Farberware Millenium Headache!
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Farberware products are good cheap, disposable cookware.  However, anyone expecting any type of factory warranty or service should read the above reviews and this one. Our Farberware Millenium failed and needed repairs.  It was poorly repaired and not all returned. This is after nine months.  They have also ignored a complaint to the NY State Consumer Protection  Bureau. My next step is a Small Claims Court action. If this is what you  want in your future, buy a Farberware product or anything made by the Meyer  Corporation. They are the company that originally made my fine Farberware  product.
307757
I purchased this at Best Buy. It is a very pretty, loud clicky keyboard. I was thrilled and brought it home to register it. That is where my headaches began. The keyboard lit up and a screen popped it. Sadly, even though we have known that the year 2016 has been coming, evidently Razer did not. So I cannot enter a date and I cannot register my keyboard. So, I went to the direct web site and attempted to register my new keyboard there.  You enter information and go through three pages. I cannot get off page one. It will not accept my serial number. This has been going on for two days, multiple attempts. I sent in a ticket and a very unhelpful person named Tyler suggested that I go to the direct site and register my product (sighs). Had I wanted a difficult keyboard with a large learning curve, I would have gone with the Cosair K95. Instead of playing my games and enjoying my beautiful keyboard, I have been attempting to register it so that I can take advantage of the limited two year warranty. I have 15 days from Friday to take this keyboard back. I don't care what it does, if the registration process and the 'support' is anything to go by, I may be taking it back. I will update on how long it takes 'support' to fix this...if they do.
414723
Bought a laptop from dell, since the last laptop we purchased from them 7 years ago we had loved along with dell's technical support.

Oh. My. God! Have things changed!!! We have had this new computer for less than a month and it wouldn't stay connected to our wireless Internet since day one, until finally last night it wouldn't connect at all! Upon trying to diagnose the problem, it turns out something is defective with the computers wifi driver.

Called customer support and have been on hold for 6 hours and my husband is still on hold at the time I am writing this! Not being able to understand their Indonesian (or whatever) accents is the least of your worries, because all you have to understand is that you are being transferred again and again! We keep getting transferred back and forth as it seems no one in "technical" support is equipped to handle "technical" issues. How nice. At one point I was transferred to customer support after asking for a manager and despite the recording for customer support stating they were open "7 days a week from 7am to 7pm" they were ironically "closed" and I was told to call back Monday and disconnected. So we called back again, only to get transferred around for several more hours and even had another person attempt to transfer us to customer support again after telling her that customer support was closed! At this point we are back on hold with the initial number that we originally called at 10 am this morning! (its almost 3pm now). This is effing ridiculous! I have never seen anything like this and I work for a phone center! I know they are suppose to tell you that there "isn't a manager" and try to resolve the issue on their own, but I'm starting to question if there even is anyone in the entire place that knows what's going on! Maybe a manager or two would solve these problems! And I am usually a very patient person. My advice?! Do. Not. Purchase. A. Dell. Seriously! They are not the company they used to be! As much as I try to buy partially American made... I'm telling you, anything is better than this company!!!! Seriously too bad, considering what they once were. They've lost me as a customer forever! And I plan to post this everywhere I can! I'm not a vindictive person by nature, but I do believe in trying to spare people what I had to learn the hard way. $600 later plus a protection plan and 6 hours and counting on hold is how they value my business! With this kind of customer resolution, this company deserves to find its bottom lines in the toilet! That's what you get when you outscource! You really do get what you pay for! Even when it comes to hourly wages apparently!

Ps. My husband just got transferred AGAIN, and them when that person was going to transfer him yet again, my husband got angry and was promptly hung up on! Seriously! If you still buy a dell after reading this, you can't complain!
1639247
The software is so insane I just set up some boring rainbow scroll profile I downloaded from the Corsair user forums.

The keyboard lags the everloving mess out of Windows 8.1 (UEFI) at boot time and the keyboard fails to respond to anything (not even numlock/capslock) when the desktop loads up for a good 60 seconds. This is with both plugs in USB 2.0 ports, or just the Keyboard plug in a USB 3.0 port (as per the documentation).

The top row of ESC thru F12 keys are insanely close to the number row, making it really easy to mis-press.
1786179
Circulon used to be at par with other major brand name cookwares until it was purchased by a Chinese company that 'appears' to honor the Lifetime Warranty for older cookwares.  I attempted to return 3 top of the line Circulon cookwares due to peeling non-stick coats only to be told that I abused them and therefore the warranty is void.  I have always been careful with my things especially those with lifetime warranties knowing the manufacturer conditions.  I was never turned down by the former owners of Circulon.  Not a single cookware!  This time around, every single piece I returned was returned back to me and was told that it did not qualify.  When I called, a guy who barely spoke English answered and simply said, "ALL NO GOOD!"  that was that.  So I say, SCREW CIRCULON!!! and their new owners.  Let them eat their own cookwares.  NEVER AGAIN ! ! !
1095880
I have been the unhappy owner of this laptop for around two and a half years now. And have (by the looks of user's complaints) experienced every single one in the book. So it works for the first 10 months, in which time it has a bug in the bios software, where if the volume is raised too suddenly, it will freeze the system. Gateway, a year later, released a fix for the problem. Then the harddrive started powering down at random points. I found that pressing really hard down on the lid of the unit gave me about 30 seconds to save what I was doing, and shut the thing down. I thought that it was the hard drive, so I bought a new drive, and within two weeks, it had fried the controller board of that drive due to the cable being misaligned (I *did* have the HDD auto recognition on), so I put the old drive back in, and continued with it's unreliability, until it just got ridiculous. So I emailed them, and they emailed me back saying I needed this free drive connector replacement kit, and I had to do it myself. I was like ok, please send it. So they replied saying I needed to include some customer service number, they included several numbers, so I just attached the email, they refused to even read it until I had emailed them about 8 times with different numbers. Then I included my address and serial number so they could send it to them (at this time I was living in Canada), and they sent a confirmation email that it was going to someone with a different name who lived on the other side of the city. I wrote back saying they had got it wrong. No reply. So I try again in a few weeks time, they get it right in the confirmation email, but I wait 3 months, nothing arrives. At this point I move back to europe, and no, they can't send it there. So I have some friends agree to take delivery of this thing, and it never arrives either - after I have ordered it the second time. So I look on the internet, and people are trying to sell these things off like crazy, and the replacement drive cables sold by independant retaillers cost 50 US $. No Way! Other problems I've had with the laptop, the display lid no longer supports itself, it will just flop backwards unless supported against something. It was dim all along - a cheap lcd they put in there. The headphone jacks broke off, so I had to solder them back on myself - after which, the touchpad and power lights no longer work. To sum it up, this laptop sucks. Gateway should be sued for their negligance, lack of service and refusing to replace faulty products. They do not even publically admit that there is a problem in the design of this line of laptops. Do not get yourself into this mess by buying one of these terrible computers.
890331
I have been a faithful customer to Farberware for 35 years. I am so disappointed with my 12 cup coffee pot that I recently purchased! The top of the pot is so difficult to take off, every time I open it to remove the grinds it is a terrible struggle. I have been splashed with hot coffee several times. Another problem is the stainless steel is not the quality of the older models and no longer percolates a great cup of coffee as the older models. Another problem is that inside the pot where the pour spout is the opening is a small hole and when you pour the coffee it comes out slow and if you tilt the pot more the coffee splatters out all over the place. Be cautious that no one is near as you pour because they can get burned. I rate it a ZERO.
1046675
I recently bought this item based on the reviews I saw in this forum and also elsewhere in the Internet. I did not realize how wrong I was in depending on these reviews until I got this one. My troubles started ever since I plugged this device to my Laptop's USB port. I installed the driver from the CD. That probably was the only success. When I opened the configuration window, my laptop hung almost immediately and I had to cold reboot the system to get it working again. I had to repeat this at least 3 times with the hope that I may finally get it working. No way! I had a strong suspicion that this device was not designed to operate for Windows 7. When I checked the user manual for system requirement, Windows 7 was not mentioned. I decided to call Zalman support to find out what's going wrong.

Here is the kicker! They do not have a valid phone number and a email ID! Can you believe it?!! No one picks the number even during regular work hours. Email did not go through and bounced!

I would never again buy a Zalman product again!
354123
BUYER BEWARE! I purchased this 2 in 1 laptop on Sept 14, 2015 with great expectations. The computer is now totally unusable. There is a conflict between the Synaptics Touchpad driver and Windows 10. As the computer heats up the mouse cursor jumps all over the screen without any input from me. It seems to favor the lower left corner and clicks on the start menu. The screen zooms in and out and applications open and close. It is impossible to stop. I have tried everything, uninstalling the driver, checking for viruses, reinstalling Windows. Everything to no avail. Google "erratic mouse/cursor movement" and Synaptic's name comes up.

I strongly recommend you look for a different computer.
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Not only did I try to insert the 2 ram cards, but 2 freind tried & then my computer guy also tried. Each time they would start making a dinging sound, sounded like a car alarm going off, when they were removed & the old card re-inserted that noise stopped! My computer guy (he is a good friend & has a computer repair business, doesn't know ALL software but is very knowledgeable on hardware & he said that the parts were corrupt! But the girl I TALKED TO IN CUSTOMER SERVICE AT ARCH COMPUTERS, SAID I ORDERED THE WRONG PART & WOULD NOT ALLOW ME TO SEND BACK ON THEIR POSTAGE...not really the point, except it costs me $2.20 to send it back & they DID NOT credit my account with the original shipping cost of $4.95, so I paid $7.15 to get that part back to them!!! What she said was those ram cards showed in the listing that they were ECC Registered????? I don't even know what that means..some of us oldsters are not that tech savey, so if what she said was true that show also be listed!!! she said those rams cards are for a server, which I'm not sure, but I think that means is, when you have 1 main computer & then seceral other computers are hooked up to that main frame, but we are all using the same software, but don't have access to the internet , etc.?  MY POINT IS I DON'T WANT TO ORDER FROM AMAZON ANYMORE, CAUSE IT COST TOO MUCH IF I HAVE TO RETURN THE ITEM. I AM A 62 Y/O FEMALE LIVING ON SOCIAL SECURITY DISABILITY, (FIXED INCOME) i am single, and by the end of the moth, I sometimes run out of money to where I can even get some nedicines refilled cause I don,t even have $1.20 for my co-pay. Not that is your problem, but I do want Amazon to completed understand why I will not order from your site anymore, & most of my elderly friend won't either, cause they have seen what has happened with my expiernces. b\But I do want to tell you that the last customer service rep from Amazon did give me a $5 gift card, but it only works on actual Amazon items, not on any other product that maybe listed on your web site. But I really appreciated her effort, cause she also tried to get Arch computers to atleast credit by account with not only the cost of the part, but also so the shipping fee, but they would not do it!!!!!! Hope this essay (LOL) helps Amazon in some way, everyone is always asking for our (the customers feedback) I believe an employee that is an asset to the company should get KUDOS & as much as a liabilty employee should get bad feedback!!!! Please contact me if my feedback causes Amazon any kind of problem, I know you already have my e-mail address.  Thank you in advance, Susan Riffenburg
500179
I just picked up an Endura yesterday at REI.

Upon removing the unit for inspection, I was happy with the overall look and feel of the unit. I checked the firmware version (1.4) and found a recent update available online (1.5) that was full of huge improvements in the usability and function of the unit!

I attempted to perform the update several times exactly as directed, and each time the unit gave an error "Firmware 1.5 already installed, please reboot unit".

Unfortunately, it is still running 1.4, and will not accept the 1.5 update.

I called Lowrance this morning and had a 20 minute conversation about the issue. The best Lowrance will do, for a brand new unit I have not owned 24 hours yet, is allow me to pay to have it shipped to them and they will decide what to do with it once they have inspected it.

I found navigating their website and finding information is frustrating as nothing is well placed or thought out. I am less than pleased that a brand new unit is costing me more money less than 24 hours after purchase.

Thus far, I am very unhappy with Lowrance customer service, should you even want to call it that.

I have a new Garmin Montana on the way to accompany my other GPSr units, and believe I will just stick with Garmin in the future.

I will also be recommending others avoid Lowrance GPSr units.
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I purchased the Quicken 2014 download recently (3/15/14) and since loading it I have had nothing but grief with my Windows 7 Operating System. I spent several hours combined with three separate individuals with Quicken at their Help Site to no avail. The list is too numerous to go into detail of the havoc this program has caused and I've been a Quicken user since early 2000's. Won't even allow opening Q 2014 for security reasons. Unbelievable. I will attempt to return to an earlier version until I know for certain they have the bugs out of V2014 and beyond. Sorely disappointed indeed. Thank goodness I backed up the version I had before this train wreck. And no, the chats with the Quicken Techs revealed no answers to the enormous number of problems after installing 2014.
3145742
I have spent hours with tech support by chat by phone and I give up. Sluggish and crash prone totally unusable. They say they are working on it.  And I have a fast new PC Win 8.1 SSD Solid state drive Drive and top notch components. What the heck.....

Very disappointed they must have exported the engineering to some other land I suspect and have lost total control of engineering.

I am not a minority this is happening to many.
4574580
I was at first happy when I received this product.  They actually put printed manuals and disks with drivers and and a backup copy of Windows.  The problem started when I tried using the computer.  First programs tended to lockup where I had to use the task manager to to kill them.  The next problem was installing software and drivers.  The system would go into these forever loops.  I would sit for hours with an installation bar spinning around in a loop.  If I tried to cancel the installations the programs would either ignore me and keep looping or tell me to wait and not shut down the computer.  These are not exotic programs I am talking about it is stuff like iTunes.  I would also get the blue screen of death from time to time with a POWER_DRIVER_STATE_ERROR.  That is just a small list of problems.  I can't say for sure but I am guessing I got a computer with a bad Windows installation.  I tried to contact their tech support during their stated business hours and like is so common with support nowadays I was put in a wait queue.  This was for chat support by the way.  The wait queue started at 7 minutes, but once it clicked down to zero an agent did not come on line.  I instead got a message that said, "Someone will be with you shortly".  There was now no time stated, but I waited.  After another 5 minutes or so the chat window suddenly closed and I get a message saying no one is available please leave a message.  I typed in my message which said I would now be returning their computer to Amazon.

Update: I have gotten iTunes to install.  But, I still have some problems not resolved, such as randomly being thrown into a window that says Windows is not activated and I should enter a valid key.  If I enter the key printed on the windows label on the side of the computer it says I did not enter a valid key.  As of this date I still have time to return this computer to amazon, so I have temporarily cancelled the return .  I will try once again to contact, as I see in comments here from the manufacturer, their ''friendly" tech support.

Update 2: Tech support did phone and they are trying to work with me.  The Windows activation problem was resolved.  Looks like I will have to keep this computer to avoid being smacked with a hefty restocking free.  There are still some strange glitches I that need to be worked out.  My Steinberg USB driver to use my Yamaha THR10 modeling amp and my Cubase does not work.  It worked fine and installed easily on my previous computer.  This is very upsetting since that is my main use for my computer.  I still run into a glitch where on restart my mouse and keyboard are nonfunctional and I sometime have to reboot several times to get them to work. I am also having a problem where is I try to run scan for devices/hardware the scan hangs and only a reboot stops it. I am going to give them an extra star since their tech support seems to be making an honest effort to resolve my problems.  I am going to keep updating this review as the current working order of this computer is not exceptable.
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WORST TECH EXPERIENCE/CUSTOMER SERVICE EXPERIENCE IN MY EXPERIENCE!!!!! BE FOREWARNED.

like a lot of folks, i suddenly found my optical drive noisy and unable to read disks. so i sent the machine back for a repair. and wow, what a catastrophe that has been.

i sent it back on 3/17. today is 3/27, and the console now seems hopelessly lost.

i was told the repair was completed on 3/23 and the item was marked as shipped, with tracking number for Fedex. But three days later, that tracking number remains invalid on Fedex's end. They say it doesn't exist.

I've had six conversations via the online chat with system support, and two by phone. The responses have ranged from cheery assurances the matter would be corrected within the hour to idiotic nonsense about how they put placeholder tracking numbers on the package for some unfathomable reason.

One rep. argued with me for a good 20 minutes before he agreed to give me the phone number for support that i was asking for, so i could bypass the online chat.

But don't think the phone system is better. You'd have more luck talking to your Kinect.

One woman escalated my case to some advocacy team and said to expect a response within a couple days. A few hours later, I called back to make sure that she'd set up this escalation properly, and the new guy on the line told me it could take 14 business days before anyone even gets back to me. That's today, 3/27. So by the time someone returns my call, what, a month will elapse?

Finally, I went back to the support chat and got a supervisor in on the conversation. And she insisted the console had been repaired on 3/26 and was awaiting shipment.

Her own system says it was fixed and shipped out on 3/23. So which version of events is true, and which isn't? My guess is it's all a line of garbage.

And so, I'm trying to figure out what to do next. I will say that you'll be seeing a version of this posting in as many places as i can distribute it, since I want owners and potential owners to be forewarned.

And I have to say, if this situation isn't resolved to my satisfaction and fast, I'll almot assuredly be dumping this thing on eBay if I ever even see it again. Playstation 4 beckons.

Microsoft should be ashamed of itself for giving the runaround to people who invest hundreds of dollars in these state-of-the-art systems.
2632757
I bought a C7280 a year ago at around $300. At the beginning after installing it on my windows XP laptop, it worked fine. After that, I only use it occasionally. It always has problem connecting to the laptop and most of the times I just had to give up trying.
Today (Sunday) I got some time so I decided to resolve this issue. But after working on it for two and half hours, I have to give up again. I downloaded most recent drivers from HP website, tried to install it on my windows laptop, and it said fatal error is encountered. Then I tried to install the driver to a newer Mac laptop, no error this time, but it can never be connected to the printer, whether using USB port or network cable to the router.
I decided to call customer service. After talking to the machine a few words, I was told "due to issues uncontrollable by HP, services are experiencing delays..." then my call was simply hung up. The same thing happened twice, so I have to decide not to bother the service "machine" again.
I have seen other people discussing about how to avoid the problems with HP printer, by not doing this or that, reinstall drivers, etc. I would really suggest to totally avoid buying the product. I bought it for convenience, to print something whenever I need. But every time I ended up with doing the print in stores or my office.
2393827
What a sad piece of software and the tech support is almost as bad. I purchased 2015 to upgrade from  2010 that had worked for me for years. It did import the old data correctly (at least it seems to have). I spent two hours on their "support chat" with someone who couldn't form an understandable sentence. Their only suggestion was to uninstall and reinstall. At one point they kept asking for proof of purchase with out elaborating. What sort of proof did they want? Was I suppose to hold my receipt up to the screen?

I did update the software from 2015 R1 to R4 but that did not correct any issues.

The issues:
1. It does not work with a screen size of  1920 x 1080 or any larger resolutions. If I maximize the quicken window it either is blank or all the parts are jammed over to the right of my screen.
2. The windows sometimes just "go away" and no amount of clicking on the taskbar icon will bring them back. Mousing over the icon shows the program is running but it has disappeared from both of my screens.
3. I went to send an invoice and it tells me I don't have an email program installed, well I do. I find out later that it won't work with a 64bit version of any email program. No where was that on the packaging to know about before I bought it.
4. My old business accounting software would let me design my invoice template in word and then use it to print/email invoices. I went into the form designer in this program and the window promptly disappeared from either of my screens and I can not get it back.
5. I did a few test invoices to get an understanding of how they worked. Now when I try to delete them they won't delete.

There's more but I've already spent to much time with this awful software.

This was a bad purchase on my part. Now I need to spend more of my time trying to get a refund and evaluating another software package.

********* Update
I have since updated to R8.

Still won't download transactions from my bank. Some of the other issues seem to be working better (I didn't say the were fixed, just better)
Tech support is a total joke.  I've been on online chat for over an hour while only being asked two questions, what revision being one of them. It has taken up to 20 minutes between my giving an answer to the "tech's " question and them responding. They must be handling a dozen other chat sessions at the same time. Don't waste your money. It's cheaper and quicker to do this in an old fashioned paper accounting book.