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- From: huot@cray.com (Tom Huot)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Are all Gateway CrystalSCAN monitors bad? YES YES YES!!!
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.131459.21706@walter.cray.com>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 18:14:59 GMT
- References: <92232.151928ROMAN@wvnvm.wvnet.edu>
- Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
- Lines: 32
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- In article <92232.151928ROMAN@wvnvm.wvnet.edu> ROMAN@wvnvm.wvnet.edu writes:
- >I've just gone through my third Gateway CrystalSCAN 1024 monitor in
- >two and one-half years. Since Gateway only warrantees replacement
- >monitors for 30 days, this one was months beyond any warrantee.
- >A friend of mine has exactly the same system that I have, and he's
- >on his third monitor.
- >
- >When I called Gateway Tech support with questions about how other
- >CrystalSCAN monitors have been holding up, they told me that they
- >"get a lot of abuse," whatever that means. I was curious, because
- >at this point I was wondering whether it was the monitor or something
- >in my system that was causing these failures.
- >
- >Has anyone else had any failures with the CrystalSCAN 1024 monitor?
- >
- My first one lasted almost a year to the day. The second lasted less
- than 4 months. They told me the same thing about the warranty. I think
- they are selling JUNK! I ended up going to a local CompuAdd store
- and bought a 15" flat screen monitor for approx. $500 instead of
- paying to get that other piece of junk fixed. I wouldn't buy another
- thing from Gateway right now.
- With the quality problems they have been having recently, I would say
- the amount of business they do will drop somewhat. Maybe then they
- will be able to handle customer complaints. I would not recommend
- doing business with them these days.
-
- Another dissatisfied customer...
- --
- _____________________________________________________________________________
- Tom Huot
- huot@cray.com
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