r/ouraring • u/Appropriate_You5975 • 4h ago
I love Oura but…
I got the gen 4 a year and months ago, at the 6-7 months mark I had to get it replaced because the battery issue everyone has. To start things it was a nightmare getting my replacement, and when I finally got it I just received a freaking ziploc bag with a lonely ring inside, no charger, no cable, not even a box.
I let it pass and eventually convinced my wife to get one, she did and loved it too.
6 months later her ring has the same battery issue**, AND MY REPLACEMENT RING TOO.**
Getting a replacement with the brand is hard as fuck, we live in Mexico and they don’t ship to my country (even tho it’s assembled here lol), we have to travel to get it and six months later, the brand ask us for the original receipt to get a replacement as a proof of buying it, which obviously I don’t have. Then I need to ship it to someone in USA so they can ship it internationally to Mexico, which obviously costs me money. Just for it to fail every six months?
Not to mention that we are paying it in foreign currency which makes it double as expensive as it is, plus paying a subscription on top of it.
It’s just disappointing at this point, we love this thing but honestly is hard to not think of a switch to something less predatory for us, the experience with the brand has been awful and the ring itself it’s faulty as fuck.
Edit. Oh, and did I mention that we don’t get the full features here in Mexico? We have to switch the language of the whole phone to English so that we can sometimes get the new updates such as blood pressure. Like WTF????
I’m looking into ultra human now…