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Contributor I
March 24, 2018

CR100 coupons

  • March 24, 2018
  • 16 replies
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This coupon rebate is the most poorly handled customer retention program I have ever witnessed. An email announcing the planned bricking of several hundred dollars of hardware purchased in good faith from the company. Great, thanks for the warning. Too bad you never asked my opinion or gave me the option of keeping it. Then you offer a single coupon for the 1 to N number of CR100s that I have. Not one coupon per device, no, just one. Although I did have to contact support to find this out. It wasn't communicated in the email announcement. So at this point, I was PO'd at this taking more time out of my day. But wait, here is a form to fill out. It requires all of my personal information (that I have in the account that I've had to create for some strange reason) and the individual product serial numbers. The completion of this step generates a third email that requires a verification of my email address, and that takes me to a screen that tells me the link as expired. Friday a fourth email arrives with the actual discount code in it.

Fast forward to today, when I decided to use my coupon to purchase a $500 Connect:Amp for my birthday which is Monday. Went to the purchase screens, yes, there are at least four of them required to purchase,Amazon has two BTW, and the code isnt accepted. It just throws an error message. Coupon not accepted for this order.

So now I am more irritated than the day I learned of the CR100 retirement. Congratulations, I am now to the point of turning off auto updates, and making sure I never provide Sonos another dime of my money.

Your Marketing and Sales department has single-handily turned a rabid, long-term (twelve year) pro customer with thousands of dollars worth of your product into an angry bitter ex-customer who will make sure everyone knows how little the company values the satisfaction of its customers.
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    Lyricist II
    April 13, 2018
    I received my voucher a few weeks ago and I was also surprised to see it gave me £125 off. I purchased to Alexa 1 which I have to say I am not that impressed with. I did the update this afternoon and signed the death warrant of my trusty CR100. Very sad to see it go having used it quite happily for the last 12 years. To say the app on my iPhone is a pain in the preverbal is an understatement. Lets hope Sonos come up with a better working of it or dare I say it a new controller which I would happily purchase.
    April 13, 2018
    I received my voucher a few weeks ago and I was also surprised to see it gave me £125 off. I purchased to Alexa 1 which I have to say I am not that impressed with. I did the update this afternoon and signed the death warrant of my trusty CR100. Very sad to see it go having used it quite happily for the last 12 years. To say the app on my iPhone is a pain in the preverbal is an understatement. Lets hope Sonos come up with a better working of it or dare I say it a new controller which I would happily purchase.

    I have seen others recommend the Neeo remote...not the cheapest but MIGHT be the new remote for you.

    Now at 16 devices in my home and not sure how many more I'll be needing unless Sonos bring out something truly groundbreaking
    Lyricist II
    April 13, 2018
    Hi thanks for the info on Neeo, just had a look and it certainly is interesting but at $360 a bit much for me at the moment. I would be interested to hear from anyone who is using it. Cheers
    April 13, 2018
    Same goes for me really. Especially as i alreadybhave a Harmony Elite that does a fine job of everything else (and I don’t even use that for a Sonos)
    Lyricist I
    June 11, 2018
    This company has no problem instantly making your equipment investment worthless. I have 7 CR100 controllers that I was happy with. And now they are all junk? Sonos has gone from hero to zero. I have been a Sonos user and advocate for over a decade but no more. The company has lost its way. Would no longer recommend Sonos to anyone. They've gone from hero to zero. And it now seems like every time you want to listen to your music, you have to go through a lengthy software update. I have a lot of Sonos components - time for some eBay auctions.:@
    Renowned Enthusiast II
    June 11, 2018
    This company has no problem instantly making your equipment investment worthless. I have 7 CR100 controllers that I was happy with. And now they are all junk? Sonos has gone from hero to zero. I have been a Sonos user and advocate for over a decade but no more. The company has lost its way. Would no longer recommend Sonos to anyone. They've gone from hero to zero. And it now seems like every time you want to listen to your music, you have to go through a lengthy software update. I have a lot of Sonos components - time for some eBay auctions.:@
    Please keep this to yourself or you will make it harder for others to go the eBay route to an alternative music playing system!
    7x CR100, 2x CR200, 5x SP100, 1x ZP80, 7x ZP100, 1x iPod Dock, 1x Boost, 4x Play 1, 3x Play 3, 2x Play 5, 1x PlayBar & 1x Sub.