I'm sorry if you have seen this already but I understand that digest readers
can't post, which is what I was ...
Tony Sleep writes:
Until recently I had heard very little of failures apart from the initial
cable detachment problem
Well here's another. My SS400 is at Polaroid UK again. It
Frank Paris wrote:
I always get them for CD players
because they invariably pay for themselves, because eventually the
manufacturers don't have the parts to fix the old machines when they
inevitably break and they have to replace them with a brand new one. I
invested $60 in (two) three
Edwin Eleazer wrote:
Service contracts generally seem bad value to me, as price must
be based on statistical
probabilities + a healthy profit element. My attitude is
generally to believe that the
company knows what it is doing, therefore I'd be more likely to
come out ahead if I
don't
, November 29, 2000 8:57 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: filmscanners: Polaroid SS4000 Extended Service Contracts
The fact that the service contract is so expensive tells you how reliable
Polaroid thinks these things are. I have a similar contract for my
Cornerstone p1700 21" monitor,
The fact that the service contract is so expensive tells you how reliable
Polaroid thinks these things are. I have a similar contract for my
Cornerstone p1700 21" monitor, which costs almost as much as the SS4000. The
price of the contract? $35.
Yeah, but fixing a monitor will usually be a
Service contracts generally seem bad value to me, as price must
be based on statistical
probabilities + a healthy profit element. My attitude is
generally to believe that the
company knows what it is doing, therefore I'd be more likely to
come out ahead if I
don't buy the contract g.
: Thursday, November 30, 2000 3:46 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: filmscanners: Polaroid SS4000 Extended Service Contracts
The fact that the service contract is so expensive tells you
how reliable
Polaroid thinks these things are. I have a similar contract for my
Cornerstone p1700 21
Eleazer
Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 5:50 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: filmscanners: Polaroid SS4000 Extended Service Contracts
Service contracts generally seem bad value to me, as price must
be based on statistical
probabilities + a healthy profit element. My attitude
Today I got my scanner back -- Polaroid shipped it to me exactly 3
weeks after they had recieved it. In the meantime I have scanned about
50 rolls of film using the loaner they sent me because I subscribed to
the "Gold" extended service contract. $250/year is a noticeable hunk of
change, but
The replacement loaner scanner arrived Monday, 9:30am and is busily
scanning away.
The people at Polaroid have been responsive and helpful, but seem
overworked. It often takes 3-4 hours for them to return a call, and
sometimes that is well after their nominal quitting time (Polaroid
evidently
a
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From: JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: filmscanners: Polaroid SS4000 Extended Service Contracts
Date: Saturday, November 04, 2000 8:26 AM
Dana,
Can you point me to where I can find more info on 'Polaroid
Gold service contracts'. Given that my ss4000 failed 4 m
: filmscanners: Polaroid SS4000 Extended Service Contracts
Date: Thursday, November 02, 2000 5:00 PM
Have you/can you try with Vuescan as well as Insight. Or delete and
reinstall Insight (it dislikes installs over the top). Just in case the
software is implicated.
Regards
Tony Sleep
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post-haste.
The adventure continues,
--Dana
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From: Dana Trout [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: filmscanners [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: filmscanners: Polaroid SS4000 Extended Service Contracts
Date: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 5:36 PM
Well, I had tried similar things for days, but just to be sure (and
whi
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