Is "this doesn't work" ever a good bug report?

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Published on 2010-03-16T19:45:45Z Indexed on 2010/03/16 19:51 UTC
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I'm having a fight with QA over a bug listing that says: "- Cannot Submit changes on this page - the data is not saved to the database."

I threw it back saying it's non-reproducible. QA argues it's valid.

Is a bug like that ever good enough?

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