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BrendanH
Since there has been some comments posted here in the past about poor customer service from SkyGolf I thought I should post my recent experience as an FYI to anyone interested.

Here is the text from my online chat with customer service :

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All operators are currently assisting others. Thanks for your patience. An operator will be with you shortly.

You are now chatting with 'Jason'

Jason: Hello. How may I assist you?
you: Hello. I'm having a problem with my SG5 battery life I'm hoping you can help me with. When I first got the unit approx 2 months ago I routinely got through 2 rounds of golf without recharging - ie. about 9-10 hours of play (That's lower than the advertised 14hours but I use the backlight so I expected a lower battery life). Now however I barely get through one round before I need to recharge. Most recently I got 5.5 hours of play before it shut down. Can you help me with this ? Seems like a faulty battery to me ....
Jason: May I have your name and the city and state you registered your device?
you: Name is Brendan Hobbart. I'm in Maricopa, AZ
Jason: Please hold for a moment while I access your account.
you: Sure, thanks
Jason: May I verify your shipping address?
you: Sure - <Address provided>
Jason: Please hold one moment
Jason: When the battery life start to become low?
you: It has been getting progessively worse over the last month or so ...
Jason: I have requested that a new battery be sent out to you as a replacement since you are still under your 90 day warranty.
you: Awesome. Thanks a lot !
Jason: You're welcome.
Jason: Is there anything else I can assist you with?
you: Nope. Thanks for your help
Jason: Thank you for visiting. Please contact us at anytime.



Doesn't get much easier than that !! Thanks SkyGolf !
wolfgame
The site markets this with a "drop in" battery. What does this mean?
BrendanH
QUOTE(wolfgame @ Mar 27 2008, 07:44 PM) *
The site markets this with a "drop in" battery. What does this mean?


It just means the battery compartment is user-accessible so you can replace the battery if necessary. I believe some previous models had built-in rechargeables which could only be replaced by shipping them back to SkyGolf. Not 100% certain which models were like that though .....
pittro
Brendan, after replacing the battery, what battery life are you experiencing. I have a one month old SG2.5 and get only about 6 hours before receiving a message to recharge.
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