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i sit up one day, and realize amazon has become a bit shit. i want a bean bag chair, and it's promptly sensory overload. there are chairs for $30 and $40 and $80 and $150 and $200 and $250 and many of them actually look quite the same. they all have 4.5+ star reviews. i opt not to buy any of them. less fortunate was my voyage with a wifi-to-ethernet bridge. all it had to do was outperform my piece of shit netgear whatever from 2015 by a dozen megabits or three, and i would have just kept it and had no complaint. but, no, it's the worst piece of shit ever, no configuration, it insists on putting the ethernet port on its own weird subnet (192.168.10.*) and there is absolutely no way to change it. this is what i find after thirty minutes of cursing to the engrish in the interface and trying to even get it to talk to the router after all this, right next to the router, it is _slower_ than the 2015 turd that crashes thrice a day, 20-30ft away. i admittedly got a bit sauced, at this point, and wrote up a scathing review. initiate the return process. i still have to drive to kohl's with a QR code, and who knows if i'll get my money back. i log back in the next day to see if i still feel the same way, only to find my review has disappeared into the void. unavailable. no comment. did returning it cancel the review? is this some dodgy shit? one other product on my "home networking" list suddenly changes brand names, and i think: yeah, this is probably one of those deals where it's the same chipset in five dozen pieces of crap and they're all pieces of crap and they just keep switching brand names to dodge the brutal reviews and how am i to sort this shit out from what's deece on amazon with all the review gaming; i can't even rant about how shit something is without it being like jaws taking down my review like a lure along with the boat |
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isn't this all because you're an obstinate old goat who insists on using ethernet jacks on his computers |
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no, just a normal person who thinks 45mbit from this piece of shit that had glowing reviews on amazon, when my work laptop clears hundreds of mbit. but the best results are always with a wired connection, and i don't mean in general, i mean i went around and tried it out to sure here let's steal discord's bandwidth will it work? we'll see. could be a nice new file host for us |
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maybe look at using a smaller MTU I have an archer a6 it's good it gets me movies real fast |
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i think the answer is to just run some wires meself even if a router is ace it's still another hop, another CPU speed, another config process, in between you and the things |
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I don't give amazon any money, I think they are evil. People = consumers, who just mindlessly buy all sorts of cheap garbage there. And, what do we see? More cheap garbage. Strange. |
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can you jump the shark... when you are the shark? something to ponder |
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as long as there is another shark available to jump -- yes, a shark can jump the shark |
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who you buy from is more important than who you vote for. |
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what video streaming service defines me as a person? |
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pornhub. |
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thats right baby! it pisses me off when people think that politics is still a legitimate form of civic participation. You should only buy things or not buy things. thats the real voting |
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voting is equally useless tbh |
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your dreams define you as a person |
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based |
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based.tv, i like it, let's get a prospectus together |
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lol, domain is taken and it is some knockoff maga merch site |
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however, based.health is available for 49% off the usual rate |
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voting against laws is essential. consumers dont have the same effect as laws. i could buy meat from the farm and talk about it for the rest of my life. still the laws empower a meat factory with two thousand migrant workers living incarcerated in dorms slaughtering 25.000 pigs a day. its the same with any other food. the only thing i can choose is what i put into my body. what others do is their decision. the world we live in is the result of all our accumulated decisions. we are doomed. |
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yeah funnily amazon just had one of their shops schemes leaked. worked like this: 1. buy product via paypal 2. rate 5 stars 3. send screenshot to shop 4. get a full refund via paypal 5. keep the good one shop had 7000 of those screenshots in a link to the press. |
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this is what you get when you pay your workers shit, and treat them worse |
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amazons really bad now try buying something like some electric appliance or basic electronic equipment. they have all these cheap made in china products from different "brands" no 1 ever heard of, they all are exactly the same just with a different logo on it, cuz there all made in the same factory its terrible most of the time i just go to target and buy whatever they have |
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agree 100% price gouging also a problem -- you can use amazon to dodge the grocery store and whatever a bit, but there's always a bunch of jerks gouging prices, first time i started to keep grocery store receipts, price seems too high it probably is, can go check. then shit like -- a six-pack of mortite brand rope caulk for $30, cool, home depot charges ~$6 per pack and now i don't have to go to home depot for this. then it arrives after FOREVER and they have sent me one pack, not six, but one for the price of six. fuck. the fuck. off. i return it to kohls. i hope they have to pay to ship that single stupid box of rope caulk back to china or whatevs so, yeah. even if it's name-brand and you're minding prices, you can still get flagrantly fucked. i have actually never returned anything to amazon until a few months ago, but i've started to, with the kohl's thing. used to be you'd get mildly scammed and think "ah well" but it's become so flagrant and frequent that i feel like pointedly engaging the returns process is the only valuable means of feedback i have being careful, though, a lot of stuff is still fine. |
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dont forget in many cases all the products in stores around here come in from the very same factory in china, with retailers just slapping different logos on it, triple the price to pay for employees and expensive storage space in our country. totally useless in the case of cables and stuff you know your shit about. i find this rather annoying and feel entrapped between making the choice between buying dirt cheap but supporting the bad working conditions overseas and producing unneccessary packaging waste for the last 5km of travel OR buying twice the price in a store that ultimately supports the very same bad working conditions overseas anyway. world economy needs to grow together to stop that shit. either we pay he rest of the world what it works for or we need to start over to produce our shit ourselves again. import taxes or other forms of import laws are the only way i can think of how governments could make this hapen, but then we couldnt consume the world at a discount right? |
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heres more proof of its fraudulence |
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i am trying to sleep sometime early in the morning, and smoke detectors know when you're sleeping, because that's when they run out of batteries and start intermittently beeping, forcing you to go around in a sleep-fogged haze, waiting for it to beep again, gradually honing in on which freaking one it is over the course of couple minutes of intermittent beeping, shivering, in your pajamas, and, yes, this one is like ten feet up or so, where's the step ladder so i order some AA batteries off Amazon, like, Thursday or something. I check after work and it says "delivered," reasonably quick, ok. but it is not delivered. it is not anywhere. i go back and punch up the tracking number on the usps site, and it says: delivered at the reception area, ten towns, three counties, and a 35 minute drive away from where you live. 'package was not delivered' i click. it tells me to wait until it's been three days past the worst-case delivery date, or the order is marked delivered. fuck you, that's why i'm on this stupid page! i click "contact seller" and it promptly funnels me into a conversation with a chatbot. i fight with their stupid Smart Assistant for a bit; eventually it redirects me to the same page that tells me to fuck off. but, this time, when i again click "contact seller" i get a textbox. thank god. i write a polite note telling them they've sent it to the wrong address. it's entirely possible they're just being reaalllly how-ya-doin with shipping, and someone in a sad beat-up compact sedan will throw it at my house tomorrow, after picking it up from that other place, which could be some delivery hub. and they put in the tracking number to ship from somewhere to there, but to my house, oh, why bother? it was slated for dec 8-11 |
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what else is there? i might cave and get a BJ's membership ~ |
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I am sorry. It looks there was a glitch on the amazon back end. Your order was shipped to the correct address It looks there there is some delay with the carrier. Can yo please give it till 8pm your local time tomorrow. If you do not have it by then I will reship and expedite it for the trouble yeah i think i called it arriving tomorrow is within the promised range, perfectly acceptable, another two days even would be. but i still feel kind of dicked around after going around with a flashlight to see if they just threw it on the walkway or something, craning over to see my neighbor's porch, thinking about asking, no, let's check it first, fighting with amazon's web site. and today has already been full of this stuff. a bird in my garage. hey, bird. yo, bird. no, that's the wrong direction. the way out of the garage is that way. no, bird, under the garage door, not over it. bird, no. that is a window. you can't fly through a window. bird, you are are a moron |
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I finally got the batteries, but they are a seed of drama growing into a drama tree. here is the scene last gnite: I'm always cringing as I put the battery into a smoke detector -- waiting for it to deafen me with a beep. However, installing the finally-delivered batteries, things seem mercifully quiet. I relax and begin to carry it towards where it's suppos- *BLAP!!* WELCOME! TO FIRST ALERT! TO SET LOCATION, PRESS THE TEST BUTTON! *BLAP!! and it yaks some more, at deafening volume. I think: "Oh, when the power winked out two months ago, this was the freaking thing that was making a racket and talking once it came back on, at 4am." I muffle it in a jacket until it finishes chattering. It is 11:30pm, after all. Finally, it is quiet. Alirght! Let's go to the stairs, and try to plug it in. Is the cable... do I have that backwards? I'm squinting at it, when *BLAPP!!* it starts yelling again. No, nevermind. I'm not plugging this in right now. It's liable to set all the alarms off; call the fire department. Report me to the FBI. the smoke detectors are literally wired into my landlord's house next door, and if my alarms go off, theirs do too, as this thing is yelling at me how to configure parameters and run tests via the single button that comprises its entire user interface. i wrote an email to my landlord apologizing if he heard the noise; recommending he run that smoke detector over with a bus; replace it with a one featuring a less-obnoxious design. he got a good laugh out of it today, i got out my earplugs, and tried again, and so far so good i need to research how those wired detectors talk to each other. i'm tired of not knowing what's going to flip it out |
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smoke detectors save lives! i keep thinking i might have been happier in the woods. |
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my gf heard a smoke alarm couple of years ago. she peeked out into the street to figure out where it came from. coulndt locate it, went out on the street. people passing by not giving a shit. a window opens. person from a flat in the inspected house looks out, asking whats up. my gf asks about the alarm and says she is about to call the firemen. person in that house shrugs, ok, dunno. firemen arrive and are forced to break into the apartment after figuring out which one the noise comes from. of course there is no fire. heard another case on the radio. firemen were called to access a public electronics dumpster. someone was kind enough to dispose of his fully funtional alarm clock, batteries included. |
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smoke detectors save lives! i keep thinking i might have been happier in the woods. yes, this is the sort of talk that, indeed, makes people lucky i don't have a brick in my hand, to hit them with. to wit: i am not fucking arguing against smoke detectors in general but can you please understand that this particular smoke detector is, in particular, a flaming herpes hemorrhoid? and that all of the terrible design decisions it inflicts upon my reality are of absolutely no use w/rt not dying in a fire? thx. |
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so let's talk about that shopping crap app, instacarp. you know, the one with the logo that is a stick of carrot. it is, i suppose, alright. my sense of fiscal prudence balks at paying someone else a markup what i could just do myself, and also have an excuse to drive my car somewhere, and maybe smoke a zig. but, now, my car is not in a driveable state (see: my bullshit thred). i conveniently bought quite a bit of food, whatever, before a snowstorm, but, frankly, i wasn't planning on the car on top, and i need milk. and tequila. and christmas is this week, new years the next, and i'm not even sure what i'm going to do about my car yet, sort out a rental or what? so let's just bite the bullet and fire up instacarp now, today, because it's close to christmas and impossible to get anyone until next week, and pay $$ it is very easy to order the wrong thing in the app. i search for one thing, and it doesn't have it, sends me to another, but it's a fucking phone and the packages are 90% similar, so i wind up with 2x of the wrong thing, and i do not have license to complain, really, since i didn't squnt; mash the thumbnail until i managed to trigger zoom. which i did for most everything, but missed for this. drat then they always, always get at least one thing wrong on their own. this time, i asked for half a pound of pepperoni. very specifically, the deli pepperoni, but, well, i don't think they wanted to take a number, they grabbed some scary grey pre-boxed pepperoni that cost half as much and said here you go then they've stapled all this crap to the bags like ribbons and candy and clorox wipes and fuck off with all the time that took you could have just waited for the deli and gotten it right in the first place instacarp refunded my money for the crap pepperoni, which i will throw out, and we're about good. i let them keep the $$ tip, since i reason that's about all they get, and ubering to the grocery store is dfhjgkdf |
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“If they’re not sure of their size, they order both sizes," he says. "If they’re not sure which color, they order both colors. And if they’re not sure which item, they order them all. But it’s costly to the retailers, and the retailers are not well positioned to handle all the cost.” yeah, i want to try clothes on, first. i suppose this is a solution, but it means you have to go return shit rather what, two things are shipped, you drive to the store, this is crap for carbon emissions. it's actually a step above "no, this is crap, this is not what i ordered, take it back" being an increasing problem. i've joked i should buy something crap off amazon so i can get 15% off at kohl's, but i'd really not ever do such a thing. i have a feeling this may hit a wall, eventually, as retailers get fed up with it. perhaps amazon has the scale to keep it up, but if not, that could get ugly. suddenly harder to return something when you've gotten ripped off, because, sorry, that's costing us too much money... then, a few months of ugly mishaps, people losing their money and quitting forever, and amazon would then say: oh, yes, maybe would should, like, do maybe just a little mild policing of our marketplace and develop some way to recognize these ghost outfits that change names every two months |
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anyways, with those batteries from above, i ordered a bunch of other stuff, and all that was perfectly fine. but i am always squinting at anything i order rather hard, these days, and that's part of why. things shift in and out... i've learned, if i order one, and it's good, if i will want more, i should order them immediately, before it disappears. rather like drugs. i do think i need to diversify -- like, i want to run some ethernet cable, and amazon has that, but maybe it's time to ring up digikey or something again, because by the time i find out a box of cat6e is crap i'll have run some of it and be p. fucked |
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article about people gaming the reviews on amazon ~ |
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i did not ever expect to hear anything out of this, er, establishment, again... but, go figure, today this shows up in my (n)box: Hello Epic, Happy New Year! We regret that our product did not meet your expectations. We are very sorry that you encountered such a problem. We've made a big mistake when producing our product in an unverified factory and did not test batches thoroughly before shipping products out to you. We found that one of our batches was a high defect rate, and therefore we stopped cooperating with this factory. We found another factory that meets high standards, also we've improved quality control of every unit from our end. Now we can guarantee that our quality is much better Our startup company kindly asking you to change or remove your negative public review: https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R1J4ID4WVRN3JM here is how to remove: [etc] Please allow me to compensate for your bad experience, I'd like to send you $30. Please reply to this message if you can accept it. I'm looking forward to hearing from you! Hope you and your family are all good at this special time. Best regards, Tom my first reaction is: you know what? give me your phone number, let me call you up, and just give me a maximum of 15 minutes to ask questions about what the fuck actually goes on back on the other end of all this. even if the answers are horrible i will still rescind my review; i just want insight then i look at the message again, and i realize: no, this is just more horseshit. "the manufacturer was shit," well, you know what, half my negative review is more like "the software is fucking shit" and that's not the manufacturer's fault so my third reaction is: lol, i can read my review again, i couldn't figure out if it'd gotten blocked. it even has my photoshop of me giving the reviewed product the finger. i have left the link in the above quote. i think i will pass on the gift card |
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can a jump jump a jumper? |
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thought you were on Linode |
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ps apparently sharkjump is not the preferred nomenclature dude, its ... ah fek i forgot it |
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has amazon ah fek i forget it? discuss. |
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fucking lol they sent me another email, offering $40 this time but they fucked up and asked me to remove my "dehumidifier" review, this time. guess i need to watch out if i ever go to buy a dehumidifier on amazon! Dear Geoffrey, Merry Christmas. Thank you for your purchase our Humidifiers. We are terribly sorry to learn that u post a negative review . We are here to help ! Though our store is small with a group of hard-working young people, we always work till midnight and spare no effort to inspect every details in our product. With the goal to be a reliable seller on amazon.com we definitely take the responsibility and will always be here till you are completely satisfied with our service. *$40 Gift Card will be sent after u remove the negative review( Link as below) u can use gift card to buy anything.* https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R1J4ID4WVRN3JM As customer reviews is very important to us and we value your response. Business is not easy these days. Your help means a lot to us. We are grateful for that. Please let us know when review deleted. i laughed at their first email and didn't reply. this time, however, i am tempted to reply with something like "rot in hell" and then a smiley face emoji we'll save that for the third email offering $50 to remove negative review of a power washer or something |
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i should note that they're demanding i remove it before they send the gift card; clearly a roll of the dice if they actually hold up their end bottom line, that review was real. i was mad and i went a bit overboard, but i didn't lie or exaggerate, and i want that review there to save someone else that same infuriating bullshit. it's simply a terrible product that does not live up to its claims so, fuck off. i am never removing it. (but, maybe, if you send me the gift card first, i will?) |
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hmmm maybe i could report this to amazon? is offering someone to remove a negative review in exchange for a gift card against their policy? it wouldn't surprise me if they have no official position on this tho |
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like -- the bribe is a $40 amazon gift card; some of that goes back to amazon. why fight it? |
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Don't sell your soul, especially for $40. Amazon is the enemy. I don't give them a thin dime. |
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if you want pure sewage type "usb key" into amazon after adding a million search filters it starts to be usable: usb 3, fuck the usb 2 crap. only 4 stars and up. 8-32gb. nothing under $12 dolla, no real basis for that number, just my personal feel for filtering out the most toxic results |
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by consumer group exposes reviewbombing companies , "The Case of the Cat Litter Arbitrageurs, which is not only brilliantly written... but, the weird crappy "defective unit" thing is actually quite similar to the weirdly almost identical emails to remove my bad review. apparently it costs the about $10k for 1000 fake reviews; grabbing you the "amazon's choice" label for an air fryer or something. if you can report it and get it pulled, well, that's satisfying financial pain... now they have to get another fake 1000 reviews for 10k... the problem is, apparently, that amazon giveth not a shit. i imagine they profit off of the fraud just like the scammers do; fees for selling on the amazon platform, good money spinner that, why turn down the revenue? |
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