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Loading ...Conundrum Of A Cheap Man.
Big_Adam
I’m a hugely cheap person. I’ll scrip on things when ever I can. Shirts for example I tend to get in a pack of five T-shirts in black beacuse their cheap. Same with car part (to a point), fuel and food.
This cheapness is now about to bite me in the bum in the form of a router.
I got this router for my equally tight wallet cousin Glenn. He’s a little horder of money as he has no job and no income, bit like me reall. Anyway, I was round his, he had a router modem and didn’t know how to use it so I took it off him. Got home, hooked it up, tested then proceeded to smash the old USB modem for all the pain it’s given me and stayed with the router modem wireless switch …. thing.
And all has been well.
Apart from it seems to have a case of gremlins so it will on occasion decide to stop working for four to five hours. Leaving me stranded and without means of porn or other internet based materials.
So I contacted the router people and they (very kindly) offed me a new router for nothing. Which is awesome, free new router. Woohoo! The trouble is with no router my internet will be fairly … gone. Who knows how long it would take to get to me too!
So my cheap conundrum is do I RMA the router and get a new free one at the expense of no internet. Or do I just buy a new one then replace the current one. Or (third) while still being cheap buy another router modem thingy, send back mind and buy a new one. Then have a two for the price of one with two routers for the price of one?
Oh the choices!
Firstly, check out the Pre-Xmas DVD sale at Play.com - everything’s a fiver for a limited time only!! 
On your actual post, you’ve pointed out something important - some savings are false economies and do more harm than if you just pay up.
Speaking as someone on their 4th router in as many years (and the latest model is coming up for 2 years old, so as you can tell I had a *lot* of dead’uns) I would say give yourself multiple options for staying online, whenever one dies you can stay online whilst awaiting the return. Mind you I’m on cable so I don’t lose my modem if something happens to my router. Whatever gives you a backup on ADSL is the one I think you should go for.
Buy a router from some big department kinda store, RMA yours, then when yours is returned all lovely and new.
Return the one you purchased back to the department store (assuming you kept your reciept and the box all tidy), just say your not satisfied with the product (or blame incompatibilities with your ISP).
although i’m unsure of the legalities of this but stil, it works.
of course it’s legal. Returning a product is not illegal. RMAing a product is not illegal. Two rights don’t make a wrong…