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- From: mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: PPI EPROMS (Re: PPI repair charges)
- Date: 7 Jan 1993 05:27:07 -0500
- Organization: The Programmers' Pit Stop, Ann Arbor MI
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- Message-ID: <1ih0hrINN115@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>
- References: <1993Jan6.200828.13098@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <Jan.6.15.27.26.1993.12836@pilot.njin.net> <1993Jan7.061457.15927@informix.com>
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- In article <1993Jan7.061457.15927@informix.com> aland@informix.com (Colonel Panic) writes:
- >In the case of my modem, they sent me a wholly different one, so the
- >repair must not have been trivial...
-
- This is not necessarily a valid assumption. Generally speaking there
- are several reasons why a company will send you a new or refurbished
- modem instead of repairing your old one for warranty service:
-
- 1. You're getting a cross-ship replacement. With companies that have
- quality RMA departments, this is the most common reason -- if they
- send you the replacement before they get your modem back, it's more
- trouble than it's worth for them to subsequently repair your modem and
- give it back to you.
-
- 2. It would take too long to troubleshoot and repair the problem, so
- they give you a refurb while they figure out what's wrong. Like in
- situation (1) above, it would be too much trouble to then send you
- back the original modem when they're done fixing it.
-
- 3. The modem comes up NPF (No Problem Found), but the company wants to
- make sure they don't send the modem back and wind up with you having
- the exact same problems. At least if they *do* replace the modem and
- you end up having the same problems, it's likely something you're
- doing wrong...
-
- 4. Your modem really *is* too far gone to be worth fixing.
-
- In cases 1-3 above, the company usually just sends you a refurbished
- modem, and then takes their own sweet time repairing/troubleshooting
- your modem. When they're finished, they refurbish it and use it as a
- replacement for someone else's warranty repair.
-
- (ObSupraFlame: All of this applies to customer-oriented companies like
- Telebit and USR, of course. Companies like Supra that have such a
- high DOA rate that they have to charge you $20 for a cross-ship are
- more likely to just keep your modem for however long it takes to fix
- it, even if their repair department is running a 3-month backlog.)
-
- --
- Marc Unangst, N8VRH | "Of course, in order to understand this you
- mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us | have to remember that the nucleus of the atom
- | is squishy."
- | -W. Scheider, from a Physics lecture
-