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Old 09-23-2007, 11:02 AM   #22
MikeF74
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
I'm sure that Sony's technicians are the ones best qualified to determine if the damage has been caused by an external trauma, or a spontaneous failure of some internal component. They are certainly far better qualified to judge the situation than we are, don't you think?
But lets not take Sony's self-interest out of the equation. Any warranty repair service will usually try to blame the user rather than the parent company. I think this inevitably leads to a condition where only the most obvious flaws are admitted to and fixed. Anything that has even so much as a 10% change of being caused by misuse, will probably always be categorized as misuse. They are not an impartial 3rd party. The deck is stacked in their favor, and I think most large companies take full advantage of their position. And they have few qualms about it since profit is king for publicly traded companies.
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