More likely, stores have real assets they could loose if someone sues them and wins.
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More likely, stores have real assets they could loose if someone sues them and wins.
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Yes. I believe HD (maybe Lowe’s, maybe Ace, maybe all of them?) got sued a few years ago over a similar device they were selling called a “Green Plug” or some such BS. A smart person with a smart lawyer went after the national retailer for fraud because it / they had deep enough pockets to make it worth the trouble. Suing a Chinese company that has no legal presence in your country is a total waste of time.
kwired
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Such stores have plenty of "junk" they sell and not just in the electrical dept. that if isn't fraudulent is pretty close to it.
K8MHZ
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When I was a young'un, our POCO was named 'Consumers Power'.
It is now 'Consumers Energy'.
kwired
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Doesn't their operations involve both power and energy?When I was a young'un, our POCO was named 'Consumers Power'.
It is now 'Consumers Energy'.
Tony S
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jraef will probably remember from another forum a scam were a lightly loaded motor would automatically swap from delta to star. Again supposedly to save energy, it made absolutely no difference but people still bought them.
Let's ditch star-delta starters...........
ggunn
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Precisely. I should have put "understands" in quotes.
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