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Mind Riot · 07-25-2005, 03:48 PM

The model packs aren't for everyone though. I got the Metal Shop pack and returned it because I couldn't get anything in there to sound as good as the stock Soldano. The SLO just has these great vocal mids that I don't find in any of the other amps.

So give 'em a try (you've got thirty days to return them if you don't like them, after all) but don't feel bad if they're not for you.

Now for an anecdote (true story):

Even though I tried and returned the Metal Shop pack, a few months later I was hearing people raving more and more about it and the other packs so I decided to pick up all three just to have them. So I got them, and played with all of them trying to find something I liked for 27 days. For distorted, I can't find anything better than the SLO. For Cleans, I can't find anything better than the HiWatt (for me anyway).

So I go to return them three days before the trial period is up (I know I said I wanted them just to have them, but a hundred bucks is a hundred bucks), and go through the whole rigamarole and it says they've been removed and my card has been credited the full refund amount. Okey dokey, except when I go to play again, the packs are all still in the PODxt and usable. Hmmmm...

I try to return them again, but of course it's telling me that they've already been returned and it won't recognize them in my XT. So I call Line 6.

Me: "Hi, I have a PODxt and I bought the model packs and tried to return them, and Line 6 Monkey said it was done and my card was refunded, but the packs are still in my PODxt. I tried to return them again, but it won't recognize that I have them."

Line 6 guy: "Um...Merry Christmas."

Me: "Huh?"

Line 6 guy: "Well, our system shows that they've been returned, and there isn't a way to take them out again when the system reads them as being removed."

Me: "Is there something else I could do? I kind of feel bad about keeping something when my money's been returned."

Line 6: "Well, you could mail in the PODxt to us and we could remove them."

Me: "Is that what you guys want me to do?"

Line 6: "No, it's not really worth it. I appreciate your honesty, but it wouldn't be worth it to send it in. You might as well just keep them."

Me: "Okay, thanks."

So that's how I got a hundred bucks worth of free model packs that I don't really like and never use. Oh well. But the Line 6 guy sure was cool about it.

07-25-2005, 03:48 PM	#10 (permalink)
Mind Riot Devoted seven stringer Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 694 Thanked: 2	The model packs aren't for everyone though. I got the Metal Shop pack and returned it because I couldn't get anything in there to sound as good as the stock Soldano. The SLO just has these great vocal mids that I don't find in any of the other amps. So give 'em a try (you've got thirty days to return them if you don't like them, after all) but don't feel bad if they're not for you. Now for an anecdote (true story): Even though I tried and returned the Metal Shop pack, a few months later I was hearing people raving more and more about it and the other packs so I decided to pick up all three just to have them. So I got them, and played with all of them trying to find something I liked for 27 days. For distorted, I can't find anything better than the SLO. For Cleans, I can't find anything better than the HiWatt (for me anyway). So I go to return them three days before the trial period is up (I know I said I wanted them just to have them, but a hundred bucks is a hundred bucks), and go through the whole rigamarole and it says they've been removed and my card has been credited the full refund amount. Okey dokey, except when I go to play again, the packs are all still in the PODxt and usable. Hmmmm... I try to return them again, but of course it's telling me that they've already been returned and it won't recognize them in my XT. So I call Line 6. Me: "Hi, I have a PODxt and I bought the model packs and tried to return them, and Line 6 Monkey said it was done and my card was refunded, but the packs are still in my PODxt. I tried to return them again, but it won't recognize that I have them." Line 6 guy: "Um...Merry Christmas." Me: "Huh?" Line 6 guy: "Well, our system shows that they've been returned, and there isn't a way to take them out again when the system reads them as being removed." Me: "Is there something else I could do? I kind of feel bad about keeping something when my money's been returned." Line 6: "Well, you could mail in the PODxt to us and we could remove them." Me: "Is that what you guys want me to do?" Line 6: "No, it's not really worth it. I appreciate your honesty, but it wouldn't be worth it to send it in. You might as well just keep them." Me: "Okay, thanks." So that's how I got a hundred bucks worth of free model packs that I don't really like and never use. Oh well. But the Line 6 guy sure was cool about it.