Hi Jolyon, You mentioned that "home contents insurance (which is the biggest reason that extended warranties are a con)."
May I ask what to do with home contents insurance company? TIA Regards Leigh On 14 June 2012 09:36, Jolyon Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > NZ Consumer Protection is pretty good in this area - extended warranties > are a con, that's for sure, but if your monitor is 4 years old then I'd say > you've had "expected use" out of it. > > Goods in NZ are expected to last a reasonable time before failing. Just > because something goes wrong after 12 months doesn't mean it isn't covered > under warranty - if it is something that you might reasonably expect to NOT > have gone wrong in the time that it did, then the manufacturer has to take > reasonable steps to address it. > > e..g if a motor or a bearing in a washing machine fails after 2-3 years > this is not reasonable as those parts are supposed to last much, much, > longer. > > But I would say that 4 years is a reasonable time after which a mains > transformer in a monitor might fail. > > You could try your luck with Dell but I would say you are on fairly weak > ground, so if they do offer to do anything about I would be grateful, > rather than being upset if they don't. > > > But, if Dell don't consider themselves responsible you still have another > option... home contents insurance (which is the biggest reason that > extended warranties are a con). > > Check your cover. :) > > > FWIW I totally understand your wanting a large monitor. One big monitor > is much better than 2 smaller ones for certain use cases. It's not about > the total number of pixels but how applications you use can arrange > themselves in a contiguous area covered by those pixels. > > The 27" 2560x1440 display on my iMac is more useful to me than 2 x > 1920x1080 ever were. But the monitor industry seems to have become fixated > on "HD" resolution and reasonably priced options above that resolution are > VERY limited (Dell still being one of the top choices I'd say). > > > Good luck. > > _______________________________________________ > NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list > Post: [email protected] > Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > Unsubscribe: send an email to [email protected] with > Subject: unsubscribe >
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