NutinButNet

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They might! A lot of the products they offer through Amazon Vine are clearly Chinese products, through and through. Definitely just seems to be small time sellers trying to get their products seen and get some reviews to get a better head start in exchange for giving some people a free sample.

On Reddit, there’s a subreddit for it and people like to show off their hauls. People sometimes get laptops and cell phones and you can tell because they’re usually Chinese, not the standard Apple or HP kind of laptop. But a free laptop is a free laptop!

Though sometimes we get some non-Chinese stuff like I got a $300 water cooler recently that wasn’t from a small time Chinese shop. Probably made there, but not the same type of thing shipped and sold from there.

If anyone is interested in joining, it’s invite only and the invite seems to get triggered when you do enough Amazon reviews. Not sure the threshold and I don’t think they make it public. It’s probably more so a ratio thing, how many products you receive versus how many reviews you do for those things bought and then you sign into their portal and they have a whole slew of stuff to pick from. You’ll see in the reviews a little green badge that indicates if a review has been done by someone who received it in Amazon Vine for free, so you’ll often see a lot of these small time operations’ listings have tons of Vine reviews.

Not sure how sellers post their stuff, they might not even know the program’s name.

That ear scene in Reservoir Dogs was insane but he did his roles so well.

RIP

[–] NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That’s why Amazon has the Vine program. They give “free” items to customers to review and they are genuine reviews, or should be. And for the purpose of giving new items a chance on Amazon to start with some reviews and other reviewers are aware of it.

I’m part of it and I have to pay income tax on the stuff I get, but that’s it.

I did have one asshole seller recently who said I and other reviewers were lying. The listing showed a completely different product and myself and others stated such and the seller reported us for fake reviews and removed the pictures showing they were lying. Fucking pissed me off and I still get emails telling me about my review getting removed sometimes now.

I used to do the illegal way before I knew it was illegal. A guy from China would hit me up and I would choose a few items off his list and I would order them, give them 5 star reviews and I would send him the receipt and he would send me back the money in PayPal and a little extra, like an extra $5-$7.

I gave everything 5 stars and part of it was adding pictures/videos, but I tried to be honest, in terms of actually talking about what I liked about it.

Only did it like 3 times and got a kids camera and vacuum and a HDMI converter. I still have the stuff so it wasn’t all crap.

I think a lot of these sellers prefer the illegal way because it’s guaranteed 5 star reviews than just exposure, especially when they know they’re selling straight up garbage.

My remark about abandoning support has more to do with their choice to break the game a year ago and never properly fix it than releasing new features/stories like this.

But this is a slight part of it too since Bethesda is going more towards “10 year games” now. This could have been on the cusp or in the last 10 years.

More additions like this would have been a vastly better use of their time than what we got in 76.

Just another example of Nintendo sucking.

I’m so glad I didn’t buy this piece of shit. Keep your junk, Nintendo. I’ll enjoy your games on PC when emulation comes.

Which is funny because I would have been a paying customer. But now I don’t have to!

[–] NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It sounds pretty cool. Wish this were official, but mods are all we can get nowadays since they seem to have abandoned support.

*lawyers, and then the users

I’m in a bit of a similar situation too.

You just have to move on. Try to remind yourself of the bad memories when the good ones come up. Sometimes that helps.

Unfortunately the biggest way to let go is to find someone new to replace them. She replaced someone else who I couldn’t let go of and now I don’t ever think of that person anymore.

It’s just more multiplayer garbage. That’s all their new news is anymore.

This site is such garbage how they purposely use these vague titles instead of just saying the name of the game.

Pathetic attempt to drive traffic just because someone can’t see the name of the game in the title.

Yeah I’ve had this feature with the Gmail app on iPhone for quite some time. I use it often on that and Yahoo Mail and Outlook in the same manner.

I’m saying I’m surprised that the Gmail app on iPhone had this before Android got it.

[–] NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What temp do you set them at for 11 mins?

 

I got a Dell Latitude 7400 2 in 1 from my job they were going to ewaste. I daily drive KDE Neon on it and I love it. However, one of its two USB type C ports isn’t working for charging or data transfer. I inspected the port but found no obvious damage. How can I troubleshoot and fix this? I’ve searched YouTube and online sites but haven’t found helpful guidance.

 
 

I get it if it’s at a place like Starbucks when you verbally say it. Everyone has a special way of spelling their name and you can’t know the spelling based on how it was said.

But when my name is literally written out in the previous email and you are replying to that email…bruh.

Makes me want to passive aggressively write theirs incorrectly too.

 

Just thinking about collector’s cups like limited edition Super Bowl memorabilia or whatever.

I realize that I prefer to use them rather than keep them pristine. I have a Chiefs winner shirt an ex gave me and I just wear it despite her saying it’d probably be worth something someday lol

 

I swear off so many products and services for no other reason than their obnoxious, repetitive commercials.

Off top of my head, I will never buy Old Spice anything because their ads are so repetitive and obnoxious. I feel disgust when I see it in the store and actively avoid it for no other reason than their spam campaigns.

Same for USAA, Native body wash, AmEx, Liberty insurance (that forced catchy theme), and more.

Anyone else feel the same way? Or have you caught yourself getting suckered in because of ads’ subconscious shenanigans?

 

He loves the shit.

I grab one of those jars from the fridge and open the aluminum wrapping and he goes crazy, begging for me to drop a smidge of yogurt on the floor so he can lick it up.

It doesn’t matter how quiet I try to be, he hears that aluminum foil and comes running for it and will not stop meowing until he is satisfied.

 

I’m sure there are a few hurdles, but wondering what is the biggest reason that keeps us back at this moment as the most pressing thing. Is it that the technology just isn’t there yet? Or is it because of legal complications, international treaties and all that? Is it just not financially feasible to do at this present time with the technology we do have? That we could do it, in theory, but the ROI is too low?

 

This is 100% free and so is shipping through the USPS.

This is the article from the FTC on this (and also some tips to avoid possible scams) and the link inside to begin the order https://consumer.ftc.gov/consumer-alerts/2024/10/how-order-free-covid-test-kits-federal-government-and-avoid-scammers

They limit 4 per household and do keep in mind that these tests do expire, but it seems wise for everyone to still have some on hand if someone believes they have symptoms. If nothing else, you’ll have some to share with friends if the expiration is close so they don’t go to waste.

 

I was looking at a car on a local dealership’s website last night and saw that there was a mention of “2 days” or “250 miles” and you could return a car that you bought from them. I came back to the website this morning and I’m not seeing that anymore. I’m not 100% positive where I saw it, but I know the general area and not seeing it there anymore. It seemed to be under the car’s description for each car they had in their inventory.

I used site:dealershipdomain.com in Google to search for “2 days” and “250” and it finds results but not finding this wording specifically on the pages listed in the search results.

Is there another way to search for this on a specific site? Am I doing that incorrectly?

Edit: thanks for the tips, everyone! Sorry, should have mentioned I was using CTRL + F to search when on the page.

I found one mention of it on another site linking here, and now it makes me wonder if that’s where I saw it.

But either way, kind of found what I was looking for. Thanks for the help, everyone!

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