____/ BearItAll on Monday 05 November 2007 09:05 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> PC World refuse to repair hardware fault, because of Linux
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>> | PC World refuse to repair hardware fault, because of LinuxToday I took
>> | my laptop to pc world because a crack has developed near the left hinge,
>> | this develops because the joint inside is failing and spreading to the
>> | casing.
>> |
>> | Laptop is only 4 or 5 months old and otherwise in good condition.
>> |
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> Sorry, this one has little to do with Linux. PC World are the worst ripoff
> company of them all, the very moment you walked out of their door with a
> laptop under your arm you have a PC worth at least 1/3 less than what you
> just paid at the till two minutes ago.
>
> Forget the £200 you pay for the extended warrenty, because it doesn't mean
> diddly squat.
>
> If you go on consumer rights pages on the internet you will come across your
> statutory rights written as a single page. Then open your PC World warrenty
> and you will find exactly the same page, not a single word changed.
>
> Your £200 paid for the statutory rights that you already had, PC World give
> you nothing for that money.
>
> One of the things the page tells you is that PC World will replace a machine
> their can not repair with {this part is worded such that} they can give you
> absolutely anything, so long as they give you something. They will give you
> a refurbished piece of junk, or if you argue they will give you a machine
> of a much lower spec than the one you bought.
>
> There are much better places to buy computers than PC World.
I reckon it's one of the places that still cashes in on people's ignorance. In
the past week, on television, PCWorld has been advertising a laptop that sells
for 'just' GBP499. That's rubbish. A GBP150 proper Linux laptop is on its way
and eSys sells one for just over GBP200 (last time I heard of one was ~2 years
ago).
If a laptop runs Vista, then at least for a moment, let's forget about all the
incompatibilities and bugs. The first steps required include unlocking
features (Basic Edition) and getting a 'surgery', as Apple likes to call
an 'upgrade', hardware-wise. That'll cost a large sum of money that has the
buyer stuck in a wasteland without applications, other than UAC and WGA.
Is anyone surprised that VARs and OEMs are yelling at Microsoft after Vista was
released? Even Microsoft could not hide the fact that Vista sales are
declining.
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