luckily this is just a 32; i had a 70 from the same brand with the same INSANELY FUCKING STUPID STAND DESIGN that i had to find something for…literally at the most extreme edges of the thing, what the fuck is this? this is so fucking stupid, it cannot be meaningfully cheaper than a proper design and it looks fucking dumb as hell and surely this has pissed off 90% of people that wanted a TV and want to put it on a little stand like a normal fucking person right??

  • BargsimBoyz@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    7
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    OP blaming their shitty decisions on others. Why are you buying something without knowing its dimensions?

    Fuck I hate people like this. The answer btw is pretty obvious. From a weight distribution perspective it’s easiest to have two feet as wide apart as possible.

      • BargsimBoyz@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        arrow-down
        2
        ·
        1 year ago

        This is not bad design, it’s just common sense.

        People are way too entitled is the problem and assume that their bad planning/thinking automatically means something is badly designed. Blame anyone but themselves.

        • Globulart@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          0
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          edit-2
          1 year ago

          People very upset that a company which exists to make money has used the cheaper option for the part of a TV that 80% of buyers will leave in the box anyway.

          I saw a comment suggesting that it must only be $5 to add a proper stand. TCL made 30million TVs last year so that’s a substantial bonus for whoever made that choice.

          Breaking news! Budget TV has budget parts!

    • freeindv@monyet.cc
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      “weight distribution”… They weight practically nothing, and even old heavy ass CRTs sat on narrow platform mounts

      • BargsimBoyz@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        1 year ago

        Well I guess they just so it to annoy people then. There’s no other reasons why they’d do this right?

        • freeindv@monyet.cc
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          0
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          edit-2
          1 year ago

          Cost cutting. When huge TVs only cost a few hundred dollars and everything else has gotten super expensive, they have to cut corners

          • BargsimBoyz@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            1 year ago

            Why is it cutting corners though?

            Ideally you’d have the option for both a central stand and the two sides in the one box, but then that’s being wasteful and bad for the environment.

            There really isn’t a good option here. In that case I’d say it’s on the consumer to figure out beforehand what the stand is and decide whether they like it or not, not on the company to magically know what stand the consumer needs.

            Many companies do shitty things but this stand issue really is a non-issue.

    • krakenx@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      I have the same TV and built a custom stand for it. Doesn’t change the fact that the included stand is a bad design.

      • BargsimBoyz@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        1 year ago

        This is not bad design, it’s just common sense.

        People are way too entitled is the problem and assume that their bad planning/thinking automatically means something is badly designed. Blame anyone but themselves.

    • _number8_@lemmy.worldOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      well good thing they’re a professional company with professional engineers, glad they’re taking the easy route

      i bought it because i was at the store and thought ‘damn a bedroom tv would be nice’ and it was black friday. it’s only 32" i hope it fits on the table, and if not i can rig something up, but either way, god fucking dammit these new legs are terrible design because now i have to think about this instead of them just having a damn stand in the center like everyone used to

      was sort of what i was thinking

      • ikidd@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        1 year ago

        So take it back? If you put it back in the packaging and said “hey, this doesn’t fit where I want it”, they should take it back. I’ve never dealt with a store that wouldn’t.

        I could see this if you ordered it online, sight unseen. Like, if the website were text-based and had no pictures and the description was “It’s a TV”. But you were at a physical store…

        • Tuss@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          0
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          1 year ago

          He knew the dimensions of the place where the TV was supposed to go.

          He went to the store, saw the TV, he saw the box with a picture of it.

          So he brought it home, unpacked it, placed it where it was obviously not going to be able to go.

          Then he plugged it in and turned it on.

          And instead of just putting it back in its packaging and bringing it back to the store and admit defeat. Or order a new piece of furniture Amazkea.

          He instead went on here to fucking complain.

          • slackassassin@sh.itjust.works
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            edit-2
            1 year ago

            They gambled on an eyeball measurement from memory and lost. It’s not that deep.

            They don’t need to return it because it can still be mounted on a stand or wall. And maybe they want to watch crooked Netflix in the meantime.

            …And they complained on mildly infuriating, which seems appropriate because it’s not that big of a deal.