Funny but typical customer return... - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: TopLoser
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: May 25, 2015, 10:31:40 am
content: Just found a box with about 75 returned Raspberry Pi in it. Fun fun fun.First one I looked at, customer comment is "card will not fit in slot"Can you see what the problem is, and see how I might put it right?!

author: AudioplatinumService
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: May 25, 2015, 10:36:04 am
content: Hehe...Pull out small card from SD card adapter and put in RPi..Cheers,Damir

author: gmb42
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 25, 2015, 10:39:06 am
content: Tinsnips will fix that!

author: trevwhite
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 25, 2015, 10:40:22 am
content: I think you need to replace the sd connector.

author: Rerouter
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 25, 2015, 10:40:54 am
content: I think i know the perfect way to fix thingshttps://xkcd.com/325/

author: KJDS
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 25, 2015, 10:42:11 am
content: Nothing wrong there that an axe wouldn't fit.

author: TopLoser
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: May 25, 2015, 10:46:47 am
content: Quote from: KJDS on May 25, 2015, 10:42:11 amAnd I know what I'd swing it at... Bloody customers.

author: VK5RC
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: May 25, 2015, 11:00:56 am
content: Actually have you guys ever had some 'repair guy' try to scam you?A long time ago I bought an LCD PC screen, back in the days when they were new and had black segment issues etc, I bought an extended warranty. Basically the on/off button was mounted directly on the PCB, with no nearby supports so the PCB flexed when you pushed the button, eventually cracking the pcb after 9 months or so. The repair guy said I used "excessive force" which would have been pretty hard on a button about 2mm diam raised about 1mm above the front surface.Eventually I offered to take him to the small claims court with a friend of my father, a mechanical engineer specialising in materials as a witness, only then did he honour the warranty. Never bought from that company again.

author: TopLoser
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: May 25, 2015, 11:03:13 am
content: I had a Toshiba laptop with an orange plasma screen. One day the screen went out. Sent it off for repair and got a bill for a new replacement screen - about £400 back then.Funny though, it had the same burnt in image as my old screen... took it apart and found they had just soldered a small bit of wire across a PCB mount fuse.

author: TopLoser
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: May 25, 2015, 11:31:57 am
content: One lovely customer has returned 10 Model B+ boxes with Model A Pi's in them. Classy eh.

author: VK5RC
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: May 25, 2015, 11:38:48 am
content: I think 85% of people are a pleasure to deal with, 10% are a bit shifty, 5% I wouldn't trust as far as I could throw. Some years ago I was talking to a really nice senior policeman and there had been some recent Police corruption, he passed a comment "that the (insert group you are talking about) reflect the community from which they are drawn".

author: SL4P
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 25, 2015, 05:03:33 pm
content: OP, be thankful the customer returned the stock.... imagine the support they would have expected if they found the 'on' switch!

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 25, 2015, 08:23:39 pm
content: How much are you asking for them Ian?

author: TopLoser
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: May 25, 2015, 08:28:27 pm
content: Over 80 at the last count... £350 the lot and I might even include shipping to SA for that price...

author: Wilksey
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 25, 2015, 08:39:49 pm
content: Where was this customer to? Ebay?

author: electr_peter
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: May 25, 2015, 08:43:56 pm
content: Quote from: TopLoser on May 25, 2015, 10:31:40 amI am glad I do not have to deal with such "returns".

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 25, 2015, 09:18:58 pm
content: Quote from: TopLoser on May 25, 2015, 08:28:27 pmLooking at the exchange rate for Pound to Rand, looking at the remaining balance on my credit cards and the numbers are not matching, not even close.Sadly..........