12-06-2004, 07:21 AM
Kitchen Aid! :) I got a Kitchen Aid mixer a few years back. It's the kind that you can add all sorts of attachments to. About 11 months after I got the mixer (it has a 1-year warranty), I got the first attachment for it- a veggie slicer and cheese grater. It sorta worked, except that the thing would fall off (spinning blade and all) once you put any pressure on it. I thought I must be using it incorrectly, but I finally figured out that the hole in my mixer where you're supposed to add attachments must have been just a little bit too shallow.
I called Kitchen Aid, and the *first* thing they did was send me out a new mixer. They told me to pack the defective one into the nex mixer's box, and UPS came back a few days later and picked that one up. I guess they just refurbished that one (I hope they didn't just toss the thing, anyway, since the mixing part worked fine).
I didn't have to leave the house, pay a cent, or spend a single day without a working mixer.
One problem with build-your-own computers is that you end up at the mercy of many different companies, all with their own return policies, if something goes wrong. Even if 80% of the companies you buy from have good return policies, you know it's the other 20% of the parts that are going to break on you! :angry:
I called Kitchen Aid, and the *first* thing they did was send me out a new mixer. They told me to pack the defective one into the nex mixer's box, and UPS came back a few days later and picked that one up. I guess they just refurbished that one (I hope they didn't just toss the thing, anyway, since the mixing part worked fine).
I didn't have to leave the house, pay a cent, or spend a single day without a working mixer.
One problem with build-your-own computers is that you end up at the mercy of many different companies, all with their own return policies, if something goes wrong. Even if 80% of the companies you buy from have good return policies, you know it's the other 20% of the parts that are going to break on you! :angry:
Why can't we all just get along
--Pete
--Pete