Hardware Warranty Issues

Users discuss experiences with defective products, particularly hardware failures shortly after purchase, warranty claims, replacement processes, and varying quality of customer support from manufacturers.

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Dylan16807 Oct 26, 2023 View on HN

Support couldn't fully fix it even with hours of effort. Something is very wrong and worth warning about there. Those are not reasonable consequences for buying the wrong thing.

proactivesvcs Jan 5, 2022 View on HN

Have you contacted their tech support to see how they stand by their claims? (Not asking to be passive-aggressive; genuinely curious to hear about their after-sales.)

steve1977 Sep 7, 2023 View on HN

Yeah for a product with this price tag I would also expect getting a replacement and having the vendor deal with fixing the broken product afterwards

Same issue and also resolved with a replacement. At least having a physical store to return them and get a replacement on the spot is nice.

drewcrawford Jun 29, 2011 View on HN

Your identical story happened to me. I never received a third unit to replace the second defective unit. Quite frankly, they can keep it.

jacquesm Aug 29, 2019 View on HN

That's a warranty issue more than a reason to buy another one of the same brand.

oblio Nov 25, 2020 View on HN

You've never had something fail 1 month or 6 months after purchase?

gorjusborg Mar 19, 2024 View on HN

That's a case of shipping it 'broken' for those people.If it works literally everywhere else, and the product is valuable, they'll change.

viraptor Jul 9, 2023 View on HN

What did the support say about it? Did you get a replacement / refund?

CountSessine Feb 7, 2020 View on HN

Yes, they have a replacement program.