The Philosophy of Sucky Customers

[appliance god]

Yesterday I was contacted by an SC who I had sold a washing machine to. She was not happy because the machine beeps at the end of it's cycle and beeps every 4 minutes until something is done about it.

It gets better.

She did not mind the beeping while she was at home as it reminds her to empty her washing machine, but she does not want it to beep while there is noboby home.

Hence the philosophical question...

"If a washing machine beeps in a laundry, and no-one is there to hear it, does it make a noise?"

Feel free to add your own questions....or answers

[JuniorMintz]

Oh man.

Send someone over to smack it around with a hammer (the machine or the lady, your choice), and then tell her that it's fixed and won't beep anymore when no one is at home to hear it. Even if she doesn't believe you, at least you got to hit stuff with a hammer.

[Mr. Rude]

If a SC has no real sense of mind...Who cares?

[stormtreader]

Just tell her it only beeps if someones in the house.
Say its all done using 'the internet'.

[Banrion]

I'm wondering if maybe she got a complaint from a neighbor. Being that she is a not so bright SC, she is also a not so bright SN (sucky neighbor). Maybe she is leaving the washer sit all day while she is at work beeping away to the annoyance of neighbors.

[trunks2k]

I'm wondering if maybe she got a complaint from a neighbor. Being that she is a not so bright SC, she is also a not so bright SN (sucky neighbor). Maybe she is leaving the washer sit all day while she is at work beeping away to the annoyance of neighbors.

That would be my guess. But I've never used a washer/dryer that buzzed so loud that it would be an annoyance to neighbors. Maybe she lives in a tiny apartment building with paper thin walls.

[Mongo Skruddgemire]

Stupid question on my part...but don't most if not all of the newer machines now have an option to turn the end of cycle alarm off? I know the last three machines I had did (one for the three places I've lived in recently)

Mongo

[friendofjimmyk]

That's what I was thinking, there is some kind of power switch to turn the noise off.

But come to think of it, the dryers I had with that switch - it was a big knob or button clearly marked for On or Off...plus, all dryers only have so many knobs and buttons...?????