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Volume 15, Issue 2
Apr/May 10

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Hot Stories - Updated Daily

Tech Articles

How to handle a defective product

Pre-Wire Your New Home - Chapter 5: The Actual “Pull”

Digital Signs Don’t Sell, Don’t Inform When They Display the Blues

Networking 101: Utilizing a Toolless Keystone Jack

Surround Sound Technology Training

Crestron DigitalMedia™ Debuts in the UK

Freevolve housEvolve Remote House Management and Control System

Taking TV Lifts To New Heights

Consumer Video Security

Pre-Wire Your New Home - Chapter 4 - Future Proofing

RuralHomeSoft - Home Management Software

Broadband – A New Utility?

Reviews

New Kinetix Re Remote Control Accessory for the Apple iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch

Onkyo TX-NR3007 Home Theater Receiver

Definitive Technology Home Theater Speakers

Avtrak Rotating Equipment Rack

Paradigm Stylus 370 Oudoor Speakers

Paradigm CS-60R-30 Ceiling Speakers

Interview

Controlling HVAC Systems with Home Automation
Bill Jackson

WirelessHD
John LeMoncheck

Healthcare Automation
Ron Bessems

Management

Why Doesn’t the Press Call, email, Text, Tweet?

Trade Show PR Mining…It’s Time for Someone Else to Do the Labor

The Sales Presentation ... The Bottom Line Is Selling

Content Insider #143 – Business, Skills Training Is a Never Ending Process

Columns and Series

Content Insider #141 – Skirt Length

Content Insider #140 – Boomers Plus

Content Insider #139 - The Smarter Smartphone

Content Insider #138 – Interactive TV

Blu-Ray DVD Part 2: The Format Wars Begin

Blu- Ray DVD Part 1: The Next Generation

How to handle a defective product

Author: Chuck Hinton of McIntosh & Snell Tech Support

 

SO, you got some new do-dad for your stereo, once you hook it up, you find you have: Hum, buzz, distortion, no power, or some other issue. Here are the best ways to handle the situation and the order in which you should do them:

 

Youtube: Björk explains all the small things that could go wrong with your electronics.

 

Here are the best ways to handle the situation and the order in which you should do them:

 

  • Blame the most expensive unit in the system (top quality gear should never break, like Ferraris, Harleys, or i-phones)

  • Make a judgment as to the cause of the failure (do not check your connections or read the manual, you have been hooking up stereos for years and you can tell what is the exact cause from across the room)

  • Write a scathing report of the product on one or several Audio Forums, let those irresponsible manufacturers who never test stuff before it leaves the factory know what scum they are. Be sure and call the unit a “Piece of S%*T” so readers can under stand your level of disappointment.

  • Contact your lawyer

  • Write letter to the president of the company threatening to sue him.

  • Send an email to the general mailbox of the company, be sure and tell them you have already posted this all over the net and contacted your lawyer (those folks only respond to force, if you were to call them and ask nicely and reasonably for a solution to your problem, they will know you are a wimp, pass you around the company to voice mails of people who are on vacation and eventually send you to an extension that no longer exists)

  • Call the Main office of the company at 3AM on a Saturday, or any time you are reasonably sure the office is not open, leave a scathing voice mail with lots of colorful adjectives, exclaim you can not believe you can’t get a human on the phone. (do not leave your name or contact number. )

  • Go to your dealer and demand a full refund, be sure and tell them you, nor anyone you know, will ever set foot in the store again.

  • If all this fails, check to see if the unit is plugged in.