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...according to the Cambridge Fire Department’s Fire Prevention Bureau—do they even constitute a particularly notable fire hazard (there are many microwaves available that are cheaper than the HSA microfridge and run on a lower wattage, low wattage being the alleged reason for the microfridge??€™s safe and legal status). Rather, it is the state sanitary code, which has nothing to do with fire safety, that forbids cooking appliances of any kind in dormitories. However, a follow-up letter to the editor, printed on Oct. 15, 2002, notes that an amendment to state...
...Rentals rents the microfridge??€”which HSA General Manager Robert Rombauer says makes up over 50 percent of its business—for $250 per year, plus deposit. This price is only slightly less than the cost of buying the microfridge online...
...what about HSA’s microfridge??€”is that forbidden as well...
HSA’s rentals agency owes most of its cash flow to the microfridge??€™s success. They rent it for one year for almost the same price it would cost a student to buy one new from the manufacturer, and the rest is profit. Without the microfridge, HSA Rentals would be left hawking window fans, lamps, and computers, and they don’t have a monopoly on any of those...
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