OMFG ITS CHEAP AND NASTY AND ABOUT SECURE AS A COOKIE NEXT TO COOKIE MONSTER!

please can we stop banging on about statistics. Its 2.49 because its rubbish, if it wasn't it would be much more.

Rant over

It gets pretty decent reviews at £38. At £2.49, it's certainly not 'rubbish'...and I would go as far as to say that it is a bargain compared to some of the crap that gets posted on this website.
Rant over :wink:

P.S. TYPING IN CAPS LOCKS DOES NOT MAKE YOUR ARGUMENT ANY BETTER. IT JUST ANNOYING.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Master-Lock-5408D-Mini-Silver/dp/B0014EERFA/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&qid=1449400655&sr=8-12&keywords=master+lock+mini+key

Gets rightly slaughtered here, waste of money.

Master lock are the worst locks in the world they are all opened without a key in seconds

Considering those reviews are based on a price of £38.49 I'm not surprised that people feel grieved when screwfix have them for £2.49.
But anyway out of 108 reviews the majority 43% are 5*, 19% 4*, 20% 3*, 6% 2* and 12% 1*, so not quite as bad as you are trying to make out is it, and bear in mind £2.49.

In what way is less than half "a majority"‽

Just giving people the extra information they might need to make up their own minds.

There's nothing wrong with saying 'majority' in that context.

If we were analysing population metrics, and were looking at a hypothetical country where the break down was;

'Hispanic- 43%',
'Caucasian - 40%',
'Afro-American - 10%',
'Other - 7%'

....then the latter three would be considered 'minorities', and Hispanic, the majority.

He is correct in saying that the majority of votes are 5 star votes.

£5 delivery if no click and collect option near.

No, the majority of votes are not 5*. There are more votes that are not 5* than are 5*.

OMFG ITS CHEAP AND NASTY AND ABOUT SECURE AS A COOKIE NEXT TO COOKIE MONSTER!

please can we stop banging on about statistics. Its 2.49 because its rubbish, if it wasn't it would be much more.

Rant over

I usually find it works with idiots, hence your reply.

Omg I do not believe you!

Are you really 36 years old...?

The majority, 62%, rate the product as either a 5 or 4-star buy. Good enough for me.

True dat. No arguments there from me.

Ordered, because I can.

£2.49 or £38, if it's rubbish it's rubbish.
a lock can't be "good for the money", if it can be broken / broken into in seconds. that would mean it's not fit for purpose and if a would-be thief then got access to, say, your housekey then it's going to cost you a lot more than £2.49 in the long run.


having said all that, why do I still want one? :smile:

Think people have the wrong idea about this, obviously not a high security item, but handy for keeping say your desk , filing cabinet or locker key in at home or in the office, better than just throwing it in an open draw.. Even mange to get a USB stick in the one I bought.

It's only got three dials, so wouldn't take long to guess the correct combination.

My eyes must be getting bad, the image looks a bit like a breast pump at first.

If the 3 dials only go from 1-6 then there's only 216 possible combinations. Trying one a second it's going to take you 1 min 48 seconds on average, without any tools needed. Perhaps just long enough to make any would-be thief decide he can't be bothered, but not exactly high security.

Seems to be out of stock now.

But we aren't talking hypotheticals, which, like statistics, can be twisted to suit any required outcome, this is real life ;-)

People got really carried away with one word Majority , Dictionary states that majority is the largest part or number of a group of items. People confusing "Majority" with "Overall Majority" which require over 50%

The word you are looking for is "plurality".

No not looking for any word or words at all , deal is for Master Lock Portable Mini Key Safe Combi Lock and that's it,

And I've just made some mince pies.
But none of this changes the definition of "majority".

Troll

Well at least you are consistent in your ignorance of definitions and eagerness to change the subject.

Yep definitely a Troll