In the past 2 weeks i have made 2 rather safe purchases and they both turned out to be defective products. And both were advertized as MINT and Like New. One was a verizon cell phone for my daughter and the buttons flat out just didn't work.

Then i bought a coffee pot that i needed for work..it was a $100 pot that was "used once" but was being sold as ALMOST new...it arrives and looks OK, i throw in some water to run thru the system....and water starts gushing out from where the level indicator is....

I know times are getting tough...but lets not start selling our own garbage folks