Great news for owner's of GE color TV's from '64

[old_tv_nut]

Even if they did honor it, they would have to do so in cash value or by giving you a new TV (since the old chassis doesn't meet current UL or environmental standards, they would rightly claim that it is now a legal liability for them to restore it to operation) - So, you get some compensation, and they take the old chassis and crush it.

[Steve D.]

I'm sure the legal eagles would find a loophole in the fact that the GE division that produced the TV's is no longer in business. Both GE & RCA consumer electronics were gobbled up by Thomson a French Co. in the 80's. Thomson pardnered up with Chinese based TCL electronics last year to produce GE & RCA consumer electronics under the new TTE banner. Good luck sueing all these guys.

-Steve D.

[Bobby Brady]

I expect you gentlemen are correct and I appreciate your replies.

I think it is very wrong to state such a warranty that is essentially a lie. I understand different exuses can be made to "justify" not honoring the promise but the fact that these sets work fine with the usual component replacements and are clearly as safe as modern sets means that they could last forever and therefore who ever own's GE should do what they promise. I bet they could open a drawer to get the manufacturing specs and have some department make a mold with the automatic laser machines and have one or more by the end of the day. Considering how little workers are paid (compared to exec salaries, company profits etc.) I expect the actual cost to produce one circuit board would be about $5.00. I expect others would disagree on that cost figure but I base that on the fact that computerized machines can reproduce anything even without the original specs if they have something to copy.

In another thread a person backed out of a bid and many members spoke as though he is not trustworthy and they would not do business with him. However, when it comes to all that wrongs against people that big businesses do evrybody just seem to not mind at all based on the lack of mentioning such wrongs and the fact that we the people continue to accept whatever they do as if there is nothing we can do about it. I suppose nothing can be done to make big businessesdo the right thing. People seem to not want to get together on such matters.

[Geoff Bourquin]

Addressing the lifetime of a product issue....I had a '74 Dodge van, and I found out there was a recall issued for a weakness in the mounting of the steering gear, which explained a steering problem I was having. I took it to the local Dodge dealer (I think it was in 1984), and they said they would not do the work; the vehicles life was over. It only had about 100k miles on it. They wouldn't even do the work if I paid for it myself (which they said was about $600.00 when they did do the work). I guess the lifetime of a product is whatever the manufacturer decides is best for them.
BTW, I did get a guy to fix it up for me, and I drove it until 1995 and the guy who bought it drove it for 4 more years.
Maybe this is more appropiate for a Mopar forum