Another point to consider when purchasing Cisco gear - there is a HUGE difference between a "reseller", and an "Authorized Reseller". Without going into specifics, I had experience with a previous customer that purchased Cisco gear from a "reseller" - all refurbished/grey-market that Cisco had as located over in Europe. When the time came, Cisco didn't honor the warranty on the gear. A good "authorized reseller" should help you - not necessarily exchange the unit if you haven't purchased SmartNet, but give you something more than "go call Cisco". Cisco generally takes a dim view of resellers treating it's customers that way. Again, first hand experience... On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 1:46 PM, Steven Fischer <sfischer1967@gmail.com>wrote:
Another point to consider when purchasing Cisco gear - there is a difference between a "reseller", and an "Authorized Reseller". Without going into specifics, I had experience with a previous customer that purchased Cisco gear from a "reseller" - all
On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Michael Brown <michael@supermathie.net>wrote:
On 14-04-03 12:44 PM, Laurent CARON wrote:
I bought a C3750G-12S which is now end of sale on cisco website. This device is now defective.
Since I bought it from a reseller and not directly from cisco, cisco is refusing to take it under warranty and tells me to have the reseller take care of it.
The reseller doesnt wan't to hear about this device since it is end of sale. Did you purchase SMARTnet when you bought the device? If you didn't, you're probably SOL. According to cisco website, end of sale means the device is still covered for 5 years. This is not base warranty - this is potential coverage. Base warranty is 90 days: http://www.cisco.com/go/warranty My question is: Is it normal for my supplier to refuse to take it under warranty? See above. Is there (from your experience) a chance I might get cisco to deal with it ? Not likely.
Specific information for this product's EOL is here:
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/switches/catalyst-3750-seri...
You'll need to have a service contract associated with the device (SMARTnet).
Unfortunately for you, from that page:
End of New Service Attachment Date: January 30, 2014 "For equipment and software that is not covered by a service-and-support contract, this is the last date to order a new service-and-support contract or add the equipment and/or software to an existing service-and-support contract."
So if you don't already have SMARTnet, you're probably out of luck.
M.
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