After getting no where and extremely frustrated with Sony's Customer Service personnel, Veronica decided to do some checking on one of those huge social networking sites that she belongs to.
After doing some research, Veronica found one of the top people that run Sony and she decided to leave a message on his "wall" and after he accepted her as his friend and reading what she wrote, things began to happen rather quickly.
Within 24 hours, Veronica got a call from a Sony Supervisor in charge of Social Media and Post Sales Support and Promotions.
After exchanging a few emails, along with providing Sony personnel with a copy of our invoice from our broken cameras repair at Precision Camera, we were afforded several options.
One option was to trade our camera in for a new one...an even trade with no additional money coming out of our pockets. Unfortunately I found the new camera being offered to us was less of a camera, as far as features are concerned, than the one we currently have.
I really didn't like the thought of trading down. I knew that if I did that, I would regret it for a long time.
The 2nd option was to upgrade to a better camera and apply what our camera was worth towards the purchase of a new camera. I knew that it was going to cost us a few dollars but the camera that we are getting is twice the camera that we currently have and we were getting it at a really great price. Although this new camera is a real upgrade, it still has many of the features that our current camera has and ones that we are familiar with. The learning curve to use the upgraded features should not be too steep since we are familiar with this style of camera.
What we decided on getting is the very recently released Sony Cyber-shot® Digital Camera DSC-HX100V
We are really excited about getting this camera. We should be able to preserve some great memories with this beauty.
It really is amazing at some of the things that this camera is capable of doing plus I really like the fact that it is a 16.2 mega pixel camera and has a 27mm equivalent wide angle lens and 30x Optical Zoom lens...
•Focal Length (35mm equivalent) : Still 16:9: 29-870mm, Still 4:3: 27-810mm, Movie 16:9: 29-870mm (Standard mode), 30-900mm (Active mode), Movie 4:3: 36-1080mm (Standard mode), 37-1110mm (Active mode)
This is easily twice the capabilities of our old camera.
Although our initial contact with various customer service personnel was less than desirable, once we were able to get our issues to a higher authority and an upper level Supervisor, our outcome was a very satisfactory one for Veronica and I. Thank You to those that made this positive outcome happen.
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They Sure Don't Make Things The Way They Used To - Sony
In December of 2008, 2 1/2 years ago, I bought Veronica a Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-H50 Digital camera.
I purchased this camera based on brand name along with the numerous features that were built into the camera. I did a lot of research before making this purchase through an online retailer called Abes Of Maine.
Veronica and I have made many purchases of Sony products over the last couple of decades, including but not limited to televisions, dvd players, cd players, blue ray player, receivers and speakers, 5.1 channel home theater in a box and a camera.
For us Sony has always been synonymous with high quality products. At least they were until the purchase of this camera.
I gave this camera to Veronica as a Christmas gift.
The camera worked fine until about 6-7 months ago. It was at this time that Veronica and I noticed these horizontal lines going across a portion of the photos that were taken.
After doing some research, we sent the camera to an authorized Sony camera repair business.... Precision Camera This repair business has been doing camera repairs since 1948.
I did as they instructed to get the camera repaired, which included a check for $120.95 A couple of weeks later we received the camera back and it was working great.
Approximately 3 months ago, while Veronica and I were out in Las Vegas, we started having a different problem with the camera.
This time the camera seemed to be totally out of sync. I could turn the camera on and the lens would expand out like it should. But when I turned the camera off, the lens would not return back into the camera body.
I had to keep turning the camera on and off until the camera would sync with the lens and the lens would return to its camera off position.
This happened numerous times and basically made the camera unusable until I could get it to get in sync with itself.
We also had another problem with this camera, we would press the button to turn the camera on and instead of the camera turning on and extending the lens like it normally does, the initial camera splash screen would quickly show up in the LCD screen and then disappear. Basically, We could not gets this camera to turn on at times thus making it useless.
Since we had already spent $120.95 to have the camera repaired several months earlier, for a totally different problem, we did not feel that we should spend additional money on getting it repaired for the 2nd time.
We would have been spending a total of $250.00 on camera repairs, for a camera that cost us less than $400.00.
The cost of the camera does not include the extra 5 batteries and additional chargers that was purchased for the use of this camera nor does it include the cost of numerous extra SD cards, a nice Sony camera bag or various lens ring adapters along with various lenses, such as a UV lens, a macro lens to name just a couple.
Veronica sent out a letter to Sony explaining what was going on with the camera and wrote basically everything that I have written for this blog entry.
While we were gone for the last 3 days, a Sony representative has called the house, left their name, return telephone number along with a reference number.
Veronica spent a majority of today returning these calls and trying to get someone to actually act like they cared about what was going on with our camera.
All of her attempts were futile.
Veronica spoke to 3 separate customer service individuals and sadly none of them acted like they cared, told her that there was nothing that they could do for her and when asked by Veronica, each refused to pass her call up to a manager or someone at a higher level than they were.
One of the Customer Service Reps took down Veronica's home number so that a Senior Customer Service Rep could call her back and discuss the issue with her. After Veronica waited 8 hours for this Senior Customer Service Rep to call her and not getting a return telephone call, Veronica called Customer Service back again. Veronica was told that they did not have her home telephone number on file and that was why she did not get a call.
And during each of these conversations with Customer Service personnel, Veronica made sure that each Sony Customer Service Representative that she spoke to understood that she was not asking for a refund, that she was not asking for a new camera but all that she was asking for was for Sony to stand behind the product that they sold us and make the proper repairs so that we could once again enjoy the use of this camera.
Unfortunately, none of the Sony Customer Service Representatives seemed to care much about the camera nor Veronica as a consumer.
Needless to say, this has left us with a rather negative consumer opinion towards Sony, their products and especially their customer service personnel.
What ever happened to the Sony Company of days gone by. A company that made great products and stood behind those products...a company that cared and valued their customers.
Where is the old Sony company that I used to know and trust. It surely would be a shame if it was gone for good.
I purchased this camera based on brand name along with the numerous features that were built into the camera. I did a lot of research before making this purchase through an online retailer called Abes Of Maine.
Veronica and I have made many purchases of Sony products over the last couple of decades, including but not limited to televisions, dvd players, cd players, blue ray player, receivers and speakers, 5.1 channel home theater in a box and a camera.
For us Sony has always been synonymous with high quality products. At least they were until the purchase of this camera.
I gave this camera to Veronica as a Christmas gift.
The camera worked fine until about 6-7 months ago. It was at this time that Veronica and I noticed these horizontal lines going across a portion of the photos that were taken.
After doing some research, we sent the camera to an authorized Sony camera repair business.... Precision Camera This repair business has been doing camera repairs since 1948.
I did as they instructed to get the camera repaired, which included a check for $120.95 A couple of weeks later we received the camera back and it was working great.
Approximately 3 months ago, while Veronica and I were out in Las Vegas, we started having a different problem with the camera.
This time the camera seemed to be totally out of sync. I could turn the camera on and the lens would expand out like it should. But when I turned the camera off, the lens would not return back into the camera body.
I had to keep turning the camera on and off until the camera would sync with the lens and the lens would return to its camera off position.
This happened numerous times and basically made the camera unusable until I could get it to get in sync with itself.
We also had another problem with this camera, we would press the button to turn the camera on and instead of the camera turning on and extending the lens like it normally does, the initial camera splash screen would quickly show up in the LCD screen and then disappear. Basically, We could not gets this camera to turn on at times thus making it useless.
Since we had already spent $120.95 to have the camera repaired several months earlier, for a totally different problem, we did not feel that we should spend additional money on getting it repaired for the 2nd time.
We would have been spending a total of $250.00 on camera repairs, for a camera that cost us less than $400.00.
The cost of the camera does not include the extra 5 batteries and additional chargers that was purchased for the use of this camera nor does it include the cost of numerous extra SD cards, a nice Sony camera bag or various lens ring adapters along with various lenses, such as a UV lens, a macro lens to name just a couple.
Veronica sent out a letter to Sony explaining what was going on with the camera and wrote basically everything that I have written for this blog entry.
While we were gone for the last 3 days, a Sony representative has called the house, left their name, return telephone number along with a reference number.
Veronica spent a majority of today returning these calls and trying to get someone to actually act like they cared about what was going on with our camera.
All of her attempts were futile.
Veronica spoke to 3 separate customer service individuals and sadly none of them acted like they cared, told her that there was nothing that they could do for her and when asked by Veronica, each refused to pass her call up to a manager or someone at a higher level than they were.
One of the Customer Service Reps took down Veronica's home number so that a Senior Customer Service Rep could call her back and discuss the issue with her. After Veronica waited 8 hours for this Senior Customer Service Rep to call her and not getting a return telephone call, Veronica called Customer Service back again. Veronica was told that they did not have her home telephone number on file and that was why she did not get a call.
And during each of these conversations with Customer Service personnel, Veronica made sure that each Sony Customer Service Representative that she spoke to understood that she was not asking for a refund, that she was not asking for a new camera but all that she was asking for was for Sony to stand behind the product that they sold us and make the proper repairs so that we could once again enjoy the use of this camera.
Unfortunately, none of the Sony Customer Service Representatives seemed to care much about the camera nor Veronica as a consumer.
Needless to say, this has left us with a rather negative consumer opinion towards Sony, their products and especially their customer service personnel.
What ever happened to the Sony Company of days gone by. A company that made great products and stood behind those products...a company that cared and valued their customers.
Where is the old Sony company that I used to know and trust. It surely would be a shame if it was gone for good.
I Have Arrived And It Is Great
I have finally arrived into the 21st century. A little slow I realize but at least I finally got here.
I remember the days when the first 8 track players came out and how great I thought they were.
When I was younger, I used to flip through a Radio Shack and marvel at the radio and stereo reciever kits that you could put together...I think one of the brands was Heath, and I would imagine me being able to have enough money to purchase a really nice stereo system...at least what was nice way back when.
Then in my teens I remember working in a department store called Woolco. It was similar to KMart.
When I first started there, I worked in the major Appliance Department.
That is when I first got introduced to "quadrophonic" stereo systems.
Back in those days, we used to be able to turn up the volume really high in our department. So high that you could feel the bass and here the music blasting as you walked through the front doors of the department.
We were long a haired ballsy group of teens back then.
Boy have the decades changed us.....now we walk around with short gray hair...unless we have decided to color it and the only way of blasting music so that we don't offend others, is by turning up the hearing aid.
Ahh yes...times have changed.
But the changes have also made their way into the electronics world and I have been slowly catching up to these amazing changes.
After hearing about these Blu-ray players and visually marvelling at how fantastic they perform at any local Best Buy that I might come across, we finally broke down and bought one a couple of months ago.
Just recently I bought our first Blu-ray dvd to play on our new Sony Blu-ray player.
The dvd is Avatar.
As they write in the texting world......OMG!!!!
The colors and the clarity was unbelievable.
Since first playing that dvd a few weeks ago, I did some exploring of this Sony Blu-Ray player.
As it turns out, if you have a wireless internet connection..which we do...and you have a fast enough internet connection...which we do...then you can access different venues to watch movies from.
I can watch whatever YouTube videos I want, I can access and rent or purchase downloadable movies from Amazons dvd library and just recently, I found out that I can join Netflix and utilize this Sone Blu-ray player to watch whatever dvd's that they carry..
I joined Netflix and for about $10 a month, I can watch as many movies both in HD and in the Blu-ray version as I want to via my blu-ray player. I also can have them send me 1 dvd through the mail...when I am done with it, I mail it back and they send me the next one that is in the queue that I set up online.
My blu-ray player wirelessly hooks up to the internet and the Netflix web site and I can pick a movie and within a minute or so, I can bask in the 21st century electronic world.
I can go online to the Netflix web site and choose whatever movies that I want to watch in the future and put them in my "queue".
When I turn on my tv and the blu-ray player, I have all of the movies that I chose, listed in my queue and waiting for me to pick from.
Some of the movies are in HD and some are in blu-ray format....all streamed to my blu-ray player via our wireless internet connection.
After choosing one to watch, I click a few buttons on my remote and within a minute or so, I am basking in the enjoyment of just a small portion of 21st century electronics.
I realize that many of you reading this are probably chuckling to yourself because I am making a big deal out of technology that has been around for a bit, but for this old dinosaur, this stuff is a big thing.
And to think that I have only scratched the surface of what technology is available out there.
But for now, let me catch my breath for a minute...allow me to grab a T-Rex leg bone to gnaw on as a little movie snack....give me a second to get comfortable in my granite and boulder man chair, that is in the living room of my man cave and enjoy a movie on this electronic marvel that they call a blu-ray player.
Maybe tomorrow I will venture out to see what other fantastic things have been invented.
But for now....UUuuugggg!!!!....this is the life.
I remember the days when the first 8 track players came out and how great I thought they were.
When I was younger, I used to flip through a Radio Shack and marvel at the radio and stereo reciever kits that you could put together...I think one of the brands was Heath, and I would imagine me being able to have enough money to purchase a really nice stereo system...at least what was nice way back when.
Then in my teens I remember working in a department store called Woolco. It was similar to KMart.
When I first started there, I worked in the major Appliance Department.
That is when I first got introduced to "quadrophonic" stereo systems.
Back in those days, we used to be able to turn up the volume really high in our department. So high that you could feel the bass and here the music blasting as you walked through the front doors of the department.
We were long a haired ballsy group of teens back then.
Boy have the decades changed us.....now we walk around with short gray hair...unless we have decided to color it and the only way of blasting music so that we don't offend others, is by turning up the hearing aid.
Ahh yes...times have changed.
But the changes have also made their way into the electronics world and I have been slowly catching up to these amazing changes.
After hearing about these Blu-ray players and visually marvelling at how fantastic they perform at any local Best Buy that I might come across, we finally broke down and bought one a couple of months ago.
Just recently I bought our first Blu-ray dvd to play on our new Sony Blu-ray player.
The dvd is Avatar.
As they write in the texting world......OMG!!!!
The colors and the clarity was unbelievable.
Since first playing that dvd a few weeks ago, I did some exploring of this Sony Blu-Ray player.
As it turns out, if you have a wireless internet connection..which we do...and you have a fast enough internet connection...which we do...then you can access different venues to watch movies from.
I can watch whatever YouTube videos I want, I can access and rent or purchase downloadable movies from Amazons dvd library and just recently, I found out that I can join Netflix and utilize this Sone Blu-ray player to watch whatever dvd's that they carry..
I joined Netflix and for about $10 a month, I can watch as many movies both in HD and in the Blu-ray version as I want to via my blu-ray player. I also can have them send me 1 dvd through the mail...when I am done with it, I mail it back and they send me the next one that is in the queue that I set up online.
My blu-ray player wirelessly hooks up to the internet and the Netflix web site and I can pick a movie and within a minute or so, I can bask in the 21st century electronic world.
I can go online to the Netflix web site and choose whatever movies that I want to watch in the future and put them in my "queue".
When I turn on my tv and the blu-ray player, I have all of the movies that I chose, listed in my queue and waiting for me to pick from.
Some of the movies are in HD and some are in blu-ray format....all streamed to my blu-ray player via our wireless internet connection.
After choosing one to watch, I click a few buttons on my remote and within a minute or so, I am basking in the enjoyment of just a small portion of 21st century electronics.
I realize that many of you reading this are probably chuckling to yourself because I am making a big deal out of technology that has been around for a bit, but for this old dinosaur, this stuff is a big thing.
And to think that I have only scratched the surface of what technology is available out there.
But for now, let me catch my breath for a minute...allow me to grab a T-Rex leg bone to gnaw on as a little movie snack....give me a second to get comfortable in my granite and boulder man chair, that is in the living room of my man cave and enjoy a movie on this electronic marvel that they call a blu-ray player.
Maybe tomorrow I will venture out to see what other fantastic things have been invented.
But for now....UUuuugggg!!!!....this is the life.
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