Pandigital calls it quits, all existing warranties cancelled

By Chris Parsons  | Nov 19 2012 | 11:23 pm  | 27 Comments

Pandigital

Although Pandigital was never a company known for their great quality tablets, there is plenty of them out there on the market and in the hands of consumers. Back in July 2012, the company officially signed over all of their assets to a liquidator which was then to sell the assets off in order to pay Pandigitals creditors. In that time, Pandigital has now started sending out emails to former customers advising their warranties on products are no longer valid and if you wish to make a claim, it has to be done with the liquidator.

You are receiving this email as you have recently been shipped a warranty replacement for a Pandigital product.

Please be advised that Pandigital, Inc (the ‘Company’), executed a General Assignment for the benefit of its creditors in favor of Credit Management Association on July 13, 2012 (the ‘General Assignment’). A general assignment is a common law means of concluding the affairs of an insolvent debtor as an alternative to the Chapter 7 bankruptcy process. Pandigital is currently in the process of liquidation by the Assignee.

Due to this liquidation process any further requests for warranty replacements cannot be honored.

So, that's that. You're likely better off just forgetting the whole thing happened then trying to reach out for a warranty replacement or refund. Chances are, you've already tried to scrub the experience of using a Pandigital device out of your memory banks any how.

Source: The Digital Reader Thanks, Nathaniel!

Chris Parsons

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"Born and raised in Nova Scotia, Canada. Chris is fluent in all mobile languages and loves anything with a power button."

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There are 27 comments

thenameisnigel says:

I approve this message. :P

return_0 says:

I looked at this tablet, and I thought, "Eww."

piizzadude says:

I am surprised that they closed up shop. There was no way they were getting sued by Apple for making knock offs...

zenitram_27 says:

I cringed every time I saw one of these

ajac09 says:

FIRE SALE on crap tablets

I_Am_Incredible says:

Who? . . . another crappy android maker bites the dust. Thank you.

I_Am_Incredible says:

Who? . . . another crappy android maker bites the dust. Thank you.

gordol says:

So, the company that gave crap tablets a bad name is gone?

thunderstruck says:

No, Apple's not gone.

Baconator says:

I LOVE MY PANDIGITAL TABLET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

.......said no one ever

axllebeer says:

Haha. Totally agree with the above. +1

JayND says:

Pandigital is dead, but not as dead as that joke and I for one think it's about time to bury it...

Andthrax says:

i met one person who called it her ipad and loved it while i couldnt believe it was enjoyable. i believe it was a pandigital with one button on the front and a 7" screen

techfellow says:

The sad part is tv shopping channel QVC will continue to sell these piece of crap and people will buy them.

cammykool says:

i would buy one to support the comany they all have potental..
just gotta know where to look

dchawk81 says:

See, people, it's not actually possible.

tigeryee says:

Good, manufacturers like these bring a bad name to Android. To be honest there are not many good Android tablets out there. Good for Google to step up and start selling some to lead by example.

richardpandy says:

100% Agree. Things like this completely degrade the Android name. I wish Google would take SOME control of who and what can use Android.

jorgeix says:

lol, yeah call the liquidator to claim your warranty. Sometimes even calling HP or Dell is is pain, now imagine the liquidators. I don't understand why people even bothered to buy this things from an unknow manufacturer. They may be cheap but it's literally like tossing money in the waste basket.

andr0idralphie says:

This thing was cool when it debuted in the original Mission Impossible tv show.

SamTime says:

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

thunderstruck says:

Drives home my point about warranties. When someone says lifetime warranty, I ask them "the lifetime of the device, or the lifetime of the company?"

wpavlik2 says:

1 Sale a Day had some of their POS eReaders in a grab bag I bought a while back. The FIRST eReader I got went on eBay, then it died after not even a day. I ended up refunding for that Auction, and sent it back to 1SaleADay, who sent me their 7inch color eReader which will be suitable ONLY for using as a digital picture frame, I believe.(and not really a good one at that)
Good Riddance!

hairball45 says:

I saw these turkeys along side similar junk from Polaroid at Odd Lots. Even at the ninety bucks they looked to be turds. My niece bought her mom one of those no name things online with the idea of "It will be good enough". It wasn't. The damn thing never worked and they were to stupid to send it back.

tengtengvn says:

Talk about lowest quality plastic. Even some Chinese made tablets have better quality than craps from Pandigital.

Josh Miazga says:

Im not sure who would even buy one of these terrible tablets.

Ron Klein says:

I bought the 7" white version of the Pandigital Novel eReader about 2 years ago. Outside of the frustration over its inability to play most video content, I was actually happy with it. At that time, it was advertised more as an "eReader" with a little more functionality added to it. Keeping that in mind, it worked great as an eReader. It did not have cameras, or even a microphone input...so it was senseless to download and install apps that relied upon a camera for scanning purposes....or a mic input along with camera for any kind of video conferencing,....but it wasn't designed for that at the time. It shipped with its own proprietary OS interface which I liked, but of course wasn't setup at that time for app download. Later on, the company realized the growing trend for downloading Android apps....so they released a prom flash that converted the initial OS layout into a more familiar Android OS feel....and populated the screen with a link to an app download source. Once I applied the prom flash, I was up and downloading/installing apps within minutes of rebooting. My Novel shipped with just 1 gig of system ram and 1 gig of dedicated ram for the cpu. It also has the usual micro SD slot to increase external storage to 32 gigs. At this point in time, I have installed 110 or so apps, and am at the point where I'm out of room for additional installs. However, that's a lot more then what it shipped with. A few bright techs even figured out an app workaround for the inability to play flash content, such as YouTube. The video quality is not that good,...pretty grainy in fact, but at least I can finally view those videos. I have my email synced up,....have multiple audio players installed.....several great browsers that operate fine.....and a slew of utilities for scrubbing closed apps from active memory....and derailing potential viral attacks. For what it was shipped with, what I paid for it at the time, and what I have to work with now.....I'm actually pleased with it. I've ordered one of the new 10" tablets currently on the market to have something new to play with....but I'll always play around with the Novel on the side. During my first year of use, the few Tech Support emails I sent to the company were responded to immediately.....and with success for what I was trying to do. Maybe it was after that period of time that the company began running south in its hardware, software and support. I may be one of the few out there who had good luck with the product and company.....but in retrospect it was a good "eReader" for me.