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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
Extremely underwhelming. BF keeps getting worse every year and the $20~$30 phones are now a thing of the past.
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I saw some around $30, but it wasn't a decent enough phone to price ratio for me to bite. I'd have had to go with $50 for something worth getting even as a music player.
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Originally Posted by Apache
Even manufacturers that claim lifetime updates for products find ways around it. VW announced lifetime updates to the software in their vehicles. Then they announced that the lifetime of their vehicles is 15 years. Right now, I drive a 30-year-old vehicle that has 95,000 miles on it. Really makes me want to go out and buy a vehicle that the manufacturer says is only good for 15 years. 
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Or make it impossible to get warranty service of any kind. Had that happen with a TCL HDTV. 90% of calls got disconnected before ever talking to someone, of the ones that got through I'd either be put on hold and then disconnected (happened the most) or the phone system would conveniently glitch out and the call volume on their end was too low to understand me. And once I did get someone who said they'd send out the part I needed (it didn't come with all the pieces to connect the base)... they never sent it out. I eventually gave up after spending at least twelve hours attempting to get a single part. That two year warranty was worthless.
I still got dad a TCL HDTV a few years back, but was prepared to return it immediately if it had anything missing and assumed it had no actual warranty.
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Originally Posted by haertig
I agree that typical Black Friday sales are not enough to entice me to buy something that I really don't need, or something that I haven't researched in advance. Just not good enough to trigger that impulse purchase.
But for something I already need (or want), why not get a few dollars off if it goes on sale?
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The thing is, those types of good deals are few and far between for most people nowadays. I still need additional parts for my new PC, all the rest had
no sales at all and now I'm waiting on Cyber Monday hoping maybe they'll be on sale then. Basically, you got lucky with how many items you wanted/needed that had good sale prices.