Accidentally ripped off Dualit.
I like my coffee, me.

Love it in fact, so decided to buy a nice shiny proper espresso machine.

Fired up ebay, and bought a second hand Dualit espresso machine, thinking 'hey, if they make good toasters, the coffee is bound to be good.'

Machine arrived, no problems and I fired it up.
It made shit coffee. No crema, not enough pressure, and no way of knowing if it was hot enough meaning you sometime got a cold espresso.

Thinking Dualit couldn't possibly make a product this shit, I rang them up and said I'd bought one of their machines and it seems to be a bit rubbish and I think it might be broken. I didn't mention it was second hand, but the nice lady on the other end said 'no problem, send it back and we'll fix it, no charge.'

Ace. So, I box it up and send it back. A week or so later I get a letter basically saying 'no, the machine is supposed to be that rubbish - you'll be getting your coffee machine back soon'.

So I wait, and it never turns up. Dualit's despatch dept must be just a huge pile of random boxes, as they'd no idea what had happened to it when I called, so they said 'ok, we messed up, we'll send you another new one.'

Result, so I get a brand new dualit espresso machine. Which is shit.
So that goes straight onto ebay as a brand new espresso machine and I get 50 or so more quids than I bought it for.

Then, a few days later, my dippy neighbour mentions she has a parcel for me that the postie dropped off about a month ago...

My original coffee machine! Yay, that goes on ebay and I'm well up.

So I buy a nice brand new awesome proper Italian Gaggia espresso machine that makes proper good coffee.

Felt a little bit guilty, but it was masked by the caffiene buzz.
(inflateable, Mon 22 Oct 2007, 17:43, 2 replies)

mmmmmm.....
coffee....love coffee
( flirting with badgers What? It sounded good at the time., Tue 23 Oct 2007, 1:26, closed)

toaster
I got three Dualit toasters in almost exactly the same way. One just turned up at the door addressed to some fictional house, i couldnt find it so kept it. It broke, they sent me a new one, and the old one fixed. Then a third one turned up a year later. 2 went for £100+ on ebay. Result. They make fucking AWESOME toast though. Seriously, better than other toasters. No one believes me though, except my brother who is a true believer. but i swear to god, it makes better toast. its not *just* toast. Honest
( I have run out of coke is a little sweaty, Tue 23 Oct 2007, 15:45, closed)