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Goober Peas posted:I'm about 50/50 on Amazon Warehouse items being dead/broken/damaged beyond as described. Sometimes you get a screaming deal, some you get a visit to UPS to return. I've had really good luck with them personally. Only one dud out of maybe 12 orders.
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And when you tell them about it they'll most likely tell you to keep whatever it is and they'll send a new one.
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Cage posted:And when you tell them about it they'll most likely tell you to keep whatever it is and they'll send a new one. They made me send it back (an Xbox controller) but they sent a brand new one in a sealed box so it was still a killer deal.
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Cage posted:And when you tell them about it they'll most likely tell you to keep whatever it is and they'll send a new one. That's not happened to me yet, but I'm mostly ordering electronics/components. I've been getting full refund plus freight.
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Apr 19, 2018 20:17
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I'm 9/10 for Amazon Warehouse being broken, or plain the wrong item. Ordered a home theater bluetooth amp, received chinese Aliexpress-style headphones. Had to FIGHT Amazon to get a return. I had a photo of me, in my car (delivered to a locker), with the locker in the background, with the opened package and the headphones. They STILL fought tooth-and-nail for a week to block that return. gently caress Amazon warehouse.
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Apr 19, 2018 20:20
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I've had fantastic results from Amazon Warehouse. The one time I got something (a cable for my headphones with boom mic) that was missing an accessory (the TRRS to dual TRS adapter), the rep asked me to find a comparable component on Amazon and refunded me the like 3 or 4 bucks it cost to order it. Everything else I've gotten from them has been exactly as described (e.g. small cosmetic imperfections or repackaged). Then again, I never order anything that's not described as at least "very good." I do think it's one of those things where it's entirely down to luck both with what you receive and, if you've got a problem, the Amazon rep you end up talking to.
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Are there any "bad" years, or years to avoid, when shopping for a fiat 500 Abarth?
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Dennis McClaren posted:Are there any "bad" years, or years to avoid, when shopping for a fiat 500 Abarth?
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nm posted:I'd avoid 2008(2012 in murica)-2018 imho.  Yeah 
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spog posted:Britgoons: https://www.buycarparts.co.uk/ and https://www.autodoc.co.uk/ do a similar thing where they have a constant 10%/15%/20% sale going on. When the countdown finishes a new sale starts (both companies are the same one. Its based in Germany and they've been pretty good when i've used them)
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Dennis McClaren posted:Are there any "bad" years, or years to avoid, when shopping for a fiat 500 Abarth? Doesn't someone on here own 2 of them or something? I wouldn't mind a 500c Abarth, myself
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The Door Frame posted:Doesn't someone on here own 2 of them or something? I don't think you guys get the 2 Cyl Turbo 'Twinair' version do you?
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Apr 19, 2018 21:48
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The Door Frame posted:Doesn't someone on here own 2 of them or something? Eyebeem has at least one.
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Apr 19, 2018 22:09
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I ordered two LED porch lights, one was an Amazon warehouse deal. The warehouse light worked perfectly and the "new" one was DOA. 
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Apr 19, 2018 22:10
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nm posted:Eyebeem has at least one. He had like loving 3 at one point. And two cmaxes. And like 10k in strollers and smug  Also, re HR being glacier slow: still don't know about my promotion, because HR (which is 2 people), who work two desks over from me, and across from my boss, still haven't provided him pay details. For two weeks, now. This is the same HR dept that made me wait weeks before I was hired because the previous girl never sent an email that had been sitting in her drafts folder. HR is loving retarded.
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Not Amazon, but I ordered 4 LED replacements for 2 of my 4' fluorescent fixtures in the garage. I didn't notice on the website that they were glass (...why?) Not that big of a problem, unless you don't know how to pack 4' long glass tubes to survive FedEx Ground, which they didn't. 3 of the 4 were broken, one so badly the glass severed the LED strip inside. To their credit, the company is replacing them, and so far no noises about sending back the broken ones (I sent them pictures), so maybe I'll get some usable 4' long 120V LED strips out if as well. Tubes were only $6 each, plus $11 shipping. I did power up one of the broken ones, and they appear bright enough. Match my existing T8s, at least. Don't think I'll buy those again, though. Glass tubes are stupid if you don't *have* to have them.
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iwentdoodie posted:He had like loving 3 at one point. And two cmaxes. And like 10k in strollers and smug HR knows they can't be fired, because who would do it? Meanwhile, HR where I am has become expert at only informing IT when someone is hired as late as they can possibly manage. Got a ticket to deploy a machine for a new hire today. They start on Monday. Thanks, you fucks. We ask for 2 weeks heads-up, we get 2 days.
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Darchangel posted:HR knows they can't be fired, because who would do it? Oh it's the same here. But then again our IT is also utterly loving useless. If it's more complicated than a reboot, you're basically on your own with our on site guys.
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Darchangel posted:Not Amazon, but I ordered 4 LED replacements for 2 of my 4' fluorescent fixtures in the garage. I didn't notice on the website that they were glass (...why?) With plastic housing LED tube retrofits, you have issues sometimes where the tube sags slightly over time and the terminal loses good contact.
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Apr 19, 2018 22:47
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Spent the first half of the day going to the store, buying a filing tub/organizer, and organizing all the papers of my life that have been sitting around forever. Finally, a use for the labelmaker! Then, I made afternoon pancakes and bacon and ate all of it and now I want to sleep forever.
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spog posted:Britgoons: High price/Heavy promos is a strategy that actually works pretty well for a while but once people catch on or your margins become too high for the promos to work it kind of falls apart. A lot of people love to feel like they're getting a deal even if they really aren't. It seems like that company wants to have their cake and eat it too or something by doing both 
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angryrobots posted:With plastic housing LED tube retrofits, you have issues sometimes where the tube sags slightly over time and the terminal loses good contact. Interesting. These are my first tube replacements. Lots of normal light bulb replacements, but not my fluorescents, mainly because I bought a box of T8s from Habitat For Humanity's ReStore a while back, and the T8s last a while, so I'm still working my way through the box. I installed a couple of my old super-cheap ($7 from Home Depot, I think) Lights Of America T12 fixtures (that were replaced by decent T8 fixtures) on my garage door so it wasn't dark in the front of the gage with the door up. The super-cheaps have really bad minimal ballasts that I want to bypass, especially since one of them is dead, with the LEDs.
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Anyone got any recommendations for wheels for an F-150, probably 18x9. Looking for something that is off roadey and not douchebroey/mall crawley and from my looking so far the odds are stacked against me.
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veiled boner fuel posted:Anyone got any recommendations for wheels for an F-150, probably 18x9. Looking for something that is off roadey and not douchebroey/mall crawley and from my looking so far the odds are stacked against me. Are you not aware of the rules? If wheels are for a truck they need chrome fake beadlock bullshit all over the fuckin place. Some ideas of ones that don't Black Rhyno Madness American Racing AR923 Method MR308
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I have Method Roosts on my '15 F150. I quite like them.
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Cragar soft 8.
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iwentdoodie posted:Cragar soft 8. Absolutely agreed. Unfortunately, they top out at 17".
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Powershift posted:Are you not aware of the rules? I saw a wheel today that had three different circumferential rows of bolts. Like the fake beadlock row plus a row to pretend it was two piece wheel plus another row just for fun. A little part of me died. quote:Black Rhyno Madness The 308 was on my short list. Also wheels that are kinda similar to the 923 (i.e. chunky 5 points). I'm also trying to avoid straight black just because its so goddamn common right now. Hadn't seen the Madness. I kinda like it. My truck is dark blue and I think bronze could look good on it. Multiple bronze wheels made it to the short list but the website I was using didn't have this manu or I think it would have. iwentdoodie posted:Cragar soft 8. I like this style wheel in general and I thought about it but I'm just not sold on it, for a newer truck. Right now I'm really thinking bronze Method 308s might look good and unusual.
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veiled boner fuel posted:Anyone got any recommendations for wheels for an F-150, probably 18x9. Looking for something that is off roadey and not douchebroey/mall crawley and from my looking so far the odds are stacked against me. Method 105’s are the most bitchinest. Source: I have a scale licensed set on my RC Rock crawler.
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I'm kind of afraid if I put bronze 308s on a blue truck it'll look like I wish I had a WRX instead, does that make sense?
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Or its just a good looking color combo. Also, bronze wheels own in general. Granted, I say this as a person with a dark grey car. Bronze is basically my only non-black non-boring option.
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Elmnt80 posted:Or its just a good looking color combo. Also, bronze wheels own in general. That's exactly what I'm saying on both counts, I'm just trying to look at it from all angles.
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 here was the short list from this afternoon based on 4wheelparts.com searchable wheels. The funny part is that I sent this pic to my buddy and told him to pick his top 3, and he did. And then I narrowed it down to 6 wheels that included 2 of his top 3, and told him to pick his top 1, and he picked a wheel that wasn't in his top 3. I pointed this out and his response was "I'm drunk" so I told him to just look again tomorrow.
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Middle row all the way to the right is kinda hot. I'd rock those on a blue, white or dark grey truck in a heartbeat.
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epic bird guy posted:High price/Heavy promos is a strategy that actually works pretty well for a while but once people catch on or your margins become too high for the promos to work it kind of falls apart. A lot of people love to feel like they're getting a deal even if they really aren't. Also see: Kohl's, who actually gets the manufacturers to attach pricing labels with a much higher retail price than you'd see on the same clothing item elsewhere, then they make it down by anywhere from 10-50%+ (sometimes changing the discounts depending on the time of day... they'll run higher discounts early in the day when they first open). It makes you feel like you're getting a bargain, when really, you're ultimately paying about the same as you would at, say, JC Penney, and maybe a little less than Macy's, if you found the exact same item. Barely related, I got thrown back in time tonight. Decided to head to the mall after work; I need shorts, don't feel like waiting for Amazon, and was driving past anyway. I found an honest to god, well stocked Sears, with plenty of customers and employees. In the entire mall, I only saw 1 closed storefront, and the place was pretty drat busy (especially for a weeknight). I thought malls were all but dead? Apparently Town East Mall is doing drat well, which is kinda shocking for the area it's in (older area, solidly lower middle class). No, I didn't buy my shorts at Sears (though I would have; they had some I liked for only $15, but didn't have them in my size), but I haven't seen a thriving Sears in ages. Or a busy mall. Metal Geir Skogul posted:I'm 9/10 for Amazon Warehouse being broken, or plain the wrong item. I've had one bad experience. It was supposed to be a factory unlocked Moto X (2014) in "good" condition. Received an AT&T (unlocked, but still AT&T firmware, so at the time, unrootable) Moto X with severe screen burn and pretty beat to poo poo. Similar experience trying to exchange it, I couldn't get it through their heads why I couldn't use (or didn't want) the AT&T version. And I had already sold my old phone, so shipping it back, waiting for a refund, and getting another one sent out would have left me phoneless for several days. FWIW,. I finally got them to cross ship another phone overnight, from another seller (used, but fulfilled by Amazon). I'm still using that phone, 3 years later, as my work phone. Got my Nexus 6P from them as well, and it went fine. Still have that phone too, but the battery is garbage now (which is funny, the Moto is a couple of years older... it has battery life issues too, but it tends to shut down around 40%... the Nexus shuts off around 70-80%). I don't feel right selling it with the battery as bad as it is and with the screen so scratched up, so I just keep it as a spare. The Door Frame posted:Doesn't someone on here own 2 of them or something? Holdbrooks has one, I believe.
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Maker Of Shoes posted:Just straight shoot me if I ever buy a modern Nissan econobox. They're really not that bad, in a reliable but incredibly loving boring and gutless way. Pretty decent legroom and cargo.
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spog posted:Britgoons: I need to do wife's brakes so I'll check this out, thanks. Middle row 2 across looks awesome.
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Moved the Saturd - noticed somebody had chalked the tires in the past day or two, so it had to move. Wound up driving it around the apt complex for a few minutes (it's currently uninsured, and only has 1 working headlight, so no public roads). Despite how much poo poo I've torn out of it, it's still a nice car for what it is/was, and I forgot just how comfortable the seats are compared to the replacement car. But no HVAC at all now, radio plays from 1 speaker, has 1 headlight, pulls hard to one side, etc. It's pretty depressing. It was a drat good car for a long time, and I owned it for a lot longer than any other car. I need to finish pulling parts off of it (next up is outside temp sensor + harness for the outside temp display, wheels/tires, rotors [they're like a month or two old], maybe brake pads [35k old ceramics],, wiper blades, MAP sensor, 5k old spark plugs, then finally, seats), and get it out of here. It pains me to walk out and see it every day. I'm essentially turning it into a base model with all the parts swapping, though the parts that come off of the newer-but-definitely-not-better one are going on Silver Turd, so I can at least keep it as a running/driving shell. Also need to pull the battery, then take the battery + newer car to Napa or the like to see which battery is in better shape. I suspect the one from the Turd will be better; it's a little older, but it saw daily use, while the replacement car saw very little use by the PO. Pick n Pull offered $235 if I clean it out, and didn't ask about the trim level or anything I'd removed (basically asked "does it move under its own power?"). So it'll be going there once I get everything out. I didn't think I'd get attached to a car again. 
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epic bird guy posted:High price/Heavy promos is a strategy that actually works pretty well for a while but once people catch on or your margins become too high for the promos to work it kind of falls apart. A lot of people love to feel like they're getting a deal even if they really aren't. That's my thought, too. Seems odd, because anyone who is willing to order stuff online is usually savvy enough to check the prices on the usual places before making a decision and brake pads aren't an impulse buy, so you have time to search e.g. cakesmith handyman posted:I need to do wife's brakes so I'll check this out, thanks.
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