Say you get an android housekeeper, top of the line, but it keeps burning the toast and putting the dishes in the laundry machine? What do you do? I mean *after* you thank the deity of your choice that you decided not to go with the nanny droid. Well, even if you got it used, you're protected by the lemon law. So you go back to the dealer and say the droid's a lemon, and you bring it back in. The dealer processes all the paperwork, accepts the return, and is now forbidden by law from selling the droid without a "good-faith" repair. You know droids. That repair's going to cost a third as much as the droid did originally, probably three-quarters as much as the dealer paid for it, and he can't just add that cost to the droid price. Nobody'll pay it. Plus he has to disclose that repair had to be made after a lemon return, so probably nobody would buy it anyway, and he'd be out all that money. But he can't just junk the droid. It's still sentient enough, and functional, and burnt toast and smashed dishes can hardly be framed as a danger to society. That's when he sends it here.


Inspiration: Googled "moss," skipped 10, and found a consumer law center.
Story Potential: High.
Notes: Always important to remember that the technology of the future will still break down! I like this as a setting idea; it's got lots of potential for wacky hijinks/horrible things.