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Friday, April 03, 2009
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Saturday, April 10, 2010 1:22:04 PM
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Bought one of these remotes a year ago, and we absolutely love it. They came up again later, and I tried to buy two more. ThingFling had "problems" with their inventory and tried to ship my SRU9600s instead. Hopefully there's no shenanigans this time
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Hah! I actually had tweezers like these on my Christmas list! Now I don't have to rely on a family member correctly interpreting the list 
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"A totally good experience".... what?? "Good" experience? Wow, you know this must be crap if even the marketer didn't think "great", "excellent", etc was appropriate!
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JohnChod wrote:Back in March, I ordered two of the SRU8010 units. Although somewhat cumbersome in some aspects, I thought they were really nice units and did everything I wanted them to do, so I ordered two more when they came up in the beginning of April.
I worked with the first two that I got and, since I was happy with them, never bothered to even open the package from my second shipment.
Well, the other day it was time to provide a gift to someone in my family, so my wife opened the second package, brought one of the remotes over to me, and asked, "Should I wrap this up?"
At first glance, I could see that the package was opened and had a "Returned" sticker on it. I freaked recalling that the SRU8010 units were advertised as brand new. Obviously, these were refurbs.
When I turned the package over, I saw that it was, in fact, an SRU9600. I looked in the package at the other one and saw that it too was a refurbed SRU9600.
My wife and I bought an 8010 a long time back and continue to be VERY pleased with it. When the 8010s went back on sale in the afforementioned April time period, I decided to buy two more (for my dad and father-in-law). According to TF, something went wrong with their inventory and they couldn't ship the 8010s. Instead, they'd ship 9600s as a replacement, unless you asked for a rebate within 7 days. I took the rebate. But anyways, that's how you ended up with 9600s instead of 8010s. Why'd I'd take the rebate? Simple, a touchscreen seems like a stupid feature for a remote. I don't want to take my eyes away from the TV in the middle of a show to look for buttons; I want to find them by touch. Can't do that with the touchscreen.
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