Its going to take an explanation bordering on ludicrous to make me believe these bundles were anything but B stock being dumped. There are too many things, in my mind, that are pointing the stink finger clearly at CCA on this.
The flaws/damage/whatever on each piece pictured is EXTREMELY obvious, even someone not familiar with the device itself would look at a chewed up machine hole or a significant chip on something explicitly stated to be thermal shock sensitive, and know something is wrong.
The only QC issues before these bundles, to my knowledge, was a "few" bad batches of quartz and saph inserts, leaking threads on the condenser arms and bucket, poor (well beyond the normal matching issues) anodizing color matching and one instance of a bucket on a 20 perhaps being smaller than 20mm.....but nothing of this level and certainly not all grouped like this.
The discount was pretty significant against list price, heavy discounts, when your product is ALREADY SELLING GREAT, almost always come at some type of penalty, meaning lesser quality, less desirable items bundled, older stock being cleared...whatever..bottom line, nothing is free and just about as much is cheap with quality.
Despite all of the complaints and even an apparent agreement from CCAs CS.........EVERYTHING has to be escalated to a manager for anything to happen?
The fact CCAs replies have been ANYTHING but "we are sorry, we pride ourselves on quality yet we obviously made a mistake, lets take care of it right now because thats how business works, taking care of paying customers".....is quite frankly pure crap and shouldn't be accepted by any company but it seems when you're on the internet and have minimal fear of mass media customer backlash may have made that no longer be the case in this modern age.
If anyone feels I'm being too harsh, unfair, or in anyway inaccurate..... head over to CCAs website and read all the hype and info and claims, look at all of the pictures of the products on their site, then come back and relook at all the pictures and messages about the interactions with CCA for about the last 4 pages or so.
Ive said it before, i truly hope they get their stuff sorted out because when they are on their game, its tight.
