3/19 I bought a memory card from Frys. I put it in my camera
and successfully took some pictures. The next time I turned
on the camera to look at the pictures, it said "CF card
error". I downloaded a trial version of some software that
can recover pictures. (It shows only thumbnails unless you pay
$30). It was not able to recover my pictures, but it did find
about 150 pictures that were not mine! Presumably, someone else
had problems with the card and had returned it. And then I bought
the same problematic card. It's been more than 30 days since I
first bought the card. I would like for Frys to pay whatever it
takes for me to recover the pictures, but I'm not even dreaming that
this will happen. I'm just hoping I can get a full refund. But I
bet I will have trouble with this since it's been more than 30 days.
Even though it's been more than 30 days, do I have any legal right
for my money back if it's reasonably obvious that I was sold defective
merchandise?
\_ did you try talking to them at Frys and showing them the other
pictures? [formatd]
pictures?
\_ Why don't you just buy another one of the same model and return
the defective one using the new receipt.
\_ Not yet. Not sure how I will be able to do that, since I'd
have to have my memory card hooked up to a computer with the
right software on it. Besides, how do they know that those
150 pics were not taken by me?
\_ [the broken merge 'feature' in motdedit is worse than just
getting things lost. at least like that people didn't have
150 pics were not taken by me?
a software driven excuse to be rude *and* fuck up the motd]
\_ Purchase identical (shrinkwrapped) item. Take it home. Swith
broken item for item in shrinkwrap. Return recent package to store,
since you purchased that one within the last 30 days.
\_ Good idea, but the memory card is PNY and I've read on the net
about people having similar problems with that particular brand,
so I don't want to replace it with another PNY. In fact, I
already bought another card (Sandisk) not from Frys.
\_ Use the above method to get a working PNY card. Then do as
you please (gift, eBay, etc.).
\_ Why do you hate capitalism?
\_ Because of companys like Fry's.
\_ I don't hate capitalism. Fry's is free to have a more
restrictive return policy if they like. I used this technique
to return some bad CD-R media a while back that I got as a
present (but dind't use until >30 days later).
\_ I'm guessing you're screwed. Fry's *may* give you store credit
for the memory card, but I wouldn't hold my breath. PNY has a
warranty, and Fry's will probably tell you to go that route.
Easiest thing is to but another PNY card, swap it for the bad
since you purchased that one within the last 30 days.
one, return, and repeat till you found one that works. Yes,
it sucks. Tough luck with the Sandisk card, though. |
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