Originally Posted By: engineerscott
You buy a lawnmower to do a job, you don't buy it to make some number of horsepower. Either it does the job and you're satisfied with the product or you're unhappy with the job it does and you take it back. I really don't see someone as being an injured party when they've used a product for years and been satisfied with the results, but then they want to jump on a class action lawsuit because their mower actually made 4.2hp and the box it came in said 5.5hp. If you felt the mower was underpowered you should have taken it back to the store after you bought it. And the heck of it is you're selling yourself so cheap. You put $10 in your pocket and some trial lawyer puts $10M in his. And in the end we all pay more for products to keep those $10M trial lawyers in business.
What if you bought a pound of grapes at the supermarket but only got 15 ounces? What if a gallon of gas from Exxon is smaller than that from Texaco?
We have weights and measures and supposedly universal ways of measuring them. One guy outdoing his competitor through marketing (lying) instead of engineering a better product is cheating the public. It shouldn't matter if we were happy; we don't have portable dynos for measuring blade HP any more than we have accurate scales to see if the grocer is ripping us off.
Proper weights and measures as a part of trade policy goes WAAAY back. Glad Sears no longers sells a 6 hp air compressor that runs off standard 120 Volt wall outlets anymore too.
You buy a lawnmower to do a job, you don't buy it to make some number of horsepower. Either it does the job and you're satisfied with the product or you're unhappy with the job it does and you take it back. I really don't see someone as being an injured party when they've used a product for years and been satisfied with the results, but then they want to jump on a class action lawsuit because their mower actually made 4.2hp and the box it came in said 5.5hp. If you felt the mower was underpowered you should have taken it back to the store after you bought it. And the heck of it is you're selling yourself so cheap. You put $10 in your pocket and some trial lawyer puts $10M in his. And in the end we all pay more for products to keep those $10M trial lawyers in business.
What if you bought a pound of grapes at the supermarket but only got 15 ounces? What if a gallon of gas from Exxon is smaller than that from Texaco?
We have weights and measures and supposedly universal ways of measuring them. One guy outdoing his competitor through marketing (lying) instead of engineering a better product is cheating the public. It shouldn't matter if we were happy; we don't have portable dynos for measuring blade HP any more than we have accurate scales to see if the grocer is ripping us off.
Proper weights and measures as a part of trade policy goes WAAAY back. Glad Sears no longers sells a 6 hp air compressor that runs off standard 120 Volt wall outlets anymore too.
