HP Touchpad Crack by Speaker

Got a refurbished TP in the eBay sale. I knew about the issue with the case cracking and bought it anyway. Mine has already cracked by the left speaker. I heard that some TPs that were returned are now being sent back with a new case version. Is this true?
ack.
My TP works great and I really don't want to send it back.
Any ideas on how to stop the crack from spreading? I was thinking epoxy but I was told it wouldn't work.
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cmorris1441 wrote:
I mighty call them now. Depending on whether the case they fix it with is the same or not. I figure whatever TP I get back with the same case version will crack in a couple of weeks.
Worst case scenario is there is no fix and I just send it in, get another, and sell it for 2x what I paid. If that is the case I wont be buying HP again though.
I don't know if HP re-engineered the TP case or not.  But I can tell you that I have a TP that I bought in mid-July that has no cracks whatsoever.  So mine's the original case design (if there was a re-engineering).  As soon as I got my TP I slapped it in the official HP TouchPad case and it's not developed a crack.  I can assure you it'll never come out of that case, because I don't want to risk flexing the case in such a manner that would cause a speaker crack.
I wish you the best of luck.

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