Interesting thread. I ordered a Squeezebox 3 from Datakits Ltd earlier this week, and when it turned up, it had a modular power supply, consisting of the main switch-mode power-supply along with a clip-on set of "prongs" to allow the power-supply to plug into a US power outlet. Datakits had also included a US to UK travel adaptor in the external packaging. So, I assume that they are buying these Squeezeboxes in the US and shipping them here, and taking advantage of the poor dollar-pound currency rates.
Personally I've no real issue with US kit as I often import stuff from the US myself - however, I suspect Logitech may be less happy with a company doing this on a commercial basis. In addition, I would have liked to have known this wasn't UK stock in advance - it wasn't made clear *anywhere* on Datakits website. Finally, although the US-style Logitech power supply is a universal voltage switch-mode design, it doesn't really fit very well into the travel adaptor Datakits supplied, and doesn't seem very secure, which raises some issues around safety for me. Having now seen some of the comments on here about Datakits customer service my view is that I'll just contact Logitech on Monday and buy a set of "UK-prongs" for the power supply (or a new power-supply if I can't get just the "UK prongs" on their own). For anyone who is interested, mine is all Logitech branded (player and packaging), the player and remote appear to be the latest design, and it came in a black box, with plastic protector film on the unit. No signs of it having been opened, resealed, or tampered with in any way. P/N is 830-000012, with a MAC address of 00:04:20:12:0D:3B. And it works beautifully :) Cheers Richard -- SixedUp ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SixedUp's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13452 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38982 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
