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  • ron ll
    Seattle WA USA (Ballard)
    • Oct 2005
    • 24269

    Not fair.

    I bought a new radar setup for my boat (another thread in misc boat). So yesterday I am carrying the scanner dome down to the boat. It's big and smooth and round and a little awkward to carry, but not a big problem. But halfway out the dock I feel one of my fingers press thru something. Not a big something, but something small under my finger moved. When I get to the boat I turn it over and find that that something my finger broke thru was a little paper sticker over a screw hole that said, "Warranty void if this seal is broken".
  • David W Pratt
    Senior Member
    • May 2005
    • 12324

    #2
    Re: Not fair.

    You would think they would sell it with the seal broken

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    • BrianW
      not your average member
      • Nov 2002
      • 28191

      #3
      Re: Not fair.

      On the bright side... that screw rarely breaks or requires warranty work.
      “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”― Mark Twain,

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      • Hwyl
        Gareth
        • Jan 2003
        • 22222

        #4
        Re: Not fair.

        Call them and follow it up with a letter.

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        • Dan McCosh
          Senior Member
          • Mar 2001
          • 16375

          #5
          Re: Not fair.

          Is that like getting arrested for tearing off a mattress tag?

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          • htom
            Member #919
            • Dec 1999
            • 11118

            #6
            Re: Not fair.

            Write. With modern manufacturing, the seal may be an actual part of the device, sealing not only access but weather from the inside of the unit.
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            • the_gr8t_waldo
              Senior Member
              • Nov 2008
              • 1363

              #7
              Re: Not fair.

              once the seal is broken- all the good stuff falls out?

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              • ron ll
                Seattle WA USA (Ballard)
                • Oct 2005
                • 24269

                #8
                Re: Not fair.

                Originally posted by htom
                Write. With modern manufacturing, the seal may be an actual part of the device, sealing not only access but weather from the inside of the unit.
                I'll definitely write to them to get it on record, but this was just a paper label over one of the eight or so screw holes. They really don't want you taking the cover off and I really have no desire to take the cover off. But it wasn't anything that keeps the elements out of anything. But at a couple grand, I would kind of like to know the warranty is good.

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                • Paul Pless
                  pinko commie tree hugger
                  • Oct 2003
                  • 124803

                  #9
                  Re: Not fair.

                  Originally posted by the_gr8t_waldo
                  once the seal is broken- all the good stuff falls out?
                  the magic smoke
                  Simpler is better, except when complicated looks really cool.

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