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Old 05-20-06, 02:24 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Mad PNY Memory Sucks

I recently bought a 1g PNY SD card for my Axim. As much as it pains me to say, there have been no problems with the card. Why does it pain me? Because, PNY welched on the rebate. I bought the card at CompUSA where they print our the rebate form and the receipt on one slip, yet PNY claimed that I did not submit a receipt. Bullshit! I've never had a company welch on a rebate before, so PNY has lost a customer for life.
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Old 05-20-06, 02:26 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Tough luck man. I guess next time buy from some bigger manufacturers...
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Your title is a bit off..

The memory is good, it's the company that is bad.... :D













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Old 05-20-06, 04:17 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Did you make photocopies of everything you sent in? I believe mail in rebates are a scam for many reasons, however, in the rare event I buy something with one, I make sure to document and copy everything. Also, it's generally not the manufacturer that administers the rebates but a 3rd party company that's hired to do so. Pny hired another company to tell you you didn't send in your form. Now you can hate Pny and the other company.
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Did you get a phone number/e-mail address with your rebate denial? If you can track one down, contact them (maybe start with the PNY website). Its worth a call/e-mail. After all, "the customer is always right".
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Originally Posted by NoWire
Your title is a bit off..

The memory is good, it's the company that is bad.... :D
not entirely true.

my PNY 256mb sd card has corrupted twice for no apparent reason. my kingston has been a champ for longer than i've owned the PNY card.

PNY has not impressed me in any way, shape, or form.
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Old 05-21-06, 02:37 AM   #7 (permalink)
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This is odd / funny looking back. The very first compact flash card that I bought was from crucial.com -- back in the day when they were still a cool company to buy RAM from. The CF card was for my top of the line, state of the art, Canon Digital Elph S250. Yeah, who remembers those days?

The card would corrupt about every 15th image, and though I knew it was the CF card's problem I assumed it was a natural part of every CF card. It wasn't until I lost that CF card along with the camera holding the CF card that I learned better. Ever since then I have not gone back to crucial for RAM or CF.

My newest card acquisition is a 2GB 133x made by Corsair. The first one I bought had a faulty read / write switch. I exchanged that for a second one which I'm still using. However, this second one is falling apart with all the plastic around the contacts simply flaking off. This is after 3 months of use.

The moral is that bad cards probably happen all the time, and it really sucks to have a bad card, and it's good that we each avoid companies because of it -- it means that these companies will clean up their act for the benefit of other customers.

So cross-off Crucial and Corsair from your buying considerations as well.
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This is odd / funny looking back. The very first compact flash card that I bought was from crucial.com -- back in the day when they were still a cool company to buy RAM from. The CF card was for my top of the line, state of the art, Canon Digital Elph S250. Yeah, who remembers those days?

The card would corrupt about every 15th image, and though I knew it was the CF card's problem I assumed it was a natural part of every CF card. It wasn't until I lost that CF card along with the camera holding the CF card that I learned better. Ever since then I have not gone back to crucial for RAM or CF.

My newest card acquisition is a 2GB 133x made by Corsair. The first one I bought had a faulty read / write switch. I exchanged that for a second one which I'm still using. However, this second one is falling apart with all the plastic around the contacts simply flaking off. This is after 3 months of use.

The moral is that bad cards probably happen all the time, and it really sucks to have a bad card, and it's good that we each avoid companies because of it -- it means that these companies will clean up their act for the benefit of other customers.

So cross-off Crucial and Corsair from your buying considerations as well.
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Hmm

Originally Posted by greytrev
not entirely true.

my PNY 256mb sd card has corrupted twice for no apparent reason. my kingston has been a champ for longer than i've owned the PNY card.

PNY has not impressed me in any way, shape, or form.
I'm referring to the situation at hand...

Although, I do own couple of sticks of PNY on my computer, and they work.













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