well this is a good set of hilarious trainwreckery

[solarbird]

Someone was giving away a broken television – “it flickers” – on the local Buy Nothing group. I have a project that wants a high-quality diffusion lens, so I say “Hey, if nobody wants to try to fix it, I’ll take it” and I end up with it.

I pick it up. It’s much heavier and thinner than I expected, and higher end than I also expected, but no big deal until…

…I get home and realise it’s an OLED television, which doesn’t have the diffusion lens I want. They must’ve spent some serious money on this thing.

So I get into the paperwork, notice a couple of extra bits but skip them to get to how to assemble the stand, do so, and hook it up to see the flicker. To my surprise, actually yeah, that’s a reasonable description of what it’s doing! But it’s mostly working so maybe I can fix it. If not, oh well, my bad for not checking to make sure it’s not OLED.

Then I go through the rest the paperwork they threw in with it from 2019 when they bought it and discover:

1. The actual purchase receipt
2. The actual extended warranty proof of purchase that you need to use the extended warranty
3. Which says that they bought three years of extension to the two-year factory warranty which means
4. This goddamn thing is still under warranty.

I presume they will want it back. I have left them a message. This may be complicated by the fact they were heading out right after I picked this up, so now I’m wondering if they were going out to buy another TV.

Given how much this one may’ve cost, I’m kind of thinking it’s worth their time to take the new one back. But we’ll see.

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