13th April, 2020.
It’s officially Easter Monday …
And life goes on.
Lockdown is still in place, here in the UK.
For many of us, that’s still frustrating.
There’s also a certain amount of sadness, as well.
As yesterday saw the death of comedian, Goody, and I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue panellist, Tim Brooke-Taylor.
The world’s a smaller place.
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How are you with mis-selling?
A couple of weeks ago, I was looking for a gift for a friend.
And managed to buy three of these USB flash memory drives: from a third party Ebay seller called Fashionjiacl.
Supposedly, the things had a capacity of some two terabytes, 2000 gigabytes: roughly two thousand hours of video, depending on the format and resolution.
At the advertised price, two terabytes is a godsend: especially if you are unemployed, and don’t have much money to spend.
I ordered three: which took a while to get to me.
When they did?
I immediately start copying my Dr Who collection over to one of them.
My computer told me that would take some twenty-four hours, given the amount of data.
The data didn’t copy.
The stick — which was showing up both mo my Mac, and my Ubuntu MATE laptop, as a two terabyte drive — wouldn’t hold more than approximately thirty-two (32) gigabytes.
So … ?
I complained to the sellers: who — initially — only offered a thirty percent refund: roughly the price of one of the sticks I’d bought.
I told them this wasn’t good enough.
They then offered a thirteen pound refund.
I refused, again.
And told Fashionjiacl that, unless I got a full refund, I’d be reporting them to Watchdog, and writing a blog post about it, and reporting them to Ebay, itself.
Something I’m still thinking of doing.
They refunded the money: which arrived in my bank account, yesterday.
I’m happy with that.
But?
I’m left with a bad taste in my mouth.
For a start?
Fashionjiacl is STILL offering hooky USB sticks on Ebay.
They HAVE added a footnote to say the devices are not the advertised two terabytes, but nearer thirty-two gigabytes: at the bottom of the page, in the proverbial last place we would look.
Something they weren’t doing when I bought them.
I’m assuming the things would still show up as two terabytes in any computer they’re connected to: so any one buying them would have no way of accurately know what the things could hold, or are holding.
I will give Fashionjiacl credit for refunding my money.
But … ?
I believe they are guilty of mis-selling.
And, given that this sort of thing seems to be common? It’s something I thought I should warn you about.
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