Recapturing my youth
e-bay hasn’t always been kind to me.

I bought.

‘easy to program’ Big Trak (because I’d always wanted one as a kid but they were too expensive)

The Big Trak Trailer (less expensive than ‘easy to program’ Big Trak, but not much use on its own. I mean, how can I get the trailer to deliver an apple to my old man without the ‘easy to program’ Big Trak to do all the donkey work)

Anyway, a boxed, mint condition ‘easy to program’ Big Trak cost me sixty quid, the ‘easy to program’ Big Trak trailer was another thirty odd. Including postage, I was down over a one-er.

So, the big day arrives and ‘easy to program’ Big Trak turns up. That’ll be the ‘mint condition’ ‘easy to program’ Big Trak I’ve bought from e-bay, and it was in mint condition, condition that made it look like it has just come off the production line, in fact, ‘easy to program’ Big Trak looked fantastic. There was only one thing missing.

The instructions

The seller doesn’t want to know, claiming there were never any instructions with it, e-bay can’t help me because there are on instructions for sale there and MB Games don’t seem to exist anymore, so it wasn’t like I could write to them and ask them to send me the instructions for a toy they’d not made for 20 years.

Eventually, I get some basic instructions and get the thing going.

It is absolutely rubbish. How they could market such a piece of shit so well to be at the top of most peoples Christmas list is beyond me. It moves – sometimes – it turns – randomly – the wheels don’t like a lino floor, the beeping noise it makes goes from occasional to constant and the biggest bug-bear.

The batteries last about 30 minutes tops.

So, I did what any normal person who bought something from e-bay and has worked out, that, despite its cost, it’s actually useless.

Yeap, over £100.00 of white and black plastic is currently sitting in landfill somewhere.

Mullered
Who was amazed at the level of anger he achieved from a simple white car/moon-buggy type thing.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 22 May 2009, 14:03, 10 replies)

This should be a public information message...
I've always desperately wanted a Big Trak, I'd gladly have given up a kidney to own one...

...now this...

Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, thank you...
( SpankyHanky, Fri 22 May 2009, 14:09, closed)

Don't normal people
just stick it back on eBay?
( uberdeity Wondered why Owen Lars knew of the term "hell" on, Fri 22 May 2009, 14:14, closed)

It's not normal
To be organised enough to take any items to the post office, correctly packaged, with the right address of the recipient - having checked they've paid the correct amount before paying the correct postage and then going back home to wait for feedback.

That's not normal behaviour at all, I'd rather bin it and be skint than stand in a post office amongst the piss-smelling Grannies.

Just my opinon you understand. :-)

Mullered.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 22 May 2009, 14:17, closed)

parcelforce and DHL etc.
come and pick things up from you. all you need to do is stuff it in the box that some other junk you've bought came in, and let them take it away.

and make a tidy profit on the shipping costs as well
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 22 May 2009, 14:32, closed)

I'll look into that
Cheers.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 22 May 2009, 14:34, closed)

'easy to program' Big Trak IS 'easy to program'
It should work on lino as long as the middle wheels still have their rubber band thing round them.

Also, Big Trak is the easiest thing in the world to program. You just enter the direction followed by a number. When going forward and back, the numbers equate to Big Trak lengths and when rotating they equate to degrees.
(planetmatt, Fri 22 May 2009, 14:30, closed)

It's too late for that!
I binned it some time ago.

How long did your batteries last when you had one?
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 22 May 2009, 14:35, closed)

Batteries
Don't remember but it was longer than 30mins. They drain faster when you run the BT on carpet due to the increased resistance. If you still have a 70's shag pile carpet, that might account for the 30min power drain.
(planetmatt, Fri 22 May 2009, 16:19, closed)

errrr
www.thebigtrak.com/manuals/BigTrak/bt2.htm ?
(Tibble off the crack since, Fri 22 May 2009, 14:45, closed)

Keep in mind...
That this was about 10 years ago.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 22 May 2009, 15:16, closed)