I am a little annoyed with this.
Against my better judgement, I purchased a black Hoover undercounter fridge as extra storage space to go in my home office.
I needed a dark colour to fit into the colour scheme and wasn't looking for anything particularly fancy. It just needs to be able to hold some milk etc for the nespresso machine
When I opened the packaging, the fridge had three large stickers on the front advertising the 5-year parts guarantee and something about the rubber seal being removable and another pointing out that you had to fit the handle.
The handle one was very intelligently printed in black print on a clear sticker which was then stuck to a black fridge - i.e. completely illegible as it was black print on a black background.
I tried removing the stickers and the shiny, glossy plastic layer came away leaving the paper behind.
I then tried removing them with a damp cloth, and it did nothing.
Eventually, I resorted to using CIF (JIF) cleaner which is mildly abrasive and the scrubber side of a sponge suitable for cleaning non-stick cookware. With a lot of patience and gentle scrubbing it removed the sticker without trace.
However, it's absolutely ridiculous that a manufacturer would put a really sticky and difficult to remove sticker right on the front of an appliance like that. What were they thinking (or not thinking) ?
Our Samsung fridge-freezer (side by side unit) was entirely covered in a kind of blue plastic wrap to avoid any damage to the paintwork, yet this Hoover machine actually came with the damage already done!
While I may have been very careful taking the sticker off, I'm sure there are plenty of other people who might have tried removing it with a scraper or some kind of sharp implement and I have no doubts that that would end up with the machine being returned and a big show down with the retailer.
If I couldn't have removed the sticker easily, I was going to return the fridge too.
Do any other companies do this? Or are Hoover unique in their desire to encourage as many returns as possible?
Against my better judgement, I purchased a black Hoover undercounter fridge as extra storage space to go in my home office.
I needed a dark colour to fit into the colour scheme and wasn't looking for anything particularly fancy. It just needs to be able to hold some milk etc for the nespresso machine
When I opened the packaging, the fridge had three large stickers on the front advertising the 5-year parts guarantee and something about the rubber seal being removable and another pointing out that you had to fit the handle.
The handle one was very intelligently printed in black print on a clear sticker which was then stuck to a black fridge - i.e. completely illegible as it was black print on a black background.
I tried removing the stickers and the shiny, glossy plastic layer came away leaving the paper behind.
I then tried removing them with a damp cloth, and it did nothing.
Eventually, I resorted to using CIF (JIF) cleaner which is mildly abrasive and the scrubber side of a sponge suitable for cleaning non-stick cookware. With a lot of patience and gentle scrubbing it removed the sticker without trace.
However, it's absolutely ridiculous that a manufacturer would put a really sticky and difficult to remove sticker right on the front of an appliance like that. What were they thinking (or not thinking) ?
Our Samsung fridge-freezer (side by side unit) was entirely covered in a kind of blue plastic wrap to avoid any damage to the paintwork, yet this Hoover machine actually came with the damage already done!
While I may have been very careful taking the sticker off, I'm sure there are plenty of other people who might have tried removing it with a scraper or some kind of sharp implement and I have no doubts that that would end up with the machine being returned and a big show down with the retailer.
If I couldn't have removed the sticker easily, I was going to return the fridge too.
Do any other companies do this? Or are Hoover unique in their desire to encourage as many returns as possible?
