Defective On Arrival

Defective On Arrival is an alternate interpretation of "D.O.A", which stands for "dead on arrival", a term used in medical context and with the alternative colloquial/trade meaning of "At the moment of receiving the item, it was damaged or defective to the point of not being usable".

It is frequently used for expliciting a kind of warranty when a customer buys an item that can't be checked before pay (for example, eBay buying), and at the moment of make an RMA (Return Merchandise Authorization).

Famous quotes containing the words defective and/or arrival:

    Governments which have a regard to the common interest are constituted in accordance with strict principles of justice, and are therefore true forms; but those which regard only the interest of the rulers are all defective and perverted forms, for they are despotic, whereas a state is a community of freemen.
    Aristotle (384–322 B.C.)

    For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure for the metaphysical journey.
    Joseph Brodsky (b. 1940)