Chumby

I’ve had my Chumby for 2 1/2 weeks more than a year, which is why I am a bit disappointed.

Here’s my Chumby today:

I contacted them the forum in September.  At the time, I couldn’t find anything about a warranty on the website, and no one from Chumby responded to my post, so I assume it was a 90 day warranty.  Wrong, it had a one year.

However, they won’t honor the warranty because I didn’t discover the truth on the warranty until yesterday.  Yes, I should have just shot an email to their support and asked but I have been so overwhelmed at school I wasn’t up to it.  However, I was yesterday.

But no budging, I even offered to go halves on replacing it but no dice.

Would I spend $179+ on a chumby having had one for a year? Nope.

They are about the size of a softball, maybe a bit bigger.  They play Flash files and function as an alarm clock.  WHEN they function.   A year later, and it is not reliable enough to work as an alarm clock/internet clock radio.

Plus there are some features I have not seen implemented that I think are essential.  I should be able to adjust alarm settings from the internet, and while I can SSH in and edit the alarm files, it’s not well documented.

It also doesn’t have a snooze function through people have written scripts.

Basically it’s just too expensive and too unreliable for the functions it currently has.

Oh, and my biggest issue? Made in China with typical Chinese quality control. But at least they not only kill our pets, but they kill their own babies. Oh, and the sick people in Columbia they killed. Almost forgot.