Well, well. Isn't that interesting. Since there was water inside his SPOT (and that caused it to fail) and since the SPOT just *has* to be water tight to 3 feet or 30 minutes, then he *must* have abused it by either having it under water longer or deeper. Case closed. Their refusal to grant Andrew a replacement unit under their return policy sounds like Catch-22 to me. If it's broken, you must have abused it, because we don't think it can be broken. Unless they test every single unit for immersion resistance to their standard, this ploy is obviously wrong and their attitude is sufficient for me to not buy one. If you already have a SPOT make sure that if you roll it stays dry. Because if it fails you are not just in trouble, but you will be out a SPOT unit as well. Craig Jungers Moses Lake, WQA On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 7:59 AM, <rcgibbert_at_aol.com> wrote: > Craig and all, > > I sometimes check in to see what Andrew has to say about things on his Dash > Point Pirate blog. Here is what he says about the SPOT: > > > http://dashpointpirate.typepad.com/the_dash_point_pirate_woo/2008/09/spot-satellite-personal-tracker-deception-pass-epic-fail.html > > Cheers, > > Rob G *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Oct 01 2008 - 09:23:59 PDT
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