It's funny how things work sometimes. The day after I gave e the go-ahead to give away our old Sony DVP-330 DVD player, I get this email from sonystyle.com informing me that they are on the verge of settling a class action lawsuit against them. It's funny because I basically tolerated the bad unit the whole time I had it. At first I didn't know any better because DVD players were relatively new, and then later on it didn't fail enough to warrant replacing it, that is until about 2 weeks ago. We replaced it, gave it away, and then got it right back so we could copy down the serial number for the upcoming (March 2007) settlement.
In case you're wondering, I downloaded the proposed claim form, and it seems that Sony will either reimburse actual expenses (up to a point, no doubt) for repairing the unit or provide a $40 certificate to buy Sony stuff if you replaced the bad unit before December 2003. I first thought I was hosed because we kept our bad player until a few days ago, but then I realized we bought a DVD player in 2002. It's a portable, but we definitely used it when the Sony wouldn't play a disc, so as far as I'm concerned that was my replacement for the malfunctioning unit. We'll see how it goes when March 7 rolls around.
Click here to see if your crappy Sony DVD qualifies.
