So I bought a T.V. less than three years ago from circuit city

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polarmystery

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Is there any way I can get this money back from the warranty or a new T.V. or am I S.O.L. ??
 

Fingolfin269

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Originally posted by: polarmystery
Is there any way I can get this money back from the warranty or a new T.V. or am I S.O.L. ??

Is there something wrong with the TV?
 

CalvinHobbes

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Originally posted by: Fingolfin269
Originally posted by: polarmystery
Is there any way I can get this money back from the warranty or a new T.V. or am I S.O.L. ??

Is there something wrong with the TV?

That was going to be my question. The warranties are handled by a 3rd party and are still valid.
 

boomerang

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One month left, you can't be serious.

Actually, 8 days.

You paid CC for the warranty, so I guess you could get in line with the rest of the creditors. Let's see, you'd be ... umm ... dead last.

Edit: Apology below.
 

polarmystery

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Originally posted by: Fingolfin269
Originally posted by: polarmystery
Is there any way I can get this money back from the warranty or a new T.V. or am I S.O.L. ??

Is there something wrong with the TV?

It's a DLP which has some rediculous bowing in 4:3 mode. It's gotten worse over the years and supposedly the manufacturing allowable bowing is 1/4" and now it's like 4". It looks like someone is pushing my TV from both sides inwards
 

boomerang

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Originally posted by: polarmystery
Originally posted by: Fingolfin269
Originally posted by: polarmystery
Is there any way I can get this money back from the warranty or a new T.V. or am I S.O.L. ??

Is there something wrong with the TV?

It's a DLP which has some rediculous bowing in 4:3 mode. It's gotten worse over the years and supposedly the manufacturing allowable bowing is 1/4" and now it's like 4". It looks like someone is pushing my TV from both sides inwards
I apologize for my comments. I didn't realize there was something wrong with the TV. Contact the warranty people. Obviously, you'd want to do it soon.
 

polarmystery

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Originally posted by: boomerang
Originally posted by: polarmystery
Originally posted by: Fingolfin269
Originally posted by: polarmystery
Is there any way I can get this money back from the warranty or a new T.V. or am I S.O.L. ??

Is there something wrong with the TV?

It's a DLP which has some rediculous bowing in 4:3 mode. It's gotten worse over the years and supposedly the manufacturing allowable bowing is 1/4" and now it's like 4". It looks like someone is pushing my TV from both sides inwards
I apologize for my comments. I didn't realize there was something wrong with the TV. Contact the warranty people. Obviously, you'd want to do it soon.

No worries. I always seem to have a gray cloud over my head and something bad always seems to happen to me like every day. The other day I found a nail in my tire when I woke up and the day before that my vacuum that I ordered was misdelivered to the wrong address. :-(
 

waggy

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Originally posted by: polarmystery
Originally posted by: Fingolfin269
Originally posted by: polarmystery
Is there any way I can get this money back from the warranty or a new T.V. or am I S.O.L. ??

Is there something wrong with the TV?

It's a DLP which has some rediculous bowing in 4:3 mode. It's gotten worse over the years and supposedly the manufacturing allowable bowing is 1/4" and now it's like 4". It looks like someone is pushing my TV from both sides inwards

you know what would have been great? putting that in the first post. it would have been more clear and got you better information.

 

polarmystery

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Originally posted by: waggy
Originally posted by: polarmystery
Originally posted by: Fingolfin269
Originally posted by: polarmystery
Is there any way I can get this money back from the warranty or a new T.V. or am I S.O.L. ??

Is there something wrong with the TV?

It's a DLP which has some rediculous bowing in 4:3 mode. It's gotten worse over the years and supposedly the manufacturing allowable bowing is 1/4" and now it's like 4". It looks like someone is pushing my TV from both sides inwards

you know what would have been great? putting that in the first post. it would have been more clear and got you better information.

It's the morning and I haven't had my coffee yet. Brain is still waking up.
 

Phoenix86

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Originally posted by: polarmystery
It's a DLP which has some rediculous bowing in 4:3 mode. It's gotten worse over the years and supposedly the manufacturing allowable bowing is 1/4" and now it's like 4". It looks like someone is pushing my TV from both sides inwards
You have had this problem for years (it didn't go from 1/4" to 4" over night, right?), knew CC's problems, and waited until now to act on it?

Sorry, Charlie.
 

amdhunter

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Originally posted by: polarmystery
Originally posted by: boomerang
Originally posted by: polarmystery
Originally posted by: Fingolfin269
Originally posted by: polarmystery
Is there any way I can get this money back from the warranty or a new T.V. or am I S.O.L. ??

Is there something wrong with the TV?

It's a DLP which has some rediculous bowing in 4:3 mode. It's gotten worse over the years and supposedly the manufacturing allowable bowing is 1/4" and now it's like 4". It looks like someone is pushing my TV from both sides inwards
I apologize for my comments. I didn't realize there was something wrong with the TV. Contact the warranty people. Obviously, you'd want to do it soon.

No worries. I always seem to have a gray cloud over my head and something bad always seems to happen to me like every day. The other day I found a nail in my tire when I woke up and the day before that my vacuum that I ordered was misdelivered to the wrong address. :-(

Nail in your tire isn't so bad. I've had a screw in one of my tires for like 6 months already...lol
 

dmw16

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They are still honoring warranties thru a 3rd party, but why did you wait so long to deal with this issue?

Before you may have been able to just swap it out for a new TV, now you are going to have to probably deal w/ some crappy repair process.
 

Exterous

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Originally posted by: polarmystery
Originally posted by: Fingolfin269
Originally posted by: polarmystery
Is there any way I can get this money back from the warranty or a new T.V. or am I S.O.L. ??

Is there something wrong with the TV?

It's a DLP which has some rediculous bowing in 4:3 mode. It's gotten worse over the years and supposedly the manufacturing allowable bowing is 1/4" and now it's like 4". It looks like someone is pushing my TV from both sides inwards

You would get a pro-rated amount back on the warranty, which by this point would be almost nothing. Swap out? No. Fixed - maybe if you get your claim in in time

Also, is your TV a samsung? They had a design problem in some of their DLP TVs which caused excessive bowing (IIRC, the top support for the screen isn't strong enough to support its own weight, sagging inwards and pushing the screen out.)

Samsung extended their manufacturers warranty for this problem (I dont know how long they extended it though so you might still be out of luck there)
 
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