Retailers cannot fulfill replacement-part requests for defective products
A customer with a known defective plumbing part could not get a replacement seal through normal retail channels and had to rely on manual phone calls to the retailer, who in turn had to coordinate with the manufacturer, resulting in no part ever arriving despite repeated follow-up over multiple calls and forcing full product replacement instead of a simple part swap.
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