Reply #5: At the beginning of the CD era, I bought a CD player [View All]

[stopbush]

from J&R in NYC, manufactured by a company based in Ohio. This was my second player after an early Technics. Well, it worked for about 4 months and then started skipping. I sent it off to the company in Ohio who took about 6 weeks to "fix" it. It came back unfixed. I wondered if they even bothered opening it. I sent it to them again. Same story, only it took 8 weeks to fix...only it still wasn't fixed. So, I called them...they told me they were getting out of the CD player business...and besides, the player was actually made by Yamaha under license. But as it wasn't a Yamaha branded player, Yamaha couldn't fix it under warranty. What BS.

I chucked the player (which had cost around $250) and switched to an Onkyo...that worked for about a year until it started skipping. I then purchased one of the first Denon players that had a 5-disc carousel...and it has worked flawlessly since 1993!

As far as I'm concerned, I now purchase almost all of my electronics with the idea that they're disposable. I've had quite enough of repair shops, thank you. Why spend $ on something they can't fix? At the end of the day, it's cheaper to just buy something new.