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Johnny Bravo

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My Turn To Rant
« on: June 30, 2010, 03:05:13 PM »
I bought 2 Vizio 47" LCD Tv's from Costco in June 2008. I get a 2 year warranty because I bought them at Costco. Monday morning the picture went black on one of them. I called Costco and they called Vizio with me on the phone. After testing some things on the set it was determined it was not repairable. The Vizio guy says he thinks he can get me some help. Yesterday the " Vizio Guy " calls and says there is nothing they can do. I spent $3000.00 on 2 tv's and there is nothing he can do. I figure it cost me $750.00 a year for 2 years to watch that tv in my bedroom and I'm 18 days out of warranty. I went to Costco since my purchase with one of my buddies since then and he's purchased 4 Vizio tv's since my purchase. I explained all of this to 2 Costco people and 3 Vizio people with no results. Vizio finally said they would sell me a reconditioned tv for $534.00 and it comes with a 90 day warranty and then he goes on to say that I can purchase an extended warranty for it. WOW..............at these prices I can't afford to watch tv on a Vizio. I would think I could get more than 2 years ans 18 days out of a $1500.00 TV ??? I'm just warning all of my friends on this site. DON'T BUY VIZIO !!!            OK Rant over
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Re: My Turn To Rant
« Reply #1 on: June 30, 2010, 03:20:27 PM »
Quote from: Johnny Bravo on June 30, 2010, 03:05:13 PM
I bought 2 Vizio 47" LCD Tv's from Costco in June 2008. I get a 2 year warranty because I bought them at Costco. Monday morning the picture went black on one of them. I called Costco and they called Vizio with me on the phone. After testing some things on the set it was determined it was not repairable. The Vizio guy says he thinks he can get me some help. Yesterday the " Vizio Guy " calls and says there is nothing they can do. I spent $3000.00 on 2 tv's and there is nothing he can do. I figure it cost me $750.00 a year for 2 years to watch that tv in my bedroom and I'm 18 days out of warranty. I went to Costco with one of my buddies since then and he's purchased 4 Vizio tv's since my purchase. I explained all of this to 2 Costco people and 3 Vizio people with no results. Vizio finally said they would sell me a reconditioned tv for $534.00 and it comes with a 90 day warranty and then he goes on to say that I can purchase an extended warranty for it. WOW..............at these prices I can't afford to watch tv on a Vizio. I would think I could get more than 2 years ans 18 days out of a $1500.00 TV ??? I'm just warning all of my friends on this site. DON'T BUY VIZIO !!!            OK Rant over
Don't buy digital period! I don't mean to sound like an old fart, but.......In my day, you bought a TV, plugged it in and you were good to go. I have a 28" wall mart special that works just fine. I then bought a battery powered TIVAR that I could use during hurricanes. I talked to a guy named "David" at CS for 20 minutes trying to get it to work (if his name is David, I'm a Sarah Palin voter). His English was about as good as my Hindi. The up shot was that after 20 very painful minutes I could get Ion and 3 Jesus channels, two of which were in Spanish. None of these will help me during a storm. I am now waiting on an adaptor to let me plug rabbit ears in so I can maybe get the local news channels. This after 2 bills. >:( It used to be so much easier and the reception was better, without all the pauses and crinkles that seem to go with digital and I'm not noticing such a wonderful increase in my picture quality.  ::)
FQ13 who will close with this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1_NhnXMCKw
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Re: My Turn To Rant
« Reply #2 on: June 30, 2010, 03:22:41 PM »
It does sometimes seem that there must be a room full of techno-guys sitting around a table designing things to stop working right after the warranty period runs out. It seems to happen a lot these days. And when something does go bad under warranty, they give a big run-around to try to keep from having to pony up the fix.

Sorry for the troubles, JB.
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Re: My Turn To Rant
« Reply #3 on: June 30, 2010, 05:29:29 PM »
Had my 50" Vizio, "die" last year, called Vizio, and if the symptoms are similar, they ARE repairable.

Mine was fine up until I heard a "Pop" like a light bulb from the lower left corner (as your looking at the screen), and it turned out to be a small processing board Vizio makes replacement boards for.

Check with TV repairmen around your town, don't give up hope yet.

Mine is an old Russian guy, I swear, probably wired ICBM's during the Cold War, he said it was not anything major, and charged me $265.00

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Re: My Turn To Rant
« Reply #4 on: June 30, 2010, 06:26:05 PM »
Hey, before the government mandated switch to digital I could get 8 or 10 so-so stations at my trailer....now with the converter I get 1 maybe!  Ain't progress grand?

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Re: My Turn To Rant
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Re: My Turn To Rant
« Reply #5 on: June 30, 2010, 10:23:12 PM »
Quote from: ellis4538 on June 30, 2010, 06:26:05 PM
Hey, before the government mandated switch to digital I could get 8 or 10 so-so stations at my trailer....now with the converter I get 1 maybe!  Ain't progress grand?

Richard

Yep.
Before the "Big Switch" I never had problems getting local channels on the tv in our bedroom....heck, the NBC and Fox station tower was only 35 miles away. Now, I can't get one at all and the other fades in and out. Seems to me it was just another way for the gubmint to spend money (remember the $80 per household for converter boxes), fueled (no doubt) by lobbyists for the tech industry and most probably the cable/satellite companies who have probably benefited greatly via new subscribers. I shoulda bought stock in those companies.
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Re: My Turn To Rant
« Reply #6 on: June 30, 2010, 10:34:38 PM »
Quote from: PegLeg45 on June 30, 2010, 10:23:12 PM
Yep.
Before the "Big Switch" I never had problems getting local channels on the tv in our bedroom....heck, the NBC and Fox station tower was only 35 miles away. Now, I can't get one at all and the other fades in and out. Seems to me it was just another way for the gubmint to spend money (remember the $80 per household for converter boxes), fueled (no doubt) by lobbyists for the tech industry and most probably the cable/satellite companies who have probably benefited greatly via new subscribers. I shoulda bought stock in those companies.

After my experience today spending time and money trying to get a TV to work getting my ostensibly "free" broadcast channels to work so I can get life saving storm info..............well, I'm with Tom. You should have bought stock in a company selling extra scratchy, but solid, hemp rope! >:(
FQ13 who looks at progress "and he hates it". I prefer when we were bald head kabobs with a rabbit skin bungee corded around our dinks and the TV worked without a tech degree from MIT! And I liked it! ;D ;D ;D
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Re: My Turn To Rant
« Reply #7 on: June 30, 2010, 11:12:42 PM »
FQ......where is all of this heading? I just watched a movie called SURROGATES. It sure makes you think about what's coming. Anybody else seen it?
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Re: My Turn To Rant
« Reply #8 on: June 30, 2010, 11:50:15 PM »
I saw it and liked it.
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Re: My Turn To Rant
« Reply #9 on: July 01, 2010, 12:33:27 AM »
Quote from: Johnny Bravo on June 30, 2010, 11:12:42 PM
FQ......where is all of this heading? I just watched a movie called SURROGATES. It sure makes you think about what's coming. Anybody else seen it?

good one.. found it online and burned it to bring out to the ship. surprised there wasn't more hype.

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