Ah, well, the other day there was a horse, vomiting in front of a pharmacy, you know?
appiah4 wrote on 2022-03-24, 09:13:
Oh fuck.. One of the connectors is reversed. WTF.. 🤣!
Didn't quite get it until I read the OT's description. Subtle but deadly.
I guess, underpaid Chinese factory staff screw up just as much as the next fellow human being?
Reminds me how I got my first and last "drive bay multi card reader"...
In a respectable German retail outlet in in nice part of a nice town.
By the photos, that was supposed to have a 3.5" floppy molex, the smaller one. Which usually clearly snaps into place and is mechanically coded, i.e. non-reversable.
Alas, the factory must have run out of those and simply installed some similar connector that fit somehow, but not quite and lacked the coding and did not lock.
- And no markings on the PCB which side is which.
- And the "manual" was a single sheet in greyscale photocopy. No way of telling red from yellow.
Had to figure it out with try & error and did, but fried my prized "Logitech Mouseman Optical" in the process.
Got the advice that if needed "professionally" (I was a student...) one can demand a full refund instead of mere replacement - even in "the custumer is a dip shit" Germany.
Was so pissed off that I actually went full Karen on the shop.
They gave me the refund but uttered the German equivalent of "stfu" in the process.
They completely were not understanding or refusing to acknowledge the connector issue.
I went back to buying online...