Elliptical Trainer Woes
March 27, 2007
Recently, I posted about our troubles getting our new elliptical trainer operational. Today, Suzanne was finally able to get a hold of their support folks to try to track down the problem. After a few minutes of talking to the support rep, their answer was “Oh, you need the A/C power adapter and that will fix your issues”. Of course, our reply was “You mean the optional power adapter”? And that is exactly what they meant. So much for the power adapter being optional.
Now this is a Nordic Trac elliptical trainer, so it’s not an off the wall brand. It completely blows my mind that this optional thingy is required to make something work. Sounds almost like a bait and switch type deal to get more money out of ya. Heck, we didn’t even know that the unit didn’t come with a power supply until we put it together and the directions said to put in the batteries.
By the time Suzanne got done with them, they were more than willing to ship us a power adapter free of charge. Only issue is that it will take a week to get here. Hopefully, this will indeed solve the issue.
Spending Money Again
March 18, 2007
Yesterday was another expensive day. I recently received a bonus check for my efforts last year. We paid off some bills, pumped up the kids college funds and then decided to spend something on ourselves.
Suzanne has been wanting an elliptical trainer of late and been doing a bunch of research. She says she wants it for me, but I dont buy all that. I wish I worked out half as much as she does. Anyways, while in town last night for some dinner, we stopped by Sears and they had a model that she liked from her research on sale, so we bought on. All I know is that it’s a Nordic Trac model. I gave it a go and it seems pretty nice. The kids loved trying all the different models out in the store and got a pretty good workout.
I hope to use it too as the treadmill has been giving us a lot of issues lately. It’s 10+ years old and really needs to be replaced. If I find myself using the elliptical trainer like I hope I do, we will probably get a new treadmill so we have some variety. Toss in the Bow Flex that we have and there really isn’t any reason for me not to get in better shape and lose a few pounds. The treadmill should be ready to go on Wednesday.
Now, I don’t really consider buy an elliptical trainer buying something for ourselves 
so I went online this morning and order that remote control I have been wanting but never was able to pull the trigger due to delay after delay on it’s availability. It’s widely available now, so I decided to get it. I don’t watch much TV these days, but when I do, or when I am watching a movie, I really hate having to pick up 5 remotes to set everything up. This Logitech Harmony 1000 remote control will fix that.
Oh, and Suzanne doesn’t know that I ordered the remote control, so shhhhhh….
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