the Midas touch

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Philip Nasadowski <nasadowsk (AT) nospam (DOT) usermail.com> wrote

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In article <kmPfd.3992$kM.3491 (AT) newsread3 (DOT) news.pas.earthlink.net>,
"Steven M. Scharf" <scharf.steven (AT) linkearth (DOT) net> wrote:

JC Penney did have a lifetime warranty on car batteries to the original
owner. JC Penney still honors this warranty, more than two decades after the
product was no longer offered, and despite the fact that JC Penney no longer
even has auto service or sells auto parts.

On the flip side, Tektronix no longer honors their 'lifetime' warrenty
on oscilloscope transformers, even though there's plenty of 400 and 500
series scopes out there. They claim that the products are 'beyond their
useful lives' even though they work just ducky. I motherfucking hate
them for that - I'll NEVER buy a Tek scope (not like the new ones are
any good)

Unfortunately, you're stuck with Tek scopes, the competition is much
worse. I used to have Tektronix as a customer when I worked at my
previous semiconductor company, and they were pretty good to work
with. One of their concerns was always how long a specific part would
be manufactured, because they tended to not make major changes in the
products.

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BTW, Snap-On really DOES mean lifetime on their handtools - my dad's
replaced 30+ year old stuff that's broken...

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Re: the Midas touch - 10-30-2004 , 06:43 PM