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Originally Posted by erendorn View Post
I'm pretty sure if Amazon sent you a defective nokia headset they would have sent you a new pair the exact same way. Same certainly goes for verizon. Only the back cover replacement is relevant.
Except that the Nokia headset broke past the 30-day store's warranty period, but within Nokia's warranty period. The Motorola headset arrived damaged (unable to charge) and was replaced immediately by Amazon. I've not had to deal with Motorola directly until I dealt with a missing battery cover--which they covered immediately by sending a new one via two-day air shipping for free. Nokia didn't do anything for me--didn't even offer to repair it for a cost. They said they would give me a discount from their full price--which ultimately was far more than I'd paid for the headsets to start with.

Originally Posted by richwhite View Post
And to think, you are the same person who told me that anecdotal evidence is essentially meaningless and cannot be applied to everyone. Funny how that only seems to apply when someone is saying something you disagree with.

My experience with Nokia care? Go to website and put in IMEI number to check warranty status. Print off form detailing the problems. Send phone off and it arrived 3 days later, tracked postage. Check Nokia site for repair status, called them up at one point with questions on the status and had no issues at all, very helpful customer service rep. Received phone back within 10 days of sending it off, which includes the phone being received within one or two days of Nokia posting it.Couldn't have had a better experience. I am aware though of many people who have had bad experience with many other companies, including Amazon and Samsung. So my opinion of it all is that any company provides good and bad experiences. Complaining about a product that Nokia no longer make or sell or support seems somewhat redundant.

God knows how you sent a phone for it to take 30 days just in the mail, and then that's somehow Nokia's fault. Then again i'm never surprised by your posts anymore, you seem to just hunt out threads that you can post more anti-Nokia stuff in. What does surprise me though is why you bother coming here at all.
Well said. My experience is, indeed, anecdotal but on the whole it does appear to be a typical experience with most of the people I've spoken to (thus anecdotal and common among my offline group of friends). I would LOVE to see some actual numbers regarding how quickly and how well customers were taken care of by stores (online included) and by manufacturers. Considering the number of people who had jumped into an N800 with me back in 2007 when I'd bought mine and how their experience has been soured, versus the generally better experiences today with other vendors and manufacturers, in general, in addition to Nokia's rapidly dropping market share and numbers, I have to imagine people tried to like Nokia but couldn't. I have one coworker in particular who REALLY was a big Nokia fan for many years even before I'd met him--but he's jumped off that bandwagon some time ago, too, after getting burned a few times.

I came here for the InternetTabletTalk. I know you don't like to read the criticism, but it's been warranted in my experience and from the experience of the people around me at work, home and amongst friends offline and I'm one of the few of this particular bunch that still manages to check back in here (among other places, lest you think this is the only place I come to) to check on things and hoping to hear about better news. I still find myself (and the others) waiting for some good news from Nokia after our experiences (maybe some improvement in their presence, service, products, SOMETHING) but they seem to be increasingly disinterested in what the customers want. I suspect, at this rate, I'll probably stop coming by here at some point soon too, no worries for you there.
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