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04-17-2017, 09:50 PM | #61 | |
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Amazon is just like that. At least they were that time. You don't have to lie to them to get good treatment. Barry |
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04-18-2017, 06:03 AM | #62 | |
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04-19-2017, 03:23 PM | #63 | |
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It's a waste of money for the cheap Kindles, but for the Oasis: £40 to replace a £270 reader, multiple times? I leapt at it. |
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04-19-2017, 03:47 PM | #64 |
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04-19-2017, 03:48 PM | #65 | |
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As for your Kobo, yes you should have been using that instead. The Kobo gives you more of an exciting reading experience and you don't get sleepy no matter how good or not the book is. The letters are easy to see and the words pop with excitement. You get so into the book, you can't fall asleep or drop it due to a really boring reading experience. The Oasis leaves you feeling bored and drowsy. The Bookerly font is too much a lightweight so on any Kindle, your eyes get tired trying to see the letters. Even if you are reading a really great book, the Oasis makes you bored and sleepy. Amazon designed the Oasis this way so you'd read, become sleepy, drop it and be gullible enough to buy another. Amazon priced the Oasis so high because of the sleep drop technology they secretly added to it Last edited by JSWolf; 04-19-2017 at 03:51 PM. |
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04-19-2017, 05:33 PM | #66 | |
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04-19-2017, 06:24 PM | #67 | |
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If a person wishes a warranty extension on a purchase, they are better off making the purchase through a bank account that bundles into their services warranty extensions. (Often, that means using the bank issued credit card.) {rant} I almost wrote: "offers no additional cost warranty extensions" but that is misleading. There is no such thing as a "Free Lunch", your bank is only not breaking out the cost of that service as a line item on your account statement. {/rant} |
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04-20-2017, 09:53 AM | #68 | |
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The problems involved in holding a transparent, four dimensional object above your face should minimize the number of such accidents. |
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04-20-2017, 01:56 PM | #69 |
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I do like extended warranties and I have them for all my ereaders, although with the cheaper devices I buy from John Lewis who include an extra year and give two years on all policies. I have never claimed on the Voyage (we have two) but I have claimed on the kindle keyboard and older ereaders. In fact my stunningly good PW2 3G was actually a warranty replacement for a Kindle Keyboard 3G. That was certainly my lucky day.
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04-21-2017, 10:21 AM | #70 | |
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04-21-2017, 11:14 PM | #71 | |
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Hook, nose and stinker! [Ouch! That's a good one!] Jon, I want a reader. Not popcorn! |
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04-22-2017, 12:25 AM | #72 |
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I had an auto accident several months ago.
Currently in negotiations with the insurance companies. We have not yet settled, they want to buy me a used skateboard and I want a brand new limousine. Once I have taken care of my own troubles, I would be glad to mediate your dispute with Amazon. One impossible task only deserves to be followed by another impossible task. Last edited by knc1; 04-22-2017 at 01:32 PM. |
04-22-2017, 07:41 AM | #73 | |
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€129 Kindle: Nope... would just replace it. €200 KA1: Nope.... €2150 workstation class laptop: hell yeah. I'd not even consider it if it didn't come with a 5 year next business day warranty. My (digital) piano has 10 years warranty straight from the manufacturer, just like most acoustics, so you can imagine the price bracket it was (is) in. And that's not because I break things, but because sometimes, things just break. Last edited by Katsunami; 04-22-2017 at 07:45 AM. |
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Me too. I have a top-of-the-range Dell laptop which I bought next business day cover for, because that's not something I could afford to replace out of ready cash.
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04-22-2017, 07:54 AM | #75 | |
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So, I opted for the 5 years NBD warranty at DELL, instead of (even more) graphics power by buying an MSI, because I only play older games. I have a huge backlog. By the time I get around to The Witcher 3, the average phone will be able to run games like that. I bought this laptop in the hopes of foregoing a desktop, so I also have the dock. Thanks to Windows 10, I now also have a new desktop, because the dock *STILL* works like shit 20 years on. Screen settings such as font sizes reset to default each time the laptop docks and undocks, not to mention other settings... so I'm back to my old setup with a desktop as a main computer, and an (almost) comparable laptop as second/backup. I built the desktop myself, and each part of it has (at least) 2 years of warranty. As long as the mainboard and graphics card don't break, I'm good. .Even a defective graphics card 2 years from now would only be a minor inconvenience. I'm not really concerned. I only have had one mainboard go toast on me in 20 years of buying my own computers. Ironically, it was 6 weeks out of the 3 years warranty, unreplaceable for an economical price seeing it was a 3 year old computer, and it was the most expensive computer I've ever built, based on two Xeon CPU's. 2004-2007, RIP... Its successor from 2008, which had a big upgrade in 2011/2012, still runs. Gave it away a few months ago. Last edited by Katsunami; 04-22-2017 at 08:02 AM. |
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