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Back when I started riding motorcycles (late 70s) I bought a cheap plastic tire pressure meter, and I've kept it ever since - when I moved to cars it went in the glove box.
After 45 years, it finally died and won't read any pressure greater than 28psi.
So I order a new one, that looks identical!
It arrived today, and as soon as I tried it it blew itself to pieces - the plastic "crystal" went thataway, the nozzle part flew over there, the spring hit me in the face, and the dial stayed in my hand but only got to 20psi. And I know the tire is only 36 psi while the meter is rated at 60 ... 
Things just don't last anymore - but Amazon is refunding it and I get to keep the broken bits! (I.e. they don't want to pay to bin it so I get to.)
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Scamazon hits again. 99% of the goods are cheap knockoffs with inflated reviews, plus each and every "Scamazon's choice" item is absolute garbage.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
The shortest horror story: On Error Resume Next
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den2k88 wrote: each and every "Scamazon's choice" item is absolute garbage
I'd noticed that myself.
My annual subscription is due in the next couple of months, and I probably won't renew: it's getting hard to find good quality items so next day delivery is getting irrelevant, the price has gone up 17% this year, and the Video ads are winding me up! Buggered if I'm paying more to get rid of ads they only added to annoy me into paying to get rid of them.*
I'll buy crap from FleaBay and watch Netflix instead ...
* And I'm sure they are just to annoy - otherwise they wouldn't be twice as loud as the actual programmes ...
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I still use it because of usefulness (and the delivery to locker), but it drives me mad 90% of the times.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
The shortest horror story: On Error Resume Next
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I remember buying a pair of headphones from Corwin on Amazon. I didn't like them and provided an honest 3 star review. The seller reached out and offered me free product to switch the review to 5 star. I lowered it to 2 stars and called out this practice which pissed them off via the additional pleas to change it. Rate inflation is crazy, but people do anything for free stuff they don't actually want.
Hogan
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I must be lucky I've never had anything bad from them - but I do tend to buy brands that I know.
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Me too, they are just drowned in a ton of gibberish 5 letter off-brand names, sometimes with deceptive names (i.e CoolDeep instead of DeepCool) and in a bunch of unrelated products.
Browsing on Scamazon now requires the same buyers' mentality of contraband dealers. Do not trust, verify and keep a loaded weapon at all times.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
The shortest horror story: On Error Resume Next
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OriginalGriff wrote: the spring hit me in the face,
I hope nothing serious
OriginalGriff wrote: Things just don't last anymore - but Amazon is refunding it and I get to keep the broken bits! (I.e. they don't want to pay to bin it so I get to.)
that is something getting common and not only for amazon. I have received replacements for things the last 2 or 3 years and noone wanted to get the defect one (the only one was vodafone with the last fritzbox)
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Me and my better half "discovered" that "things" break at about 7 years mark ...
After much longer good service , the solid state temperature sensor in electric dryer quit.
Replaced with unmarked part , from Amazon, and it lasted less then 6 months!
I can live with mechanical "things" breaking , but solid state?
What really irks me - is it worth the hassle to ask for refund for less than $20 part?
Mainly because I expect "them" to say it was not professionally installed ,
therefor, it is obviously my fault it failed..."
On the another hand , I do not feel like throwing away $20...
PS.
In my messy desk I have THREE tire pressure sticks - where do I mail one?
Sorry, no dial...
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If you read the spec. sheet for the new part, it probably asys something about using it only in low humidity conditions. Your dryer obviously doesn't qualify. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Many years ago after being tired of viewing those tiny numerals on those simple though seemingly reliable sliding type of tire pressure gauges I gave a modest amount of thought re/ a digital gauge w/ large read out display. I was surprised the local auto parts store offered no such at the time. I see now Amazon offers many such. When did this happen?
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OriginalGriff wrote: I get to keep the broken bits!
You get to keep the broken bits?!!??
Lucky you!
We used to lie awake dreaming...just dreaming of keeping the broken bits. 
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Yeah, I keep mine in the bit bucket - I'm so glad I fitted infinite capacity WOM to my PC!
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... I've noticed the same thing ...[^] 
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Some years ago I read a short SF story where everyone had a pocket device that answered all their questions. One day some guy showed how you could work out the answers to questions without using the device. He was quickly disposed of as being a dnagerous influence. Watching the Samsung Flip ads on TV recently I don't think it will be long before a wholegeneration will not be able to do anything for themselves in terms of using their brains. Quite worrying really.
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When I was at school, we weren't allowed to use calculators - slide rules were OK, but calculators were a big no-no; Sinclair had a couple you could buy, but you had to have serious pocket money to afford one. We didn't ...
After a few years, the year below was allowed to, and it quickly became obvious there was a big difference between the two: with a slide rule you worked out the magnitude yourself, and you had a good feel for how accurate the result was. But the year below? They believed the answer, even if it was plainly obvious that the magnitude was wrong (because they missed out a decimal point) and that there was no way you#d get a 7 digit accuracy number from a two digit input: 3.7 / 9.3 isn't going to be 0.39784946236 in the real world, it's going to 0.40 because your tape measure doesn't go down to thousandths of a millimetre!
And social media / AI is doing the same thing: dumbing down the user because they don't have to think about the problem just believe what you get given ...
I'm sure it will all work itself out in the end, but you do have to wonder if Boeing's recent troubles would have existed if "old style engineers" has been involved instead of a generation that assumes correctness and moves on.
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OriginalGriff wrote: When I was at school, there were no calculators. A twelve inch wooden ruler, a set square and a protractor were enough.
... and when we got home in the evening our father would kill us and dance on our graves ... 
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You had a protractor? We had to make do with a stretched cotton thread!
... and if the cotton broke, the teacher would cane us with the ruler, and then when we got home our father would beat us to death, resurrect us, and send us to bed without any supper!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Methinks Boing-Boing’s problems are not engineering problems, but rather management problems 
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: ...I don't think it will be long before a wholegeneration will not be able to do anything for themselves in terms of using their brains.
That ship has already sailed.
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David Crow wrote: That ship has already sailed.
I already said in college (a couple of decades ago) that if I had to ever use something designed by some classmates... I would rather don't do it.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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I have felt the same about certain co-workers in the past.
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What about a former classmate as your new doctor?
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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That would be difficult... I am engineer not medic 
But yeah... I know what you mean  
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: I don't think it will be long before a wholegeneration will not be able to do anything for themselves in terms of using their brains.
Try to pay cash and get the correct change at a drive-through fast-food place. Last time my dad and I went (2 weeks ago) we both watched the cashier try to count the coins and I swear it took 3 people before they came back to us - and they still got the amount wrong.
And I find this sort of thing is happening more and more frequently.
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