AFAIK auction houses are treated as second-hand goods dealers, and are not under the same obligations as the manufacturers or distributors of a product might be.
A lot of consumer electronics goods arrive in Australia with non-standard, usually european plugs, due to the costs and logistics of a doing a seperate production run, especially the more exotic HI-Fi gear. Most other countries will have safety regulations as stringent as here, so as long as it's intended to work with 240V 50Hz it's probably OK. The 'c-tick' mark now required on electrical goods relates to standards for the levels of electromagnetic interference generated by or inflicted upon devices. 99.9% of the time a well designed product sold elsewhere will pass these tests (which are not cheap to have done). If they won't take it back, or you can't be bothered posting it, I'd replace the plug, and buy a US-style power board or a couple of IEC leads, which you can get here fairly easily. Felix -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
