SpursGator
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- Jan 12, 2012
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This entire discussion illustrates my point incredibly well. Just talking about making a return has inspired a two screens of legal gobbledegook. No wonder making one is so bad.
American consumers are far less protected by law, and utterly inundated with legal gobbledegook, most of which works entirely in favour of large corporations, against which regular people have no chance.
And yet, somehow, you can return anything in America, and doing it in Britain is such a hassle that several layers of laws have been passed to try to protect consumers. American voters might have demanded greater protection in this realm if they were treated worse as consumers - but they've got it good here, so they've focused on other areas like trying billionaire Latin American stooge dictators for drug crimes, bombing Laotians, and abortion. Law follows culture, not the other way around. People forget that.
I am telling you, the OP if you are still with us, all of this legalese horse excrement may be useful if you have to battle it out with the retailer. You should go though the proper channels (i.e., the retailer) in the event this is the case. But at the same time, for the price of a phone call (or possibly even just an email) directly to HRT, letting them know the machine will be coming from the retailer, and asking for their understanding, you might be able to make it all unnecessary. You can try the New World and Old World paths in parallel, as it were. When the N.W. version works, it's just so much easier than [see above thread]. So try it California style, Dude.
P.S. At this point I would, actually, forget the call and make it an email. Ask nicely for help - but paste in a link to this thread as well. Like I said, follow the culture. 😉
American consumers are far less protected by law, and utterly inundated with legal gobbledegook, most of which works entirely in favour of large corporations, against which regular people have no chance.
And yet, somehow, you can return anything in America, and doing it in Britain is such a hassle that several layers of laws have been passed to try to protect consumers. American voters might have demanded greater protection in this realm if they were treated worse as consumers - but they've got it good here, so they've focused on other areas like trying billionaire Latin American stooge dictators for drug crimes, bombing Laotians, and abortion. Law follows culture, not the other way around. People forget that.
I am telling you, the OP if you are still with us, all of this legalese horse excrement may be useful if you have to battle it out with the retailer. You should go though the proper channels (i.e., the retailer) in the event this is the case. But at the same time, for the price of a phone call (or possibly even just an email) directly to HRT, letting them know the machine will be coming from the retailer, and asking for their understanding, you might be able to make it all unnecessary. You can try the New World and Old World paths in parallel, as it were. When the N.W. version works, it's just so much easier than [see above thread]. So try it California style, Dude.
P.S. At this point I would, actually, forget the call and make it an email. Ask nicely for help - but paste in a link to this thread as well. Like I said, follow the culture. 😉
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