Last month I bought from eBay a strange little electronic gadget called a Chumby, an item not yet on sale outside the United States.
Last month I bought from eBay a strange little electronic gadget called a Chumby, an item not yet on sale outside the United States. It worked happily for ten minutes and then died.

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