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From: topher@cyb-eng.UUCP (Topher Eliot)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: Customer Release Battery Replacement
Message-ID: <469@cyb-eng.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 3-Dec-84 21:52:30 EST
Article-I.D.: cyb-eng.469
Posted: Mon Dec  3 21:52:30 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 6-Dec-84 05:46:04 EST
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Organization: Cyb Systems, Austin, TX
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> I own a Casio calculator watch that I received as a gift about two years
> ago.  I am very happy with it, so when the battery started getting weak
> the other day, I went to the local shopping mall to get it replaced 
>  . . .
> I returned on Monday and was presented with
> a small, yellow piece of paper which read:
> -------
> 	CUSTOMER RELEASE BATTERY REPLACEMENT
> 
>      The undersigned customer hereby releases Page Jewelers of any and all
> claims arising out of Page Jewelers' replacement of a battery in the
> customer's watch described below except for claims under Page Jewelers'
> warranty that the replacement battery is in satisfactory condition and will
> so test on any standard battery testing apparatus.
>      This release, without limitation, specifically releases Page Jewelers
> from any responsibility for the performance of the watch or for scratches to
> the watch case if the case is difficult to open or close.
> -------
> Is this becoming common?  . . .

BESTS replaced my Casio calculator watch batter with no such nonsense (but
with a 2-day delay, they were "overloaded with work").

Cheers,
Topher Eliot
Cyb Systems, Austin, TX
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