Nice one Les, offer would be accepted and duly returned. You are a gent

Just stop egging and encouraging Lewis to post even more Bumph than he does under normal circumstances.

 

Do you think I need any encouragement?

 

No!!

but what would be good, is:

Should you loose the aforementioned case,

you have the decency to come on here & mention the fact and take the loss like a man, rather than turn it into a another fictional epic

 

Like I said Mart - I cannot lose can I?

I would have lost if I sat at home with a faulty TV and did nothing about it - taking on the likes of DSG Retail to attempt to get justise is a win, whatever the outcome.

DSG Retail have lost allready - lost money due to their attitude, lost credibility, lost customers, lost goodwill ................ LOST

 

Here you go, fix it yourself

 

That 'fix it yourself' site is the biggest load of sh*te I've seen for a while.

Faulty pixels are caused by contamination during the fabrication process, causing the transistors at certain sites not to switch properly. The suggestion that you can 'unstick' them by flashing them on and off is absolute b*llocks.

(An analogy: try levering off one of the keys on your keyboard, then with the aid of a hammer and a screwdriver, smash the switch below, then put the keytop back. Key not working any more? Never mind, just press it over and over again, maybe it'll unstick and start working).

As for dead pixels being because "liquid in the liquid crystal has not spread into each little pixel", that shows an even deeper lack of understanding of how an LCD panel works. The pixel is dead because the faulty transistor is stuck off, not on - that's all.

In those rare occasions where poking the screen seems to 'fix' it, it's probably that the connections to the transistor are broken rather than the device itself - in which case massaging the screen is a bit like bending a broken wire to make it connect. I guess if it works for you...

 

When will this saga be over ?

Why not just buy a new pixel off ebay ?

 

Please remember that this is a Plasma TV not a LCD one!

 

Oh don't get him going will ya, He got arsey with me when i pointed out the picture that had the dicky pixel on had MrRee when you hovered your mouse over it. See post 603.

 

Would he get even more arsey if I posted a pic from his album with a reflection of him on it? especially given it's clearly not a 76 year old 20 stone bloke!!!!!!!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/08...icture1336.jpg

 

Well, Well, they ask for 60 days to prepare a defence ..... and, guess what? NO DEFENCE!!?????

Why do they treat Customers so badly if they are not going to defend their position in a Court of Law?

So, today, I asked for a Judgement to be made ...... in their absence.

If they don't pay I send the Baliffs in to seize items to the value of .......

I feel delated really - I wanted to meet them in Court!!!

However, it would appear as though I have won!!!

 

I know some have been genuinely awaiting an update and may have stopped clicking on the thread as nothing seemed to be happening.

Well ...... it looks like I have a result ..........

https://www.scoobynet.com/non-scooby...ml#post7670901

 

If you have, fair play

 

Make sure you find out when the bailiffs are going in, that'd be very satisfying to watch

 

Well done Pete, don't understand why your post was negged.

 

Me neither, seems the labotomy daycare centre has internet access

 

Well done! Please please be there with a camera and put it on YouTube, I dont think anyone actually likes Dixons so a lot of people would get great satifaction from this.

If I were a bailiff, it would be jobs like this one that make the job bearable.

 

Well done for the victory, you have also managed to keep your identity a secret.

 

That would get alot of hits!

Well done.

 

Forgive me Pete for not re reading the whole thread

But what have you Won?

The cost of a new TV?

As they haven't defended I guess you would also get to keep the current one which whilst it does have a pixel missing would still have SOME Value or use

Well done btw

 

pete, get the balifs to take the head honcho's laptop as he works on, that'll realy get his attention.

o and don't forget to let the press, watchdog and even the local ymca know you've won pmsl

 

Bailiffs?!

The court judgment will end up in the in-tray of some random individual in their accounts dept, and cheque will get issued at the end of the month, just like every other invoice. If you're lucky it'll cover you for a new TV.

I can just hear the conversation in their legal dept a few weeks ago:

- "Got another one here, bad pixel, wants a new one..."
- "What's the matter with these morons, don't they realise it's within spec? Anyway, what's it worth?
- "About £500 trade price"
- "Bin it, it's not worth our time."

... and in a couple of weeks when the court judgment arrives...

- "OK"
...scribble...
- "Sign here"
...scribble...
- "Cheers."

If you get any more actual attention than that, I'll be surprised.

 

Well done Pete. It would appear that they feared your planned public outcry should you have won. Ended the case in this manner has simply strung you along for as long as possible in the hope you would give up, or fear having to pay their costs should you have lost.

This is of course assuming that there ever was a TV. Being the wind up merchant you are, I would not be surprised to find out you are currently sat in front of a Panasonic plasma from John Lewis.

 

Pete could you say what actually happened at the Court today then?

 

There is a TV, I'm not sat in front of it and I'm not sure what happens to the TV actually?

The judgement will be for a fixed amount, the TV was the cause for the compensation claim - I don't think the TV is up for grabs.

Maybe DSG Retail would like to take me to Court to get the TV back?

If they want to pick it up I am available the second Sunday every month - I can't say which hour I will be in to open the door ....... one of their employees of the month will have to take a day off work and sit outside my house until I appear (sounds just like when they come to visit, doesn't it?)

I'm sure they have messed up big time, the Clerk to the Court said that 'sometimes' these big companies 'lose' their paperwork and ask the Judge to allow them back into the process .............. not quite sure what the Judge would tell them?

 

Really simple .......

1. Walked in

2. Asked the Clerk of The Court if a Defence has been received

3. Clerk said nothing has been heard since they asked for an extension to prepare a defence.

4. I asked if my calculation of the 'End Date' was correct as the very lastest Monday 18th February 2008 as the drop-dead date for the Defence to arrive.

5. Clerk confirmed my date.

6. I completed the form to get the Judgement made in the absence of a defence.

7. Handed form into the Court.

8. Next step is Judge 'should' award in my favour and Currys, trading as DSG Retail will get a County Court Judgement against them and ordered to pay in full immediately as per my instructions.

Painfully simple ...... I would recommend that EVERYONE take a hard line attitude when a company is attempting to restrict their Statutory Rights.

I have a nasty feeling that this has some way to run yet .......... but I seem to have covered everything correctly.

 

Dont mock about the Baliff's going in

IIRC just recently some bloke had the baliffs going into his bank to get his payments back, must have been a great site to see a baliff going into the bank to take goods to the value of the amount owed

Well done Pete

 

If you win you get to keep the TV as it will have been accepted as being defective. Or at least that is what happened when I won a claim against a company that had sold me defective goods.

Not only did I get my money back, and costs, but I also kept the goods. The goods were not that much use mind

 

Good result Pete, lets hope the matter is now dealt with and you get the money you require.

 

Good stuff Pete... It really does show how much Currys think of their customers.... they play hard ball face to face, but when it comes to cruch the just dont bother backing their bully boy attitude up.