• MisterFrog@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Remember in Australia, if you’re persistent enough, you could get this replaced under Australian Consumer Law, if something breaks in an unreasonable amount of time (outside of warranty, even). Considering fridges can easily last for 10 years, anything well within that should be fairly easy (but require many, many emails and threatening to taken them to your local small claims) to get replaced.

    That is if you can do without a fridge in the meantime 😅

    This is not legal advice.

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      3 days ago

      While consumer laws in the US generally suck, there are a few stores that have amazing return policies and go out of their way to please customers, Costco being one of them.

      I know a guy who brought back his 10-year-old broken plasma flatscreen TV without a receipt. They replaced it with a new model, no questions asked.

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          Yeah. That’s why we can’t have nice things. The US should consider extended warranty rules similar to the EU. But that’s probably too “socialist” or whatever.

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        3 days ago

        My TV came with a five year warranty - two year manufacturer, two years Costco, and one year from my Costco credit card.

        My washer and dryer got seven. Same deal, but Costco was offering an extra extended warranty plan for free.

        The best part is that they design their warranties to run consecutively instead of concurrently. Unfortunately, Citi got rid of the extended warranty with the Costco credit cards about a year and a half ago.