Posted by GMAN on 09/26/06 19:28

In article <451912f1.219954609@news-server.houston.rr.com>, spam@uce.gov wrote:
>On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 19:43:50 GMT, glenzabr@nospam.xmission.com (GMAN)
>wrote:
>
>>Those drive are meant to be sold only as units for manufacturers like Dell,
>>and other local resellers to place into their prebuilt PC's for resell. It is
>>up to the small store or reseller you bought it from to provide support.
>



>You are wrong. OEM products are sold everywhere and they have direct
>factory support.
I am not wrong

Those plastic baggie drives are not and have never meant to be sold to end
users. They are for manufacturing use only by resellers into their products
for resell. The small pc parts store you bough it from is Sony's customer, you
are not. I had the same problem with a TTGI Power supply recently. I had to
return it to the store, who in turn returned it to the manufacturer for
replacement. The store http://www.ebccomputers.com/ was considered by
http://www.super-flower.com/america.html to be the purchaser of the item, and
as such the PS was meant for sale only as a finished PC. Why do you think
there is basically no warranty other than what the store provides on items
such a Intel Processors etc....??????

People feel free to chime in here.

>
>All I wanted was a firmware upgrade but Sony would not comply.
>
>>No manufacturer is going to provide support to you for a plastic bag bought
>>drive that was never meant to be sold to an end user that way.
>
>That's really weird because in the past I have gotten direct factory
>support for any number of OEM products, like hard drives, modems,
>optical drives, routers, etc.

Well thats up to the specific manufacturers and their policies etc.

If the drive they supply is exactly the same as their boxed products that are
sold thru best Buy or CompUSA, then sure, the firmware from the website will
work, but more times than not, thedrive I'd string is different or
specifically modified or features added at the request of the reseller or
rebadger like Maddog or Benq etc....

OEM hard drives from WD usually dont have any manufacturers warranty, only
thru the oem reseller.




>
>Sony was just being obstinant, so they lost a customer for life. And
>it you are smart, you won't buy any of their unsupported crap either.
>
>

I dont walk that gay "Oh, they dropped a root kit on Sony music CD's, lets
have a baby fit and hate all Sony products bullshit".

Unsupported crap, look who's talking . You bought your noname settop recorder
from a company involved in criminal activity(Cyberhome), let talk about
unsupported crap!!!!! My Sony RDR-GX7 will be recording disks years longer
than that drive.

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