by Amy Stinson | Apr 21, 2007 | Reasoned Opinion
I know I am not the only person who worries about whether something they have ordered will ever arrive. I am no exception.
In my last post I said the guy had stated he had mailed the RAM the week before. Not true. He had mailed the RAM on April 6. Apparently he waits a week and mails out all the RMA replacements on the Friday a week after he receives the returned merchandise. It also takes 7 whole days to get a first class mailing from Georgia, which is weird because I can get a first class mailing from Texas in 3 days.
The RAM arrived on April 14. I opened the package and found 2 new RAM chips in actual RAM chip plastic containers (something I had not gotten in the last 2 shipments and the RAM was name brand. The RAM was also the type that I knew would work in my machine. I shut down my machine, unplugged it, removed the battery and replaced my old RAM with the new RAM. The machine fired up like a champ and has been working flawlessly since.
March 1 – April 14 to get the RAM. I felt I was back in the ’80’s before FedEx changed the way we expect to receive mail and packages, but I am finally a satisfied customer with 2 gigs of RAM in my laptop!
by Amy Stinson | Apr 15, 2007 | Home
Well, the great people at Norm Vogel and Sons came out and pronounced the dreaded news – the washer needed a new transmission at the bargain price of $379. I don’t think so. I paid the $65 trip fee and broke the news to my husband and then signed up for Consumer Reports online. Washing machines have changed so much in the past 10 years that I didn’t know which way to go.
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by Amy Stinson | Apr 11, 2007 | Reasoned Opinion
Well, getting new RAM for my laptop has gotten more interesting. The new RAM supposedly mailed on March 16th arrived on March 23rd. So I eagerly opened the package only to see that the RAM sent was not one, but two identical RAM pieces just like the one that caused my machine to cycle and hang on the POST. Wow, it’s not like I didn’t tell the company that. OK, the bad RAM in the first package might have actually been bad, but I did tell the guy the other RAM worked just fine.
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by Amy Stinson | Apr 6, 2007 | Home
I started doing some laundry today and my 10 year old washing machine started making a bunch of noise every time it tried to spin out. While I was hoping for a quick fix, I knew in my heart that my Kenmore/Whirlpool washing machine was on life support – with a full load of every pair of underwear I own.
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by Amy Stinson | Mar 20, 2007 | Reasoned Opinion
I am sitting here typing on my laptop that sits on a chiller purchased on Ebay, an AC adapter and battery purchased on Ebay, wearing my headset purchased on Ebay. Occasionally I wear the headphones I purchased on Ebay and sync my PDA with a cable purchased on Ebay. I really like Ebay for buying electronic gadgets. So I wasn’t concerned about buying memory for my laptop. I knew what I needed and did a buy now on Ebay with confidence on RAM that I knew would work in my laptop. That was March 1.
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