140131 My Retailing Experience in
Gympie Queensland - Another Bad Day
I throw this one onto the blog as the one beneath it, without re-reading it to see if it has more to add, un-added![?] Sorry NOT, if I offend the store manager, and his little boys and checkout female/s. Don't take it personally - it's YOUR BUYING DEPARTMENT SICKO CHURCHIE BOYS!1 Er I mean... It's the culture, called CRAPitalism! Try for once, to LEARN from a tech school dropout?
Yeah, re-read it, laughed at my unforgivable insults at the locals - nothing they didn't deserve - but post it anyway, as is.
So, I'm making an off-grid 'Zap Pak',
which has in it's 520mm by 190mm by 520mm alum frame a heavy duty 12
volt car battery, a quality 12volt DC to 240 volt AC inverter, and a
few other things, like a four-socket 'cigarette lighter' unit, and a
240 volt AC plug board, with switches.
Hopefully, I'll finish it and have it
in the ute to connect with the solar panels on the roof.
Being in rural Queensland, 190kms north
of Brisbane, the range of products, even in this city of 'Gympie',
are limited to those stores I know of, and they're the mainstream
suppliers.
I don't know, and for the backward,
retarded and parochial mentalities of the locals, cannot get honest
reliable factual advice from anyone, so if there are retail outlets
which sell quality products, I do not bother trying to find them.
So, I needed, a four-socket 12 volt DC
cig-liter unit, and a four-socket, 240 volt AC plug board.
Having resigned myself to existing and
dealing with turds, the lowest most leering, perverted parasitic
people I've yet lived amongst, I resigned and took the 'available'
road, and went to 'Mitre-10'.
I chose one of two option for the 240
plugboard. An 'HPM' product, which, on the outside, looks great.
Unfortunately, once I got it to the
sheds, I saw that the power lead exits from the end I did not want it
to exit from. Poo!
So, I flipped it over to see if I could
unscrew the unit and make my own modifications to better suit it to
the unit I'm making. Another 'mod' was to hopefully, open the unit
and simply flip the switches upside down, so the little red dot on
them, indicating the 'on' position, would be on top if I simply
fitted the plugboard upside down into the ZAP PAK.
O! HELL-oooowh! The 'screws are of
the type which the average layman home handyman does not have the
tool for. A 'socket-head' screw, with a lug in the centre of the
socket hole, so your ordinary 'Allen-key' will not fit.
No doubt, Australia's 'safety standards
rule that these pissy household products must be 'safe' so the
kiddies can't stumble across daddies toolkit, grab the 4mm Allen key,
unscrew the plugboard, and get zapped! And of course, so the
generally lame, dumb-as-dogshit householder can't electrocute
themselves either!
Well, still wanting to see what I could
do to make it more satisfactory for the ZAP PAK, I pushed on, drilled
the lugs, and in that, the hole head of the self-tapper screws out,
and split the unit apart.
KA-PLOING! Tiny springs popped out as
I did, and plastic bits fell onto the bench.
O, Shit? I thought from then it was
now a throw away item.
I persisted and assessed the 'rebuild'.
Other components were on the bench too.
Tiny little contacts from the switch mechanisms fell out.
It looked grim?
The light was fading, and I expected I
have to halt play.
I plodded on.
“We can rebuild him!”
But I was overcome!
The product, not too long ago, the
brand “HPM” made pretty good stuff. At least having never
dismantled any of them, I thought they were OK?
This, sent me into swearing and cursing
everything CRAPitalism, and it's evil 'planned-obsolescence' mode.
What a load of cheap shit!
No wonder the screws were of the
unscrewable kind!
The makers did NOT want anyone to see
what cheap, designed-to-last-the-shortest-time crap they were
flogging the really, really lame, ignorant materialistic, “Oow!
It's so nice and SHINY!” consumer.
I saw it's manufacturing plant in my
mind. Some 3rd world country factory, with thousands of slaves
sitting in long rows at benches, under lamps with rubber gloves on,
assembling the shit, for about 2 dollars a month.
All were small, females, because the
components are mainly so small that the larger male westerner's hands
are too big to fiddle with them bits.
Up in the main building, were teams of
'design and development experts', at computer screens and drawing
boards inventing the cheapest to make plastic shit on earth.
All for the spoiled white, 1st worlders
to buy for some 1000% mark-up, take home, fit and use until a power
surge or a spilled coffee shorts out and burns the contacts to
un-use-ability.
“O bloody hell?” So off they go
and buy another one.
I don't let myself think about the
quality inside the 12 volt DC socket unit...
Nevertheless..., the same day as I've
dismantled and reassembled the HPM plugboard, and sworn at the
absence of quality in it, I go back to the same Mitre-10 hardware,
for my usual purchase of 6 or 8 4 litre bottles of metho.
But HOHOHO, there's only 2 on the
shelf!
But, HEY! The price on the tag was only
$12 or $12-something! They usually cost $19.99!
But, as there's only 2, I look for
alternatives?
Ooowh! A 20 litre plastic drum!
Price: $89.99!
So...., Mitre-10 has 4 litre bottles
for $12.06 I think it was, meaning were there 5 on the shelf, I'd pay
$60.30 for 20 litres!
But there were only 2! BUMMER!
Naturally enough, I think? Maybe the
zombies of Gympie don't do things like compare prices for whichever
is cheapest?
But, seeing the evil and totally
illogical 50% difference in price, between 5 x 4 litre bottles and
the one big 20 litre drum, I wandered around the huge bullshit store
for an assistant, to ask 1st if they had more 4-litre bottles in the
warehouse.
HOHOHO! No, that's all “I” have,
said the lying private schooled piece of shit assistant.
Y'know, he owns the store, and
everything in the store, at least in the section he is slave over,
for restocking the shelves HAHAHA! Are in his own control, so
everything is HIS. Hence “that's all I
have”.
BOOOOOLLLLSHSHSH-IT!
But, that's life in Walmart-er-Mitre-10 shithole Astrayliar!
The 'assistant was lying. They had megalitres of 4 litre bottles of
metho out back.
He
and his store manager, another clone mutant sub-human zombie from O!
A local church private 'secret agenda' [SHSHSHSHS!!!???#$%^??!!]
school, being the so fucking clever “LET'S HAVE ANOTHER
REALLY
FUCKING STUPID IDEA!?” Harry Potter witches they are, just had to
fuck lil' Maxee around, because he said something HONEST about the
shit products they flog the sub-zero whitefaced liars of the state
and nation.
As for any of you making it to “Human” status - FAIL!!!
Utterly disgusting, pathetic lying cowards.
Good for extermination.
'BUYING DEPARTMENTS'. All employing spoiled churchie children, who
scan the world looking for the cheapest shit product-makers that can
fool the most retail consumers, which give the corporation the
largest mark-up profits possible.
“Quality” is the corporations' ENEMY!
But they'll all be utterly 'pretendly' as they flog the shit to you!
But, tragic as our nation has become, all corporate retailers do
exactly the same.
CRAPitalism!
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