Last month I bought from eBay a strange little electronic gadget called a Chumby, an item not yet on sale outside the United States.
Last month I bought from eBay a strange little electronic gadget called a Chumby, an item not yet on sale outside the United States. It worked happily for ten minutes and then died. I duly performed a hard reboot (that’s the technical term for ‘switching it off and on again’) only for the same thing to happen again. And again.
With hindsight, of course, I should have simply called the government pretending to be a banker and explained that I had bought something that at first looked clever but turned out to be worthless crap. I would then have had my money refunded in full at the taxpayer’s expense while continuing to own a six-bedroom house in Sevenoaks and an Aston Martin DB9.
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