On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 08:56:30PM +0200, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > > Just in case you missed it, it is the lead item on The Register, > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/04/dell_windows_eula_israel/ > > (shall we expect a slashdot item soon, too? :). It is a reasonably > faithful account (compared to Ynet's original), but I also looked at > the comments,
Slashdotted already, as Zvi wrote. > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/04/dell_windows_eula_israel/comments/ > > and there are a couple of postings describing the totally hassle-free > (an email in one case, 2 emails in another) refund from Dell Ireland. > > Compared to that, Zvi's experience looks a) painful, and b) not > worthwhile except for the publicity and the precedent. I mean that the > time and effort it took to get NIS 550 back was probably not worth the > money. I am obviously speaking from the personal finance point of view > and not the "good of society at large" point of view - the importance > of the latter point is obvious. > > Zvi, any comments on how much time and effort (in man-hours? :) it all > (preparing and filing the suit, negotiations, getting the refund, > depositing the cheque, etc.) took? On the flip side, this also means those 500NIS have actually cost Dell much more than 500NIS. Hopefully they will make the process simpler for the next customer of theirs that asks for that refund. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend _______________________________________________ Discussions mailing list [email protected] http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discussions
