From: AJScott 
Newsgroups: alt.home.repair misc.consumers.house
Subject: Re: Microwave not working, please suggest
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 16:44:55 GMT

In article <8a7cdbf8.0402160826.3cc34f72@posting.google.com>,
 tedneeley@yahoo.com (ted) wrote:

> Our microwave is less than 3 years old. It's a big fancy GE profile
> Spacemaker XL that came with our brand new house. All of a sudden this
> weekend it stopped working. If I put anything in it to heat, the light
> glows, the plate rotates and it makes all noises just as if it's
> working but Nothing is heating up inside. I have no clue what's going
> on inside. Can anyone please suggest what I should do? I just can't
> throw this away. Thanks.

Check your owner's manual to see how long the appliance is warranteed 
for. If you're still covered by the warrantee period, find your nearest 
GE service center (either from the manual or any other paperwork that 
came with it, or by contacting GE customer service) and either take it 
in or box it up and ship it.

Or if your tank's running a bit low on Christian morals and scruples, 
you can just do what every other American consumer resorts to in such a 
situation: Go to the nearest department store, by another brand new one 
that's the exact same model as yours, then put the dead one in the box 
(make sure you've cleaned it up absolutely impeccably put any stickers 
and stuff from the new one on the old one, too -- it's supposed to be a 
brand-new microwave, you know) and return it for full refund because it 
doesn't work. Decline an exchange on grounds that if GE can't seem to 
make a microwave that works right out of the box, you have no faith in 
GE products. You can even appear to be incredibly annoyed for optional 
returning-merchandise effect.

AJS