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Re: irish mike post# 1463

Wednesday, 06/13/2012 8:54:05 AM

Wednesday, June 13, 2012 8:54:05 AM

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Yes, it says VOLT on the top. - The Volt is a left over product (http://www.slashgear.com/gslo-expects-first-volt-solar-chargers-for-iphone-to-ship-in-next-30-days-25142568/ ) from Franklin's involvement with another company, GSLO (which was suspended by the SEC: http://www.sec.gov/news/press/2011/2011-120.htm ). It is not the "Solacase" as advertised when you bought it (http://solawerks.com/solacase.html ). Same product anyways? - Yes. Deceptive? - Yes.

There is a CE rating tag on the interior side of it. - pure fraud/counterfeit. There is no way this one man show could have gotten the coveted CE rating without months (if not years) of product QA/QC, testing, documentation, etc. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CE_mark )

It came with warranty info. - does your warranty look like this?: http://www.voltsolarproducts.com/Products/VoltWarranty

If so, the fine print makes it sort of worthless with exceptions like this:

"The Limited Warranty shall be restricted to the country/region of Product purchase this is to avoid excessive import or exportation of the Product throughout the supported countries." - gee - does that mean that the product purchase point is China, so your warranty is no good in the USA?

"...any repairs performed by VOLT’s Authorized Service Center are subject to charge to the purchaser at normal repair rates" - so if it breaks, you have to pay for the repair.

" The valid original invoice (PROOF OF PURCHASE) on which the relevant IMEI number was printed will be required. - did you keep the relevant IMEI number?

" The defective Product shall be delivered by the purchaser at his/her own expense to the designated VOLT Service center, with proof of purchase, and proof of identity of the original purchaser. Failing which, the Warranty will be invalid." - make sure you PROVE who you are when you pay for the shipping to China!

"This Warranty does NOT cover postage/shipping from Customer to Volt Service Center and return. VOLT product not accepted without a prepaid return service from, FedEx, DHL or a shipper of Customers supper of choice, that provides this service." - not only pay for it, but make sure it is FedEx Next Day service....

"VOLT reserves the right to add, delete or amend the terms and conditions at any time without prior notice on its website indicated below. VOLT website: (blank) " - looks like they already deleted the applicable website.


It fits snugly over my wife's iPhone 4. - there were previous reports that there was a gap due to the configuration differences between iphone 3 and iphone 4 - glad to hear it "looks" nice.

So, what does this all mean?????? - it means you have hooked up a cheap, non-certified/non-rated product that was made in China to your expensive iphone with no recourse in the event it damages your phone charging system.
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