Companies that deliberately mis-advertise products

I wouldn't have expected a replacement screen for a laptop to be easily available, it's not as if it is something you'd expect to break or for a consumer to be able to economically repair.


Haggisman said:
Almost as annoying as when you're searching for something, and the morons put "ITEM YOU DON'T WANT!!! NOT <LIST OF ITEMS INCLUDING THE ONE YOU DO WANT>"
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Searching for electronic part numbers can be a pain, with some dummy listing all his parts with an identical code, leaving me with no easy way to separate the two.

I can't believe the number of searches that still get clogged up with frigging iPhone cases, regardless of search terms employed.
Just how many iPhone cases does China need to make?
 
Haggisman said:
Almost as annoying as when you're searching for something, and the morons put "ITEM YOU DON'T WANT!!! NOT <LIST OF ITEMS INCLUDING THE ONE YOU DO WANT>"

So that when you search for the item you want, you get a load of results for items you don't want, specifically telling you it's an item you don't want.
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yep search "cbr600"


r6 "not cbr 600, gsxr 600"

or "my grand mothers used underpants "not a cbr600"
 
ajf said:
Out of interest what is specific about that one screen model that would mean a compatible is not suitable?
A lot of model laptops are shipped with different screen brands and models anyway.
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imagine if you bought a brilliant top of the line 24" monitor amazing picture quality and the panel got damaged and they "repaired" it with a generic 24" pannel that just so happened to fit in the case of your existing monitor so you've not got terrible picture quality but a nice case.
 
Good look finding an original one, they are like rocking horse poop. I would keep an eye out in the for sale forum over on the notebook review forums.

I managed to get a genuine 15.6" version, I think from Norway or something a couple of years ago, only after having 4 fakes come my way first! Great screens tho :)

Mick
 
Tefal said:
imagine if you bought a brilliant top of the line 24" monitor amazing picture quality and the panel got damaged and they "repaired" it with a generic 24" pannel that just so happened to fit in the case of your existing monitor so you've not got terrible picture quality but a nice case.
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Fair point and I think the OP said the same. I wasn't sure what panel it was to be fair.
On the other hand though there are several top line manufacturers so compatible 'could' mean another top line panel from a different supplier but with the same (or better) specs which would be acceptable.

I appreciate in this case it probably wouldn't be though.
 
Not fraud at all, as they mentioned substitution.
For something like a screen panel, if it's obscure it's totally understandable.

The analogy of the Ferrari is wrong, a better analogy might be to substitute a component, such as if we can't source your exact custom brake pads, we will substitute them with Brembo pads of similar spec.

Also who does cad on a laptop? At least plug a decent monitor into it, for minor stuff on the move surely any lappy screen of reasonable spec would do, and if you don't want that hassle, don't purchase incredibly neiche products like laptops with silly spec screens?
 
Haggisman said:
Almost as annoying as when you're searching for something, and the morons put "ITEM YOU DON'T WANT!!! NOT <LIST OF ITEMS INCLUDING THE ONE YOU DO WANT>"

So that when you search for the item you want, you get a load of results for items you don't want, specifically telling you it's an item you don't want.
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Grrrr. This does my head in too. A quick search for somethjng an 18 year old boy would want on eBay reveals tons of them. Go type in "golf gti" and see how many ads list other cars in the title. Does my nut in. I actively avoid people who do this, as it just tells me that they're morons.
 
mattyfez said:
Not fraud at all, as they mentioned substitution.
For something like a screen panel, if it's obscure it's totally understandable.

The analogy of the Ferrari is wrong, a better analogy might be to substitute a component, such as if we can't source your exact custom brake pads, we will substitute them with Brembo pads of similar spec.

Also who does cad on a laptop? At least plug a decent monitor into it, for minor stuff on the move surely any lappy screen of reasonable spec would do, and if you don't want that hassle, don't purchase incredibly neiche products like laptops with silly spec screens?
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In your brake pad example, the equivalent would be ordering the Ferarri brake pads and getting the cheapest, nastiest, made-of-recycled-beercans pads that china can possibly make, that just happen to fit, and have "Breembu" spraypainted on the side.

Why should you have to limit the quality of the things you want to own just to allow for laziness and dishonesty in others? :rolleyes:
 
Well this story is happy end, I managed to find a supplier with a couple left in stock (I could tell it was probably genuine as they were charging twice as much as all the scammer companies lol) and they overnighted it to me, got it installed now and all's good, I even did a better job than Dell at putting it together as it took them an extra screw! :D
 
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