Re: anyone ever return a DVD Recorder to Walmart?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
 "RipCurl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Why do you think that car magazines do not give bad reviews on many 
> cars?

Locally, someone was selling a 2001 Jetta Vr6 on Usenet. I read their 
ad and then searched on Google for "2001 jetta vr6" because I'm sort of 
idly in the market for a new (used) ride. 

Man, I thought VWs were good cars. I couldn't BELIEVE the stuff that 
Jetta owners say they have suffered. When you pay ~$30K for a car, 
you'd expect it to work right for longer than a few months. Out of the 
two dozen-or-so owner reviews I read, only two, maybe three, actually 
liked their car. Everyone else was either enraged, digusted or 
despairing. Many were treated like criminals at the very dealership who 
sold them their defective scrap metal.

Pretty much everyone agreed that it was a real nice-looking lemon, 
though.

Tie this information in with a next-door neighbor who had months of 
similar horrifying experience with his Brand Spanking New Passat 
(except that the dealership was apparently much friendlier to him than 
it was to those Jetta owners) two years ago, and I can tell you what 
kind of car I WON'T be considering when I'm ready to buy.

Still, the point is, all those people lost a LOT of money; in some 
cases it sounds like they almost literally threw it away. Without a 
return/exchange privilege, sellers need not be accountable for the 
stuff they peddle and buyers can be victimized.