Hi Breezemont,
Situations like yours are exactly why Al brought me on-board with the team in November. Not to toot my own horn, but since the addition of a dedicated customer service system, our response time (esp. to warranty-covered situations) is greatly improved.
That's not to say there aren't still occasional delays. I'm not an electronics expert like the rest of these guys*, so I do generally have to defer to the technical team's schedule to handle more complex issues. But when you submit a ticket, please be assured that I am monitoring it as often as possible and will intervene to the best of my ability if an answer is not forthcoming.
* I think it's worth mentioning that I came from a job where I was the office genius because I could operate the fax machine, to working with PhDs who routinely create things so amazing that I wonder how much more I can see before my head explodes from exposure to pure awesomeness. It's been a terribly humbling experience, but for the most part, I have adjusted ...
