[Electronics-talk] Important message to avoid being taken advantage of

[DennisLong]

I like to be warned when a product is falsely stated.  I would rather hay a little more for a product and have it work as advertised.

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Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] Important message to avoid being taken advantage of
From: Gabe Vega Via Iphone4S <theblindtech at gmail.com>
Date: 12/19/2012 8:18 PM

So this is how low you are going Huh Laz? to sell your little cheap MP3 players?

Gabe Vega 
Sent from my iPhone
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On Dec 19, 2012, at 5:43 PM, Laz Mesa <lazaro6 at gmail.com> wrote:

> The below is a response from a customer who paid $75 for a
> misrepresented product.  He gave me permission to send it to other
> lists in order to protect anyone else from falling for this con job.
> Here is this gentleman's reaction to the player and the company
> selling it.
> 
> Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 20:06:52 -0500
> From: Joe Giovanelli <joegio1 at earthlink.net>
> To: Pc-audio at pc-audio.org
> Subject: tiny tunes player
> Message-ID: <20121218010652.joegio1 at earthlink.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
> 
> Hello, Everybody,
> 
> You may have heard about a rather small player called "Tiny Tunes."
> It claims to have an excellent TTS engine, which means that it will
> read textfiles.  It plays various audio formats.   The instructions
> tell us that it will read folder names.  Navigation is accoplished
> with a minimum number of controls.  Its 75 dollar price sounds great!
> 
> I strongly suggest that you do not obtain one.  The speech is some of
> the worst I have heard in my 30 years of computer use.  I was not able
> to receive any FM stations on its radio.  I could write a long
> treatise on what this unit should do as opposed to what it really
> does, but I won't.  Suffice it to say that navigation and response are
> erratic.  When a few folders are loaded on to the device, it will
> likely quit responding, leading to running down its battery.
> 
> I truly dislike writing negative things, but I have to do so in this case.
> 
> If you go to the Braille Super Store website, be sure to look for the
> company's return policy.  Among many unbblievable things, you'll read
> that none of its products are warrantied.  It gets worse from there.
> 
> Joe Giovanelli
> 
> 
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