Test It Hard While You Can Still Return It

The parcel arrives and you are delighted. You set it up, use it gently for a fortnight, and then notice the speaker crackles. By then the return window has closed and you are in warranty territory instead. Warranty means forms โ€ฆ

Buying Secondhand Without Getting Stuck With It

Somebody in a listings app is selling exactly the thing you wanted. It looks fine in the photos and the price is very good indeed. You are already imagining it on your desk. Slow down for ten minutes, because those โ€ฆ

The Spec Sheet Says a Lot. Most of It Does Not Matter.

At the bottom of every product page there is a long table of technical rows. You scroll through it and understand a handful. Then you assume the one with more rows must be the better product. That assumption is exactly โ€ฆ