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Gift faulty on arrival

Haws
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Hey all

I got an LG TV as part of my upgrade package, It's arrived faulty. Who do I contact about it? LG or EE? I understand if it develops a fault it would be a warranty claim direct with LG. But unsure on the arriving faulty part. TIA

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Mark_Norville
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@Haws Legally your contract is with EE as they supplied the TV's and not LG.

 

You have a point of sale, which is EE so you have to contact EE to get them to replace the TV.

 

After that point of sale, then yes you would contact LG, but in this instance it is EE that you need to contact.

 

If they say that you need to contact LG, then tell them to whistle.

 

Regards

 

Mark

Cheers, much appreciacted

Mark_Norville
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@Haws Sadly your thread is not sounding good, we have been waiting all this time for our TV's and then suddenly one report of a broken TV.

 

It will be interesting to see if this is just an isolated incident or a more wide spread problem.

 

What seems to be the fault out of interest?

 

Regards

 

Mark

@Mark_Norville See image links below

 

https://ibb.co/80h0QCc
https://ibb.co/5YRFTdD

 

Edited links: above don't want to load

 

https://imgshare.io/image/NQF0Ln

https://imgshare.io/image/NQFcjY

 

I thought it was pressure damage to begin with when first switched on. Couldn't see any damage on the box to correlate this with though. When looking closer it appears the internal part of the screen hasn't been inserted correctly and is either trapped in the frame or come away from it's mounting.

 

Hope this helps

Mark_Norville
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@Haws Sadly cannot see those images. You seem to know a bit about what the possible cause is, it could be a case of just unscrewing and moving the screen into position.

 

However, potentially this will void any warranty, so best not to do that. 

 

A common fault is that people get their TV's delivered, especially at this time of year and they straight away plug the TV in, the TV's have been sat in cold warehouses for how ever long, so always make sure that any electrical equipment really gets to room temp first before putting any electrical charge into it.

 

You can always damage a product though, without it showing on the box, such as dropping it on carpet or the TV not being secured down while in the van. 

 

When I worked for a courier years ago now, we never had blankets or bungee cords in the vans the manager was a right piece of work, to be polite. 

 

It might just be a bad build from LG, but usually they are spot on, it will be interesting to see if there are any more complaints about non working TV's.

 

Sadly it is not what you want to deal with, especially after waiting for so long, if that was for a Christmas present then pretty much Chrimbo over.

 

Regards

 

Mark

Yeah, I'll leave the unscrewing part to LG.

 

It was delivered at 10ish this morning and been sat in the kitchen till I got back from work hours later. (Wife was home so house certainly wasn't cold.......) So was definitely at room temp before plugging in.

 

It does in fairness look like a bad build rather than damaged in transit. I have 3 other LG TV's and various other items. All have been flawless so far so hoping it should be a one off.

 

Fortunately it was only to be used as a replacement for an ageing kitchen TV. Still have the old one so nothing lost other than the sorting out the returns etc.

 

I'll call EE in the morning and see what they wish to do