Fwd: CD player not to buy

[Chris Dyer]

I've never liked Blaupunkt products--very poor quality IMO. Alpine and Sony 
have served me well for car stereo.

>From: Mike Arman <armanmik at n-jcenter.com>
>To: <quattro at audifans.com>
>Subject: CD player not to buy
>Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 09:42:47
>
>
>In response to the lister who inquired about what brand of CD player to
>look at:
>
>I have a Blaupunkt AM-FM-CD player with removable faceplate, model ACD
>2900, and it is in an 86 5Ks.
>
>It is about a year and a half old, and for the past nine months has
>exhibited a strange quirk - it won't turn off! From time to time, even
>after turning off the ignition and removing the faceplate, the device keeps
>playing merrily on, and eventually, this kills the battery in the car
>(which can be annoying, to say the least!).
>
>I've discovered that hitting the "reset" button (under the faceplate, use a
>paper-clip end), shuts it off, but of course that loses ALL the radio
>presets, tone, balance and loudness control settings, etc., and there are a
>LOT of them!
>
>I spoke to Blaupunkt about this shortly after it started happening, and was
>informed that "The unit is out of warranty, and is essentially
>unrepairable. You'll need to buy a new unit, preferably a more expensive
>Blaupunkt. After all, the one you bought is just an entry level unit, so
>what do you expect?"
>
>
>Well what I *expect* is for the unit to work properly, and not crap out 15
>seconds after the warranty expires (let alone evidencing the problem before
>the warranty is up!)
>
>I *bought* the damn thing, I didn't "rent" it!
>
>What I also expect is to indeed buy another, more expensive unit, but you
>can bet whatever portion of your anatomy you want that there is no way in
>hell it will ever be another Blaupunkt!
>
>Here is a perfect example of a big company trading on a reputation of "fine
>German engineering", and then when it comes apart anyway, totally evading
>all responsibility - sorry, your warranty expired ten minutes ago. Too bad.
>Buy another.
>
>No thanks. No more Blaupunkt for me. I won't buy from companies that don't
>stand behind their products.
>
>And YES, goddamn it, rant mode is ON! and will probably stay that way for a
>while . . .
>
>Best Regards,
>
>Mike Arman
>

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