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Hi Folks and Seasons greetings

 

I'm not sure if this is the right forum for the question: how I make sure that his situation is cut and dried; and I get a refund!

 

In short:-

 

I ordered a new laptop from the manufacturers website on 25th November.

Ostensibly it was a bespoke order as I added extended warranty; it was shipped from China.

According to the website, the product was shipping in 2 weeks.

After 2 weeks or so; I called to find that the new shipping date was end Jan; I cancelled the order.

The Order was shipped just over a week ago with an aknowledgement that it had been cancelled - along with some instructions of how to return the goods to get my refund; advising to accept delivery otherwise the refund may be delayed.

The shiny new (quite dull actually) tipped up on Xmas eve - I couldn't resist opening it.

Now the following problems have surfaced which I believe make the thing not fit for purpose... the problem is with this stuff is it can be a bit of a grey area as to whether or not something works - or should be given the opportunity to be fixed....

 

I went for the convertible laptop - that is I should be able to use it as either a laptop or a windows 8 touchscreen tablet.

 

From the word go the rotation got mixed up - and the screen is now stuck in the very difficult to use position; upside down for typing.... In tablet mode -holding the thing makes it completely unpredictable.... the pressure of holding it at the sides seemes to do things with the touch screen other than the things that I want it to do.

 

I'm sorry about sounding like an engineer - I should sum up by saying that the PC has substantial and very niggly issues which, I expect in the fullness of time, could be fixed. I'm not happy with persevering as these product features weren't pointed out to me when I ordered the thing (which came especially from China).... I am also not being paid to beta test the products.

 

So - what does the team think is the best approach for returning it.... Is the above a good case or should I just return it with fingerprints - I suspect that will invalidate the cancellation though?

 

I suspect you may have some questions - if you've managed to read this far....

 

Kind regards and you help is much appreciated - Andy.

 

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ok so...

 

have you or not actually been refunded yet

for the lappy that was delivered outside of contract

and having been cancelled?

 

and what were these 'special return instructions?'

 

dx

please don't hit Quote...just type we know what we said earlier..

DCA's view debtors as suckers, marks and mugs

NO DCA has ANY legal powers whatsoever on ANY debt no matter what it's Type

and they

are NOT and can NEVER  be BAILIFFS. even if a debt has been to court..

If everyone stopped blindly paying DCA's Tomorrow, their industry would collapse overnight... 

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