In order to get a battery for a Casio G-shock watch that hadn't functioned for years, (MUCH needed to see how fast I am 2 months into my Great Run preparations, wawawa) I was told that it must be sent to Casio in order to maintain its water-proof status and it would take up to 4 weeks. A load of baloney I thought but I had no alternatives as a number of jewellers refused to change it themselves.
The damn watch was returned to me yesterday, with no charge, and I was told that it wasn't the battery that was at fault. There is a problem with internal parts, which now no longer exist and thus the watch cannot be repaired.
The watch is no more than 10 years old. Do watches not last for life any more? Am I the only idiot in this age of don't repair it, buy a new one mentality that expects a product to last longer than a couple of years?
Being the moany moanerson that I am, I wasn't prepared to accept this nonsense without some form of fight. By "fight" I mean a catty email to the manufacturer which would probably result in diddly squat but at least my frustration would have been vented.
AND THEN, this morning I take the watch out of the envelope that it was returned in, to find the model number for the aforementioned moany mail, AND of course, behold and lo, the frigging thing is functioning!!!
So, what do I do? Do I wait and hope that it lasts for a while? Long enough to figure that it takes me half an hour to do 3 miles so really I'm not actually in need of a stopwatch at all! Or do I go back to the much revered jeweller and waste my time trying to figure out what went wrong?!
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