On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 23:50:47 +0100, Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Andy Dingley
saying something like:

There seems to be no other market that is so prone to dangerous shoddy
goods being sold through eBay.

Huh. My local hardware store stocks a range of ****-made lampholders
that fall apart with the heat of a 60W bulb. Guess where they're made.
Annoying thing is, they're a direct copy of a well-established UK make
and I thought I was buying something half-decent.

ISTR a discussion here a while ago re MK items. The ones sold by B&Q are
apparently manufactured to a lower spec..



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