----- Original Message -----From: [log in to unmask]>bob and janineSent: 1/24/01 10:59:28 PMSubject: Re: Non PD/compaq ripoffs
As some of you may have noticed, I've not been online much in the past 3months. In Nov, about 10 days AFTER the one year warrantee expired on mylaptop, the screen quit working and I couldn't get the computer to boot - soI called tech services, who told me 1. the contract had expired, 2. soundedbad, too bad, and 3 their hands were tied. So I asked to speak with asupervisor, who got on the line and informed me they were tired of mecalling them with problems with my computer - they kept getting it in,fixing it, and when I got it back, and started using it, something elsewould show up in the next month. I agreed with her assessment of thecomputer, and told her I was pretty well fed up myself - in the first 12months I owned the computer, it spent 5 months in their shop - and stillwasn't working. She said since the year was up, it sounded like a personalproblem to her.I sent the computer to Radio Shack to be repaired - Radio shack spent thenext 2 months arguing with Compaq that they should fix the computer sincethe warrantee was so close - to no avail. Today I got a call from the tech -parts to fix the computer came to over $1000 - on a $1400 computer (what Ipaid for it) With labor, I could easily end up spending more this go roundthan when I bought it. Janine could tell how upset I was, and she talked tothe tech - who gave her another number for Compaq. I don't know how manypeople she talked to, but none were helpful, and not too damn sympatheticeither. When she asked if we could get a discount/rebate if we bought a newone, they said no. I noticed in tonight's news, that Compaq put a rebate ontheir laptops last Sunday - but their people didn't mention that (NOT aproblem, I'm gonna buy another Compaq product right after the devil goes iceskating )I stopped and shopped for laptops tonight on the way home - the currentequivalent to my old computer is about $800. I don't know how much Compaqmakes per computer sale - but if you are interested in buying a laptop, letme suggest Dell, Toshiba, HP....sorry to vent, and I did like the computer, just wish they could keep itworking for more than a month at a time. Anyway, there is no way I canreplace it for now or in the foreseeable future, so to all I owe a note -sorry.bob aka tex