Both of your points are easily remedied by asking for the item to be returned. And IMHO, getting a consumer to brick a ~£300 product is way worse an advertisement than having something faulty 'in circulation'.
asking for the item to be returned.
You seem to have skipped the second half of my comment.
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Both of your points are easily remedied by asking for the item to be returned. And IMHO, getting a consumer to brick a ~£300 product is way worse an advertisement than having something faulty 'in circulation'.