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Derrek
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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 Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2003 7:13 pm Post subject: Anyone else sick of returning new things that are broken? |
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Is anyone else sick of the Korean brands... I've stopped buying them, mostly. It seems that anything electronic I buy: Samsung, LG, Daenyx, Unitech -- you name it -- must be returned about 50% of the time.
This is why people in the USA do not trust Korean products. It's even worse here, I've found. Now I know why people are willing to pay a premium for the Japanese stuff. |
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katydid
Joined: 02 Feb 2003
Location: Here kitty kitty kitty...
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| Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2003 8:22 pm Post subject: |
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Everywhere you go, you get, well, Derreked!  |
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canuckistan
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Joined: 17 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2003 8:32 pm Post subject: |
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Does that apply to girlfriends as well?  |
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Derrek
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2003 9:20 pm Post subject: |
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| katydid wrote: |
| Everywhere you go, you get, well, Derreked! |
Yawn... boring. |
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Marathe
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
Location: Spider Hole
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| Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2003 9:42 pm Post subject: |
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same thing i've been telling everyone back in the real world when i talk to them:
BUY NOTHING THAT'S MADE IN KOREA
EVER
I've been here 11 months and have had 2 korean vcrs and 1 korean TV (all new) die on me.
yet my Japanese made ps2 thats all of 3 years old and gets used on a regular basis hasn't had a single faulty bit.
nice work korea. keep makin those shiny electroniks. |
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katydid
Joined: 02 Feb 2003
Location: Here kitty kitty kitty...
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| Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2003 9:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Derrek wrote: |
| katydid wrote: |
| Everywhere you go, you get, well, Derreked! |
Yawn... boring. |
Oh come on, it's all in good fun.... |
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Hyalucent
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: British North America
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| Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2003 12:45 am Post subject: |
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I hear ya, Derrek.
But so far, Samsung has been okay for me *knock on wood*. I bought a video camera that's worked for two years mind you I haven't used it lately since I got my digicam. I also have one of their cell phones and a VCR. Last night I bought a Samsung vacuum cleaner with the hopes that it'd continue working... it's my third one so far in the last year, having bought other Korean brands before.
I will never by LG again. Nothing I have of theirs is quality. The worst was my cell phone which cut out after a year. I took it in to be serviced and had to wait two months. When they called me to say it was ready, I made the trip over to pick it up and found out that no one had even touched it. It was still broken. They said to wait 20 minutes and then came out with it "fixed". However, there were two problems: one problem with the screen and one with the charger. They fixed the screen but I found out later the charger was just made to look fixed but still didn't work.
I vehemently refused to buy anything other than a Motorola after that but when we went to the cell phone store, the lady at the counter refused to sell me the Motorola she had, and my k-gf sided with the saleslady. Since I couldn't sneak out to another store and sign for my own, I ended up with a Samsung.
On a side note, I had four alarm clocks just stop working in my first year here. Why? I will never know. They were a mix of Korean brands, Chinese, and I think Western. I suspect that there is something wrong with the space-time continuum in Korea.
As far as non-Korean products go, I am happy to announce that my Sony Discman will turn a ripe old age of 14 this year and still plays like the day I bought it. |
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Hyalucent
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: British North America
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| Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2003 12:52 am Post subject: |
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| katydid wrote: |
| Derrek wrote: |
| katydid wrote: |
| Everywhere you go, you get, well, Derreked! |
Yawn... boring. |
Oh come on, it's all in good fun.... |
I expect it's only a matter of time before a Konglish version of this filters into the local populace. When you finally make it home, you might do so with the distinction that you have affected the very language of a culture. That'd be way cool.  |
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Derrek
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2003 3:46 am Post subject: Does |
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| hyalucent wrote: |
| katydid wrote: |
| Derrek wrote: |
| katydid wrote: |
| Everywhere you go, you get, well, Derreked! |
Yawn... boring. |
Oh come on, it's all in good fun.... |
I expect it's only a matter of time before a Konglish version of this filters into the local populace. When you finally make it home, you might do so with the distinction that you have affected the very language of a culture. That'd be way cool. |
Does this mean I could get a date out of this???? *laugh*.. j/k |
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Gord
Joined: 25 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2003 4:09 am Post subject: |
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| Marathe wrote: |
| yet my Japanese made ps2 thats all of 3 years old and gets used on a regular basis hasn't had a single faulty bit. |
My PS2 stopped playing DVD movies a couple weeks ago. Plays DVD games though without issue oddly enough.
In the meantime I can just use my Xbox. Oh, wait, two weeks after I picked up my Xbox the optical out stopped working. No more surround sound for me! |
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matko
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: in a world of hurt!
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| Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2003 4:22 am Post subject: |
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| Gord wrote: |
| Marathe wrote: |
| yet my Japanese made ps2 thats all of 3 years old and gets used on a regular basis hasn't had a single faulty bit. |
My PS2 stopped playing DVD movies a couple weeks ago. Plays DVD games though without issue oddly enough.
In the meantime I can just use my Xbox. Oh, wait, two weeks after I picked up my Xbox the optical out stopped working. No more surround sound for me! |
Gord,
What are you suggesting?
That Japanese electronics are no better than Korean?
Just curious. |
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Gord
Joined: 25 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2003 4:29 am Post subject: |
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| More that some things will break regardless of the company behind them. |
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The Man known as The Man
Joined: 29 Mar 2003
Location: 3 cheers for Ted Haggard oh yeah!
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| Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2003 10:56 am Post subject: |
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| canuckistan wrote: |
| Does that apply to girlfriends as well? |
Princess, it applies more so to girfriends than wives. |
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ulsanchris
Joined: 19 Jun 2003
Location: take a wild guess
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| Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2003 5:54 pm Post subject: hmm |
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| hyalucent why did the women at the phone shop refuse to sell you a motorola? Also why didn't you just go to a different shop? |
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Miss Moneypenny
Joined: 30 Aug 2003
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| Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2003 6:00 pm Post subject: Re: Does |
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| Derrek wrote: |
| hyalucent wrote: |
| katydid wrote: |
| Derrek wrote: |
| katydid wrote: |
| Everywhere you go, you get, well, Derreked! |
Yawn... boring. |
Oh come on, it's all in good fun.... |
I expect it's only a matter of time before a Konglish version of this filters into the local populace. When you finally make it home, you might do so with the distinction that you have affected the very language of a culture. That'd be way cool. |
Does this mean I could get a date out of this???? *laugh*.. j/k |
Not with me and my yummy body, you are a walking disaster 
Derrek, you need a proximity sound alert. |
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