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You ever get that urge to rip someone's throat out, if you could only figure out who?
I buy a scanner: it's defective
I buy a laptop: the guy rips me off
I buy a cd burner: it self-destructs
Next thing I know, my PDA will mysteriously develop a leak in its LCD.
I can see no conceivable reason why my Philips CD-RW drive would spontaneously die on me after two weeks of perfect functioning, short of a random transistor death. The computer simply refuses to recognize that the drive contains a disk. The drive also does not read a disk at the time it's placed in the drive, as it usually does.
Anyone got any ideas? 'Cause I'm just THIS close to snapping...
Help.
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Remember, my problem is that I can't figure out WHO to kill.
Does the disc load?
How do you mean, does the disk load? I put it in the tray, and the computer eats it, but it won't read it. If I load the tray empty, the light flashes for a second, and I hear a click. If there IS a disk, it does that several times, with an interval between of a few seconds. This is illogical.
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The question I have is who did you buy these things from?
When it comes to interent type purchases, or just a schmoe from some other state, Caveat Emptor should be tatooed to your forehead.
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Got the Visioneer scanner from Sam's. Returned it.
Got the laptop from an online classified. Searching for my target now. I would nuke all of NJ, but I wouldn't get my computer that way.
Got the PDA from another online classified, and it's worked perfectly for all of... 36 hours.
Got the CD burner mail-order from a Staples retail store in Kentucky. As I say, a Philips. Good quality.
No pattern to what works and what doesn't.
As for whether it's in the tray or not, that's not applicable. It's either in the tray or it's not, no middle ground with this drive.
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Well, in the case of the stores, the general policy is return and YELL very loudly at the poor customer service kid and most other store workers you run into. They love that kind of thing....it is after all the biggest reason why young people get jobs at Staples in the first place.
At the very least yell at the store manager.
And write a letter to corporate headquarters.
And send a letter to Colin Powell just to be complete.
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Once again the Bush Administration is worse than I had imagined, even though I thought I had already taken account of the fact that the Bush administration is invariably worse than I can imagine. ~Brad DeLong
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Well, in the case of the stores, the general policy is return and YELL very loudly at the poor customer service kid and most other store workers you run into. They love that kind of thing....it is after all the biggest reason why young people get jobs at Staples in the first place.
As I said, if I knew the person at whom I should direct my ire, I would be significantly less frustrated...
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quote:Got the CD burner mail-order from a Staples retail store in Kentucky. As I say, a Philips. Good quality.
Ignoring the contradiction of those two statements, here's what you do:
Take yourself, your receipt, and your CD burner to the local Staples, find the customer service counter and speak to the high schooler behind said counter. When he or she is confused by your long and complex story, demand to see the store manager, forget the long and complex story and just demand:
A) a refund B) a replacement C) store credit D) all the above
Then write a letter to Staples Corporate Headquarters Customer Service, the address of which you will ring out of the store manager, and demand satisfaction becasue of the poor quality of CD Burners sold to you (how could Staples sell such inferior equipment) and demand in the letter:
A) a refund B) a replacement C) store credit D) all the above
Unless your online classified people are part of a business, you are rather out of luck.
Stay away from online classified ads in the future.
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Once again the Bush Administration is worse than I had imagined, even though I thought I had already taken account of the fact that the Bush administration is invariably worse than I can imagine. ~Brad DeLong
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Install any new hardware/software lately? I just 'fixed' my grandpa's floppy drive which for some reason had stopped working. Turns out he must've jostled the drive's power cable when he dropped some new memory in there. It should always be this easy...
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Omega this my sound like a stupid question but have you tried more than one disk in your drive, or a disks from another batch of disks. I have noticed that sometimes you get a bad disk and instead of the software saying it's bad or already written on it just says nothing.
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Yup. NO disk, CD-R, CD-RW, or commercial game, that I put in that drive will read.
And I think I'll wait until I get some tech support before I actually return the thing, Jay. That's what I'm looking for here.
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You know the warranty: 5 Minutes, 5 seconds, or 5 paces, whichever comes first.
Geez Omega, is someone out to get you or something?
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