>>> March 7, 2002
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For Mike Scott, sitting in his Newport Beach, California home in front of a 55-inch Sony TV was pure heaven, but now Scott’s heaven has been permanently altered.

The trouble started when Scott brought back his first Sony a few months after its purchase, complaining it wasn’t working. It was replaced. Soon the second set needed replacing. By the third go around, Sony had had enough. Finding corrosion inside the set, Sony blamed the salt air at Scott’s beach house and cited their “act of God” clause. Scott hired a lawyer. Sony offered to refund the purchase cost, but not before Scott agreed to never again “purchase or otherwise obtain or receive a Sony product of any type.”
Scott knows the salt air is a problem, but
didn’t agree with Sony’s out. Said Scott, “Lightning, a storm—stuff like that—that’s an act of God. I don’t consider air an act of God.” :
—Scott Saxon