I know people have issues with services, but rather than staying on track, they blow it way out of proportion. Out of all the kolkata population here with Gigabyte motherboards, how many of them had issues with Gigabyte for RMA? The answer is not so different from number of people around South India with Asus motherboards, is there? IINM, there is now one more centre opened in Kolkata exclusively for Gigabyte motherboards now, and as far as Asus goes, that should be one of the reason they tied up with Digicare (although the effective usefulness will obviously take some time to reflect back). Does the person with "don't buy viewsonic" and "don't buy gigabyte" on his siggy care to explain that? I am aware of viewsonic screen issues back during 19 inch 16:10 days when TN panels were a craze. I have a friend who has Dell 30 Inch IPS panel with 2-3 dead pixels and Dell has some weird issues replacing his panel. Lets blacklist Dell while we're at it- yes *sarcasm*?
You're highlighting a 2010 thread. Be realistic. With that level of thinking, you shouldn't buy Seagate because of 7200.12 RPM failures and WD Green because older Green die out pretty quickly.
Every brand has highs and lows. The purpose of having sections is to let people as much as possible and highlight it to the manufacturers "Dude, this is what your people have been doing behind your back and no1 will entertain this!", not for bashing companies. If people want to do brand bashing like how fanboys do it with Samsung and Apple/Nokia, then there's simply no point in helping people here. Unless a brand has a history of duping customers with substandard products and make an impression that they do not wish to improve, what's with brand bashing?