Why not return to place of purchase?

I just got a Sony SDM-HS95P LCD Screen and I noticed the manual says "DO NOT RETURN TP PLACE OF PURCHASE", it's not the first time I see this, why do they not want us to return it to the place of purchase? It's normally a quick exchange with the store policy, so why does the manufacturer want us to return it to them?

The screen is great by the way, I wanted it when I saw it online, then saw it in demo an the store and there was so much glare it was more an expensive mirror than anything else since all I could see was reflections of the lamps on the ceiling, but it was set pretty high so the angle caused the reflection of the ceiling lights, I asked the guy if I could return it if the glare bothered me too much, he said I can, but that in a normal setup there is no glare, and there's none at all here. I'm sure they're loosing lots of sales due to the screens being to high.

I also noticed in many LCD usereviews... oops I made a word out of two, I meant user reviews, buyers are complaining that the text is fuzzy just because they don't have it at the right resolution (LCDs and other digital technologies can only properly show their native resolution, anything else will be pretty blurry as you get further up or below the native res., even just the next closest resolution will cause a lot of blur or distortion) and they actually return the screen thinking it's bad because the text is blurry! At least this monitor came with a CD that immediately prompts you to appply the screen's native resolution, but still, reviews about this monitor complained of blurry text and specifically mentioned the non-native resolution their PC is set it, no wonder it's going to be blurry! Do they not even bother to insert the CD? These people are giving a bad view of LCDs because they don't know how to use them properly.

Update: Another great feature of this monitor is the light sensor that automatically adjusts the backlight level based on ambiant light, when it's dark, the display dims so it doesn't hurt your eyes, I used to have to manually adjust the brightness often. If sun starts getting in the room, it increases to a almost blindning brightness (if it's dark and I shine a flashlight in the sensor, the brightness slowly increases to a level I can barely look at when used to the dim light).

[QUOTE=ClickHere2Surf.com]I just got a Sony SDM-HS95P LCD Screen and I noticed the manual says "DO NOT RETURN TP PLACE OF PURCHASE", it's not the first time I see this, why do they not want us to return it to the place of purchase? It's normally a quick exchange with the store policy, so why does the manufacturer want us to return it to them? QUOTE]

The stores are pressuring the manufacturer's to place that in their documentation. This stops, dissuades people from buying the product, trying it out, then returning it for bull$hit reasons.

See, if a return for credit is not an option, the only way is to send it back for a replacement, under warranty of course. Pay postage.

You bought it, keep it. Next time, don't buy it if you are not sure...

Don't try it out for 28 days and then take it back, saying you didn't like it.

How coud ya like it its a Sony.
Check everything you own for a rootkit.
Fridge Stove etc etc
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I second that SONY?????? :uke: :uke: :uke:

What's wrong with sony? I never had a problem and this monitor gets nothing but rave reviews and 5 star user reviews. The XBright technology from sony does make it look a lot better than the others.

In any case, I was sure of my choice, and anyway I have 2 weeks to return or excahnge it if I want, but that won't be happening.

One of the reasons I wanted a Sony is most of my pocket PCs had Sony LCDs and they looked just great and were always voted #1 in image quality. Of course no desktop screen will approach the 200+DPI res of a high res PPC, but it's still very good.

I must admit 2 small problems:
-The navigation buttons are all in a row: input/brightness profile/OK/up/down/menu and it makes it hard to follow without looking at the buttons all the time, my old CRT had 1 single button to set everything: you pressed it to show the menu, rotated it to navigate, press to select, rotate to adjust, press to confirm, that was the user-friendlest screen I had ever had, but after all you only need to set it once, especially with the auto brightness feature.
-The other thing is the black isn't 100% black when in a dark room, but most if not all LCDs have this problem, although a higher contrast ratio helps, I think this is close to as good as they get, but my projector, also being LCD technology, has the same black level issue so I'm used to it, overall the image quality is far superior to my CRT's where dark images appeared as a solid black rectangle, all CRTs were like that for me, and I did have the brightness/contrast on max.

Mitsubishi makes a better Large screen than Sony.That means Japanese are better than Japanese and" America keeps getting richer"??

Apparently you dont read do you ?
Does Sony+ Rootkit ring any bells?
After what they pulled they can keep their products.
I wont deal with a company that uses those type of tactics.
And the only way other companies contemplating these tactics will learn is when its hurting real bad in sony's pocket book.
We have the power
BUT

DE WE HAVE THE WILL?

To answer your original question, I'm assuming they don't want you to reutrn it to the point-of-purchase to prevent people like yourself from "buying" something, using it for a few days and then returning it - sort of like renting something, but at no cost.

Remember, you were going to do this with a hard drive a few months back so you could temporarily store some data? - This is why we've lost a lot of the luxuries of easy returns we used to have.

I did read all replies up to yours and still have no idea what you're talking about, what the heck is Sony+Rootkit?

OK I did a search on Sony Rootkit and found it's some sort of spyware they put on their desktops, I see how that means I'll never buy a Sony desktop (I never would have even before knowing this), but I don't see why I should stop myself from choosing the best screen they had at the store which gets nothing but rave reviews.

I know that rootkit thing isn't very "nice", but I'm far more bothered by drug companies and government agencies that are suppressing the cures for cancer, heart disease, and just about every other disease which ends up costing millions of lives every year. I was a victim of this fraud, which is the biggest crime ever committed on this planet, 5 years ago I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease, I was told I needed surgery (1st scam: A natural product would have reversed the disease in days), then I was told I had Crohn's disease (the retard doctors thought I had an appendicitis, that’s after the 7 first doctors said I was fine when I was in excruciating pain) and then I was told I needed to take chemotherapy drugs for the rest of my life (which are know to cause cancer, and remember, this is supposed to be an ANTI-cancer drug, but all cancer drugs cause cancer). I recently learned this was all a big fraud to make thousands off my pain and suffering by giving me a needless $50 000 surgery followed by prescribing me drugs that are up to $1028.00/bottle to take for life which would have given me more diseases like cancer and liver damage.

After seeing the ad for the "Natural Cures They Don't Want You To Know About" book I bought it and am so glad I did, I learnt all the truth, I'm off the deadly drugs and now taking natural products that are proven to work better than the drug, with no side effects, and which reduce the risk of cancer rather than increase it significantly like the drugs did. I also now know of an inexpensive natural product that reverses the disease in as fast as one hour if ever I feel I have a problem (I've been fine since the surgery). All this information wasn't in the book, and I didn't believe it all at first but after significant research, I'm sure it's all 100% true and I'm never going to a conventional doctor again, statistics prove conventional medicine is the #1 cause of DEATH in America.

The book also explains how chemicals are being put into foods to make you hungry, addicted, fat, and to give you specific diseases, this to is also proven and obvious. Many diseases like cancer, MS, arthritis, attention deficit disorder, and many more, are often caused by food additives which are purposefully put to give up diseases, if you go to a doctor, they'll give you drugs to "treat" the disease which will only give you more problems, the real cure is to remove that additive from your diet and the disease will often go away. I'm eating almost only organic now, and would recommend you guys do to, don't wait until you get a possibly deadly disease (according to conventional medicine, no disease is really deadly when treated properly). And if anyone has or knows someone with cancer, don't let them die as a result of conventional medicine, only 3% survive cancer with conventional medicine, while 80-100% survive with alternative cancer treatments depending on which of the 18 proven cancer cures you use. Think about it, if these cures were known by everyone, the drug companies making cancer drugs, the cancer research, the cancer charities, the cancer clinics/hospitals would all shut down overnight, the cancer industry wants more people to get cancer, and they've succeeded, there's 50 times more cancer than before the cancer industry started, you really think your cancer donations went towards preventing cancer, I'm sorry to say, but they went towards increasing cancer, that's how the cancer industry makes money. My friend's mom was diagnosed with terminal cancer and the doctors said she doesn't have a chance to survive, she went to see a naturopath, and in 1-2 weeks her cancer was gone, the naturopath used one or more of the known cancer cures, and of course they worked (she's not an exception, most people that go the natural way have their terminal cancers cured very fast and with no drugs or surgery).

Sorry to get off topic, but people are dying because they don't have this information. I'm sure you can understand how this, the biggest crime on the planet, bothers me far more than a company that can see what music you listen to or whatever that Sony thing does.

I would highly recommend lookin into natural cures or reading the Natural Cures book, don't be fooled by the bad reviews, they are mostly posted by people paid by the pharmaceutical companies because he is exposing the truth about pharmaceutical companies killing people for profit, remember Vioxx? They KNEW it would kill at LEAST 20 000 people (it ended up killing over 100,000) when they approved it, they didn't care because it would return billions in profit.

www.newstarget.com has a lot of good informatio on natural cures and the sick truth about conventional medicine.

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Originally Posted by Ferrit

Apparently you dont read do you ?
Does Sony+ Rootkit ring any bells?
After what they pulled they can keep their products.
I wont deal with a company that uses those type of tactics.
And the only way other companies contemplating these tactics will learn is when its hurting real bad in sony's pocket book.
We have the power
BUT

DE WE HAVE THE WILL?

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Click it's simple really.

if the Government supresses stuff (can we say conspiracy theory?), you can vote in a new government.

I can't vote in a new sony or other company, so i'll hit them with my pocketbook instead.

The root kit is more then something they put on some of their PC's. it was part of music cd's that would install without any notice even in some cases using the autorun.

For LCD's screens, the question beg's, wich is better, i personaly like the samsung screens SOOO much better then the sony ones.

What I liked of this sony screen was the quality compared to others in the store, the design, and the auto backlight brightness adjustment sensor, so when I turen the lights off the screen dims to not hurt the eyes, I don't know if others have this feature (I'v only seen it on Sonys but I'm sure others must have that too), the great reviews it got also encouraged me to get this one. I have a lot of sony products and haven't had any problems, in fact apparently there's a potentional problem with my camera (I haven't had any problem) and they are accepting to replace them all, whether the waranty expired or not, even cameras from other brands that have the problematic sony CCD sensor in them.

So I'll continue to support their non-PC products, just stopping to buy their "bad products" should be enough for them to stop doing the bad things they're doing, I don't think there's anything "bad" in my monitor. Maybe the light sensor is really a camera to spy on me? Anyway, I've had nothing but great satisfaction from my other Sony products (camera, dvd-rw, tape drive, amplifier/speakers, monitor).

Oh, and I don't think any government would legalize the cures for cancer (yes, there's a law against curing cancer with anything other then drugs, which only worten cancer anyway), it's probably one of the biggest money source for them. The only way is to let as many people know so they stop taking dangerous drugs, so basically like Sony, stop buying drugs, but that will only happen when enough people are informed about them.

Anyway, I'd rather fight against companies that are killing millions of people than companies that are spying or whatever it is Sony is doing with their computers.

Sony PC's BWAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHHA
You dont really read or research very well thats redily apparent.
All the noise you made about all that hardware you researched.
And all you come up with on Sony|Rootkit is their PC's
Seeing what music you download is the least of the problems with this little piece of code.
Which by the way appears that Sony stole and used without approval.
I think the exploit count on that lil honey is up to about 5 now
See what yer listening too BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA

O M G

So let me get this straight.

Government pays for health care (in Canada they do)
Government knows that "natural cures" work better
Government passes law preventing "natural cures"

Now i'll admit that some perscription drugs are not covered under health care.
However, all the associated treatments, Chemo, Doctor visits, transportation to specialists, hospital rooms, nurse care are all covered.

So your saying that the Government passed a law so they could spend more money on healthcare just so that some private companies could make some extra cash?

BTW, there is a fixed pricing on perscription drugs from the US sold in Canada. So the pharmasuticals don't make much money here in Canada.

From store return policies, to Sony rootkits, to medical care, all in around a dozen posts. Priceless!:cool:
Seems like old times around here now. ;)

I'm so confused! :confused: :knife: :eek2:

(With apologies to confus-ed.) ;)

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Originally Posted by TripleRLtd

From store return policies, to Sony rootkits, to medical care, all in around a dozen posts. Priceless!:cool:
Seems like old times around here now. ;)

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these guys could hijack a funeral :D

(I did actually try to answer his question btw, but it sort of got lost in there somewhere)

Nothing like a well hijacked funeral provided its someone I dont like

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Originally Posted by Ferrit

provided its someone I dont like

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which is most people I'm guessing :D

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Originally Posted by Ferrit

Sony PC's BWAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHHA
You dont really read or research very well thats redily apparent.
All the noise you made about all that hardware you researched.
And all you come up with on Sony|Rootkit is their PC's
Seeing what music you download is the least of the problems with this little piece of code.
Which by the way appears that Sony stole and used without approval.
I think the exploit count on that lil honey is up to about 5 now
See what yer listening too BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA

O M G

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I did all my research, why would I research sony PCs when I'm looking for a monitor? Who cares if Sony's PCs are the worst, I dont want a sony pc, I wanted a sony monitor, and it's rated the best everywhere, so I did my research, but on the product I wanted, why would I research sony computers if I'm looking for a monitor, I dont get it?

And I absolutely don't care about what Sony Rootkit is, so why would I research that? I don't care whether it's a system to spy on the users, to control the user's toaster or to make the computer explode, the monitors dont have the rootkit thing, whatever it is, so why would I care about it?

The cancer industry returns trillions on profits per year, do you think they want a cure to be known? And were does the government get it's money from? From the absolutely insanely high taxes we have here in Canada.

The law clearly states "Only a drug can prenvent, cure or treat a disease", so what happens when a researcher finds that a certain plant cures cancer? They can't say anything about it, because the plant would then be an illegal drug, and approving it costs $840 Million, but since you can't patent a natural product, it's simply impossible approve it, because anyone can sell it, rather than a single company patenting a drug and making billions from. It's specifically tricked so that no natural product can EVER be used to treat any disease, even though they all know they work FAR better than drugs, and without any side effects other than improved health.

I was skeptical at first, but I did a lot of research and it's obvious that cancer is really as simple as a weakened immune system. Everyone and every animal has cancer since ever, but our immune system destroys it as it grows, but when you "have cancer", it's as simple as your immune system that can't catch up with the growth of the cancer cells so they start to multiply without getting destroyed. So saying there's no cure for cancer is deying human nature, because we are all constantly curing our own cancer. I won't say how to cure cancer he cause I could very likely end up in jail, but do some research online and you'll see. And I know this is real, my friend's mom cured her "terminal" cancer with natural products when the doctors said she didn't have a chance to survive, and she's doing well today 3 years later. She got the advice from a naturopath, I didn't know about all this yet.

Another thing that shows there's obviosuly a big scam is when I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease, I was told to take a chemotherapy drug for the rest of my life, and in most cases the drug barely helps at all (while the side effects include cancer, liver damage, pancreatitis, susceptibility to all viruses and possibly death). After reading about the cheap natural cures for Crohn's disease (such as probiotics, cat's claw, DMSO), I went to a Cronh's forum to see if anyone had tried these, guess what? Every single person that tried them reported getting by far the best releif of any of the drugs, but when I asked these natural products to my doctor, she simply said "that's not proven, keep taking the drugs", the worst part is that these products ARE proven to be MORE EFFECTIVE and without the deadly side effects. This doesn't apply only to Crohn's disease, almost any disease has a natural iexpensive cure, and every drug has a natural product that works better and with no side effects.

This isn't only for drugs, it applies to surgery too, there is a $30 natural plant supplement alternative to a $50 000 coronary bypass surgery that works better than the surgery. I also learnt I did not need the surgery I got, a natural plant could have reversed the damage in days or weeks.

So please think twice next time you go to a doctor, and make the right choice, go to the alternative health doctor (unless of course you have a broken leg or something). If you have any disease, drugs are definatly not the answer. If ever I have cancer, I wouldn't accept chemotherapy if I had a gun at my head, not only does chemo improve the 2 things cancer needs to live (giving chemo to a healthy person would most likely give them cancer), it's often the chemo that kills the patient instead of the cancer.

Again, read articles on www.newstarget.com, I learnt a lot from there also.

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Originally Posted by Matridom

So let me get this straight.
Government pays for health care (in Canada they do)
Government knows that "natural cures" work better
Government passes law preventing "natural cures"

Now i'll admit that some perscription drugs are not covered under health care.
However, all the associated treatments, Chemo, Doctor visits, transportation to specialists, hospital rooms, nurse care are all covered.

So your saying that the Government passed a law so they could spend more money on healthcare just so that some private companies could make some extra cash?

BTW, there is a fixed pricing on perscription drugs from the US sold in Canada. So the pharmasuticals don't make much money here in Canada.

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Click,

The Rootkit has nothing to do with Sony PC's. It's Sony Music. They are putting the rootkit in the CD's people buy. The rootkit then gets installed on a pc. Then others manipulate the rootkit to do other nasty things. That is such an invasion of privacy, etc. To subsidize a company that does that, is just assinine.

Click says:
"it's obvious that cancer is really as simple as a weakened immune system"

No, actually, cancer is the uncontrolled growth of human tissue.

Click says:
"Another thing that shows there's obviosuly a big scam is when I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease, I was told to take a chemotherapy drug for the rest of my life, and in most cases the drug barely helps at all (while the side effects include cancer, liver damage, pancreatitis, susceptibility to all viruses and possibly death). "

What Medications are Used to Treat This Disease?
Because there is no cure for Crohn's disease, the goal of medical treatment is to suppress the inflammatory response. This step accomplishes two important goals: It allows the intestinal tissue to heal and it also relieves the symptoms of fever, diarrhea, and abdominal pain. Once the symptoms are brought under control (this is known as inducing remission), medical therapy is used to decrease the frequency of disease flares (this is known as maintaining remission, or maintenance).

Several groups of drugs are used to treat Crohn's disease today. They are:

1. Aminosalicylates (5-ASA): This class of anti-inflammatory drugs includes sulfasalazine and oral formulations of mesalamine, such as Asacol,® Colazal,.® Dipentum,® or Pentasa,® and 5-ASA drugs also may be administered rectally (Canasa® or Rowasa® ). These medications typically are used to treat mild to moderate symptoms.
2. Corticosteroids: Prednisone and methylprednisolone are available orally and rectally. Corticosteroids nonspecifically suppress the immune system and are used to treat moderate to severely active Crohn's disease. (By "nonspecifically," we mean that these drugs do not target specific parts of the immune system that play a role in inflammation, but rather, that they suppress the entire immune response.) These drugs have significant short- and long-term side effects and should not be used as a maintenance medication. If you cannot come off steroids without suffering a relapse of your symptoms, your doctor may need to add some other medications to help manage your disease.
3. Immune modifiers: Azathioprine (Imuran®), 6-MP (Purinethol®), and methotrexateImmune modifiers, sometimes called immunomodulators, are used to help decrease corticosteroid dosage and also to help heal fistulas. In addition, immune modifiers can help maintain disease remission.
4. Antibiotics: metronidazole, ampicillin, ciprofloxacin, others.
5. Biologic therapies. In August 1998, the FDA approved the first biologic therapy for Crohn's disease. This was infliximab (Remicade®), which is indicated for moderately to severely active Crohn's in patients who have not responded adequately to conventional therapy. It is also approved for reducing the number of draining enterocutaneous fistulas. In June of 2002, infliximab was approved by the FDA for a new indication – maintaining remission. Infliximab is given by infusion.
   
   Infliximab is a chimeric (a hybrid consisting of 75 percent human, 25 percent mouse protein) monoclonal antibody. The antibody works by blocking the immune system's production of tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha). This is a cytokine (chemical) that intensifies inflammation.
   
   For more information on infliximab, click here.
   
   Several other biologic agents for both Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis are being studied in clinical trials currently, but none are yet commercially available.

I don't see any cancer drugs in the above therapies.

I'm really sorry to hear about your medical problem. I wish you the best.

But I wish just once, when you posted something, and after you read the advice given, you would show one ounce of gratitude, appreciation. Something to make posting a future helpful reply wothwhile.

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Originally Posted by ClickHere2Surf.com

I did all my research, why would I research sony PCs when I'm looking for a monitor? Who cares if Sony's PCs are the worst, I dont want a sony pc, I wanted a sony monitor, and it's rated the best everywhere, so I did my research, but on the product I wanted, why would I research sony computers if I'm looking for a monitor, I dont get it?

And I absolutely don't care about what Sony Rootkit is, so why would I research that? I don't care whether it's a system to spy on the users, to control the user's toaster or to make the computer explode, the monitors dont have the rootkit thing, whatever it is, so why would I care about it?

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Because why put $$ into the pockets of a company if that's how they feel about and treat their customers?

Then one can only hope that you get a sony rootkit for the wonderfull experience it will teach you about the dirty low down company you just bought your monitor from.
Your the very reason they get away with this stuff.
People who say, "I dont care what dirty pool they play: they make what I want and I am gonna get it.
Oh and since yer such a poor researcher, this rootkit has absolutely nothing, I say again NOTHING to do with sony pc's

And maybe while yer not too busy watchiong yer 30,000 page per month printer print. You could read this,It may elighten you some although I rather doubt it.
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5...ml?tag=nl.e589

Are we now unofficially part of the Boycott Sony movement?

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Originally Posted by TripleRLtd

Are we now unofficially part of the Boycott Sony movement?

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why, because a few members out of the 50,000+ mentioned they won't use Sony? :confused:

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Originally Posted by TripleRLtd

Are we now unofficially part of the Boycott Sony movement?

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Count me in. :thumbs:



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why, because a few members out of the 50,000+ mentioned they won't use Sony? :confused:

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Well, you could always put one of these in your sig:
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/11/30..._sony_pro.html
:drink:

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Count me in. :thumbs:



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:cool: Congrats...
Are you a Sergeant yet? :thumbs:

btw, this impressed me:

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I'm really sorry to hear about your medical problem. I wish you the best.

But I wish just once, when you posted something, and after you read the advice given, you would show one ounce of gratitude, appreciation. Something to make posting a future helpful reply wothwhile.

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Are we now unofficially part of the Boycott Sony movement?

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I dont care about movements or any of that.
For me its a matter of priciple.
Company's use dirty pool I dont support them as much as is possible for me to do.
Its that simple.
Others may choose as they will
But as long as people have an attitude of I dont care what they do I am getting what I want, then hey will continue and it will get worse.
:)