dave.st

Well, little surprise here, and certainly no Happy New Year. So, time for a "three month anniversary of your last email" email.

On the subject of sharing (as this blog so comprehensively attempts to do), I did a web search on "Zinky owners" just to see if there was any organised confluence of Zinky-related opinion out there.

Still no response to my email from a month ago, so off goes a seasonal follow-up.

Like the title of the latest email says, a month has gone by since Bruce's last email in which he claimed he would "do that today". A month in which my last two emails went unanswered. A month in which my amp did not make an appearance. Will the next development be an email from Bruce? See part 63.

October ends with no response from Bruce to my email of two weeks previous, so off goes another one.

Frustration soars again - as far as I know Bruce now has a working amp, a silver case, a stock of power valves and my home address.

31 July came and went and much as expected, Bruce had not put in the effort to fix the amp that I would have rewarded with the $1,000.

Before sending this email I checked the Zinky web site customer service page - it was blank (see picture on left and just for fun, try clicking the link in the email text!).

I also did a web search to see if anyone was offering a Superfly for sale, and I got lucky: there on the well-known CraigsList site was an ad which sang the amp's praises and made much of the Lifetime Warranty provided by Zinky.

So this call didn't go particularly well, both of us lost our cool and nothing was achieved except that some of my suspicions concerning the commercial viability of the Superfly were confirmed.

So my call at least prompted Bruce physically to take a couple of pictures and get them sent to me (see left).

It seemed so straight-forward and would hopefully break the deadlock: