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 newyorkeric Diglot Moderator Singapore Joined 6377 days ago 1598 posts - 2174 votes  Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Mandarin, Malay Personal Language Map | Message 9 of 19 31 December 2010 at 2:36am | IP Logged | ||
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To be fair to Amazon, they shouldn't be held responsible for Linguaphone's crappy and misleading product. It never hurts to ask though. The worse they can say is no.
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| Po-ru Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5478 days ago 173 posts - 235 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: Korean, Spanish, Norwegian, Mandarin, French | Message 10 of 19 01 January 2011 at 3:05am | IP Logged | ||
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Amazon is USUALLY professional and should refund the full amount as well as do something
to the seller. This was clearly a fake and if you don't do something about it while you can, this seller might get someone else on the site too. Or they might get someone who believes that this is the linguaphone course and profit even further!! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| newyorkeric Diglot Moderator Singapore Joined 6377 days ago 1598 posts - 2174 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Mandarin, Malay Personal Language Map | Message 11 of 19 01 January 2011 at 3:09am | IP Logged | ||
It doesn't really seem to be a fake though. Just a badly produced Linguaphone course. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| skchi Groupie United States Joined 5743 days ago 57 posts - 86 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 12 of 19 01 January 2011 at 8:06am | IP Logged | ||
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That's horrible.
I agree with newyorkeric. I believe that Amazon's policy if that they will refund everything, including shipping, if they screwed up. If this is an actual Linguaphone course, Amazon isn't at fault. I've had great experiences with customer service at Amazon. If I bought a lot of stuff from them, I might talk to customer service about this issue and see what they can do. Even though Amazon isn't at fault, they might be willing to refund everything just to keep you happy and buying more stuff. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6701 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 13 of 19 01 January 2011 at 3:32pm | IP Logged | ||
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It might be more efficient to hit Linguaphone directly by writing in the reviews at Amazon what crap Linguaphone is selling to their customers. If you want a Teach yourself course then buy a complete one from TY, not a watered down version through Linguaphone.
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| Chris Heptaglot Senior Member Japan Joined 7119 days ago 287 posts - 452 votes Speaks: English*, Russian, Indonesian, French, Malay, Japanese, Spanish Studies: Dutch, Korean, Mongolian | Message 14 of 19 11 January 2011 at 6:14am | IP Logged | ||
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May I chip in here? The course in question IS the Linguaphone Czech course. The packaging hasn't been created to look like an offering from Linguaphone, and the seller was right to describe this as The Linguaphone Czech course. The thing is, it's also the old Teach Yourself Czech course. I was puzzled by it too, when I saw it at Manchester Central Library 20 years ago, but without the blue cassette case. I used to spend hours browsing through the range of Linguaphone courses they had there, wondering why the Czech one consisted of a TY book and two cassettes in jewel boxes, rattling round in a Linguaphone case.
I like Linguaphone courses very much, but the Czech offering is a real lemon. However, I think it might have been put out, originally, at a time when the TY book was just a book, with no audio. I believe the Linguaphone Czech course was the TY book, but with audio prepared by Linguaphone. Not all Linguaphone courses are the same, after all. Some, such as Indonesian, deviate from the format of the others at the time, i.e. no teacher and student talking about record players etc. The advertising isn't at fault either, but that is no consolation to the OP. I think you have a cause for complaint. Edited by Chris on 11 January 2011 at 6:15am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Welltravelled Diglot Groupie United Kingdom Joined 5860 days ago 46 posts - 72 votes Speaks: English*, French | Message 15 of 19 12 January 2011 at 11:59am | IP Logged | ||
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It is really outrageous for Linguaphone to do this. It just seems so weird. I mean can you imagine ordering Pimsleur Czech and you get a rosetta stone course with pimsleur written across the top of it?
It's the strangest and most unfair thing I think I have seen in a language product, particularly considering the price. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| DavidW Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6524 days ago 318 posts - 458 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French, Italian, Persian, Malay Studies: Russian, Arabic (Written), Portuguese, German, Urdu | Message 16 of 19 13 January 2011 at 12:22pm | IP Logged | ||
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I think to be fair to linguaphone, the full details of the course were probably
available when the course was originally sold by them. I know also they did this with a recent (1990s) Persian course, and I think also, Swahili? Edited by DavidW on 13 January 2011 at 12:22pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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