What Is 'Approximate' for Adv Purposes?

[Chuck Harris]

Ban wrote:

Actually there's enough room in one box to consolidate five or six more
into it. Hmmm... I need some more boxes for small parts storage.
Also, these damn nuts & bolts are metric, and you just know how much we
Americans hate those metric screws. ;-)

Oh Metric!

Let's see, 126 x 2.54 = 320.04

See, they were counting in metric.

-Chuck

 

[JeffM]

that's why they were in the 99-cent store- they were

incorrectly marked back in China, hence became a liquidation lot.
Spehro Pefhany

Yup. It's the same reason you can get powdered drink mix there
at 1/3 the price you would pay elsewhere.
It failed the weigh station at the end of the assembly line
--or, to interpret Speff's comment: ALL YOUR BOLTS ARE BELONG TO US.

 

[William P.N. Smith]

"Watson A.Name \"Watt Sun - the Dark Remover\""

Also, these damn nuts & bolts are metric

You got 100+ metric nuts and bolts for $1? Wish I could do that!

 

[Dave VanHorn]

My box was labelled with 125.

It's also clearly labeled "Stove bolts" yet it contains nuts.
Seems a bit light for 125, just looking, but there are a lot of nuts.

 

[Spehro Pefhany]

It's also clearly labeled "Stove bolts" yet it contains nuts.
Seems a bit light for 125, just looking, but there are a lot of nuts.

1.8 Euros, though. That's about double the cost in LA, even taking
sales taxes into account.

Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany

 

[Richard Freeman]

Actually there's enough room in one box to consolidate five or six more
into it. Hmmm... I need some more boxes for small parts storage.
Also, these damn nuts & bolts are metric, and you just know how much we
Americans hate those metric screws. ;-)

METRIC???? you mean you can buy metric screws ??? I live in a supposedly
Metric country (Australia) and they are not easy to get hold of here.

 

[Frank Bemelman]

1.8 Euros, though. That's about double the cost in LA, even taking
sales taxes into account.

Seems that you folks get all the cheap screws

 

[Watson A.Name - \Watt Sun, the Dark Remover\]

"Watson A.Name - \"Watt Sun, the Dark Remover\""

No it's not, 126 base 10 is 330 base 6, so you got 30 base 6 (18 base
10) more parts than you paid for. Please take the extra parts back
and complain. 8*)

Did you count the top and bottom of the box separately, and any
dividers, stickers, wrapping, etc?

8*)

Heh-heh. You've been eatin' too many funny pills lately!
Slap! Slap! There, consider yourself spanked with a wet noodle.

Man, now I remember. I knew there was one thing I really disliked about
those college math classes. Converting vrom base 10, to some other
arbitrary base. Like base four...

 

[Watson A.Name - \Watt Sun, the Dark Remover\]

He just wants to be an asshole. Er, I mean, uh, curmudgeon.

Tim

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More like a consumer who got ripped off. And no, I don't wanna be.

 

[Watson A.Name - \Watt Sun, the Dark Remover\]

Take a scale and weigh a bunch of 'em. The difference between 126 and
300 should be readily apparent.
99cent stores are fun. Read the labels. On those items that actually
meet labeling requirements, you'll find the concentrations of active
ingredients is way less than you'd expect from a "normal" brand...
for those that actually have active ingredients. What's
normally a 16 oz bottle is only 13oz.
mike

--

Speaking of 99 cent stores, there was a good article today in The O.C.
Register about Mexican candy. Seems that the stuff made for export to
the U.S. is lead free, but they found that the stuff they sell down
south of the border is contaminated with lead. And now they find that
some stores here in So. Calif are selling the leaded version!

Some of the ladies shop at the 99 cent stores when the candy days like
halloween, xmas and valentines day come around. At work they put bowls
of the cheap mexican candy out for everyone. I'm probably getting more
lead into my system from candy than from soldering all the time!

 

[Watson A.Name - \Watt Sun, the Dark Remover\]

I's like when you go to Walgreens and need a small spray bottle.
Empty, it costs $1.99, but full of some crap you don't need, it's 99
cents.

John

Yeah, I noitced that! I went down to the bargain store, I think it was
Pic'N'Save (now Big Lots!) and bought some spray bottles full of cleaner
for less than the empty ones. Also, I bought some of that "Awesome",
which is the 99 cent store equivalent to Fantastic, for the bottle, but
I found that the juice inside actually works fairly well.

 

[Watson A.Name - \Watt Sun, the Dark Remover\]

Oh Metric!

Let's see, 126 x 2.54 = 320.04

See, they were counting in metric.

-Chuck

Or was it 39.37??

I grabbed one nut out of the box and tried to screw it onto one of the
bolts. It wouldn't thread onto the bolt, so I grabbed another bolt.
Same thing, it wouldn't work. Then I looked closer at the nut, and it
had _no_ threads inside!!!

Well, I tried a bunch of the other nuts, and they all were threaded
properly. So I must have just picked the only dud. And that brings me
down to only 126 pieces. ;-)

I guess one might conclude that that company has very poor quality
control.

Our old resident curmudgeon at work, Burt, used to tell me, "Well you
know there's no shortage of nuts around here!" Ol' Burt succumbed to
cancer a few years ago, might have been '99. Sometimes I think back and
wish he was still around so we could shoot the breeze on occasion.

 

[Watson A.Name - \Watt Sun, the Dark Remover\]

Yup. It's the same reason you can get powdered drink mix there
at 1/3 the price you would pay elsewhere.
It failed the weigh station at the end of the assembly line
--or, to interpret Speff's comment: ALL YOUR BOLTS ARE BELONG TO US.

If you want to see some good ones like that, go to www.engrish.com and
read some of the T-shirts. I got one of their "NO SMORKING" T-shirts.
No, those are not typos above. ;-)

 

[Watson A.Name - \Watt Sun, the Dark Remover\]

in message
METRIC???? you mean you can buy metric screws ??? I live in a supposedly
Metric country (Australia) and they are not easy to get hold of here.

Well, they're easy to find here in LA. Just walk down the gutter and
pick up the ones that fall off all the rice burners that are on the
street. ;-)

That's why they say,
"Kawasaki, made of tin;
You drive them out, and push 'em in!"

 

[Mjolinor]

Or was it 39.37??

I grabbed one nut out of the box and tried to screw it onto one of the
bolts. It wouldn't thread onto the bolt, so I grabbed another bolt.
Same thing, it wouldn't work. Then I looked closer at the nut, and it
had _no_ threads inside!!!

Well, I tried a bunch of the other nuts, and they all were threaded
properly. So I must have just picked the only dud. And that brings me
down to only 126 pieces. ;-)

I guess one might conclude that that company has very poor quality
control.

Our old resident curmudgeon at work, Burt, used to tell me, "Well you
know there's no shortage of nuts around here!" Ol' Burt succumbed to
cancer a few years ago, might have been '99. Sometimes I think back and
wish he was still around so we could shoot the breeze on occasion.

FYI, a nut without a thread is called a "washer"

 

[Mjolinor]

Well, they're easy to find here in LA. Just walk down the gutter and
pick up the ones that fall off all the rice burners that are on the
street. ;-)

That's why they say,
"Kawasaki, made of tin;
You drive them out, and push 'em in!"

I have the reverse problem, working for a US company with US made boxes that
mount up electricity poles. When you drop a nut in the grass it's everyone
on your knees and find it because there is no way to find a replacement in
the UK for those UNF bolts.

 

[loedown]

Hi All,
I live in Australia too and I find them really easy to get

Bunnings Warehouse

Universal Bolt Bloke

etc

Paul

 

[Dave VanHorn]

I grabbed one nut out of the box and tried to screw it onto one of the
bolts. It wouldn't thread onto the bolt, so I grabbed another bolt.
Same thing, it wouldn't work. Then I looked closer at the nut, and it
had _no_ threads inside!!!

I've seen worse.. How about a solenoid plunger that isn't magnetic!

 

[Mark Fergerson]

I stopped by a 99 cent store to grab some wire ties, and I also grabbed
a box of "BOLTS & NUTS 300 PCS APPROX" also for 99 cents, mainly because
I wanted the compartmented box itself, not the hardware.

I got home and popped open the lid, and said, No way! That sure doesn't
look like 300 pieces! I counted 126 pieces in all, which is
considerably less than 300!

So what does approxzimate mean, for advertising purposes? Should one
consider the tolerance + or - 10 percent? 20 percent? 50 percent? In
this case, even at 50 percent, 126 pieces fails the test, since it's
less than half of 300. Where does one draw the line and determine that
it's a flagrant violation of advertising?

Could just be an extreme example of the "competence" of
Chinese label translators; they might have meant "grams"
instead of "pieces". What's the box weigh full?

Mark L. Fergerson

 

[Tim Williams]

More like a consumer who got ripped off. And no, I don't wanna be.

Ripped off what? Ain't no one understand "you get what you pay for" no
more? Hehe

Tim