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Martin Lewis shares ‘Sad Fart’ trick to remember your rights over faulty goods
The Independent
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7/1/2025
Martin Lewis' 'Sad Fart' trick to identify faulty itemsThis Morning, ITV
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In 2002, on my way to the Jeremy Vine Radio 2 show,
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because I was trying to work this out,
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I came up with a mnemonic that has now gone everywhere
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and I've been using it 20 years and it works well.
00:11
Be a sad fart, everybody.
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Here we go.
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So...
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It's catchy, isn't it?
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It is, yeah.
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Very catchy.
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An item must be of satisfactory quality,
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as described, yes, you're sad,
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fit for purpose, I cheated on the next bit,
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and last a reasonable length of time.
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If not, it's faulty.
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So anything you buy must be of satisfactory quality,
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makes total sense, must be what's described.
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So, for example, if it says it will work for an iPhone,
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the speaker, and then you get it home and it only works for Android,
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they say, oh, it only works for Android,
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and it said it worked for an iPhone, it wasn't as described,
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so it's faulty, right?
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It's that type of thing, fit for purpose
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and last a reasonable length of time.
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You can see the difficult one here, can't you?
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Yes.
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A reasonable length of time.
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So what defines a reasonable amount of time?
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What a reasonable person says is reasonable.
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