ANOTHER REFURBISHED PRODUCT

Well I have had a bloody hell of a week. Physically and emotionally.

Looks like I might have several hellish weeks and maybe even months?

Anyway while this was going on I had to replace a faulty smartphone with one I can trust, one that has the apps to control both my cameras and wont mind a little water. The way things are going if I end up homeless my health may cause situations where I will have to phone for an ambulance, lol. Also my GP has phoned me and sometimes the call does not come through and neither do messages at times.

So without going into stupid amounts of money, but was still pricey, I decided after much deliberation to stick with the manufacturer I have used since I had a StarTac phone, Motorola.

I had also run out of memory on my old 8GB Moto G so many times it was beyond funny and bloody well annoying most of the time! So this time a 32GB phone and with an SD Card slot would be the only way.

I had thought about the Moto X Force, as it is supposed to be unbreakable, but there were a couple of things about it I was not sure of. One of them the price as it was more expensive than the other Moto X's. So I decided on the Moto X Style.

I did not know when I ordered it that I might end up homeless, hopefully momentarily, in the near future so I could not enjoy the phone as one normally would. I had hoped that it might alleviate some of the anxiety but no, not really.

The phone turned up on a same day delivery option and I noticed straight away the white box was a bit grubby. I also noticed an really grubby square patch over the edge of the box and the alarm bells started to ring.

The phone looked OK though and it did not have much power so I plugged it in. Only the charge logo was going on and off and with this having a turbo charging mode, as they call it, I thought maybe it worked in some pulsating method? A bit like ABS brakes do sort of thing?

By the next day I realised that the phone was indeed faulty. It charged normally only when the micro USB plug was pulled half way out of the phone's socket. The tightest part when you are insertibg the socket before it gives and goes the rest of the way in.

The following morning I had to go out again to help a friend with something that was killing me, despite only spending around an hour or two each day helping. I had some very peculiar black-outs too. I had already been to the Citizen's Advice the day before for help so this would be the last day helping and finishing what should have taken a couple of hours.

Upon finishing my friend wanted me to stay longer but I was dead beat and my left thigh was not working properly. Like when your legs are going to give way when your blind drunk, stoned to high heaven or your muscle has gone to sleep. It was wobbly and then some.

So I came home hobbling very badly and slowly on my trusted walking stick. Bizarrely I was only home about ten minutes when there was a kock at the door. It was an Amazon delivery and I remember thinking how fast it was that the SD Card and white case I ordered had turned up. I was a bit confused I had to sign for the package and upon walking up my stairs I then realised that the box had a bit of weight to it. I remember thinking "wait? This is not a replacement phone?! Nahh I only emailed them around 6 hours or so beforehand.

I opened it up and it was indeed another phone. Only this box was shrink wrapped where the other one was not. I took it out and it looked a nice and clean box but then when I tried to open the lid it would not do so. Confused I looked and then I noticed that this box had a Motorola seal on the side of the box where the last box had a grubby square that looked like adhesive that had gotten dirty.

This one charged up normally!

Here is a couple of videos where I open up the first phone from within its Amazon labelled cardboard box and then the other video I have both boxes, showing a seal on one and missing on the other box.

I do have another video I think but will have to retrieve that one.

Oh and in case you missed it? I covered this many times before with refurbished goods being sold as new ones at new prices and they have always been faulty.

Argos the worst with four cameras in a row, then PC World followed by Littlewoods and Very Catalogues and B&Q and now Amazon! Unbelievable rife this refurb scam is.

Annoyingly they did not ask for the other phone, which I had not factory reset anyway. So I have the annoying job of sending the faulty one back ... so they can fob someone else of with it? Lol.

I require paper glue and only glue I do not have, lol.

THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE

I had an amazing conversation today.

Truth be told I was in pain, in a rush and those things combined make me talk fast, something some should have picked up on but never have.

I shot out the door after the conversation so fast that I had left my wallet on their shop counter ... something they completely missed when I returned twenty minutes later to retrieve it!

I had a conversation with a guy I had never met, but he knew the guy in the London Vape Co store I was in, called Kav'. We had a conversation involving the keyboard I am now typing on, the one it replaced, my Nikon Coolpix P900, which blew them away lol, my previous Nikon L810, my two Nikon P610's and his Nikon D7100 SLR.

I told him about the blurry photos, the bent keyboard and that I got them from Argos and PC World and before I could explain why they were like this he looked at my friend behind the counter and said "Do you know why?" and I became intrigued as he then look at me and I said "Go on..." and he said "..they are refurbs!" and I was totally stunned and this was not even the best bit.

He knew exactly what a Corsair Vengeance keyboard was and when I said it had a bend in the aluminium plate base right above the volume rocker switch his mouth dropped open. He listened as I explained the row as I had via email and over the phone. I then told him about the NHS and this blog!

He then looked at Kav' behind the counter and he said "Do you know the only place you can be sure your getting brand new stuff?" and I became even more intrigued than I was before 'Am I dreaming?' I thought to myself and then pointed at him with a smile and said "GO ON..." and he replied ...

John Lewis!

I laughed then looked at Kav' and pointed at this guy and said "Your mate here knows his stuff!"

Want to know something else? That was not the best bit either!

Now those that would be full of themselves would want to hear one particular thing at this point when I already wanted the opposite and I had it!

The best bit was that HE NEVER GOT THIS FROM EITHER ME, we never met before, OR MY BLOG!

To know that I was NOT the only one to have spotted all this is going on was something of a comfort and so a very good thing to hear!

I also knew that as I was talking I was not going to get the usual looks like I am mad from people that did not have the intelligence to understand what I was saying or had not worked it out for themselves in or in total denial because they would feel incompetent that they had not worked this out for themselves.

I guess it would be tough for someone to accept that for anywhere between five and fifteen years 75% or more of the stuff you had bought was actually ... well crap!

I know because I only realised about 6 years ago and I later found out it had been going on prior to the Guardian newspaper reporting it in 2003 ish, about PC World at any rate.

So I was an idiot too!

LOL!

YOUTUBE: VERY.CO.UK FAULTY PHONE

Been worse than this but this is a pain in the arse attempt at replying to an email from a Literary Agent who recently contacted me out of the blue and I am somewhat surprised.

Been here before though and likely turn out to be from a correspondence I sent many months ago I had forgotten all about?!

LMAO!

We will see and I pointed them to this BLOG saying look I am real busy and printing out and sending even only FIVE CHAPTERS is time consuming and expensive, especially when you send of ten at a time?! lol.

If they cannot just read and view a couple of posts of posts on this blog then they will be unable to read five chapters will they? Then LOOK at this blog?! LOL.

Grrr had this crap since January 2012?! 40 emails/letters/recorded delivery and total silence over than...

send it back to us (once and yeah right send evidence to large crooked company when I NEED THE PHONE?!)

No! YOU send ME a NEW phone and I will send this one back!! No answer!!

and...

I QUOTE...

"you are using a BOT program, we have recorded all correspondence and are sending it the the authorities and the POLICE!?!" LMFAO!!

Umm I am WHAT?!?! Go on then send them, if you don't mind looking like complete FECKWITS?! LOL!