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  • Report:  #289716

Complaint Review: Micro Center

Micro Center-Winbook Breach of Warranty Hilliard Ohio

  • Reported By:
    Dallas Texas
  • Submitted:
    Fri, December 07, 2007
  • Updated:
    Tue, August 05, 2008

Complaint:

I bought a Winbook notebook computer from Microcenter.
http://www.microcenter.com/customer_support/contact_us.html

The warranty covers hardware absolutely.
And I bought the extended warranty.

I bought the computer primarily for the warranty and I asked a lot of questions about the warranty prior to making the purchase.
I was assured repeatedly that if ANYTHING went wrong with any hardware in the computer, it would be fixed FREE of charge.

The computer overheats.

It is still in warranty.

I took it to Microcenter and they cleaned the FAN.

The FAN is hardware.
There is no ambiguity here.
The FAN is not software.
Software does not cause overheating.
Overheating is a hardware problem.

This computer sits on a desk beside another laptop computer and two desktop computers, all of which are older, have been in the same place for years and have never had any overheating or fan problems.

They charged me $75.72.
I paid it and brought the computer home.

It still overheats.

Micro Center told me that if they sent it to Winbook, it would cost me $305.00.

Software dose NOT make a computer overheat.

Now, (a day later) there has suddenly appeared a vertical line in the middle of the screen which will not go away no matter how many reboots. This is also a hardware problem with the screen but I will not take it to Microcenter for repair because they will refuse to honor their warranty again and charge me for the repair.

I will have it repaired by a company that I trust and have them make a full report which I will later submit to accompany this complaint.

John
Dallas, Texas
U.S.A.

1 Updates & Rebuttals


Sean

Lewis Center,
Ohio,
U.S.A.

Repair guidelines

#2UPDATE Employee

Tue, August 05, 2008

"I took it to Microcenter and they cleaned the FAN.

The FAN is hardware.
There is no ambiguity here.
The FAN is not software.
Software does not cause overheating.
Overheating is a hardware problem."

Dirt on the fan is not a defective fan but a routine maintenance issue. It is a good idea for the consumer to perform preventative maintenance such as blowing out fan on computers from time to time. That is why Microcenter has a section of canned air for sale. Nothing in the laptop was defective. To claim that Microcenter will not honor the warranty on an obviously defective screen because of the previous claim is not a correct. I am guessing that after comparing what it would cost you to have the screen replaced by your other company that you decided to have the warranty work done after all, which would be the proper thing to do.

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