My one year old Blaupunkt Maui CD player went kaput. CD Error, it kept displaying. All this while, I kept thinking - perhaps those cheap CDs were the reason. Finally when I told the friendly dealer about it, he said it was a company lens problem and asked me to bring it back for replacement with any other equivalent CD player. Thank god for warranty period.
So I go and choose a Sony X-plod. Dealer says, sorry cant let you switch over from Blaupunkt to Sony. Those are the rules.
I exclaim - but you said ANY OTHER CD player!!!
Dealer apologises profusely but stays adamant. I have no other choice but to select from about 10 models of Blaupunkt, each crappier than the next.
I fret and fume but am sure that this time, I want a CD player with USB because I was sick of writing CDs to death before. Every time I downloaded a new song from the net, I had to go through a whole process of CD writing. It was too much work.
I chose one with USB and by the time I finished pointing, the mechanics are already half way through installing it in the car. The demo goes well till I insert my 2 GB USB and then - gasp - USB ERROR!!
I cringed inwardly, oh no - back to square one.
The dealer unconvincingly tells me - it just doesnt play 2 GB, thats all - see it works perfectly fine with a 1 GB USB. I feel like wringing his neck.
I dont want a new replacement which has USB size issues after which the dealer tells me (politely though not explicitly) to take it or leave it.
I eat his brains for about 3 hours, trying and testing all other models and eventually ending up with the one that gave me a USB error for 2 GB.
By this time, the smile on his face’s been wiped out and so’s mine. We’re both feeling slightly hostile towards each other.
As I drove back home, I realized - maybe its okay I at least got a new replacement. The old one had completely stopped playing CDs and was only capable of FM. Have been using the new CD player and it works fine fine fine except for 2 GB USB.
Now I’m confused whether to feel happy about the replacement or to be unhappy about the entire problem to begin with. Or maybe Blaupunkt should change their logo of The Advantage In Your Car to the one in my title.
stick with pioneer(touchwood) or for cds, you can burn say 50 songs and then keep adding songs as you want. you don’t have to burn all the songs at one time. multisession burning.
or for the more enterprising and with time to waste, you would ask the dealer to give you to new system, you take it, packing and all and sell it to a grey market dealer and get a pioneer.
Hey, I like the idea of selling it to the grey market! That never struck me before… good idea, thanks
Rinch..,
Good post with all the humor elements.
I can’t get out of the shops unless there is someone to rescue, especially when the right to choice is hindered. Then I will find out the smallest advantage of the worst choice available.
And that changes the mentality of shopkeepers.
“it just doesnt play 2 GB, thats all - see it works perfectly fine with a 1 GB USB”
Hope the guy was not trying to sell to you the Khasa made stuff.
ha ha ha, Size does matter here
Same thing happened, Sree. And yeah, thanks
God, I hope not the khasa made stuff! Where is Khasa by the way?
Don’t know maybe somewhere in Tibet , China
, I just know they make replica of just about anything there.
If this set gives me a problem again, I’m going to break it in tiny little pieces, i.e., if no one buys it in grey market first.
Steer clear from the grey market for these thing - remember the minute you buy from the grey market there’s no warranty.
Btw, tried singing at the top of your voice while driving? Maybe a karaoke?
Everytime
My morning trip to work is my daily karaoke regime. People look at me strangely sometimes.
Funny.. I had a similar habit while driving. Only that it was real singing instead of karaoke, because I never bothered to buy a car stereo, and preferred to entertain my “car-guests” with my own singing.
Yah! I heard you are a very good singer, Unni.
just get a 1 gb drive for the car player. they are pretty cheap. should be around 100-150 bucks
Thats kinda cheap! Will check it out, thanks