Canon WordTank C30 The CRASH / The CRASH! Posted by zmcnulty on Sep 02, 2004 - 02:10 PM |
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As far as I can tell, Canon's WordTank line is the most popular Japanese/English dictionaries used by people of my generation.   [1]Victim: Mr. "Raising" from Kanagawa Prefecture Broken Item: Canon wordtank C30 Details of Accident: Trying to keep my college exams at bey for another half year, my long days of prep school went on - but my schedule was more or less free, so the dictionary must have fallen on the floor...when I noticed, the dictionary was underneath a pile of thick college work and textbooks. Apparently after that, whether it was me of my family, someone stepped on that pile of stuff - the details are unknown. What I do know, however, is that when I moved the pile I was shocked; my "eyes turned white." Damage Amount: When I asked the service center, they told me an exchange for a new product would be 12,800 yen + tax. It's a shame that the LCD wasn't covered by the warranty, and even at the price nearly enough to purchase a new dictionary, I went ahead and paid the 12,800 yen + tax for the exchange fee. More From the Contributor: Being an exam-student and not having a dictionary is enough to be painful. I am somewhat happy because I haven't gotten much "spritual damage" as a result of its breaking, because I purchased it for a comparatively low price - but the 13,000 yen I ended up having to pay was quite painful. The power would turn on, but the only part of the LCD that would actually display something was a 1cm square in the upper right. I couldn't tell what the screen was displaying at all. Since this is my own fault, it's easy to understand what happened. That being said, this is hard on a student who pays 10,000s for schooling. I had always thought that a dictionary would be useless if I couldn't take it out of my bag and use it immediately, so I used it without a case, but this incident has clarified the importance of having one for me. Inspired by: http://k-tai.impress.co.jp/cda/readers/crash/20384.html [2] |
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