Ordinary Gweilo

Surely Braun are having a laugh when they claim to offer a 2 year guarantee on their Oral B battery-operated toothbrushes .  In my experience they become hopelessly unreliable after only a few months of usage.  Yes, you can fiddle around with them and prolong their life for a few more weeks, but after that you might as well throw them away.

I console myself with the fact that if you subtract the cost of the brushhead and the two batteries, the tube of plastic and the motor don’t really cost that much.

One day I’ll keep the receipt and try to return one of them when it stops working after 8 months.  No, I won’t, will I?  I’d probably have to return it to a Service Centre in Mong Kok or Kowloon Bay and queue up to take it back, and then go back and queue up again to collect it again when they’ve repaired it.  Too much trouble, lah.