We had a really good turnout - there were apparently over a hundred appointments booked, along with walkins, so it was pretty constant until late in the day. The final hour was slower, which was good, because I was #reassembling a really #fiddly #mechanism. It was a stupidly-expensive <object identifying data deleted> received by the client as a gift, and oh boy did it fit the profile for these sorts of things.
If I had one piece of advice to give people about buying household "stuff", it's that super-duper-everyone's-talking-about-it very-expensive Thing that does what many other common cheap equivalent Things do is probably not worth the money.
In general, they turn out to be #expensive not because they are made better - in fact, they're frequently made much worse, because it's by small companies that either don't know how to make a product in that category, or they don't care to know. They end up designing it very strangely and inefficiently, in a way that's difficult to manufacture and with strange choices of parts which cost far more than the standard versions used in virtually every similar product. They're expensive because (a) they're not designed for ease of manufacture, and (b) they put all their money into marketing.
e.g. the $500 #Dyson hair dryer, or the $1000 #Juicero bag-squeezer (really).
Anyway, this Thing was overcomplicated, did one thing with just an on-off switch, no controls - but contained a computer, for no reason.
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