On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 20:34 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > I remember one who worked on the gear at FAU back in the dark ages > who would scratch his initials on every bad board he sent back to > be repaired at the factory. If he ever found his initials on a board > that needed to be sent back again, it would have a shipping > accident instead of making it back for repair :-). I've had a similar experience with a bad microphone: I bought a kit of three for $1800 around a decade ago, and one of them was quite naff. So I sent it back for replacement, the replacement that came back was the one that I'd returned. It came back in the box with my gaffer tape still over the end, and the microphone inside the box was definitely the same one (it had a tiny, and very identifiable scratch, where nobody else would notice). Needless to say that the sales rep was highly embarrassed. -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
