Gave up waiting to hear back from the fool TradeMe seller of my lemon VCR; just took a couple of minutes to leave some exquisitely-composed negative feedback on him:

The sort of idiot who'd sell you a VCR which requires the remote control in order to be able to be tuned, without the remote control. And then when you complain, suggest you sell it to some other sucker. And then stop responding to emails. And so on. Avoid him like the plague he is; may he never become not "broke-as".

Despite the great joy it would give me to drag his sorry ass down to Wellington - at his own expense - to answer a case in the Disputes Tribunal, I can't really conscionably spend that much of the public's money to do so; guess it's Safe Trader for this whigga for now on.