"Pierre" > wrote in message
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>
> Vox Humana wrote:
> <snip>.
> >
> > New appliances aren't necessarily any better than older ones.<snip>>
> As for warrantees - who bothers saving the receipt for a $39 appliance
> so
> > you can mail it, at your cost, to a repair center if it breaks within
> 90
> > days or a year?
>
>
> Fact of the matter is that he got a piece of junk that doesn't work,
> came with no instructions, and now has no recourse. If he and you
> don't save receipts on new products, I hope you either better become a
> more educated consumer(which you seem to be), or just get used to
> throwing your money away.
>
OK hun. Some of us can cook without an instruction manual or know enough to
ask questions on Usenet or do a Google search. I know for a fact that if
gave the most expensive waffle iron complete with instruction manual and
receipt to my sister, she wouldn't make a decent waffle. On the other hand,
I think being a good consumer might be spending $3 on a used waffle iron and
learning to use it while keeping it out of a landfill rather than spending
fifteen or twenty times that amount on an appliance that you MIGHT use three
times a year. Buying new appliances and keeping the receipt doesn't make
you an educated consumer. We really don't know if the waffle iron is a
piece of junk or if it just needs a little seasoning. Let's face it, it
isn't rocket science. A waffle iron made today isn't materially different
than one made in 1947. If it heats and the thermostat works, then it is
fine. The OP did the right thing by recognizing the problem and asking for
advice. That's being an educated consumer in my opinion.