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A lazy saturday afternoon home alone with my new Logic3 speakers plugged into the big 32" flatscreen telly. I'm sitting at home, half asleep due to the 2 and a half hours of sleep I had got last night.
I thought as well I might try out all my new stuff I got yesterday and the speakers are brilliant, the gba link cable is working and I'm playing NES Balloon Fight on my GBA. Get bored of it, so plug in my US cube to download a different NES game from Animal Crossing to play. Finally my Stepdown is behaving itself and it is fixed (with rubber bands no less :D). The fools at Goblin delivered it broken with a part of it hanging out. And they didnt include the link cable in the bundle.. so I've had to fork out for a separate on (grumble..)
Anyways, I plug the Cube in, but nothing comes on. Perplexed, I blearily stare at the tangle of wires behind the telly of the lamp, arial, DVD/Video players, computer, printer, speakers, 2 cubes, and fairy lights and try to puzzle out why the cube hasnt come on...
I extract the Cube and it's wires, stepdown and powerpack from the back of the telly and plug it in a different plug. Still doesnt work. Wander off for a drink and return to put back my wavebird which I had put in my pocket while looking at Cube. I suddenly smell.. burning plastic. Uh-oh. I look at my plugged in US to see the stepdown gently pouring out acrid thick black smoke.
I don't like to think what would have happend if I hadn't come back and had left the Stepdown smoking there for about 10 minutes. Needless to say I quickly pulled out the plug and dragged the smoking stepdown by the plug out into the garden. I pulled it apart a little later and found some soldering had come apart and the heat had caused some labelling and part of the plastic coating to melt.
Hopefully, my US cube is ok. A horrible smell in my hair and clothes and throughout the house and a slightly burnt carpet are all it caused, but it makes you think, and I never thought I'd say this about Freeloader but it does have its good sides after all..
http://uk.special.reserve.co.uk/search/
standard.php?keywords=freeloader
I thought as well I might try out all my new stuff I got yesterday and the speakers are brilliant, the gba link cable is working and I'm playing NES Balloon Fight on my GBA. Get bored of it, so plug in my US cube to download a different NES game from Animal Crossing to play. Finally my Stepdown is behaving itself and it is fixed (with rubber bands no less :D). The fools at Goblin delivered it broken with a part of it hanging out. And they didnt include the link cable in the bundle.. so I've had to fork out for a separate on (grumble..)
Anyways, I plug the Cube in, but nothing comes on. Perplexed, I blearily stare at the tangle of wires behind the telly of the lamp, arial, DVD/Video players, computer, printer, speakers, 2 cubes, and fairy lights and try to puzzle out why the cube hasnt come on...
I extract the Cube and it's wires, stepdown and powerpack from the back of the telly and plug it in a different plug. Still doesnt work. Wander off for a drink and return to put back my wavebird which I had put in my pocket while looking at Cube. I suddenly smell.. burning plastic. Uh-oh. I look at my plugged in US to see the stepdown gently pouring out acrid thick black smoke.
I don't like to think what would have happend if I hadn't come back and had left the Stepdown smoking there for about 10 minutes. Needless to say I quickly pulled out the plug and dragged the smoking stepdown by the plug out into the garden. I pulled it apart a little later and found some soldering had come apart and the heat had caused some labelling and part of the plastic coating to melt.
Hopefully, my US cube is ok. A horrible smell in my hair and clothes and throughout the house and a slightly burnt carpet are all it caused, but it makes you think, and I never thought I'd say this about Freeloader but it does have its good sides after all..
http://uk.special.reserve.co.uk/search/
standard.php?keywords=freeloader
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Sibs wrote:
> If you were supposed to get a link cable, tell them you'll report em
> under the Trade Descriptions Act. That should get their rear ends in
> gear.
Will do!
cookie monster wrote:
> I think i may still have the number, let me try and dig it out for
> you.
Cheers, that would be great.
> If you were supposed to get a link cable, tell them you'll report em
> under the Trade Descriptions Act. That should get their rear ends in
> gear.
Will do!
cookie monster wrote:
> I think i may still have the number, let me try and dig it out for
> you.
Cheers, that would be great.
Hoho:
Under the Trade Act of 98 or something:
If a product sold to you is not fit for use, ie, doesn't work, you are legally entitled to take it back and request: Full Refund, replacement or vouchers etc.
You need no receipt to prove you bought it from them, but, it's much easier if you do.
Under the Trade Act of 98 or something:
If a product sold to you is not fit for use, ie, doesn't work, you are legally entitled to take it back and request: Full Refund, replacement or vouchers etc.
You need no receipt to prove you bought it from them, but, it's much easier if you do.
TÞhi wrote:
> It's impossible to talk with them. they took off the phone number on
> their site and I've already sent them about 10 emails about my link
> cable not being sent. Lousy cheap gits.
If you were supposed to get a link cable, tell them you'll report em under the Trade Descriptions Act. That should get their rear ends in gear.
> It's impossible to talk with them. they took off the phone number on
> their site and I've already sent them about 10 emails about my link
> cable not being sent. Lousy cheap gits.
If you were supposed to get a link cable, tell them you'll report em under the Trade Descriptions Act. That should get their rear ends in gear.
TÞhi wrote:
> cookie monster wrote:
> I would complain to goblin for selling you a piece of junk.
>
> It's impossible to talk with them. they took off the phone number on
> their site and I've already sent them about 10 emails about my link
> cable not being sent. Lousy cheap gits.
I think i may still have the number, let me try and dig it out for you.
> cookie monster wrote:
> I would complain to goblin for selling you a piece of junk.
>
> It's impossible to talk with them. they took off the phone number on
> their site and I've already sent them about 10 emails about my link
> cable not being sent. Lousy cheap gits.
I think i may still have the number, let me try and dig it out for you.
Sfone wrote:
> If I was you, I would live in the sea, therefore avoiding household
> fires.
But it would up the chances of electrocution somewhat..
> If I was you, I would live in the sea, therefore avoiding household
> fires.
But it would up the chances of electrocution somewhat..
cookie monster wrote:
> I would complain to goblin for selling you a piece of junk.
It's impossible to talk with them. they took off the phone number on their site and I've already sent them about 10 emails about my link cable not being sent. Lousy cheap gits.
> I would complain to goblin for selling you a piece of junk.
It's impossible to talk with them. they took off the phone number on their site and I've already sent them about 10 emails about my link cable not being sent. Lousy cheap gits.
If I was you, I would live in the sea, therefore avoiding household fires. Thats what I do.
*drowns*
*drowns*
I would complain to goblin for selling you a piece of junk.
And then i would bury that stepdown in the back garden.
And then i would bury that stepdown in the back garden.
try your cube, its the only thing that matters, lol do it
Ha!
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