{"id":3311,"date":"2021-10-19T06:36:18","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T04:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/19\/samsung-stands-by-as-my-tv-warranty-expires\/"},"modified":"2021-10-19T06:36:18","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T04:36:18","slug":"samsung-stands-by-as-my-tv-warranty-expires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/19\/samsung-stands-by-as-my-tv-warranty-expires\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung stands by as my TV warranty expires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After endless attempts to either repair or replace the broken screen, the company decided my warranty had now elapsed<\/p>\n<p><strong>I bought a \u00a32,000 8K TV from Richer Sounds in August last year but just short of its first birthday the screen stopped working. I reported it to <\/strong><strong>Richer Sounds immediately who said it has to be dealt with by Samsung as it had happened within the first year, despite the store offering a six-year warranty.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I went through a long stream of emails and phone calls back and forth as Samsung tried to troubleshoot the problem. <\/strong><strong>It insisted I supply a video of the TV not working, which I did. After many, many back and forths <\/strong><strong>it agreed to send out an engineer, but the<\/strong><strong> contractor told me I had to pay a \u00a3100 callout charge as the TV was now out of warranty.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2021\/oct\/19\/samsung-stands-by-as-my-tv-warranty-expires\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/1a33c4c835e82c6f1e9df1e992d16300e8a0ae87\/0_0_4000_2400\/master\/4000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=616e7b250f95a02d868077c923fee732\" title=\"Samsung stands by as my TV warranty expires\" \/>After endless attempts to either repair or replace the broken screen, the company decided my warranty had now elapsed<br \/>\nI bought a \u00a32,000 8K TV from Richer Sounds in August last year but just short of its first birthday the screen stopped working. I reported it to Richer Sounds immediately who said it has to be dealt with by Samsung as it had happened within the first year, despite the store offering a six-year warranty.<br \/>\nI went through a long stream of emails and phone calls back and forth as Samsung tried to troubleshoot the problem. It insisted I supply a video of the TV not working, which I did. After many, many back and forths it agreed to send out an engineer, but the contractor told me I had to pay a \u00a3100 callout charge as the TV was now out of warranty. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After endless attempts to either repair or replace the broken screen, the company decided my warranty had now elapsed I bought a \u00a32,000 8K TV from Richer Sounds in August last year but just short of its first birthday the screen stopped working. I reported it to Richer Sounds immediately who said it has to &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/19\/samsung-stands-by-as-my-tv-warranty-expires\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Samsung stands by as my TV warranty expires<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3311"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}