Date   : Mon, 29 Aug 2011 11:20:37 -0500
From   : jules.richardson99@... (Jules Richardson)
Subject: eBay... sigh

Rick Murray wrote:
> On 29/08/2011 14:34, Mark McDougall wrote:
> 
>> Some genius selling a BBC plugged it in, and when it went 'pop' after 30s
>> and black smoke came out, decided to cut the power cord off!!!
> 
> Maybe it is a liability thing? If there's no power cord, and you fit one 
> and the machine blows up in your face, your fault...

I'm sure that it is. OTOH, if you plug the machine in and flip the power 
switch and it blows up in your face, it should still be your fault :-)

So on the one hand, the world has gone bonkers. On the other though, it 
*is* just a power cord, so it's not like it's a great loss and easy to 
rectify[1] (unless the buyer's so fanatical about originality that the loss 
of a period mains plug is some kind of major problem :-)

[1] that's triggered a memory of a machine - I think it was offered to the 
museum, not to me personally - a few years back where it had gone bang, so 
the owner had dumped the entire PSU as some kind of safety measure. It's 
that level of "I know better than you" that starts to really annoy me :-)

> Really... are people too stupid to try asking Google? Or seeing if it is 
> described on Wiki? <sigh>

Yes, yes they are.

cheers

Jules