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briancmo
9th of June 2009 (Tue), 21:46
Needed to vent.

My last laptop was an Acer and had a great all round experience. No isses blah blah blah

Bought a new Acer laptop May 7, 2009. While partioning the HD, it screwed up!When I went to look in my acer box, I realized they never shipped recovery CD's!!! I had to reformart C and install a beta of vista I had filed away.I called immediately and the recovery CD's weren't in stock, and needed to be ordered, then once they're in, 7-10 business days to get to me. F$!K

I call back May 20th to inquire why I haven't received my discs and they tell me they never shipped them out!!! Apparently I needed to call back after my first call to say "yes, please send", which makes no sense! Obviously I need the discs, that's why I caled in the first place!!! ANOTHER 7-10 business days + ordering time.

Discs arrived last week on June 4th. Tonight I decide to install, and what-do-ya-know, the English discs don't work! It just gets hung up on 0%! It's not 1 month, and I've lost $1000 on a computer I can't use unlss I use pirated software. This is rediculous. Acer just told me tonight, thy'll resend discs, but it will (again) be another 7-10 days and can't send any faster.

I asked if they were going to make this up to me and they said nope. I could purchase an extended warranty like every other joe shmoe. I'm furious!

Meanwhile, the store I purchased from isn't a major retailer so beyond 7 days (and any physical damage), I'm on my own to deal direct with the manufacturor.

I can't believe Acer isn't offering me a free extended warranty, money back, or a credit note to switch the comp with the same model at the store and take care of this for me. I will NEVER buy an acer product again.

crn3371
9th of June 2009 (Tue), 21:56
Unfortunately not too many manufacturers ship discs any more. That doesn't excuse Acer's customer support though.

briancmo
9th of June 2009 (Tue), 21:59
So what do I ask them to do to make up for this? Its coming 40 days I'm losing on warranty, depreciated value, etc. This is just rediculous!

lauderdalems
9th of June 2009 (Tue), 22:00
I notices that when I got my last Dell and then again last year when I got this Acer desktop. Guess that is why I made two backups of the OS.

crn3371
10th of June 2009 (Wed), 01:11
I'd recommend calling customer service again but ask to speak to a supervisor. If the supervisor doesn't give you satisfaction ask to speak to the supervisors supervisor. At the very least they owe you an extension of your warranty for all of your down time.