Re: INSTEON: Let the recalls begin ...

["Robert Green" <ROBERT_GREEN1963@xxxxxxxxx>]

"Brian W. Antoine" <briana@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

>   Do they have the special "flicker" feature? :)

:-)

If Insteon had to pay the full freight of the recall (hiring electricians to
remove and reinstall switches, paying for *all* the shipping, costs, paying
for any house wiring that was damaged by jacking switches in and out, etc.)
it might be worth $20 a switch.

But they've passed a lot of that cost onto the consumer so it turns out that
the real, end-user cost is quite a bit higher than $20 - and that's not even
counting the "pissed off" factor of having to redo the job, reprogram the
lights and praying that the replacement switch isn't going to suffer from
yet another recall of some other nature.   Add all of that to the report
that some of the switches reprogram themselves automatically - and then back
again - and you've got a real quandary on your hands.

All in all, it makes the boatload of X-10 switches made by Stanley that I
bought at closeout seem even more of a bargain at $5 a switch than ever
before.  Four flicker-free switches that never forget their address for the
price of one Icon.  Such a deal!

--
Bobby G.