DSG Product Replacement Vouchers - NOT HAPPY WITH AMOUNT

4743hudsonj

isofa wrote: »

^ couldn't agree more with macman!

so could i but i do tend to take it out when the manufacturers warranty expires as it costs the same and it save lengthy quibbles on soga

£5-£8 per month for piece of mind on high priced electricals (btw i dont have stuff from dsg by choice, gifts etc...) is really not that much in the grand scheme of things

macman

Tell us about the good experiences then.

macman

4743hudsonj wrote: »

so could i but i do tend to take it out when the manufacturers warranty expires as it costs the same and it save lengthy quibbles on soga

£5-£8 per month for piece of mind on high priced electricals (btw i dont have stuff from dsg by choice, gifts etc...) is really not that much in the grand scheme of things

Doesn't it rather depend how many items you have? In the days when it was just a colour TV I could understand the appeal. But if you are covering a TV, PC, laptop, PVR, Blu-Ray, tumble drier etc, you could be paying £50+ a month. Maybe I've been lucky, but I can't recall a major electrical item failing on me in the last 5 or 6 years. But then again I didn't buy them from DSG...

Marty_J

4743hudsonj wrote: »

£5-£8 per month for piece of mind on high priced electricals (btw i dont have stuff from dsg by choice, gifts etc...) is really not that much in the grand scheme of things

Better to put the money you'd pay into a savings account. If something goes wrong, you've got the money to fix it; if nothing goes wrong, you've still got your money.

4743hudsonj

macman wrote: »

Doesn't it rather depend how many items you have? In the days when it was just a colour TV I could understand the appeal. But if you are covering a TV, PC, laptop, PVR, Blu-Ray, tumble drier etc, you could be paying £50+ a month. Maybe I've been lucky, but I can't recall a major electrical item failing on me in the last 5 or 6 years. But then again I didn't buy them from DSG...

well i was bought a £800 hp laptop from currys which i bought the warranty for after the first year and it saved me precisely £1473.76 in repairs and £899.99 on a replacement sony vaio fw series

so for the cost of £130ish of the duration i was paying i think i did very well dont you:)

Marty_J

4743hudsonj wrote: »

well i was bought a £800 hp laptop from currys which i bought the warranty for after the first year and it saved me precisely £1473.76 in repairs and £899.99 on a replacement sony vaio fw series

so for the cost of £130ish of the duration i was paying i think i did very well dont you:)

£1473 worth of repairs on an £800 laptop?

4743hudsonj

Marty_J wrote: »

£1473 worth of repairs on an £800 laptop?

mobo replaced 3 times

ribbon cable 4

screen twice

whole outer case once

processor once, and a few other things


so parts would have cost me that much


oh and i forgot to add what labour would have been!


id never buy hp again lol it was a dv series though, terrible

Marty_J

Perhaps if you weren't having it repaired by those "experts", it wouldn't have had so many problems?

northernsparky

khanoo wrote: »

Hi,

I purchased a toshiba laptop in 2007 from currys. Purchase for £500.00.

If the laptop is less than 2 yrs old, then the EU warranty should apply - see here.

I would stick out for a replacement at the original value. Good luck

isofa

Exactly Marty, or it was a lemon machine and should have been swapped out for a new one.

There is a shocking report in PC Pro this month about the poor sales techniques, but then the appalling service and repair techniques of some shops, including stealing owners data, rifling through private files and all sorts.

I'd take a manufacturers warranty up to 3 years and that would be it, extended are in general money down the drain. But if you think you've had good value, fair enough.

If you buy from John Lewis they give you an extra years warranty on most goods.

Dell often bundle 3 years warranty with their systems.

It always pays to buy from a quality supplier.