[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Blairware:
This is for the OP

Now that you have made the hard decision to part with your Prime, and I knoow how difficult that can be especially with an unknown return date. Here is a shameless double post I wrote in another thread about RMA, my experience and a pep talk about staying all over Asus Support until it's on it's way back. If you sit back and wait, it will ikely be a long one. Fortunately for me I had a high level Support Manager before the RMA began. It helps. A Lot.

Though most of us are seriously afraid and unwilling to go the RMA route, it is a viable option. You just need to do it in a way that decreases the odds of getting screwed around. If you look for the RMA thread here on XDA, there are multiple horror stories of tablets sitting, not checked in, for days, in "test" or "waiting for parts for a week or more etc. That reeks of a) SMS is not a good repair center, and b) SMS is overwhelmed with a large number or Prime tablets, thus creating slow turn arounds, and multiple cases "falling through the cracks" How do you avoid this, or as I said, decrease the chances of becoming one of the casualties? Well, like anything else a bit of research goes a long way. Knowledge is power. What I did was, get Gary Key's email (you can send him an email from the first 3 stickies in the Prime General threads, then just note the address (think it's Gary_key@asus.com) Get EVERY email address of the ASUS support personnel that you can find. BEFORE you send you tablet anywhere, use Asus escalation mailbox, and sned a note, cc everyone on the list, and explain your position. Be diplomatic, but make your displeasure known, in plain terms.

Explain that you do not want to be without the tablet for anything more than a few days, and see what they are willing to offer going in.

Step two, once you RMA the unit, start bothering them for it's return IMMEDIATELY, if not sooner. They offered to overnight mine into the repair center, and by noon the next day when it showed as "not yet received" even though I had a delivery confirmation and the name of who signed, I went right for the jugular: "Problems already" was my subject line or something like that, LOL!

Stay on their case, THEY KNOW that the percentage of broken Prime is too high, and they are TRYING to be proactive about it. You just can't be all "Oh well, they have my unit.. they will fix it I am sure, I hope it doesn't take TOO long", LOL! Multiple guys in the RMA thread were saying stuff like: Well, Gary is trying to help, I don't want to piss him off" ???? Why not? You are 100% entitle to piss off any and everyone you want to until you are satisfied with your purchase.

Other guys were saying: "I was told they would call me in 48 hours... If they don't I will call again..." Bull ****ing ****!!!!! You call them daily, hourly... CONSTANTLY until you are given what you need.

My RMA was back in my hands on the 5th day from sending it in. A brand spanking new prime, opened and tested. Is it perfect? Pretty close. In fact, it is as perfect as I think this design is capable of. Sent it Monday. Had new Prime in my hands Friday morning. You should expect, nay DEMAND the exact same thing. And you know what? If you do, you will get it. I promise you that. Just don't lie down and be a sheep, waiting to see what Asus is gonna do. Asus is going to do the absolute least that they can get away with. That's the point. Just don't let them get away with it, otherwise you are a willing victim.

There. Pep talk over... Rant over (for a bit) The Prime must be one of the most polarizing bit of new tech to roll in the last year, for sure.