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When You Don’t Want to Honor Your Warranties,

Put an illegible CAPTCHA on the support page:

Dante bullish

Yes, spammers are so going to write bots to automate warranty checking, and this just has to be stopped.

In fact, it’s even worse than that. On the very next page, I have to type in the model and part number again, and solve another CAPTCHA.

Doesn’t really matter, I suppose. After the failure of the Maxtor OneTouch 4 I just bought a couple of months ago, it’s not like I was going to buy another Maxtor drive anyway.

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One Response to “When You Don’t Want to Honor Your Warranties,”

  1. John Cowan Says:
    January 9th, 2009 at 12:12 PM

    reCAPTCHAs actually do serve a public purpose, and if you find one illegible, click the reload button on the CAPTCHA to get a new pair of words. I have no idea why Seagate thinks one is necessary here, though.

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