{"id":659751,"date":"2010-02-09T16:19:36","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T21:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10001547"},"modified":"2010-02-09T16:33:11","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T21:33:11","slug":"why-i-wont-be-buying-another-vizio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/659751","title":{"rendered":"Why I Won&#8217;t Be Buying Another Vizio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/02\/williamwang-thumb-165x182-36825.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>Jeremy won&#8217;t be buying any more Vizio TVs. He bought an HD one for $650 , then after 18 months of use, it began flickering on and off and then wouldn&#8217;t turn it on. The CSR told him it would cost him ~$300 to send it in to repair the power supply, nearly half the purchase price, as the warranty expired. Jeremy thinks a TV should last longer than a year and a half, and so he wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.jeremyszehr.com\/2010\/01\/open-letter-to-william-wang-ceo-of.html\">an open letter on his blog<\/a> to William Wang, CEO of Vizio TV.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At this point, due to financial reasons, I am going to have to go back to my now 11 year old television and use that, until I can afford to purchase a new LCD TV,&#8221; writes Jeremy, &#8220;Which, given my understandable disappointment with Vizio, will be another brand.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They don&#8217;t make &#8217;em like they used to.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.jeremyszehr.com\/2010\/01\/open-letter-to-william-wang-ceo-of.html\">An Open Letter to William Wang, CEO of Vizio TV<\/a> [Somewhat Daily Words]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremy won&#8217;t be buying any more Vizio TVs. He bought an HD one for $650 , then after 18 months of use, it began flickering on and off and then wouldn&#8217;t turn it on. The CSR told him it would cost him ~$300 to send it in to repair the power supply, nearly half the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3568,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2LD9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3568"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}