Monday, January 09, 2006

Sub-Par products made in the USA (well sort of)

I received an XM satellite radio as a gift over the holidays. The radio is a MyFi, which is produced by Delphi. Really a neat little toy, and a nice service from XM. The radio comes with everything to use it at home, in the car, or as a "portable" radio, like a walkman.

This product being advertised as "portable" is where the problem comes in. It is also advertised as coming with a "wearable antenna" to improve reception when using it in a "portable" fashion. It did NOT come with this wearable antenna (which based on all reports out on the internet is useless anyway), and basically does not get any signal indoors with the internal antenna. So looks like the options are return it and cancel subscription, shell out another $20+ for the apparent third party ClipXT (which sounds promising), or live without using it in "portable" mode.... Just out of curiousity, why hasn't anyone sued over this? This seems to scream for a class action lawsuit.... Lots of false advertising going on here.... of course with Delphi being bankrupt and all, I guess it is pointless at this juncture.

Delphi is an American based company, but the radio was of course, made overseas - Malaysia I believe. The box it came in might have been made in the US though.... :)

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