I guess it's OK then but you should have known better, no 20 dollar blender can blend frozen things on a regular basis and be expected to last no matter what the box says. The smoothie crowd knows a lot more about blenders than I do, I only know that cheap blenders don't work for the smoothie crowd and the one's they like to use are > $100, sometimes much >.
I bought a really expensive (for me) pair of speakers once, and returned them when my tuner fuxxored them. This was at Circuit City, many moons ago.
I plugged them in, hit the power and *VRMP*, toast. Took 'em back, guy says whassa matter, I'm like, they sound fucked up. While I'm here, I'm gonna go get a new tuner, too.
I look at it like this: I get screwed on a regular basis in stores. Fuck 'em. I paid for the shit, there was an exchange of cash-money, muthafucka. To me, the thief is someone who takes a product and does not pay.
Heres an example. I just bought a backpack at Wal-Mart, and it seemed like a decent backpack. It was in sporting goods, rather than the fuckin' backpack aisle. I paid like $40 for this fucking thing. And I liked it. It was designed perfectly. Less than a month later, now I have no receipts and tags, the fucking thing is literally falling apart at the seams.
The reason I got screwed on that pack is because I went looking for it, a similar pack in a good store is like, a hundred bucks. Or two hundred. Backpacks are fucking expensive.
They know what the similar product is worth, and it seemed okay at general inspection. But it was garbage.
So as far as I'm concerned, I have a rolling account with WalMart. I won't steal from them, but I will take liberties with my purchase practices, if that makes any sense. I watch the bean-counter, when stuff falls in my favor, not my fault.
Another thing that happened there, I got a device that plays a mp3 over the car radio. $20. Its a piece of shit. But it came with a few other wires and gizmos, which I didn't really want, but I'll stick away in a drawer, because I like wires and gizmos. I'm not gonna return the fucking thing. But they burned me on the junky device, which plays like shit over the radio. I won't return the thing, chalk it up to a loss. Returning it would be a pain in my ass, but they still owe me for that piece of shit, plus aggravation.