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HUMAN ERROR NEGLECT/MISUSE NEVER WORKED IN THE FIRST PLACE PROBABLY FIXABLE WORKED UNTIL BROKE

“i bought each in good faith – as full working order, but unfortunately they were not!”

May 14, 2013 – 8:00 am

pixma-ip1500

This one has a sad back story. A man liked his Canon Pixma IP1500 so much that when it broke he bought a secondhand version of the same model. But that didn’t work, so he bought another one. And that didn’t work either, so he bought another one. Which didn’t work. Imagine that.

So he’s now got THREE broken Canon Pixma IP1500 printers, which you can have if you pay more than £1 and live in or near Blackpool. Might be a good deal if you like revenge-smashing printers and need some more printers to revenge-smash.

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NEGLECT/MISUSE PROBABLY FIXABLE RAGE

“IN NEED OF RESTORATION WITH MISSING EARS”

May 7, 2013 – 10:00 am

That’s not a problem. Ears are a relatively small part of a teddy’s makeup. Surely any generic stock replacement teddy bear ears will fill the gap and return this to its prime. A few minutes sewing on some cheap standard off-the-shelf bear ears and he’ll be completely…

mickey-mouse

Ah. You want trademarked Mickey Mouse ears? They’re £125 each, mate, plus import duty, plus the proprietary Velcro Mickey Mouse Ear Fixings needed to attach them to the non-standard ear latches. Probably best writing this one off and giving it to the dog to hump around the garden, like the dead mole it is.

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"VEIWING ENCORAGE AND WELLCOME"

June 22, 2012 – 8:33 am

broken-mower

Three out of four words wrong in one sentence. And in Comic Sans as big as it’ll go. Slow clap. Such a slow clap that my hands still haven’t touched together yet. Still haven’t. Still haven’t.

*Clap*

Thanks to Hoopy for finding this monstrosity.

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"In the market for some cheap gold?, patient enough to test and unbend Pins?"

May 30, 2012 – 9:00 am

cpus-4-gold

Is that a thing people do now? Scavenging gold out of broken processors, like modern, nerdy, hunched-over-a-computer-desk rag & bone men?

To answer our own question, yes it is and it appears to be quite the grim task.

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"WOULD MAKE A NICE WALL ORNIMENT"

May 18, 2012 – 10:30 am

accordion-wall-covering

(a) No it wouldn’t, it’s an accordion. It’s a significantly three-dimensional object, so it’d be like sticking a cardboard box to your wall. The space beneath would be rendered void, plus you’d need good rawlplugs or to get lucky and find a bit of timber due to the weight.

(b) ORNAMENT. You managed to get accordion right but messed up ornament? Some people have the oddest brains.

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"COMPLETE APART FROM HARD DRIVE & MEMORY. NO CHARGER."

May 17, 2012 – 12:00 pm

dell-latitude-d505-brokeneded

So that’s no hard drive, no memory and no charger. Complete apart from the missing things torn out to protect the photograph collection of the original owner.

“1 KEY MISSING ON KEYBOARD”

And no “J” on the keyboard, although that’s hardly a big deal. Would suit person not called John.

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"SANTA'S ARMS DO NOT MOVE THIS MAY BE DUE TO IT BEING LOCKED IN PLACE DO NOT KNOW WHY "

May 14, 2012 – 11:30 am

moving-santa

Not only selling a broken Santa, but selling it in the middle of May for the lowest possible impact. We don’t know much about “SEO” and its workings, but suspect May is one of the slowest months in terms of people putting “Christmas figure” into search boxes.

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"THE SCREW ON THE LEFT SIDE NEEDS TIGHTENING UP WHICH CAN EASILY BE DONE WITH ONE OF THOSE TINY SCREWDRIVERS"

May 10, 2012 – 11:30 am

rayban-wayfarer-brokeded

And the most important part needs a large amount of fixing from a professional with one of those very big lens-making machines, unless you happen to have a lazy right eye that needs toughening up.

Do children still have lazy eyes these days, or is that sort of thing all fixed with a jab at birth now? It’s been a while since I last saw a poor, poor child having stones thrown at it because it had a plaster over half of its glasses.

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