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Post by deewan on Jul 26, 2016 8:31:39 GMT -5
While, as you say, paperwork may have been a part of the AV123 company that Mark Shifter ran, I'd ask you if you kept any of your own receipts from your DMC-1 purchase. Personally I keep all of these types of receipts until I no longer have the item for whatever possible reason I'd need them for. Hopefully you have them in the original box or something like that. This is exactly what I was thinking. Hopefully you have your sales receipts so you can prove you purchased the gear. Like lcseminole I keep everything for purchases like this. Helps me recall what I paid and when I bought it if I ever go to sell the item. And in your case, it would help you prove you purchased the gear. It's not safe to depend on a seller to keep track of your purchases. I'm sure if you can prove to Emotiva you were the original owner and purchased the gear they will do something for you. If not, they have no idea if you bought it second hand off eBay. |
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Post by smooth on Jul 27, 2016 4:04:24 GMT -5
You could look at it from a variety of perspectives.
One perspective would be that things happen (you know, messy divorces, losing homes, pets eating things, etc), sometimes paper and/or the ink on paper don't make it through 10 years of life, or just plain laziness of not wanting to dig through the past decade of one's life searching for a scrap of paper that may or may not be at the bottom of any particular pile of whatever. Maybe this is a guy who has been around since the founding of the company and actually did buy specially released gear with pictures of the gear that include friends/family/founders etc. that would tend to lean toward the "claim" that he was indeed the original purchaser being believable.
Another perspective would be that some nefarious person created an account seven years ago but left it dormant in the hopes to lend credibility to his long-play of scamming a company out of $150 bucks. I guess the most logical follow-up to that would be asking what would prevent such a person from simply fabricating a receipt to obtain the desired result?
One way for a business to handle a situation like mine would be to resort to a formalistic, rule-bound interpretation of how things will be done. Yet, one could also argue that the infrequency of these kinds of events might allow for a wide-angle view and slight accommodations if warranted. Personally, I prefer rules be for protection but then I try really hard to make sure I'm actually accomplishing what I need to do without going overboard and harming the people I'm trying to protect. So while I get what you're getting at, there's obviously a far easier way for a criminally minded person to accomplish such a scam, which would tend to argue against it being one.
In any case, this is my last post in this thread about this issue. I merely saw the thread, vented because I had just gotten off the phone about it, and then responded to a few posts directed at me. I didn't mean to steer the thread away from the intended topic of discussion. My apologies to the thread starter for derailing the conversation.
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Post by inventor on Jul 27, 2016 8:15:49 GMT -5
Smooth,
no worries from me! in fact, the ONLY reason i still have my 40% off card is because i called Emotiva and B*****D a fit! i was so upset at them (insert a much meaner and dirtier word) because i got an email that said "Too Bad, So Sad" when i told them i never got my 40% card. i was floored! well, i didn't take no for an answer, i emailed back, and finally got someone higher up. it was a long email, but i accused the company of doing this on purpose. i told them, they sent that email to an email account i don't even have anymore with the instructions. i never knew the procedures and assumed that discount would be something a computer would track. well, i was wrong, they wanted the physical card you have to mail back to get the discount. oh man i was HOT! i went up 1 side and down the other about poor business model, practices, the illusion of deceit, and what ever else i could think of. now, i did this in a professional manner, didn't use any cuss words. in the end, i was awarded my 40% discount, and it would be tracked only in the computer, on my account. i can't officially sell my card (like others) because i don't have a card to sell. i can, but the gear, and transfer the warranty.
anyways, if anyone wants the know, the XMC-1 for $1K fell through. turns out the seller was a D-bag and was trying to hide the fact it made some rattling noise. it was basically "broke" and my buddy only found out because the seller was describing the unit and slipped and mentioned it either "pops", or "bangs", or possibly "rattles". in fact, all the gear he was trying to sell was in bad shape. the biggest red flag, a local buyer came over to look at the Klipsch he was selling (RF7II, RC64II, RS62II) and the seller was only asking $1500 or something like that. that buyer, WALKED! turns out the speakers were all kinds of scratched, huge cracks, etc.
so the adage is true again, "IF'S IT'S TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE, IT PROBABLY ISN'T!"
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Post by etc6849 on Jul 28, 2016 9:23:45 GMT -5
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Post by musicguy on Aug 5, 2016 0:04:43 GMT -5
Gen 2?
Anybody hear when the new HDMI 2.0 board will be released? Mid summer is past.
musicguy
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Post by inventor on Aug 8, 2016 5:53:15 GMT -5
there are 3 phases...
(phase 1)the HDMI board is available now, just the board.
(phase 2) the HDMI board will be swapped out in XMC's that are getting "upgraded"
(phase 3) the brand new XMC will have a brand new HDMI board.
i personally am waiting for phase 3. it should be less than a month now.
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Post by mgbpuff on Aug 8, 2016 6:50:09 GMT -5
If he is going to get a 90" TV, I assume that expensive TV will be capable of HDR and WGC. The current XMC-1 even with the HDMI 2.2 upgrade will not pass HDR, you need HDMI2.2a for that. It always pays to plan for the future, and that applies to Dolby Atmos also, which is a fantastic addition to a home theater.
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Post by inventor on Aug 8, 2016 10:58:59 GMT -5
no, he (smartly) is not going the 90" route. he's getting a fixed curved projection screen and a projector. i almost thought he was going to get a 4K projector, but right now they are $8K. i suggested the Panasonic one, forgot the model number, but it's the very popular one and is around $1700.
he was very impressed with the Oppo 103D Darbee Edition player though! i told him the new Samsung SUHD tvs are just now coming out with that larger color range. now he wants to get the Darbee module for each Bluray player!
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Post by jagman on Aug 30, 2016 1:20:48 GMT -5
Why are they only upgrading it to HDMI2.2 and not HDMI2.2a? Doesn't make any sense.
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