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Going shopping and just coming back with groceries...

Today I tried to purchase an Onkyo TX-SR503E receiver here in Nuremberg. I went to three subsidiaries of Media Markt (American Readers: similar to Fry's), to both Expert Tevi shops and Saturn. Even though all of these shops are supposed to sell Onkyo equipment, only one of the Tevi shops actually had it on display -- and only the exhibit of the smaller version (SR-502E) for the mail order price of the SR-503E. Every other shop just had Yamaha (which would be fine if I wouldn't have to pay EUR 50 more compared to Onkyo for the name alone), Sony (no way!), Kenwood (too expensive for me), Harman/Kardon (even more expensive) and Denon (no idea whether their products are good, but too expensive for what I was looking for, anyway.) I wasted four hours of time searching for the product I want. Never again, next time I'll mailorder it right away.

Travel advisory

After a not-so-nice experience of a co-worker I guess I'd better not travel with a backpack next time I visit the U.S... (The rant is by said colleague, not me.)