Item being sold/bought: HUAWEI E372 USB Dongle Modem (DC-HSPA+ Ready)
Original thread link: http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/621166
Date of transaction: 31/7/12
Details of the complaint :
30/7
i called her up via phone to ask for price, stock, and CoD arrangement etcs. Everything went smooth no fishy here.
31/7
i rang her again to confirm the cod in my place and she say she'll send her boy over to get the deal done. So around 11am, her boy come over and give me a call ask me to meet him. During the meeting, he showed me the RM400 Huawei E372 modem set and started a conversation with me. After that, he showed me another E372 and claim it is slightly cheaper at RM390 because of the box is not in good condition and blah. So after some consideration since only the box is a bit off shaped and he confirm it is 100% new and working like the RM400. I am a consumer so i decided to get the RM390 based on his words. Right after get the modem, i sent it out to my friend in Sarawak via Poslaju with a EXTRA sized box and properly cushioned packaging(i ship DSLR camera to everywhere in my business).
2/8
My friend called me up and say the modem is not working. now i feel bad because i did not try it before i send to Sarawak, i started to feel fishy. So i asked my friend whats the problem and my friend tell me that the modem software keep on showing "invalid sim card" error. So immediately i called up, Andrewdavid's eStore and seek for help.
At the very beginning of the conversation she blame for my friend sim card is not compatible. so I asked my friend to try with Celcome, DIGI and MAXIS sim cards to ensure it is not the problem. So, right after that she blame that my friend might flashed the firmware of the usb modem, and i told her that she dun even know how to do online transaction and u expecting she know how to flash a usb modem? So at the end, I say i will ask my friend to send me back the modem and i going to go to her place and let her check it out.
4/8
I got the modem in the afternoon, and i rang her up i will be in her place around 1pm.
Reached her store, i bring the modem into her shop and she started testing it after some time she show me the screen and she claim that she manage to connect to the internet using her own Celcom simcard. Then i asked to test a few more simcard to ensure the thing is really in working condition, so i pop out my iphone's digi sim, and my ipad's maxis sim and pass to her for testing. Then after trying with my digi sim, the software showing the exact same error msg my friend complaining to me. Then she try to take out my simcard from modem, but it seem a bit difficult to take out because she try to bend my simcard just to get it out. And right after that, she started to react quite weird in my point of view, she started to her working come over and c the modem and say that the sim tray pin is bended because of micro sim etcs and keep on showing me and ask me to c myself of all this sort of thing and just keep saying the micro sim damage the tray etcs and tell me what her customer break others e372 antenna port in 3days etcs which all doesn't really relate to my problem.
==== Highlight number 1. she trying to turn my problem into another sim tray problem? or what her intention? ====
==== Highlight number 2, my friend is using a full sized MAXIS sim card =======
This i told her, but just because i give her a digi micro sim, she blame everything on the micro sim. Just try to be gentlemen in front of this lady, i say alright y not we try others full size sim from others telco? and she answer me that she dun have any others telco sim bside Celcom, so i say it doesn't matter since she say she have no others telco simcard, i say y not try a few more times with celcoms simcard in and out to ensure not the so called sim tray problem she mention. Then she pop in her celcom simcard again and the error exist. She tried another time and the same thing happen, then she ask me to leave the modem with her for further investigation.
==== Highlight 3, i start to feel fishy about this person, because i question her that she only put in the micro-sim for 1 times that the whole thing banded? and she confidently say yes, and she say she encounter this problem a lots of times alrdy.(if she encounter it a lots of times, why din she tell me before she try my simcard?). But since she wanted a further investigation so i left my modem with her.
6/8
She called me and tell me that she confirm the modem is faulty and she say there will be a replacement unit for me and ask me go to her place and collect myself.
BUT she say she can only replace a OEM "3" E372 for me (OEM "3" E372 only selling at RM350 by herself, aka i will lost 40 bucks just because of her so called warranty scheme)
or i top up 10 bucks to make the total price back to RM400 and i entitle for a Huawei E372 ( i feel this is totally stupid, u give me discounted price to get an items and now because of warranty the items u wan me pay back the full price? )
So i say i dun mind to pay for it although it look stupid i pay money for warranty, but i request her to send me back the items. but she reply a NO, if i wan them to ship me back the items where her boy can reach me by motorbike within 5 to 10 min she ask for another RM10 charges.
My Conclusion and suspect.
i suspect originally the so call "bad shaped box E372" is a problem unit with banded pin ( as i does not any how believe the pin can just band by her just like that in front of her customer,me)
i also suspecting they r just trying their best to sell of the "bad shaped box E372" to reduce losses to hope customer who bought it doesn't know(the things work once a while according to the test she done in front of me).
and most important their so call "discount" just in case your items is faulty they will use all sort of excuses just to get back the full price before they proceed with the warranty. ( she tell me to claim from huawei myself if i do not intended to pay for the price different)
Conclusion this seller is all attempt to earn every single cents from you and try to wipe their @ss and run away from their responsibility or their so call warranty.
Complaint
- She trying to fraud a deal (maybe? or alteast i feel so)
- She trying to escape from warranty ( ask me to claim myself from huawei if i dun pay for the full price)
- She trying to run away from responsible ( as what she say she banded my sim tray pin, that her fault not mine)
ps. i'll send a pm to notify her about this report. and prepare her to come here and push away all her responsibility
Some of the contain in the claims above is base on my personal feeling and observation, it might not the real intention of the seller.
This post has been edited by Mr.Lonely: Aug 6 2012, 02:40 PM
Aug 6 2012, 02:38 PM, updated 14y ago
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