Tom G wrote:
"mm" wrote in message
...

It was almost no effort to go to Sears and look at their garbage
disposals.

Plainly they are made by In-sink-erator. The second cheapest, the
half-horsepower is 75 at Sears but it was on sale for 65. (All this
is Baltimore)

The same size at HD was 70 dollars regular price, and at Lowes 68
dollars regular price.

It wasn't true that the reversing feature was found on cheaper models
at Sears. It was only on the second most expensive, something like
178 dollars (and maybe the most expensive, but I didn't check.)
This is just the way it was with In-Sink at HD and Lowes. The models
there totally matched the models at Sears.


I thought I recalled the HD price and on sale, Sears was 5 dollars
cheaper so I was going to buy that one, but first the cashier wanted
my phone number and then he wanted my name and address. I didn't want
to give them and he said they were needed if there were a recall and
for the guarantee** I know I could have made up the number and
address, but then I had images of them writing to my phony address,
and I got annoyed, so I told him I wasn't giving him all that info,
and I put the thing back, and left.

I ended up paying 3 dollars more at Lowes, where they didn't ask my
name, phone number, or address.



**BTW, the In-Sink guarantee is 2 years on the 2nd cheapest model. I
think at sears it was one year. I'm sure it won't break during the
second year, but still. Apparently if it breaks during the warranty
In-Sink will come to yoru housse to fix it!



Probably would, but an Insinkerator sales rep told me that the company would
just as soon replace the unit, no questions asked. If a serviceman comes to
the house, he/she's probably going to tell you that the unit is unrepairable
and that it should be replaced which isn't covered by the warranty (the
labor). So to save time to you and cost of a service call to Insinkerator
it makes more sense to give the customer a new one. At least that was their
instructions to Sears salespeople. You might run into more of a hassle at
HD or Lowe's. The phone number/address thing is of course used in the event
of a recall but more often used by the company to hound you into buying an
extension on the warranty. So how is giving them a false phone
number/address different than the false email address you use in posting to
this newsgroup? I would find it fun to do to screw with their minds. If
everybody did it, maybe they would get the idea and quit asking.

Tom G


Hmmm,
Who cares about name and address. In this day and age they know of me
better than I know myself. I get birth day wishes text message coming
down on my cell phone, from my bank, etc. Nothing is private or
confidential any more. More over, I have nothing to hide or avoid, LOL.