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    Upgrading my lcd

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by Jdogg71190, Jun 5, 2008.

  1. Jdogg71190

    Jdogg71190 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Does anyone know where to buy a good 1900x1200 lcd screen to replace the stock screen on my P-6860 FX?

    Also, is it easy to install?
     
    Jdogg71190, Jun 5, 2008
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    jehovany8888 Notebook Guru

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    jfitts23 Notebook Guru

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    are the factory gateway screens samsung?
     
    jfitts23, Jun 5, 2008
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    zergslayer69 Liquid Hz

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    Mine is a Samsung, but I read that some people get seemingly worse screens.
     
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    jfitts23 Notebook Guru

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  6. hoofhearted

    hoofhearted Notebook Evangelist

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    Don't buy screens from LCDSuper. They get the "leftovers" from Dell (probably Dell gets rid of these due to dead pixels or such) and resells them to you without telling you this at first. When you get it, and you call foul, they want to charge a 20% restock fee to ship it back to them, just so they can do the same thing to the next guy and still make money.
     
    hoofhearted, Jun 8, 2008
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    chenkt Newbie

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    I bought LCD screen from LCDSuper.com with very good condition. I don't think their product is leftovers from DELL. Mine is brand NEW. I think hoofhearted is the only one case. I also think hoofhearted might be another LCD screen seller. They try to post something negative with another LCD screen seller.
     
    chenkt, Jun 24, 2008
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    Rasu Notebook Enthusiast

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    I looked around at the LCD Super site, I do notice they have the 20% restocking fee, but I don't see anything that says they will send out equivalent screens. So, if they DID send you one, you could call them and threaten to report them to the BBB (and actually do it) if they didn't accept the monitor back with no fee and send you the one you ordered.

    I wouldn't completely discount hoofhearted's story. Very possibly they did do that to him. If they did though, I would have been all over them for a very long time.
     
    Rasu, Jun 24, 2008
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    I also looked around at the LCD Super site. They only sell brand new LCD screen. I don't think they will resell screen to customer. If they did that, I think a lot of people will complain them. However, hoofhearted is only one person to complain them. It's very difficult to believe. If someone has 200 positive feedback and 1 negative feedback on ebay, would you trust this negative feedback. It's very difficult to say. The story of another seller might be possible.
     
    notepadmj, Jun 25, 2008
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    resourcesnj Newbie

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    You are lucky. LCDs 4 less and screen tek will charge 25% restocking fee. I search some lcd screen website on google.com. All of them will charge restocking fee will you want to return the lcd screen to them. The least is 20%, and the most might be 25% restocking fee. I though that is the rule to return product to seller.
    1, 2, or more dead pixel are the manufacture standard for them. Even I check SONY, HP, Compaq, and DELL, all of them have this quality standard.
     
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  12. swpark

    swpark Newbie

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    jfitts23, I'm considering to upgrading 1920x1200 lcd screen. btw, can you guys tell me the difference? I want to have glossy one.

    Thank you in advance.
    Swpark.
     
    swpark, Jul 1, 2008
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  13. hoofhearted

    hoofhearted Notebook Evangelist

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    I think chenkt is from LCDSuper.


    Dealing with LCDSuper has been a nightmare, but after all the fighting, I got an email saying they would refund the full price. They did not refund the full price, but rather shorted me $18. This is exactly the cost of their original shipping to me. I think this is crap. Not only should they pay that, but should also payback what it cost me to ship it back to them.

    End rant.

    Anyway, I am not from LCDSuper, just posting my experiences with them. I really would like a better screen for this laptop, but with "NO" dead pixels (I don't care what the return policy is). Being that everyone who sells LCD screens follows this "out", I am stuck to deal with the "delivered" lores screen.

    LCD sellers:
    I would be willing to pay an extra $50 for a 0-dead-pixel policy. Why not just add this as a checkbox to the webpage? When someone check this, just test that screen before sending and if there is dead pixels, just send that screen to someone who did't check the checkbox, and test another. That should put some extra money in your pockets.
     
    hoofhearted, Jul 17, 2008
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