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Breadvan72 said:

For some reason, I see the happily litigious poster as being a Harry Enfield character who wears comfortable leisure clothing and probably a hat of some sort. Perhaps I am being unfair.

Why ? IIRC your advice was for the op to suck it up and not worry about the refrigeration engineer damaging his 2 year old, £2k fridge beyond repair.

This post says more about you than anything the op said.

Arrogant, patronizing, condescending, sarcastic with an air of (misplaced) superiority -.and wrong by the looks of it.

Not exactly your finest hour.

[anonymous-user]

Some of you lot bruise more easily than apricots. My point is that being cheerfully litigious is slightly odd, although perhaps eccentrically British. It’s a subject touched on to humorous effect by Conan Doyle in The Hound of the Baskervilles. My more general point is that an enthusiasm for litigating about principle is easy to encourage from the armchair position, but that the real hassle of suing over relatively small difficulties in life is easily underestimated. The two year old 2k fridge does not equate to a 2k claim, for reasons explained by others above.

[gooner1]

Breadvan72 said:

Some of you lot bruise more easily than apricots. My point is that being cheerfully litigious is slightly odd, although perhaps eccentrically British. It’s a subject touched on to humorous effect by Conan Doyle in The Hound of the Baskervilles. My more general point is that an enthusiasm for litigating about principle is easy to encourage from the armchair position, but that the real hassle of suing over relatively small difficulties in life is easily underestimated. The two year old 2k fridge does not equate to a 2k claim, for reasons explained by others above.

I'm sure your mitigation will be treated with the respect it deserves my dear Cumquat.

[Graveworm]

Personally I once ended up going to court also over a fridge freezer on a sort of mistaken "Principle". My principle was don't make empty threats, my stupidity was threatening litigation. It was over a wasted day for missed installation and I won - it probably wasted another day. so an empty victory. Unless you don't value your time, often the juice is not worth the squeeze.