On 10/08/2018 11:26 AM, John Robertson wrote:

New, from Amazon. It arrived that way. I opened it because it didn't
work right.


It looks like an idiot tried to modify it. I have trouble imagining a
legitimate company letting something that hacked out for sale.

It's Chinese.



Perhaps it was a return from a customer who had a problem, then tried to
fix it - botched it up, then sent it back to Amazon for a refund. The
seller didn't bother to test or it simply was repacked in the Amazon
warehouse for reshipment.

Much like the people who buy clothes for a party then return them
afterwards...

John :-#(#

I bought a guitar amp used many years ago where the previous owner had
either accidentally or deliberately left inside the speaker enclosure a
couple photos someone had taken of what appeared to be the previous
owner, a heavy-set jolly-looking African American man eating dinner in
his kitchen with what looked like a plate of ribs sitting on top of the amp.

Sadly that amp was stolen from me a number of years ago along with the
Polaroids that i'd left in it where I found them for some superstitious
reason. Back into the "material continuum"