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Prepare for Black Friday, avoid these products!
Verkkokauppa.com (Verkko (Fi) = Net (En), kauppa (Fi) = store (En)) is the biggest electronics retailer in Finland, one of the top 5 in whole Scandinavia. Last year they started to publish lists about the percentage of the individual products they sell needing to be serviced and repaired or replaced within first 6 months.
Here's the Top 20 list, percentage shows how many percent of sold products were repaired or replaced (Product, Type, Service %):
- Salora 24" Full HD 100Hz - TV & DVD combo, 33 %
- Blackstorm Gamma G400 – Desktop PC, 30 %
- CEL POWER8 Lithium – Tool set, 25 %
- Asus PadFone – Smartphone & Tablet, 23 %
- Audio Pro Addon Six – Active loudspeakers, 22 %
- Wow-Pen Joy – Pen mouse for PC, 21 %
- Sony Vaio Fit 15 – Laptop PC, 21 %
- Logitech Alert 700n – IP Webcam, 17 %
- Salora 24" Full HD 50Hz - TV & DVD combo, 17 %
- HP SlateBook x2 – Android tablet with keyboard dock, 16 %
- MadBoy MFP-2000 – Karaoke player, 16 %
- Gigabyte GA-Z68AP-D3 – PC motherboard, 15 %
- Topfield CRC-1400 HD - DVR, 15 %
- Asus MeMO Pad Smart 10" - Tablet, 15 %
- Acer Aspire V3 17.3" Intel Core i7-3632QM/16 GB DDR3/128 GB SSD+1 TB/GT 730M/Blu-ray – Laptop PC, 14 %
- LG BP730 Ultra HD 3D - Blu-ray player, 14 %
- Asus Vivo Tab Smart ME400c - Tablet, 14 %
- Apple iPhone 5 16 GB - Smartphone 14 %
- MadBoy MFP-500 – Karaoke player, 13 %
- Asus Z87-Deluxe – PC motherboard, 13 %
Source: http://www.iltalehti.fi/digi/2013112617765957_du.shtml (in Finnish :)).
Kari