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> Needless to say, I lost a lot of trust in them and (perhaps stupidly) sold the van shortly afterwards. I know this is very off-topic but don't beat yourself

> Needless to say, I lost a lot of trust in them and (perhaps stupidly) sold the van shortly afterwards. I know this is very off-topic but don't beat yourself up about making quick decisions like this that cut that kind of persistent, simmering rage out of your life. We have enough of this stuff with people in our lives, often unavoidably, so letting appliances/devices/products cause it is not something we have to tolerate. If a _thing_ makes you feel unsatisfiable anger, get rid of it.

jacquesm 5y ago
Very good advice. Vote with your feet and move on. Life really is too short, if MB wants to burn their brand more power to them. I bought a 25 year old car and had it rebuilt end-to-end, this cost a bit but the result is fine. No electronics other than ECU and some minor bits like ABS and pretty reliable. It will outlast me.
- gruez 5y ago
  >Vote with your feet and move on Isn't the correct term "vote with your wallet"? "voting with your feet" implies switching jobs or emigrating.
  - jacquesm 5y ago
    Walk out of one store and into another.
- unfocussed_mike 5y ago
  I bought a (really cheap, hybrid) resonator guitar about 15 years ago. It wasn't very expensive, it _looked_ really cool (great headstock). But I couldn't get a sound out of it I liked, and over time the resonator became difficult to "tune" or maintain. And I felt sort of guilty and stupid for buying it. I couldn't get on with the thing, but I felt bad about selling it to anyone because the resonator was more trouble than it was worth. Some frustrations should not be sold on. So I kept the very nice guitar case, and gave the guitar away to a talented, broke musician, who used its rather scratchy, broken sound for effect on a couple of recordings. I could have sold it for a few quid but I have never regretted this; I turned my frustration at this thing into a gift and a bit of joy for someone else and then moved on. Not something I'd recommend everyone does regularly, because if we all do it, it just prolongs poor product design by failing to reject it, but it helped this one time. (It also taught me an important lesson about musical instruments; the next guitar I bought was better, but more basic in appearance and already scratched from the shop.)

jacquesm 5y ago

Very good advice. Vote with your feet and move on. Life really is too short, if MB wants to burn their brand more power to them. I bought a 25 year old car and had it rebuilt end-to-end, this cost a bit but the result is fine. No electronics other than ECU and some minor bits like ABS and pretty reliable. It will outlast me.

gruez 5y ago
>Vote with your feet and move on Isn't the correct term "vote with your wallet"? "voting with your feet" implies switching jobs or emigrating.
- jacquesm 5y ago
  Walk out of one store and into another.
unfocussed_mike 5y ago
I bought a (really cheap, hybrid) resonator guitar about 15 years ago. It wasn't very expensive, it _looked_ really cool (great headstock). But I couldn't get a sound out of it I liked, and over time the resonator became difficult to "tune" or maintain. And I felt sort of guilty and stupid for buying it. I couldn't get on with the thing, but I felt bad about selling it to anyone because the resonator was more trouble than it was worth. Some frustrations should not be sold on. So I kept the very nice guitar case, and gave the guitar away to a talented, broke musician, who used its rather scratchy, broken sound for effect on a couple of recordings. I could have sold it for a few quid but I have never regretted this; I turned my frustration at this thing into a gift and a bit of joy for someone else and then moved on. Not something I'd recommend everyone does regularly, because if we all do it, it just prolongs poor product design by failing to reject it, but it helped this one time. (It also taught me an important lesson about musical instruments; the next guitar I bought was better, but more basic in appearance and already scratched from the shop.)