Man that's a crack-up, and can I ever commiserate with him! I've tossed a few POS's myself.

My first real job was fixing stuff. I've always tried to fix instead of toss and buy anew, but it keeps getting harder. Now, when I'm assembling some new POS I've bought I can estimate about how long it will be before I'm throwing it away too.

I've actually gotten to the point where I hardly buy anything new. The last 5 times I went to China-Mart I didn't buy a thing. They either didn't have anything new I wanted, didn't have what I needed, or what they had wasn't worth getting.

The last big purchase I made was my Singer 99 Sewing machine that I got on eBay for under $100.00 bucks. I shouldn't have had to buy it because I bought a "Brothers" from China-Mart just a few years before for my wife for Mothers Day. She told me it really didn't work too good so she never used it. I got a bug to do some sewing and tried it out for myself. What a POS. That 56 year old Singer still kicks it out though.

I wonder how far a fellow can through a nearly new POS sewing machine? There ought to be a competition for stuff like that. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Bill