In a sense, you should insist on a refund. A transistor is a transistor. Absent the potential of a bias on the base your "back to back diodes" are as useless as a tit on a bull.
That's a nice straw man you've got there. "Absent the potential of a bias on the base" my hind end. Yeah, and "absent a battery a radio is just a hunk of metal and plastic". Like that disproves that radios work? Your squirming aside, if you take two PN junctions (diodes) and join them P-to-P or N-to-N, you will indeed have constructed a working transistor (although not a practical one if the middle of the "sandwich" is too thick). I presented specific facts and argument in the post to which you are responding, and I note you haven't attempted to refute a single one of them -- the best you can do is mouth off and make personally insulting remarks. Typical.
Take your sophistry elsewhere, we're not in the market today.
Did you take a course on "bull" in college as well? I hope the doping lecture was for the benefit of the general public because if it was intended for me, I can only chuckle.
I'm sure that *is* all you can do. Many of the rest of us are capable of a higher level of discourse, however.
I don't know what your problem is, but kindly do not continue to share it with us unless you've got something worthwhile to add to the conversation.
You don't have the requisite male anatomy to admit when you're wrong.
A battery is the source of potential dipstick, the base or gate of a transistor is an inherent component of same.
I repeat, get a refund forthwith.