In November 2008 I wanted to buy a portable music player to keep me company on my runs. At that time I was undecided between the Sansa Clip and the iPod Shuffle. I finally decided to go for the Sansa Clip: it gave me double the space as compared to the Shuffle (4 GB vs 2GB) for the same price; it could play more audio formats; it had a built-in radio; it had an OLED user interface; it had an audio recorder. The player was purchased from Amazon and yours truly proceeded to happily use it on runs.
I didn't face any problems until January this year. I was running on the treadmill, with the clip attached to my t-shirt, when suddenly one side of the clip broke off. The music player was still working, just that I couldn't attach it properly to any part of my clothing. As the product was still in the 1 year warranty period I decided to mail Sandisk's support desk and see if I could get it repaired.
So I took photos of the broken clip. Dug up my purchase order from Amazon and compiled an email asking the Sandisk support people how they could help me.
And then, I waited ... and waited ... and waited ... and waited. Just to get an auto-response email, giving me a support request number, took them 3 weeks. A week after that I got a response saying that the clip is not covered in the warranty. I was disappointed, but at least I could still use the player.
Then at the beginning of this month, while I was listening to music on the clip, the player suddenly shut off. At first I thought that the battery had drained. But to my surprise, when I plugged the clip to charge, it just wouldn't and neither would it turn on.
So once again, I dug up my purchase order and typed out an email to the Sandisk customer service. And again I waited for a response.
Today when I checked back on their customer support site, I saw that my request had been closed and their justification for closing it was left out blank!!
Update (20/3/2009): I stand corrected. Continue reading on what happened next.
2 comments:
Not the best person to dole out how-to-take-on-corporates as I have banged my head against the wall countless times for no effect.
No stores in India?
Writing to an individual in the company by looking up the website.
Going to a local repair shop.
Buying an ipod.
Well one of the Sandisk folks responded positively (check out the update towards the end of the post). Let's see what happens.
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