I'm tired of all the gripes...

[jebem]

(05-11-2019 03:18 PM)dan_h Wrote:  My only gripe is that I want to buy the G2 from a US vendor and not from overseas or what may be a grey market source.

Apparently even in some European countries no one is able to find a local store selling the HP Prime, be it old or new generation.

The only HP models one can find in my country are the 10S and the 300S if you are lucky, and only at FNAC stores that may as well accept orders for the 12C.

However one can easily find local stores selling basic and high end Casio and Texas models because these brands have a large customer base in the pupils in almost every school around Europe.

This clearly is HP marketing decisions to force customers to order online, so people go to eBay or Amazon to get what they need.
In the end you get no warranty or get a limited one year warranty in clear violation of European Union rules.

Internet business are global these days, i know, but that happens mainly because the big corporations saw that as a way to cut costs at all cost.
People are not machines.
People need to feel safe when buying something, knowing that any issue will be fast and efficiently handled by another human being in a front desk, and not spending hours on the phone talking to a machine and talking to a call center 5000 miles away that will ask you to return the goods which forces you to pack the damn thing and travel to a post office to do what the shop should be doing for you in first place.

And this is my 2 cents of Euro. .