this is a track ir 5 pro clip, I highly recomend track ir for in game movement and so forth but look at this. On the PRO CLIP, Two flimsy little bits of plastic hold in place the ir receivers, well of course one of the stupid bits of plastic snapped. Both the headphone clip on and rotating arm section are cheap plastic which obviously in time will break.. Typical, they want you to buy it, use it for a little bit, then when it breaks which it will do in short order, buy another one.
I spent over £125 on the track ir and this is what is on my table. Its disgusting, it is obviously designed to break, it should be against the law to be honest. Its unfair, I paid honest money for some thing that is designed like that, look at it, does not matter who you are that is going to break on you in a short order. If the Army made this do you think it would look like that or maybe even plantronics? Well why am I going to have to waste both my time and money now. This is a rip off, there is NO OTHER explaination, its disgust that there is not some form of consumer protection law in place to prevent such false sales. This does not full fill my expectations, this has been sold as a suitable arangement to complete a task, well there is no other alternative than to say it is con. Is that combination of latch and arm going to last you a generation? Thats my point, why is that considered fit for market. There is a problem some were and Id be interested if some one could explain how it could be that that is legal to sell in the UK.
I think you got ripped off. The plastic looks like a dollar shop toy. It probably its cost is <= 1$ (including engineering) and sold at a very high price.
Email them and enquire about their terrible product? I'd try and rig up an alternate mounting system if I were you, preferably using metal.
I've no idea what I'm looking at, but it looks cheaply made. You've done the right thing by posting it in the forum. If you use twitter then fire off a message complaining how badly made this is. Then contact the company explaining you aren't happy with the build quality and that you've posted on forums and twitter saying just how bad it is. You never know, they might do something about it! Worked for those people with ebuyer problems
your so right.. even things like headphones, made so cheap.. look at headphones made back in the early 80's and they had woven innards and coiled plugs and that was the norm- nothing is really quality nowdays at any reasonable price.. made to fall apart exception to that is some of the hardware microsoft makes (360 controller, keyboards).. cheap and has some longevity
so true, I donno how many mobile phones Ive had to get fixed or mp3 players Ive went through. Ive even went through 2 harddisks in 3 years on this computer =/. things where better made years ago, we've had our fridge for 25 years, washing machine for 19years, old living room tv for 16years (that was two tvs ago, the one we got to replace it only lasted 5years =/). The TV in my mums bedroom is 23years old. I can get picts too if you want.
Well microsoft is not alone... We have Corsair, Logitech, Nintendo, Sony PS3 accessories, and many others... and within these companies, some provide excellent RMA service where they will send you a new one, under it's ridiculously long warranty (compared to other brands). So it's not all that bad, and I beleive you will always have a company producing quality products. For example, if Logitech and Microsoft goes down, you'll have a current company that will change or a new one that will appear. Or new compatition will revive the companies that went down. For example, Do you remember Del.. when they used to be number #1 PC manufacture. Like HP now, that used to be junk machines. But since they lost their title badly, they are changing. Creating interesting and better quality products with minimum (Home) to none (Buisness) crapware. Well Dell Home service sucks.. but for Dell Small Buisness (you don't need to be a buisness to order form there), the service is local during office hours and day. And they are very nice. Call and say "my keyboard broke", they ship you a new one the next day, no questions asks. 1-2 dead pixel.. convince them that you can't work and they'll send you a new one (well I have next buisness day on site service so I have a contracted tech that comes over where I want at the time I want to replace the part).
I was gonna say that you get what you pay for then I read the £125 bit, that's despicable... you ought to get a refund or replacement (tba I wouldn't accept a replacement) ... useless tech
