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Aukey, Mpow and Ravpower were kicked off Amazon because they were paying for five star reviews. Real shame, I loved all the Ravpower stuff, they made some of the best GaN chargers out there.
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Jul 8, 2021 18:09
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FCKGW posted:Aukey, Mpow and Ravpower were kicked off Amazon because they were paying for five star reviews. i assume basically every third party seller that isn’t just some nerd in a garage is doing this
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Jul 8, 2021 18:10
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I bought a brick off Aukey? I think. The package had a card on how to get a $25 Amazon gift card for submitting a review. The directions were super sketchy but it worked.
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Jul 8, 2021 18:12
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Was it Anker and Aukey that are basically the same or are they all pretty much from the same factory with just the branding and support being different companies? At least Anker is still there. It’s especially ironic given how shady amazon is with their amazon basics stuff always being pushed to the top.
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Jul 8, 2021 18:14
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Not sure why ravpower felt obligated to cheat, they make good stuff. But I guess if everyone else is cheating you're gonna feel like you gotta keep up. I have a handful of those "gift cards" in a drawer, the ones where you take a photo with your review and email it to them. BUT DON'T TELL AMAZON.  I intended to alert Amazon to it then just never did.
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Jul 8, 2021 18:27
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Jose Oquendo posted:Something else to consider is just saving the attachments and deleting the messages. A lot of that space is probably taken up by videos and pictures. FCKGW posted:Aukey, Mpow and Ravpower were kicked off Amazon because they were paying for five star reviews.  https://www.aliexpress.com/store/1986430 Looks like Aukey and Ravpower are still operating their own stores if you trust them with your payment info directly. The projector I got for my birthday had a "free gift", which was a pain cause they kept asking for order number which I didn't have. Eventually they gave me a code for like all but a penny off or something and I got a crappy but functional little tripod out of it. Oh and the review had to be 5 stars of course. I had some complaints and they asked if I wanted to "test" other products, I just had to buy them, leave a review, and they'd PayPal back the cost. That was too sketchy for me (...and the crap was all like kitchen appliances that I already had), and well, they're gone now apparently. I know they survived the initial purge so no clue when they got wiped out.
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Jul 8, 2021 19:04
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Ah rats, I bought a vent clip mount in April and it is really good / was very cheap. The product listing gives a 404 now. It's always suspect when something has 10k or 20k reviews, and those cards were infuriating. Idiots. I bet they got pretty rich for a while until this happened, so maybe they made enough money to retire and don't give a gently caress anymore. Fulfilled by Amazon is a Big Deal for the right players.
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Jul 8, 2021 19:06
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I basically stopped trusting amazon review scores. You hardly ever see anything below 4 stars, and I've bought plenty of stinkers with high ratings.
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Jul 8, 2021 19:11
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Fakespot is really good if you want a temperature check against your level of risk you're willing to take
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Jul 8, 2021 19:21
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I liked the ones that were obvious cause all the reviews included something like "I received this product in exchange for an honest review". For generic cheap stuff (like the car magsafe mount/charger I got) there's a lot with only a few reviews so just read through those and get what seems to be the cheapest identical product. Or find it on AliExpress for even less and wait a few weeks.
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Jul 8, 2021 19:43
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japtor posted:I'd be nice if that was just integrated into Photos automatically somehow, but can see the issues considering the crap people send over messages. I think iOS 15 might have something to help there though? There’s nothing in iOS 15 right now that helps with downloading all your iMessage stuff as far as I can see. You can download groups of photos sent to you easily now but as far as all your stuff I don’t think so.
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Jul 8, 2021 19:58
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Rinkles posted:I basically stopped trusting amazon review scores. You hardly ever see anything below 4 stars, and I've bought plenty of stinkers with high ratings. I like Anker but I question whether they should get to keep reviews from an old revision of their product, like when they updated from the 18W to 20W GaN charger. 🤷🏻♂️ Also listings that have a bunch of different items listed as different styles -- you should be able to select the reviews for that "style".
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Jul 8, 2021 20:00
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Charles posted:I like Anker but I question whether they should get to keep reviews from an old revision of their product, like when they updated from the 18W to 20W GaN charger. 🤷🏻♂️ Also listings that have a bunch of different items listed as different styles -- you should be able to select the reviews for that "style". You can but you have to click "See all reviews" and then drill down to the dropdown box 
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Jul 8, 2021 20:28
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FCKGW posted:You can but you have to click "See all reviews" and then drill down to the dropdown box
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Jul 8, 2021 20:37
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japtor posted:I know that works for multi item listings, but I think they're referring to listings that just replace products in place without creating a new item listing for it, so there's no separate "format" to filter reviews for. I actually was wondering about both things. OK, I hadn't seen they had added that filter, that's great. I don't think it was there before.
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Jul 8, 2021 20:55
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I vaguely remembered a feature where you would get a notification on your iPhone that your watch had finished charging. After Googling it, it seems to only be available if you turn on sleep tracking. Why is Apple so weird.
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Jul 9, 2021 13:17
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File that alongside the nine-minute snooze timer and optimised charging generally, I guess. Maybe something about the specific intersection of sleep and charging is some kind of megaproblem for Apple's OS teams?
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Jul 9, 2021 14:19
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When I wanted to buy a set of cheap wireless earbuds for the gym I got some anker ones but I ordered from them directly, it still came in amazon packaging. I've been avoiding using amazon for a while unless I really have to. Also is the new iCloud+ stuff coming when iOS15 comes out? I'm still on the free account but all those extra features convinced me to want to actually pay now
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Jul 9, 2021 14:44
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track day bro! posted:Also is the new iCloud+ stuff coming when iOS15 comes out? I'm still on the free account but all those extra features convinced me to want to actually pay now What are these, if you don't mind?
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Jul 9, 2021 15:07
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Rinkles posted:What are these, if you don't mind? Private Relay and Hide My Email are the names of the features. It’s all part of iCloud so even if you just pay the $0.99 for 50GB you get it.
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Jul 9, 2021 15:18
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track day bro! posted:When I wanted to buy a set of cheap wireless earbuds for the gym I got some anker ones but I ordered from them directly, it still came in amazon packaging. I've been avoiding using amazon for a while unless I really have to. Rinkles posted:What are these, if you don't mind? quote:Custom email domain
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Jul 9, 2021 20:23
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japtor posted:Probably just easier/cheaper/faster than doing direct fulfillment themselves. I don't think the custom email domains feature is available yet, but once it is I might do it.
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Skeezy posted:I don't think the custom email domains feature is available yet, but once it is I might do it. As soon as it comes out I’ll be migrating from Gmail too
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I can't help but wonder how many accounts you get on a custom domain though. (I bought surname.com, and have my mother, father, brother, and sister-in-law on my Google Apps grandfathered account. Everyone pays for iCloud, but obviously they aren't in my iCloud family.)
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I'm wondering about aliases cause I have a whole bunch set up for particular uses (or throwaway stuff).
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PB seems extra buggy this go around. For 13 and 14 it was hardly noticeable. 15 makes my 11 pro’s camera unuseable half the time, pages and photos load weird in chrome, iOS lag doing simple things.
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meanolmrcloud posted:PB seems extra buggy this go around. For 13 and 14 it was hardly noticeable. 15 makes my 11 pro’s camera unuseable half the time, pages and photos load weird in chrome, iOS lag doing simple things. What’s PB?
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Jul 12, 2021 00:28
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Public beta.
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Jul 12, 2021 00:36
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ThermoPhysical posted:What’s PB? Peanut butter.
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Jul 12, 2021 03:36
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ThermoPhysical posted:What’s PB? Punk Buster
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Jul 12, 2021 03:50
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Peanut Butter is the only thing that really makes sense.
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ThermoPhysical posted:What’s PB? It's what made the boomers into boomers.
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MH Knights posted:Punk Buster Punky Brewster
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ThermoPhysical posted:What’s PB? President Biden
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Jul 12, 2021 06:21
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Anyone ever have an issue where the volume of phone calls is super-low, but the regular speak volume for music/videos is just fine? It happened all of a sudden mid-call last week and has not fixed itself yet. I'm on an iphone 10. Ultimately, it's a work issued phone and I can just trade it in, but before I go through that hassle, I want to see if there might be a quick fix.
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Jul 12, 2021 15:33
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The phone has an internal mixer that sets the volume independently for several different cases.. like music playing, or the volume of siri when getting maps directions, or the volume of the phone. Unfortunately the only way to adjust those volumes is when that audio source is actively playing audio, so you probably bumped the volume buttons while on a call. So to fix it you get on a call then turn the volume up.
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ThermoPhysical posted:What’s PB? Little Rock, AR rapper "Pepper Boy"
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GoatSeeGuy posted:It's what made the boomers into boomers. lol
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xzzy posted:The phone has an internal mixer that sets the volume independently for several different cases.. like music playing, or the volume of siri when getting maps directions, or the volume of the phone. Except the ringer volume which is in sounds and haptics in settings.
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