretching it a bit. I recently returned a dvd
player without the box to circuit city, they charged a
$20 fee for not having the box, but replaced the unit
anyway. You have a cellar? I don't, and I live in the
grand old USA, my apartment might be a little bigger
than your cellar, and I have two cats a drumset and 14
guitars to hide in it. I agree about the
"psychological trick manufacturers use to stop us
returning things", but I don't think it was
manufactured in the USA. Probably wrong on that
though.

Just pulling your chain mate, no worries,

John

--- john@... wrote:

> > If you purchase, remember to keep the box to
> return if required
> 
> Aye, I'm kinda irritated by that. I mean, it's a
> bloody big box. I got
> to thinking that maybe that type of policy (although
> in this case
> obviously the company is German (I think) so I'm on
> shaky ground
> already, but I'd have to rest on "America sets the
> trend that others
> follow) is rooted in the US where, I'm given to
> understand, there's
> plenty of space, houses are larger, so there's space
> for all the boxes
> of the things you buy.
> 
> Me, I live in the UK and my cellar's already full of
> stuff, some of
> which is the boxes all the stuff above ground level
> came in.
> 
> The thing is, UK law says nothing about keeping the
> box. It does say
> something should be fit for purpose and durable. So
> if it fails, the
> box doesn't matter, in law they've broken their
> contract (I'm not a
> lawyer, so take this with a pinch of salt).
> 
> So I've taken to thinking that the 'keep the box'
> instruction is just
> another psychological trick manufacturers use to
> stop us returning
> things, even though it has no standing in law. We
> may think "I'd
> return that, but I didn't keep the box so I'm sure
> they won't take
> it", or when you call "did you keep the box?", "no",
> "well we can't
> take it back then", "but the law says otherwise",
> "well, tell me again
> what the problem is ... ".
> 
> Or maybe I'm just a cynic.
> 
> Maybe the box thing is just for if you change your
> mind and want to
> send it back because it doesn't match the sideboard.
> 
> I did, however, keep the box.
> 
> J
> 


		
____________________________________________________
Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page 
http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs