This mail comes to you from a very disgruntled SAMSUNG customer who is currently going through the feeling of `having got conned' into buying a product that claimed to be superior in quality.
This refers to the SAMSUNG 42 E7SX - XTL plasma that I purchased 22 months ago from my regular dealer . Its serial no is AEKB31IL400048H.
At the time of purchase, I had gone through the brochures of various plasmas and saw that Samsung claimed that with new technology their panel's life was 60, 000 hours as opposed to the normal 40, 000 hours that other panels had. Since I was quite happy with the picture quality and trusted the SAMSUNG brand name, I bought the same, emptying my pockets of Rs. 1, 20, 000/-.
After a year and ten months o[censored]sing it at an average of 3 hrs every evening and taking great care of the Plasma (protecting from dust by always keeping windows shut and from moisture), I discovered a single black line about 4 inches from the bottom of the screen. So I contacted my `Samsung Home Doctor' and he came home to check the set. He told me either it was a PCB problem or a panel problem. After a few days, he got the PCB, opened the set, replaced the PCB and checked the set again, the line was still there. He told me that `the panel had failed'. When I asked him what that meant, he said that there was no way to correct the line and that I would need to replace the entire panel at a cost of approx Rs.40, 000/-. Also, since the set had completed a year, it was no longer under warranty so I would have to pay for it.
You can imagine my shock at hearing this. Being a movie buff, I had used all my resources to buy this supposedly `longer lasting PDP' whose panel had a life of 60, 000 hrs and now it had gone Kaput in just 2000 hrs ! And I could do nothing since it was out of warranty.
I felt HELPLESS and CHEATED . CONNED perhaps, is the right word.
For the Samsung AC, there is a 1 yr warranty, but the compressor (the heart of the AC) has a 5 yr warranty. However, for the panel (the heart of the PDP), there is no extended warranty. Isn't that great ? I think that it is `convenient' and they do not offer any such thing because you know that it will not last long.
Thing is, I have a product now that has been manufactured by SAMSUNG that has `not even come close' to what it claimed to be in terms of performance and I feel that I have been `palmed off' a sub –standard product at a whopping cost of Rs. 1.2 lakhs which is a lot of money for me.
It’s a week now since I have mailed them at support.[protected]@samsung.com and the service in charge but other than a `we will get back to you’, there has been no reply.
First you get frustrated with the product and now the service.
This is SAMSUNG for you.
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Thanks