Even if such a case went to court, the directors would have all sorts of excuses about market factors and other things outside of their control, which would make it difficult to get a conviction. As I recall, until very recently RARU had a notice on their website that their call centre was...
"middle-class suburb of Mostertsdrift" this guy's got to be joking. Looking on property24, the cost of a +-1400m2 (per his average) house in this "middle-class" suburb costs R14m.
Not really an issue for most online shopping deliveries in my opinion. Takealot always seem to deliver my items in ridiculously oversized boxes already. Possibly only items like credit cards may be an issue.
Sometimes I think Takealot only stock two sizes of box, large and extra large.
The...
My theory on this one is that it is related, probably a failsafe built in by the manufacturer. This is based on my own experience of experimenting with these UPS's, the design is specifically for a short run time.
Based on what I've seen running a 300w UPS on a load of around 100w for an hour...
I find that many older UPS's had fans. I had an old white Mecer UPS from the 1990's - a heavy metal case and really noisy! These days a noisy UPS is not seen as acceptable so they don't add a fan anymore. I modded a 650va UPS with a 102AH battery and after about an hour it started to run...
Not necessarily, it may also have gotten too hot. These units are not designed to run for so long and the smaller UPS's don't even have a fan to help keep temps under control.