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On-Flight Purchase-Czech Airlines

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Jan 10, 2010, 4:57 AM

dlefnesor

Join Date: Jan 2010

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On-Flight Purchase-Czech Airlines

I had purchased a watch on board a flight from Prague to NY on Czech Airlines. The watch did not run after a battery was installed the day after I arrived in the US.. The airlines was contacted. Twice representatives of the airline wrote to me but did nothing after they realized that I had mailed back the watch to their Prague office, per their direction, and would not accept their claim that the watch had not been received. I had asked originally if I could deliver it to their NY office but they insisted it would have to be mailed to Prague. I question whether they ever planned to do anything about my claim. It appears they were just "stringing me along".

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