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Originally Posted by 2152hq
..carefull what you send away I guess..
Winchester began trying to remove their Model 11 shotguns from the world in the '20s by issuing an even swap proposition.
Bring the WidowMaker into an authorized Winchester dealer and you'd receive a brand new (IIRC) Winchester M12 in return.
As long as a replacement is offered or given, or restitution made, the practice seems to have some grounding as it continues to go on.
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Contrast your examples with them taking your gun and offering a "discount" on the purchase of a new one (that you may not want.)
The restitution thing can get sticky, too. They can say (at their sole descretion) that your gun was defective, so basically worthless?)
We're a S&W board here. We generally defer to the company. But we also aren't bound by any rules preventing us from calling them out on their bad products or behavior (reference the love of the "lock".) Here we're seeing a company acting in its best interests to the exclusion of their customers. They're just going to do as they please, legal or not.
Now you see why so many Americans have come to hate the corporate world. They don't feel bound by ethics or morals. As they lose customers, they even wonder aloud why.