Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Whatever happened to quality merchandise?

So I bought a replacement charger for my laptop after an incident with my old one setting on fire, (a story greatly exaggerated in conversations to make me sound interesting) from ebay naturally. This is the age of technology after all. I paid 21.50 for the charger and postage and packaging, and was thrilled when it arrived after only 3 days. This was last week, and presently I am sitting here with a soldering gun and pliers, while an ominous low battery notice mocks me. Excuse me if I sound old fashioned but adapters should not just fall apart at the slightest tug. 10mins remaining, some power saver plan, I think not.
Now my dilemma is where to get a quality laptop charger, that is, one which will not break after ony a week. Fujitsu have informed me they do not stock replacements, so I guess I'm stuck with a cheap replacement or a ridiculously over priced charger for a laptop that, let's face it, doesn't have that much longer to live anyway. Oh technology, how I hate thee.

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