Chinese e-tailer claimed 14-inch box stretched the size of a 9-inch tablet
REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); The tech team’s resident pimply-faced youth (PFY) was therefore given the job of finding a cheaper alternative. He therefore opened a dispute with the sellers, who asked to see a picture of the machine.“I duly sent one showing a tape measure rolled out to nine inches,” Rohan wrote. That deal meant Rohan’s company would end up owning a tablet it couldn’t use, for just $60.“The moral of the story is to school your PFYs on the folly of believing things that are too good to be true,” Rohan advised.Have you been too optimistic when shopping for work kit online?
- ▪REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); The tech team’s resident pimply-faced youth (PFY) was therefore given the job of finding a cheaper alternative.
- ▪He therefore opened a dispute with the sellers, who asked to see a picture of the machine.“I duly sent one showing a tape measure rolled out to nine inches,” Rohan wrote.
- ▪That deal meant Rohan’s company would end up owning a tablet it couldn’t use, for just $60.“The moral of the story is to school your PFYs on the folly of believing things that are too good to be true,” Rohan advised.Have you been too optimi
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| Publication time | Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:30:00 +0200 |
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(function() { let windowUrl = window.location.href; windowUrl = windowUrl.substring(windowUrl.indexOf('?') + 1); let messageElement = document.querySelector('.shareableMessage'); if (windowUrl && windowUrl.includes('code') && windowUrl.includes('expires')) { messageElement.style.display = 'block'; } })(); offbeat Chinese e-tailer claimed 14-inch box stretched the size of a 9-inch tablet This is why you don’t let junior staff ‘save the company a few dollars’ Simon Sharwood Simon Sharwood APAC Editor Published mon 15 Jun 2026 // 08:30 UTC WHO, ME? Welcome to another instalment of Who, Me? It’s The Reg’s reader-contributed column in which you admit to mistakes and reveal your escapes!This week, meet a reader we’ll Regomize as “Rohan” who told us that a few years back he worked on the IT side…
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