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ReplayTV Price Drop Bait-and-Switch
jkeyes writes "Last week on 12/17 DNNA (new parent company of Replay TV) decided to drop the Replay TV 5504 model down to $149, yet the boxes and website said that it came with three years free service. So immediately it appeared on deal sites like FatWallet with Replay telling people on the phone who called that yes all 5504 models include 3 years of service so immediately Circuit City & Amazon sold out. Then on the 12/22 DNNA released a press release annoucing the new price and claiming that the 5504 models NO LONGER have 3 years free with them and blamed the retailers for dropping the price too soon. Even though their own Customer Service Reps were saying when it first dropped that you got 3 years free. Also to add to the issue the actual devices have giant green stickers on them saying Three Years Free AND a paper inside telling you this. Replay went on to say that if you had a problem with this or your replay was deactivated to just return it to the retailer you purchased it from."
...a free commemorative poster of images obtained from the Beagle 2 mars lander. Sounds like a good company to me.
Good idea. That way the consumers that were "had" could get a $5 coupon and the lawyers could get millions!
I dunno who it is
but it prolly is fhqwhgads.
I agree. The last ReplayTV I bought kept on freezing and crashing on me. In the middle of a recording, it would just sieze up and stop.
So I returned the thing and got a Tivo. I've been happy ever since.
I guess ReplayTV is the Microsoft of PVR units.
"I don't suppose anybody can think of an appopriate 'geek' web site?"
No, I avoid them like the plague.