I decided to post this because of something backinwellies posted to Steve_pr, whose chicken run had collapsed because of the weight of snow.
BIW said
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Is there anything about how to deal with it in snow in the instructions? If not I would suggest it is 'not fit for purpose' and thus you are entitled to your money back. (you can hardly take a poutry run down in winter!)
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I don't believe that we complain enough when things go wrong as they did in Steve's case but I have 2 examples of where I did complain and got good results.
1. Going back a few years when cordless phones were still relatively new, the instructions said something like, leave the phone off the charger every so often so that it gets the chance to run down and then recharge fully. I thought it was a good idea to leave the phone off the charger while I went away for 2 weeks holiday. The phone would not recharge again when I returned. I complained and they said I had left the phone off of the charger for too long. Well if the instructions aren't explicit enough how are you supposed to know that? Result I got a new phone and they reprinted instruction leaflets to cover the issue.
2. I bought a car (Mercedes) that was only 5 months old. I had the car for a few months when the battery went completely flat and they told me it needed a new battery. The car was still under warranty but I was told that batteries aren't covered by the warranty because they only have a certain lifetime. I asked how long that lifetime is and no one could tell me. I kicked up a stink in the showroom saying that if they couldn't tell me how long it was supposed to last how could they know if it was outside the time period. Result they gave me a new battery free of charge but I think that was more because I was causing a fuss in front of their customers