Re: Plasma Blackout

Agent_C wrote:
On 20 Feb 2007 10:47:17 -0800, kenny@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

I purchased a used Maxent 42" Plasma off of eBay.

First mistake.

It came from a company called Auction Drop and they
have a 99.6 % rating so their stuff normally works.

OK, you bought a used plasma TV from a 3rd party, through an eBay
drop-off store.

If someone asked me to come up with the most risky procurement channel
for a plasma TV, only Guido & Vinny's back alley operation would rate
lower.

The description said everything worked fine,
however, [...]

Need I say the words?

A_C

Not necessarily. I bought a Costco returned, made in April 2006 Plasma 50" Panasonic that was going for $2500 at the time at Costco for $511 on Ebay from Auction Drop.

The description said "looks soft up close". There was absolutely nothing wrong with the plasma display. Unfortunately UPS broke the front glass and smashed two corners in shipping so I had to let them take it back and took the insurance.

Recently I bought a 50" Pioneer Elite Pro-1000HD 50" for $260 that had a bad power supply. Pioneer had lost a class action suite and settled for fixing all power supplies free labor and parts till the end of 2007. They came to my place and fixed the unit at no cost the day after I called and gave them the serial number. It is a very nice plasma.

Bob Miller
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