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Bvilela

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Registered: 31/05/12
Satellite L755-1NX repair and warranty
Posted: 31-May-2012 13:50
 
Two months ago I bought a new Toshiba Satellite L755-1NX.
 
After this short period of normal home use, the connection between the AC charger and the computer got damaged from overheating issues. Both the laptop and AC charger seem tonwork well aside from this huge detail that prevents me from using the computer.
 
I contacted Toshiba Customer Service and went to a repair center with my laptop. There I was informed that since this model had no known connection issues (something I translated as not enough complaints) the warranty would not cover the repair.

If I am to fix it I must spend an additional 90€ fixing a new computer with no guarantee that this problem will not happen again in the future.

I complained to customer service in Spain and they stated that the warranty does not include physical damage to the laptop. I do not accept this answer since there is a clear defect in the connection. Asides from this, the law clearly says that it is up to the seller to prove the bad use of any electronic equipment and not to the customer to prove a defect.
 
Any ideas on how to proceed apart from making a formal complaint to customer defense and not reccomending Toshiba to anyone?
xaver

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Registered: 10/02/05
Re: Satellite L755-1NX repair and warranty
Posted: 01-Jun-2012 08:16   in response to: Bvilela in response to: Bvilela
 
Hello

To be honest it is not easy to say what to do.
...the connection between the AC charger and the computer got damaged from overheating issues
I really don’t know how something like this can happen. I mean if the temperature was so high to damage this connection what is with other notebook parts and components. Following my logic your notebook should be more damaged than that.

Please don’t understand me wrong now but somehow it is strange issue. You are also the first one who reports about this so I’m pretty sure it is nothing but isolated case.
Any ideas on how to proceed apart from making a formal complaint to customer defense...
Be cool and try to clarify this with service. They have own rules like any other serous company.
...and not reccomending Toshiba to anyone?
I don’t know what to say about that. For me it sounds pretty childish. When I read this it sounds like some kind of revenge and way to get some satisfaction. Don’t waste your time with something that will not help at all. Would you do the same if you will have problems with TV, video player, mobile phone, car....and and and .... I don’t think so. Where is the end?

In the past I had several problems with different products in my home or with my car. That’s the life my friend. Sometimes everything is OK but sometimes we have simply ....bad luck.
Bvilela

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Registered: 31/05/12
Re: Satellite L755-1NX repair and warranty
Posted: 01-Jun-2012 18:30   in response to: xaver in response to: xaver
 
Thanks for your comments.

The problem I have is that the connection between the computer and the charger over-heats and it damaged the connector. Apart from that the computer works fine.

As for Toshiba service, I contacted their technical service 3 times.  First by phone and they told me to go to a repair centre. There they told me that the damage to the laptop is physical so if they were to look inside I had to pay for the technician. The third time they told me by email that they could do nothing to help with my problem.

Finally I spent the most part of this week in contact with customer service until their final answer was "physical damage is not covered by the warranty" without any further explanation or answer to my last email trying to clarify their position. I thought I had depleted all my options until my post in this board.

As for my childish comments, I have owned at least 3 Toshiba laptops and am quite happy with their performance. I understand sometimes things dont turn out as we expect and that problems can arise.

What I do not accept is the unwillingness of this company in Spain to help, to explain the problem and to tell me what I did wrong.

One thing is what you call bad luck which happens quite often, another quite different is my experience with customer service, something that cannot and will not be recomended
Bvilela

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Registered: 31/05/12
Re: Satellite L755-1NX repair and warranty
Posted: 06-Jul-2012 18:10   in response to: Bvilela in response to: Bvilela
 
So a final update on this issue (hopefully).

After first opening this thread, I was contacted by the people here at Toshiba Technical Support Forum asking me to be patient while they tried to figure out how to solve my problem.

After two weeks of waiting I was contacted by Toshiba Spain Technical Support asking for the serial number of the laptop and I had to go through the entire routine I described before. An additional week passed until I got another email saying that the Toshiba Headquarters told them to fix my computer, even though they still considered it shouldn't be done under the warranty. A totally unnecessary (and impolite) sentence especially from a technical service that refused to properly evaluate the damage to their product from the beginning. Another 5 days passed to arrange for the delivery of the computer to the Repair Centre and an additional two weeks to get my laptop back.

So today I got it delivered at home. Even though the computer seems to be working fine I was disappointed to find that they only fixed the connector without repairing the plastic cover that got damaged in this process. I know it is a mere cosmetic point but if you are to repair something I assumed it would be done properly.

In the end, a computer that was bought in mid March got broken before the end of may, the complaint was first put to Toshiba Spain Technical Support on the 25th of May, and today (6th of July) I finally got my computer back. This amounts to a total of 43 days without being able to use a brand new computer, an essential tool for my job. I blame Spanish Technical Support and the Spanish Customer Service for this loss of time. I truly hope I do not have to deal with any of these services again.

To finish I would like to thank Toshiba Headquarters for successfully solving my problem and getting my computer fixed in spite of all the resistance of its Spanish counterparts.
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