"Jon" <upfold@icon.co.za> wrote in message
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On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 19:17:27 GMT, "Dan Dan" <dandesp@lycos.co.uk> wrote in
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The number around the hole reads correctly from the "label" side.
Nemo, the moron wrote:
I've just bought some of these from their store in Tottenham Court
Road,
London, and they have a fatal manufacturing fault.
They're on sale at 50 for £11.99 and if you buy one pack you get one
free.
Sounds great, don't it?
Only one small problem. There's no printing on the backs of them so you
can't tell which side to bloody well record on.
I've looked at one through a 15* watchmakers eyeglass and there really
is
no way I can tell which way up they go.
PC World *must* have known they had a manufacturing fault when they
bought
them and must have decided to sell them off so cheaply as a result.
Doesn't matter how cheap they are though. Under British consumer law
unless they specifically state they're sub-standard, they're
misrepresenting the
product and you're automatically entitled to a replacement or a refund
and
it's your choice not theirs.
So now I've got to traipse all the way back there tomorrow and demand a
refund! I don't think I'll go in there again.
Nemo.
nemo, you really are a DUMB *****!
OH, NO I'M NOT!!!! I'll have you know I suffer from flatulence, so my *****,
or more correctly, arse, quite often speaks!!
CDRs are blank CDs. they have no writing on them whatsoever. I don't need
a
fucking "eyeglass" to tell which side up they go.
In the UK, up to now, blank CDs have indeed been CD-Rs but with the reverse
side printed with the brand name, specifications such as their speed and
capacity and few lines for one to write on.
As someone else said: these are *industrial* blank CDs, repeat: industrial,
being sold retail for the first time in the UK, and apart from the ridge
near the centre which you could have mentioned had you known about it
instead of posting such utter bilge, there really is no way of telling which
side is which: no difference in texture; no number around the hole, and the
aluminium coating eppears to be equidistant to the two faces - hence the
eyeglass. A perfectly sensible way to check.
Which part of that do you not understand? - "equidistant" probably!
And it's a real eyeglass BTW, not a so-called one so you don't need the
quotes. It's a 15x watchmakers' eyeglass and it's available from RS
Components, part number 732-842.
http://rswww.com/cgi-bin/bv/rswww/searchAction.do
That is an example of being helpful. You should try it sometime. This is
not:
I also posses a very good microscope. I'm only mentioning this because,
judging from your reaction to the eyeglass, my possessing a microscope might
actually cause you to have some sort of fit and die! We can but hope!
you can feel which side is the right way up. underneath, is smooth
plastic.
on top is the actual CD layer which is stuck onto the plastic.
Not with these. As I said: No difference in texture. And am I really
supposed to leave finger-marks all over the writing surface? Pull the other
one.
but i don't have to feel my CDs up to know how to orientate them. it's
pretty easy to see the difference.
How then? Not when there's no printing on the reverse, no number at all
around the hole and you don't know about the ridge.
Does it not occur to you that the ones you have and about which you so
proudly state that you can tell which side is which might not be the same
ones that I have just purchsed?
That one possibility alone makes everything you have said null and void and
proves that it is you who are talking out of your arse not *****!
i'm really glad you're not my customer. i occasionally get dumb asses
wanting to do business with me. i get rid of them quickly, but not before
taking some bux off them. call it a fine for being st00pid.
We have Local Authority Trading Standards Departments to deal with spivs
like you, and excellent consumers' rights programmes such as
http://www.bbc.co.uk/watchdog/ So beware!!
With that attitude, you should work for Gultronics; a company who have
actually been fined for having their employees hit people for bringing back
faulty and sub-standard B-Grade goods and throw them bodily out of the shop!
I met one of you outside a camera shop in Tottenham Court Road, BTW. He
thought he was a high-pressure salesman. He collared me as I was looking in
the window. Not a wise thing to do.
Quite illegally under UK law, nothing in the window was priced. When I asked
him about it he said that the law did not apply because he gives all his
customers a Jessop's catalogue to look at and says he'll undercut their
prices!
He then went into what he though was a long, expert sales spiel about his
merchandise and the way he does business.
I just waited until he ran out of steam and said to him, "Fine. You've just
told me everything I wanted to know - not to touch you and your shop with a
bloody bargepole!!" - and walked off leaving him in his misery.
His face was a picture!
.
