broke my DVD player and became 35 bucks richer
i was playing around with the component video output option of my DVD player last weekend, it's supposed to provide "excellent picture with very high resolution, better colour accuracy, and less colour bleeding". so i plugged in the component video cable to my player and my TV and then went to the DVD menu and set the video display output to component>progressive scan. whoa, the signal went crazy, i got a disturbed picture on my TV! i must have set something wrong, i'll reset the setting on my DVD... oh, oh, i can't see the menu, i'm dead! i switched back to the video 1 channel of my TV, it's black! the signal is being transmitted on the other cable :( i removed the component video cable, still no effect! what have i done?!! i tried every possible solution and they just didn't work, so after an hour of effort to reset the setting, i finally gave up. the solution... return the player to FutureShop!
FutureShop is just a couple of blocks away from our place so it's really not the worst option. so off we went to the store and easily managed to return it for replacement(i love the thing so i just want it replaced), but the problem is they dont have it on stock anymore! the customer service lady told me they have stock on the southside branch which is really quite far away. i had no choice but to just ask for full refund, which she gladly did. oh, i love the stores here!
on our way out, i saw their current newspaper promo ad, and guess what? my screwed Samsung DVD/VCR combo is on sale for 149! that's 20 bucks cheaper than one week ago, so i removed the ad from the corkboard and asked for a photocopy in the CS. another great thing about the stores here is that almost all of them do price matching, so i just have to find the model on another store, and i should be able to purchase it at FutureShop promo price. i had to check three store before finding it at the small electronics section of Zeller's. indeed, they do pricematch, so i eagerly purchased one, ending up with more that 20 bucks in savings! what a good way to end a screwed morning! incidentally, while at Futureshop, i also noticed that the price of my TV went down by 15 bucks, i got the rebate as well. don't you wish you could do that in Manila? =)
FutureShop is just a couple of blocks away from our place so it's really not the worst option. so off we went to the store and easily managed to return it for replacement(i love the thing so i just want it replaced), but the problem is they dont have it on stock anymore! the customer service lady told me they have stock on the southside branch which is really quite far away. i had no choice but to just ask for full refund, which she gladly did. oh, i love the stores here!
on our way out, i saw their current newspaper promo ad, and guess what? my screwed Samsung DVD/VCR combo is on sale for 149! that's 20 bucks cheaper than one week ago, so i removed the ad from the corkboard and asked for a photocopy in the CS. another great thing about the stores here is that almost all of them do price matching, so i just have to find the model on another store, and i should be able to purchase it at FutureShop promo price. i had to check three store before finding it at the small electronics section of Zeller's. indeed, they do pricematch, so i eagerly purchased one, ending up with more that 20 bucks in savings! what a good way to end a screwed morning! incidentally, while at Futureshop, i also noticed that the price of my TV went down by 15 bucks, i got the rebate as well. don't you wish you could do that in Manila? =)
posted by ren at 10:20:00 AM
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