Thread: My propensity for buying faulty goods continues.

Originally Posted by Saitch

Umm, none of the above! A lesson well learnt. Always, always, always take your reading glasses with you, if you need them and put the bloody things on to read labels correctly.

I did consider that aspect but discarded the thought because you are normally a bright spark Steph, so discounted it. Even better is to take your spare pair with you in case the first pair have disappeared under/in the Pass. Seat while driving.

Of course this is all valid if the printed label on the article isn't blurry or incomplete.

As they say "**** Happens"

The other day I decided to repair the floor fan that I put in the kitchen doorway, as the speed switch was rather wobbly, looked like they hadn't drilled the hole the right size, and I thought I had just the tool for it a stepped drill bit, but on removing the switch I found it had been installed the wrong way around from the factory, so no drilling or trip back to the supplier required, yay.

Originally Posted by scarry

We dropbox them then throw the paper copy away.

Bigger ticket items, I have them emailed. I can check on my phone before I leave the store. Paper receipts tend to visit some black hole that exists in my car.
Regular stores, like tool shops, I'm registered and everything is on their system, and emailed to me.

A few days ago I found the receipt for a faulty Christmas present I sent to my son - in the pocket of a shirt that should have been but wasn't in the laundry basket. (After combing through my filing system where I was sure I had put it, my briefcase where I might have put it, and the car, where I assumed I had dropped it). Finding it was because I checked the pockets as it went into the basket.

What’s a brief case?

Y[QUOTE=3toes;3056841]What’s a brief case ?

a flash relation to a Gladstone bag , Rumpole of the Old Bailey would have carried one,

dave

GLADstone bag ? - ere' back in my day,.....

Around 35+ years ago, 'er inside lashed out on a lounge room / entrance hall clock, back in the day the height of fashion as a giant pocket watch, complete with rubbishy gold-coloured coating... which has now all be vanished from rust underneath... Noticed yesterday it was getting a few hours behind - shows you how much I look at it ! - dying AA battery.
Clock boasts "Made in JAPAN" and most surprising... quartz movement is made in ...... US of A. Yep, gotta be genuine as there's an ON-OFF switch in it !!!!

So yes, it IS possible to build stuff ourselves.... not every thing needs to come from.... C****