Mild electric shocks touching cover of Satellite L855-12N

hello
I bought a Satellite L855-12n (ice blue) two days ago. it kept stinging my skin like mild electric shocks when I touched the bottom left and right corners of the touchpad. It happened only when it is plugged in and I'm barefoot that led me to the conclusion that is an earthing problem.
I complained to the store but they didnt have a clue and nor did the Toshiba technical support..I tried it in different places and happened also to some friends of mine that checked it, so it's not a problem of my house's sockets.
The store at last e replaced it with another one but *the same thing happened*!!!!
even the model they have for display in the store did the same thing (i actually had to take my shoes off among all the customers to prove my point)
I'm very dissapointed and even thinking about a lawsuit if necessary for a refund . I asked a 3-pin adaptor from toshiba but they said I need to send it to their technical support offices and when that is done I'cant take a refund or exchange it with a new model so I'm taking a big risk here if it turns out that the changing of the adapter doesnt solve the problem.
any help?
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How many double post do you want to create?
It looks that you have already posted here:
http://forums.computers.toshiba-europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=68740
This phenomenon seems to be nothing unusual and appears in the wide computer world as reported by some people

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