Hardware that you should NOT buy

[topgear]

Now I understood why we should not buy XFX 8600GT - my comment : ****ing bad after sales service by rashi :

*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/hardware-q/133296-graphic-card-warranty-problem.html

 

[funkysourav]

^^i thought you had a 9600gt

 

[coderunknown]

^^ he have 9600GT. maybe 8600GT for a 2nd PC or so.

 

[topgear]

^^ yep - you are right sam.

 

[prateekag4u]

Samsung Mobile Phones... Though cheaper but starts posing problems after few months... reboots frequently

 

[Rohan_B]

iPhone Owns!!

 

[systechsolution]

Samsung Products
Once I Had Given Them My Monitor To Repair In Warranty They Theft My Stand Of The Monitor... When I Visited To Recollect It I Asked Them About The Stand So They Said That You Haven't Given Us And They Haven't Mentioned On The RMA Challan Also... There Was Huge Discussion About My Stand In Samsung Service Center And Finally I Was Left Without Stand... Till Date My Monitor Is Without The Stand... Samsung SyncMaster 793s 17" CRT Monitor...

Address Of Service Center: Samsung Service Center. Lamington Road, Opposite Minerva Cinema, Mumbai

 

[thetechfreak]

LG-air conditioners

bought an ac last year(1.5 ton split)..remote sensor needed to be changed 2 weeks of purchase..then after a month..and at frequent intervals this became routine..all changes and replacement were free

Winter sets in and by Summer gurantee is over..first hot day and ac doesnt switch on..damn! Had to get sensor changed 3 more times at rs 450 each time and had called regional head office..they promised it wont become bad..just things were becoming a little better,another problem

Water started seeping in interior..I registered 7-10 complaints and each time guys from service would just clean air filter and problem persiste..

I sent email to lg india head regarding problems and that will never buy lg products again..within 10 days guys from customer care showed up,thoroughly cleaned ac and problem was fixed!

so try to stay away from lg ac's!

 

[sakumar79]

^^^ Actually, customer care of most products in India is like that - which is why I prefer to call it "customer scare" instead... If you try to politely point out the problem, nobody listens... You have to shout at your loudest voice in the right direction to be heard... Similar incident for me with Whirlpool Washing Machine recently and many other products over the years...

On a side note, my uncle has an LG AC for a few years without having faced problems...

Arun

 

[thetechfreak]

^ maybe I might had received a defective unit..now it works fine

 

[d3p]

Never ever think of buying a MTS blaze or Tata Broadband Connections.

 

[noob]

Any Nokia phone...uber slow

 

[thetechfreak]

which phone u talking about? Nokia phones are BY FAR THE MOST RELIABLE In the country

 

[sanoob.tv]

yestrday i bought a "zebronics portable laptop cooling pad" for my hp pavilion dv6,
Laptop Accessories - Portable Laptop Cooling pad NC 500.

well i could say i lost my money,more like wasted it.eventhough u can fix the fans in 3 positions,in my laptop the main heat is from the graphics card and u cannot set the fans in a way that the fans are below the top leftmost corner of the laptop where the graphics card is,the only way i was able to make the laptop sit on the cooler was by fixing it in the middle.where there is no need for cooling

*picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/usXUg75z1r4EZPVrd-KgsA?feat=directlink

 

[rockfella]

Good to stay away from most Indian brands/high-end phones/apple.

 

[Zangetsu]

Seagate HardDrives for their pathetic RMA

 

[pauldmps]

Good to stay away from most Indian brands/high-end phones/apple.

Why high-end phones & Apple ?

I would warn to stay away from some of Nokia's S40 phones (3110c, 5130XM & 7210). These phones are poorly built & the software has too many bugs. Music player not responding & frequent hangs are common.

The X2, C3 etc. are however OK.

 

[sujeet2555]

^^^ Actually, customer care of most products in India is like that - which is why I prefer to call it "customer scare" instead... If you try to politely point out the problem, nobody listens... You have to shout at your loudest voice in the right direction to be heard... Similar incident for me with Whirlpool Washing Machine recently and many other products over the years...

On a side note, my uncle has an LG AC for a few years without having faced problems...

Arun

totally agree with what you said about customer care or scare may be.if we make list now of the companies or products that we should not buy,most brands will fall under in this list.
my seagate hd and lg writer got replaced but it took about one month.my lg monitor get fixed that took about a week and then they give me another power cable [poor black ] instead of my original one [sturdy one].

 

[tkin]

I don't know what happened to you guys, but in kolkata I got my Seagate hdd replaced 4 times and the longest it took was 5 days(once it got replaced in just 3 days), maybe seagate service is different here.

 

[rajsujayks]

Very true about 8600GT... I guess the chipset in itself is plagued by over heating... Mine ran for ~3 years at 86°-92°C before it went kaput...! But it served in the performance department...