Retailers - is there a remedy?

bases-loaded@juno.com bases-loaded@juno.com
Sat, 9 Mar 2002 05:35:31 -0500


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Greetings -

My question is this:  Is nine days of discontented ownership of a brand
new piano, with 3 service calls that have not remedied the problems,
sufficient criteria to get one's money back?  Details follow.... 

A piano teacher I have serviced the last few years has needed a better
piano for years, but was unable to afford one.

Parents to the rescue... they surprised her by going to one of the big
retail establishments here and picking one out for her (uh-oh).  They
picked a 5'2" maraschino cherry red Young Chang that has now been in the
teacher's home for 9 days and she HATES it.  She has had the store's
technician out 3 times on rather significant action problems that don't
seem to get remedied.  (I have not seen the piano).

She has expressed her dissatisfaction with the store and would like to
return it and get the $10K back and pick out her own piano anywhere she
pleases, but the store tells her once it leaves the store the only option
open to her is to trade it into them on an upgrade.  Since she has no
money to add, and doesn't like any of the instruments there in that price
range, she feels doomed to accept the instrument she now has.

Any input on this dilemma in regards to standard industry retail
practices would be appreciated.

Mark Potter
bases-loaded@juno.com
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