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To: Robert E. Bruss who wrote (5731)	3/1/1998 3:37:00 PM
From: Michael Coley	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 7685

RE: Every Product is 100% Perfect? Of course not. I've had tons of products fail: * Energizer Camcorder Battery. Worked first time, never took a charge after that. * Car Battery. Died 23 months into a 24 month warranty. LUCKY! * Replacement Car Battery. Was also bad. (The third one was fine.) * 17" Monitor. Blew up 18 months into a 12 month warranty. Fortunately, American Express doubled the warranty so it was still covered. * AT&T Cordless Telephone. Quit working, was still under warranty. * External Modem. Was out of warranty but only charged $15 to fix it. That's all I can think of right now. But yes, I've hard lots of things break. One individual's experiences doesn't make a difference, though. It's the percent of the products that go bad (and to an extent, the expected life of the product) that make a difference. Removable storage devices should be expected to have a lifetime of at least 3-5 years. Most are guaranteed for 1-2 years. SparQ has a VERY small installed base of under 100,000 drives and has only been on the market for 3 months. To see such a large number of messages on Usenet about problems this soon is a bad sign. In contrast, Zip has an installed base of over 12,000,000 drives and has been on the market for almost 3 years. There are quite a few messages on Usenet about problems with Zip, but FAR less (as a percent of installed base) than SparQ. - Michael Coley - wwol.com