Wow. There’s no other word coming out of my mouth when I think about what just happened with my Dell 2707WFP (look for it using the “StuFF mc (loves) Dell Monitors” link on the left…) being literally *replaced* for 1 USB port not working properly. It blows me away how the whole process was easy… Read on…
I bought the monitor in March 2007. A few months later I realized one of the side USB port was broken. Actually I never saw something like that happen, 2 of the 4 “pins” where pushed inside, making this port unusable. Not a big deal, since I really don’t use those ports, so I let it like that, thinking “you’ve got to call Dell before the monitor is one year old”. Of course, I forgot… But hey, not a problem, because after discussing about it in the last french “Pom Pom Pom Pom” with my mate Carlito (thanks, buddy!), it turns out those things (like many others) have 2 years warranty!
Still, I was saying to carlito “Yeah but I’ve got to call one of those expensive numbers…” since I was so used to Apple’s way of doing after sale “services” (I don’t call it a service anymore when you have to pay for the damn thing to be repaired/replaced). Carlito then said “No no, it’s a free number, and they even have a contact form or e-mail”.
Wow, an E-mail, you mean, like, something I actually can WRITE, instead of CALL. I’m so used to “Please press Cmd Option P R, it’s probably your PRAM…” that I actually forgot they are some company out there doing it smarter… So I write to Dell, a few hours later they ask me my serial number and a few simple questions, and on the next day they let me know a transport company will come and REPLACE the monitor…
Yeah, you read it right… They completely REPLACED the Monitor… For a simple USB port… Wow, wow, wow… I mean, I’m sorry, but with Apple, it would have meant using my 17″ for a few days, if not weeks. I’m sorry if some of you guys might feel bad about me being so nice about Dell and so bad with Apple, but the facts are here.
So once again, to be clear, they still do PCs, not running OS X, so I’m not gonna buy them a computer. But as for the rest, yeah, defintely… My next printer might be from Dell, if it’s the same experience when you have a problem… And, fasten your seat belts, if Cupertino allow them to run OS X, I’m not even sure I would still buy Macs ;-)
And now go ahead, flame me on the comments, blame me, on the boggie ;) One last word, for both Apple and Dell (and Microsoft sometime): I.love.those.companies ;) – just for different reasons, and don’t ask me to become an extremist and “choose” one of them…