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

[Evelyn Weckerly]

Hi,

I hope this gentleman files a report with the BBB. I will avoid that 
store with its no-return policy.

Evelyn

At 09:17 PM 12/19/2012, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>Frankly Gabe, I have to agree with Dennis here.
>The rockbox software and indeed what you pay for from Laz is far
>better than the tiny tunes mp3 players.
>Rockbox plays more file formats, has a better fm radio chip on board
>the sansa line and also has expandable memory.
>True, the tiny tunes has text to speech, but the text to speech is horrible.
>Plus, the Braille super store having no return policy on any of its products?
>That is just nus.
>I know I will never be investing in the tiny tunes solution.
>What you get from Laz with a Sansa mp3 player is far worth the  money
>then this tiny tunes solution.
>With this Tiny tunes solution, your paying a lot of money and getting
>very little functionality as a result.
>Laz, I commend you for your work and for posting this email so people
>who are considering there options on what portable media solution to
>buy can really see what a product such as the tiny tunes really
>actually cant do.
>Rich Cavalllaro
>
>
>On 12/19/12, DennisLong <dennisl1982 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> > -original message-
> > 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
> > (623) 565-9357
> >
> > 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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> >> and expandable memory! Priced As low as $69.99, plus free shipping in
> >> the US!
> >>
> >> Listen to our presentation:
> >> http://www.talkingmp3players.com/demo.html
> >>
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> >> http://www.talkingmp3players.com/specials.html
> >>
> >> Join our mailing list by sending a blank email to:
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> >>
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> >>
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> >> Contact info:
> >> Email:  accessibleelectronics at gmail.com
> >> Skype: lazmesa
> >> Phone: 727 498-0121
> >> Facebook: facebook.com/laz.mesa
> >>
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