12-17-2010, 02:42 PM | #16 |
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Make sure you call the Kindle Custmer Service and not Amazon Customer Service. They are actually two different branches of CS. I have read about people who were told they could not return their broken Kindle by regular CS but when they called Kindle CS and the problem was fixed.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/custom...deId=200127470 If the person says no ask to speak to a supervisor. |
12-17-2010, 03:11 PM | #17 | |
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Some people have had manufacturing defects but they don't look like what your screen does. They had missing columns or rows and none of the diagonal patterns which are indicative of a cracked glass layer. Last edited by Tiersten; 12-17-2010 at 03:13 PM. |
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12-17-2010, 11:37 PM | #19 | |
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12-17-2010, 11:50 PM | #20 |
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I have dropped my Kindle many times and it works fine. There are stories of people who have left their Kindles on top of cars and had them hit the pavement when they took off and be fine. There are probably people with jetbooks who have dropped them and had them break.
Any device with a screen is going to be fragile. Stuff happens. |
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12-18-2010, 12:20 AM | #21 |
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I've read the suggestion a few times that Amazon might replace it. They probably prefer replacing some non-defective units on occasion rather than have someone think that since their kindle is broken, they might want to consider another brand and therefore, lose a book purchaser. Good luck
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12-18-2010, 09:33 AM | #22 |
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Normally if they won't replace it for free they will offer to sell a new one for a significantly lower price. I know k2s that were purchased for $85, which people were guessing was the price of the screen.
I think he called Amazon Support and not Kindle Support. |
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Wouldn't it be a better idea to standardize the family's readers on the jet book rather than throwing in a Kindle since the rest of the family has Jet Book's? That way perhaps you all can share books and the most technologically inclined of the family can do tech support for the entire family?
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You could be right about the leak, but I certainly don't know enough about the technology to say whether or not the "ink" in the eInk capsules can actually leak out, or if so many of them could burst at once to form the pattern on your Kindle screen without some sort of traumatic impact having caused them to burst! To me, it looks like a screen that was damaged by some sort of impact and apparently Amazon came to the same conclusion. Holly |
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12-18-2010, 12:16 PM | #26 |
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Call it what you want, but the "leak" is caused by an impact of something.
I see broken screens everyday, not a valid warranty claim, period! Blog Kindle's kindle on the other had can be a number of thing; cracked PCB, conductor foil, graphic circuitry or the screen it self. Last edited by wolw; 12-18-2010 at 12:21 PM. |
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Anyone have any idea how often Amazon will replace something like this? Or under what conditions?
I kind of get the impression they do a pretty good job with their CS. |
12-19-2010, 07:51 AM | #28 | |
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A leak is caused by a crack. But it looks like the crack is in the e-ink layer itself, not the top layer. My mother once had that with a laptop. The screen was completely fine, on the outside, but yet, it was leaking on the inside (my brother had twisted the screen, thinking it had only a single point where the lid closed... it had two and he had opened only one ) |
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12-19-2010, 08:05 AM | #29 |
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This is a crack in the screen substrate - the thin glass layer that's below the outer screen. It's a very characteristic appearance, and those of us who've been around for a while have seen dozens of such pictures. It is most certainly not a "leak" .
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12-19-2010, 08:06 AM | #30 |
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That, is definitively a broken screen, trust someone who found her screen in a similar state. I can even point where the screen had been hit.
And, as HarryT, this kind of thing is most likely user fault. And out of warranty. Last edited by EowynCarter; 12-19-2010 at 08:09 AM. |
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