Duckster
Tour Rookie
Ordered a little action cam thing through Amazon about a month ago. One of the SJ Cam 4000's. Got good reviews online, cheap as chips, so thought it'd be perfect for what I needed (just to make golfing dvd of our upcoming Scotland trip).
Turns up on Wednesday from China so I had a quick look over it, very quick test and everything seems all tickety boo.
Anyway, had a proper look at it last night, tried to update the firmware and it fails. Took it out for a proper video test and the picture is flaming awful. Very pixelated, only outputs an avi fil not mov like it should and it's closer to being an etch-a-sketch than 1080p!
Just gutted! Complaint email sent off to Amazon and the vendor (UKVALWORLD - Do Not Use these, they've started getting lots of bad reviews after I'd already purchased) asking for a refund. How would I stand for the refund, would it be like buying something from an actual shop where you're contract is with the shop and not the original supplier? So in this case I'd just have to deal with Amazon?
I have found one from a UK seller on eBay that looks legit, so used the credit card to buy this one instead of my standard bank transfer with paypal. Scheduled to arrive on Tuesday. Hope so as I'm off up the road at 7.30am on Wednesday!
Anyway. Rant over.
Turns up on Wednesday from China so I had a quick look over it, very quick test and everything seems all tickety boo.
Anyway, had a proper look at it last night, tried to update the firmware and it fails. Took it out for a proper video test and the picture is flaming awful. Very pixelated, only outputs an avi fil not mov like it should and it's closer to being an etch-a-sketch than 1080p!
Just gutted! Complaint email sent off to Amazon and the vendor (UKVALWORLD - Do Not Use these, they've started getting lots of bad reviews after I'd already purchased) asking for a refund. How would I stand for the refund, would it be like buying something from an actual shop where you're contract is with the shop and not the original supplier? So in this case I'd just have to deal with Amazon?
I have found one from a UK seller on eBay that looks legit, so used the credit card to buy this one instead of my standard bank transfer with paypal. Scheduled to arrive on Tuesday. Hope so as I'm off up the road at 7.30am on Wednesday!
Anyway. Rant over.