Re: Cisco warranty

2014-04-06 Thread Robert Drake
On 4/3/2014 12:44 PM, Laurent CARON wrote: Hi, I bought a C3750G-12S which is now end of sale on cisco website. This device is now defective. Since I bought it from a reseller and not directly from cisco, cisco is refusing to take it under warranty and tells me to have the reseller take ca

Re: Cisco warranty

2014-04-04 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Fri Apr 04, 2014 at 09:42:29AM +0200, Laurent CARON wrote: > My device is indeed supposedly covered by a lifetime warranty. Since I'm > still in the timeframe of less than 5 years after EOS...it should be > good...should. The *Limited* Lifetime Warranty is only offered to the original purchas

Re: Cisco warranty

2014-04-04 Thread Laurent CARON
On 04/04/2014 01:51, Jimmy Hess wrote: On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 1:46 PM, Brandon Ewing wrote: On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 01:26:58PM -0400, Michael Brown wrote: Did you purchase SMARTnet when you bought the device? If you didn't, you're probably SOL. This is not true. Cisco provides a limited lif

Re: Cisco warranty

2014-04-03 Thread Jimmy Hess
On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 1:46 PM, Brandon Ewing wrote: > On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 01:26:58PM -0400, Michael Brown wrote: > > Did you purchase SMARTnet when you bought the device? If you didn't, > > you're probably SOL. > This is not true. Cisco provides a limited lifetime warranty on hardware > pur

Re: Cisco warranty

2014-04-03 Thread Brandon Ewing
On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 01:26:58PM -0400, Michael Brown wrote: > Did you purchase SMARTnet when you bought the device? If you didn't, > you're probably SOL. This is not true. Cisco provides a limited lifetime warranty on hardware purchased from them or an authorized reseller, with our without Sma

Re: Cisco warranty

2014-04-03 Thread Sholes, Joshua
Back about ten years and three companies ago when I was a baby System Administrator, I made that mistake. Suffice it to say that I HIGHLY recommend looking for the "authorized reseller" (and getting SMARTNet up-front--if nothing else, that process will generally reliably inform you as to Cisco's o

Re: Cisco warranty

2014-04-03 Thread Steven Fischer
Another point to consider when purchasing Cisco gear - there is a HUGE difference between a "reseller", and an "Authorized Reseller". Without going into specifics, I had experience with a previous customer that purchased Cisco gear from a "reseller" - all refurbished/grey-market that Cisco had as

Re: Cisco warranty

2014-04-03 Thread Steven Fischer
Another point to consider when purchasing Cisco gear - there is a difference between a "reseller", and an "Authorized Reseller". Without going into specifics, I had experience with a previous customer that purchased Cisco gear from a "reseller" - all On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Michael Brown

Re: Cisco warranty

2014-04-03 Thread Michael Brown
On 14-04-03 12:44 PM, Laurent CARON wrote: > I bought a C3750G-12S which is now end of sale on cisco website. This > device is now defective. > > Since I bought it from a reseller and not directly from cisco, cisco > is refusing to take it under warranty and tells me to have the > reseller take car