http://www.epsonsettlement.com/
Epson lost a class action lawsuit that resulted from their manufacturing printers that displayed inaccurate (read false) ink levels. Really? No duh! My Epson CX6600 says it's out of ink and won't print anything, but I can visually see that there is at least 1/5th of a cartridge of ink remaining. There doesn't seem to be any way around this except to...that's right, buy more ink! Nice game they got going there. All the while Epson continues to send me e-mails from their e-store to buy more Epson crap. No thanks. I'll take my e-code (from the class-action settlement) and buy one more set of ink cartridges for the beast. Then, who knows? I certainly won't buy another Epson again.
Not so mysteriously, I have seen very little about this class action. I found out about the lawsuit by snail mail. The petitioner's attorneys sent a copy to all consumers that registered their printers with Epson.
I remember the first floppy drive that I ever owned, a Commodore 1541(what an upgrade! I was using the Commodore Datasette).I purchased it from a friend (?). He said it wasn't working any longer and I could have it for $5 USD. 'SOLD!' I said, and took it home. Well, he was right. It didn't work. It turned on, and all the noises indicated it was running. But in name only. No files would load. Then I logged on to a local BBS and the sysop told me that the first production run of these 1541 drives had a defect. Something about the heads not being secured properly so they could come out of allignment with use. Even very infrequent use as it turns out. Back on point, sysop tells me to remove the cover of the drive and locate the cylindrical read/write head unit. Now, with your trusty screwdriver loosen the one (yes, just one) screw that holds it all together and start manipulating it as you attempt to load a file (LOAD "$",8), which I did. And then, after some clickety-clacketys, voila! success! Alas, the fix lasted only a few days at best. But enough to get some good games of Dino Eggs in! I still have that miserable 1541 POS somewhere in the house.
Don't laugh, that happened to me 3 times!
So, let's do the math. I paid for 3 months of AOL and got 18 months free. Kind of hard to stay in business when you're giving away the store. Gotta love those Time-Warner/AOL folks!
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http://www.epsonsettlement.com/ Epson lost a class action lawsuit that resulted from their manufacturing printers that displayed inaccurate (read false) ink levels. Really? No duh! My Epson CX6600 says it's out of ink and won't print anything, but I can visually see that there is at least 1/5th of a cartridge of ink remaining. There doesn't seem to be any way around this except to...that's right, buy more ink! Nice game they got going there. All the while Epson continues to send me e-mails from their e-store to buy more Epson crap. No thanks. I'll take my e-code (from the class-action settlement) and buy one more set of ink cartridges for the beast. Then, who knows? I certainly won't buy another Epson again. Not so mysteriously, I have seen very little about this class action. I found out about the lawsuit by snail mail. The petitioner's attorneys sent a copy to all consumers that registered their printers with Epson.
I remember the first floppy drive that I ever owned, a Commodore 1541(what an upgrade! I was using the Commodore Datasette).I purchased it from a friend (?). He said it wasn't working any longer and I could have it for $5 USD. 'SOLD!' I said, and took it home. Well, he was right. It didn't work. It turned on, and all the noises indicated it was running. But in name only. No files would load. Then I logged on to a local BBS and the sysop told me that the first production run of these 1541 drives had a defect. Something about the heads not being secured properly so they could come out of allignment with use. Even very infrequent use as it turns out. Back on point, sysop tells me to remove the cover of the drive and locate the cylindrical read/write head unit. Now, with your trusty screwdriver loosen the one (yes, just one) screw that holds it all together and start manipulating it as you attempt to load a file (LOAD "$",8), which I did. And then, after some clickety-clacketys, voila! success! Alas, the fix lasted only a few days at best. But enough to get some good games of Dino Eggs in! I still have that miserable 1541 POS somewhere in the house.
Don't laugh, that happened to me 3 times! So, let's do the math. I paid for 3 months of AOL and got 18 months free. Kind of hard to stay in business when you're giving away the store. Gotta love those Time-Warner/AOL folks!