{"id":349,"date":"2010-10-11T10:22:20","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T15:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ziegelbaur\/?p=349"},"modified":"2010-10-11T10:22:20","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T15:22:20","slug":"dont-judge-an-appliance-by-its-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ziegelbaur\/?p=349","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Judge an Appliance by its Box"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_350\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-350\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2010\/10\/Instructions-1-small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-350\" title=\"Instructions 1 small\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2010\/10\/Instructions-1-small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"367\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-350\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Promotional points of my new electric hot pot. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Last week I bought a new electric hot pot.\u00a0 I could tell right away on reading the promo bits on the box that it was going to be a high quality appliance since point No. 2 is &#8220;the function is stable and the service life is long&#8221;\u00a0 However, when I used it the first time, it did not &#8220;cut the power the safe system automatically&#8221; and in fact, water ran all over the counter from the bottom of the pot\u00a0when\u00a0it heated.\u00a0 So in the end, even if according to point #4 &#8220;Multi layer safe protection system&#8221;, it did not &#8220;ensure you can trust the usage.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While the outside of the box was amusing, if not impossible to understand, the instruction pamphlet inside the box was in very clear English, with alternate Russian language instructions.\u00a0 Most useful in French Cameroon&#8230; not.\u00a0 And no indication was given anywhere on the box, appliance or instructions as to where it was manufactured.\u00a0 Obviously whoever wrote the promo bits on the box was not a speaker of English.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_351\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-351\" style=\"width: 446px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2010\/10\/Instructions-2-small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-351\" title=\"Instructions 2 small\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2010\/10\/Instructions-2-small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"309\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-351\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">More promotional points on the box<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ziegelbaur?moderation_action=report_form&object_type=post&object_id=349&width=250&height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Last week I bought a new electric hot pot.\u00a0 I could tell right away on reading the promo bits on the box that it was going to be a high quality appliance since point No. 2 is &#8220;the function is stable and the service life is long&#8221;\u00a0 However, when I used it the first&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[190],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cameroon-life"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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