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    • Hello all,   I ordered a laptop online about 16 months ago. The laptop was faulty and I was supposed to send it back within guarantee but didn't for various reasons. I contacted the company a few months later and they said they will still fix it for me free of charge but I'd have to pay to send it to them and they will pay to send it back to me. The parcel arrived there fine. Company had fixed it and they sent it via dpd. I was working in the office so I asked my neighbours who would be in, as there's been a history of parcel thefts on our street. I had 2 neighbours who offered but when I went to update delivery instructions, their door number wasn't on the drop down despite sharing the same post code.  I then selected a neighbour who I thought would likely be in and also selected other in the safe place selection and put the number of the neighbour who I knew would definitely be in and they left my parcel outside and the parcel was stolen. DPD didn't want to deal with me and said I need to speak to the retailer. The retailer said DPD have special instructions from them not to leave a parcel outside unless specified by a customer. The retailer then said they could see my instructions said leave in a safe space but I have no porch. My front door just opens onto the road and the driver made no attempt to conceal it.  Anyway, I would like to know if I have rights here because the delivery wasn't for an item that I just bought. It was initially delivered but stopped working within the warranty period and they agreed to fix it for free.  Appreciate your help 🙏🏼   Thanks!
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Hi Andy, thanks for the information, I will be sure to have a look at it once I receive a functioning PC back from PCW - unfortunately there is nothing there that will help my current situation though as the KNOWHOW team seem to incompetent to be able to see that there are problems with the PC from just looking at the Event Viewer.

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Well..to be fair, Event Viewer will always show lots of errors (the fake MS sc..ammers take advnatge of this in their phone calls), but BSOD/unexpected shutdowns should be viewed seriously, although occasionally ones could be ignored but regular ones will mean an underlying problem (investigating the error code and accomanying logs should help diagnose whether its software or hardware related.)

 

Heres a scenario Ive just thought of, I had a PC which would unexpectantly BSOD/Reboot all the time, closer investigation of Event Viewer showed it happened at regualy times, like 09:00 every day, it turned out it had twigged I was using a dodgy copy of Windows Home Server and the OS was instigating the BSOD/Shutdown every day ! (Some version of Windows do this if used outside the trial period).

 

This was not related to anything hardware and it was only by closely looking at EV that I was able to diagnose it.

 

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Ok Andy, I see that if the problem happened at 9:00am every time that would be a possibility however this is nothing like that - it can happen in the morning, afternoon or evening. I also don't have Windows Home Server on it and I have the original Windows 7 OS on it that came with the PC. Bear in mind also that I have restored the OS several times over the past years.

 

I have written a letter to the CEO and to Customer Services, in the hope that I will receive some sort of response from them. Thanks to rebel11for telling me the CEO's email address.

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Im not really suggesting that the scenario here but ist an example of how event viewer can help solve a problem without messing about with soak test and swapping ram, etc.

 

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Hi guys - QUICK UPDATE

 

I sent off a Formal Letter of Complaint to the CEO, Sebastian James, and to the Customer Service email address.

 

Well, I received a reply from Jon Dickinson, who told me that he was part of the Customer Action Team which replied under the CEO - he told me that he needed some more details and I gave them to him.

 

Today I received a phone call from him however I wasn't home at the time and will call him back today.

I also received an email today which stated that my PC could not be fixed as no fault had been found- AGAIN. He did say however that if the PC broke down again in the next 30 days I could return it and, provided a fault was found this time, I would get, most likely, a replacement in the form of vouchers or, occasionally, a reconditioned PC.

 

However, this time I had evidence to back my claim up.

 

Paul had kindly sent me the message he had received from a KNOWHOW engineer before I received the above message, which, stated:

 

"The engineers might not have been looking specifically blue screen symptoms. This is a highly intermittent error and I am not surprised a soak test didn't find any fault. Having said that, we have found hardware fault."

 

I replied to Jon Dickinson's email, stating that quite clearly a fault had been found this time, and as such I cannot accept the PC in its faulty state.

 

If Paul could help me with this, by telling Jon Dickinson himself that a hardware fault had been found by the KNOWHOW engineer Graham, I would appreciate it a lot.

 

Thanks in advance Paul for your help.

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I was thinking from the start that it was a hardware fault. Well done on getting official confirmation of it.

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Thank you - although I have to thank Paul the most for at least getting confirmation of the fault and for showing that I was not wrong to demand a replacement. Now I have to receive a reply from Jon and see what happens from there.

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Hi Meganium,

 

Thanks for getting back in contact with us. Jon sits just behind where I am so as soon as he comes in I will have a chat with him. I have forwarded the email that I sent to you to him.

 

I will have a chat with him and see what the best course of action could be. I will post back on here as soon as I have an update for you.

 

Also thank you for your kind words, it's always great to be able to help try and resolve an issue from start to finish.

 

All the best,

 

Paul

The KNOWHOW Team

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Jon Dickinson called me today, and explained that they were still trying to sort out what was going to happen to the PC, and that they were working towards a write-off.

Paul, could you ensure that, if the team says that "no faults were found" and that thus the PC has to be returned, that you tell Jon about the "hardware fault" confirmed by Graham, the engineer from the e-mail you sent me?

Thanks again.

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Hi Meganium,

 

I have passed your message to Jon for you.

 

All the best,

 

Paul

The KNOWHOW Team.

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