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Snowy
Oct 6, 2010

A man whose blood
Is very snow-broth;
One who never feels
The wanton stings and
Motions of the sense



REMEMBER SPONGE MONKEYS posted:

Also gonna try some Hokas from DHgate, some people are saying they’re the exact same as the real thing so…

Where are you seeing that? I’m interested

E- never mind I guess, took a Quick Look and I don’t see anyone selling size 46/47

E2- no idea why Quick Look would autocorrect to be capitalized

Snowy fucked around with this message at 23:22 on Mar 11, 2024

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Blue Moonlight
Apr 28, 2005
Bitter and Sarcastic
Are you on an Apple device? Their autocorrect loves to conform to the company style guides, and they have software called Quick Look, so I’m guessing it helpfully capitalized it for you.

Snowy
Oct 6, 2010

A man whose blood
Is very snow-broth;
One who never feels
The wanton stings and
Motions of the sense



Yeah that must be it, dam u Apple

goblin week
Jan 26, 2019

Absolute clown.

r u ready to WALK posted:

those cum extractors seem massively overpriced for what is basically just a taser glued to a dildo
i guess that seller found themselves a pretty good racket

Yeah, they're really milking them dry! :dadjoke:

HELLOMYNAMEIS___
Dec 30, 2007

I thought these:


...were those 90's-style data gloves at first, that is, that they were a controller for a PC. That would've been cool - I guess data gloves are not really a thing anymore, with gesture detection from video and whatever sensors technology like that Leap thing use?

Alucard
Mar 11, 2002
Pillbug
Pretty sure that was in a saw movie

Crazy Achmed
Mar 13, 2001

What are they? Is it the other way around where they help you move your fingers or provide resistance or something?

stephenthinkpad
Jan 2, 2020

Alucard posted:

Pretty sure that was in a saw movie

Which Saw sequel has the shock cum collector?

goatface
Dec 5, 2007

I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.


Grimey Drawer

Crazy Achmed posted:

What are they? Is it the other way around where they help you move your fingers or provide resistance or something?

Looks like pneumatic/hydraulic actuators to forcefully flex the fingers.

REMEMBER SPONGE MONKEYS
Oct 3, 2003

What do you think it means, bitch?

Snowy posted:

Where are you seeing that? I’m interested

E- never mind I guess, took a Quick Look and I don’t see anyone selling size 46/47

E2- no idea why Quick Look would autocorrect to be capitalized

https://m.dhgate.com/product/2025-h...7C-%7C931606690

https://m.dhgate.com/product/hoka-f...7C-%7C895086890

https://m.dhgate.com/product/nmd-hu...7C-%7C458841129

https://m.dhgate.com/product/2021-t...7C-%7C685861004

I don’t know anything on the ref links, sorry

Alucard
Mar 11, 2002
Pillbug

stephenthinkpad posted:

Which Saw sequel has the shock cum collector?

Saw XXX

Cartoon Man
Jan 31, 2004


https://i.imgur.com/pin5qqz.gifv

Humphreys
Jan 26, 2013

We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule



So janky. I hated it.

greatBigJerk
Sep 6, 2010

My final form.

HELLOMYNAMEIS___ posted:

I thought these:


...were those 90's-style data gloves at first, that is, that they were a controller for a PC. That would've been cool - I guess data gloves are not really a thing anymore, with gesture detection from video and whatever sensors technology like that Leap thing use?
There are people hacking together VR gloves with motorized resistance to simulate the feeling of picking objects up. They're generally pretty clunky.

These gloves look cool, but they're probably poo poo. If they did work, it would be neat to see someone rework them into VR gloves that didn't look like a torture device.

Snowy
Oct 6, 2010

A man whose blood
Is very snow-broth;
One who never feels
The wanton stings and
Motions of the sense




Oooooh big sizes, thank you!

Gherkin Jerkin
Jan 22, 2006

With great power, comes great crunchability...

greatBigJerk posted:

VR gloves that didn't look like a torture device.

Hey man. Don't kink shame. Not cool.

REMEMBER SPONGE MONKEYS
Oct 3, 2003

What do you think it means, bitch?

Snowy posted:

Oooooh big sizes, thank you!

Absolutely, let me know what you order and how it ends up. I’m really hoping these pan out (especially my feet). Thinking Goblin Blue (given thumbs down on some of my other choices haha).

greatBigJerk
Sep 6, 2010

My final form.

Gherkin Jerkin posted:

Hey man. Don't kink shame. Not cool.
Sorry. To make it up to you, here is some fetish material: https://youtu.be/2yF-SJcg3zQ

REMEMBER SPONGE MONKEYS
Oct 3, 2003

What do you think it means, bitch?
Who wouldn’t want a pair of Faptic Gloves?

RPATDO_LAMD
Mar 22, 2013

🐘🪠🍆

greatBigJerk posted:

There are people hacking together VR gloves with motorized resistance to simulate the feeling of picking objects up. They're generally pretty clunky.

These gloves look cool, but they're probably poo poo. If they did work, it would be neat to see someone rework them into VR gloves that didn't look like a torture device.

these seem like a medical device for people with hosed up hands / atrophied muscles
like "doctor says im supposed to waggle my fingers for 15 minutes per day for better healing but the muscles are still too weak to do it on their own" or something like that

Son of a Vondruke!
Aug 3, 2012

More than Star Citizen will ever be.

An AliExpress related issue popped up today. I wasn't sure what to do about it, and was hoping the thread had some advice. An order was just rejected by Canada customs. This has never happened before. What's my next step? Just request a refund?

Mx.
Dec 16, 2006

I'm a great fan! When I watch TV I'm always saying "That's political correctness gone mad!"
Why thankyew!


yeah just request a refund

tater_salad
Sep 15, 2007


it seems like lately.. amazon is now aliexpress, and aliexpress is a scam website.. Their resolutions are harder, stuff doesn't show etc. Not super excite about ordering from them after I had like a weeks worth of back and forth with them having to prove that the 1.09 pin i ordered didn't come and someone hosed up since I got a drip irrigation box, and other seem to have similar issues.

Cached Money
Apr 11, 2010

tater_salad posted:

it seems like lately.. amazon is now aliexpress, and aliexpress is a scam website.. Their resolutions are harder, stuff doesn't show etc. Not super excite about ordering from them after I had like a weeks worth of back and forth with them having to prove that the 1.09 pin i ordered didn't come and someone hosed up since I got a drip irrigation box, and other seem to have similar issues.

Amazon is now worse than aliexpress I think.

tater_salad
Sep 15, 2007


Returns are still super easy with Amazon if it's poo poo it just goes back. There's a ups store that's like a half mile or less from my house.

Hirayuki
Mar 28, 2010


tater_salad posted:

Returns are still super easy with Amazon if it's poo poo it just goes back. There's a ups store that's like a half mile or less from my house.
Sometimes if it's poo poo they tell you to keep it. This is how I wound up with a functionally useless TV remote control and a big thing of hair product that no one in my house could use (instead of the vitamins I'd ordered :confused:). Of course, this happens with Ali, too.

Blue Moonlight
Apr 28, 2005
Bitter and Sarcastic
The other day, Amazon slapped the wrong internal inventory tag for a box of Ruffles chips on a box of Miss Vickie’s chips, so we ended up with it. We tried to get a refund, but they said they can’t accept returns on food so we could just keep it.

So I guess order food from Amazon and lie about what you get so Jeff Bezos doesn’t buy another yacht.

Cocaine Bear
Nov 4, 2011

ACAB

I prefer to order individual chips from alix

Gertrude Perkins
May 1, 2010

Gun Snake

dont talk to gun snake

Drops: human teeth


mobby_6kl posted:

Looks like Fallout merch is already starting to leak out


https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006230313076.html

It's designed for the all-American teens of the 90s:

Charles Ford
Nov 27, 2004

The Earth is a farm. We are someone else’s Ford Focus.

Blue Moonlight posted:

The other day, Amazon slapped the wrong internal inventory tag for a box of Ruffles chips on a box of Miss Vickie’s chips, so we ended up with it. We tried to get a refund, but they said they can’t accept returns on food so we could just keep it.

So I guess order food from Amazon and lie about what you get so Jeff Bezos doesn’t buy another yacht.

I'd been trying these probiotics for your sinuses, that are meant to reduce the chance of catching COVID, and the refill I ordered from Amazon arrived and when it arrived it was a different flavour of bacteria, like they're all streptococcus salivarus but this was M18 (for Teeth and Gums!) and I want K12 (for Throat Health!) and I don't know enough about bacteria to know if it'd even help with my experiment so it's useless. It too had the correct sticker for the thing I ordered, but on the wrong product.

Go onto Amazon and their site is just "it's completely impossible to return this, it's healthcare related" over and over until I manage to chat to a ChatGPT, and it just goes "oh okay, I'll give you a refund!". It makes me wonder if they even track it, like do they mark up some statistic that they just sent completely the wrong item or do they just mark it up as "the customer was annoying us enough to reach the second level of the defence, the terrible chat bots, so we paid them to go away".

3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010

mobby_6kl posted:

Looks like Fallout merch is already starting to leak out


https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006230313076.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Be-W4jj4iI

stephenthinkpad
Jan 2, 2020
Amazon makes it impossible to do a price adjustment on sales without talking to a person on chat or phone.

Like I got this mesh drawer for 20,the next day it dropped to 15. I just couldn't find an option to ask for a $5 difference on the return menu.

I ended up buying a new set and returned the old set to get that 5 dollar back.

All y'all are funding more jeff bezo penis shaped space ships.

Buce
Dec 23, 2005

Charles Ford posted:

"the customer was annoying us enough to reach the second level of the defence, the terrible chat bots, so we paid them to go away".

this is pretty much exactly what happens

Random Stranger
Nov 27, 2009



mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

by Fluffdaddy
Aliexpress is now stealing my hack ideas! :argh:



It's an automotive aux LED light that I bolted on to a Makita plug a few year ago. Back then I searched for this and they had some overpriced powertool lights but not like this.

The lights are like $4 each, silly bright, and work at 12-24v so you can hook them up directly to the battery. I did even consider adding a USB charger too but didn't get to it.

Darchangel
Feb 12, 2009

Tell him about the blower!


Charles Ford posted:

I'd been trying these probiotics for your sinuses, that are meant to reduce the chance of catching COVID, and the refill I ordered from Amazon arrived and when it arrived it was a different flavour of bacteria, like they're all streptococcus salivarus but this was M18 (for Teeth and Gums!) and I want K12 (for Throat Health!) and I don't know enough about bacteria to know if it'd even help with my experiment so it's useless. It too had the correct sticker for the thing I ordered, but on the wrong product.

Go onto Amazon and their site is just "it's completely impossible to return this, it's healthcare related" over and over until I manage to chat to a ChatGPT, and it just goes "oh okay, I'll give you a refund!". It makes me wonder if they even track it, like do they mark up some statistic that they just sent completely the wrong item or do they just mark it up as "the customer was annoying us enough to reach the second level of the defence, the terrible chat bots, so we paid them to go away".

We got something like that, but even stranger - wife ordered Ariat boot insoles. They sent men's size 9 instead of ladies' size 9, and on a second look, even the order page fucks it up - when you select women's 9, it actually changes to men's when you go to cart. She had to actually *speak* to a CSR to try to explain the problem, because the automated system just didn't have an option for "your website changes the order." CSR resubmitted the order on their end, and same thing happened, so they supposedly flagged the webpage to the web-dudes.
Truly bizarre. Not sure what's going on with Amazon. Are they getting shoddy now that they've run most of the competition out of business?

stephenthinkpad posted:

Amazon makes it impossible to do a price adjustment on sales without talking to a person on chat or phone.

Like I got this mesh drawer for 20,the next day it dropped to 15. I just couldn't find an option to ask for a $5 difference on the return menu.

I ended up buying a new set and returned the old set to get that 5 dollar back.

All y'all are funding more jeff bezo penis shaped space ships.

I mean, if the *want* us to do it the way that costs them more money, then so loving be it.

REMEMBER SPONGE MONKEYS
Oct 3, 2003

What do you think it means, bitch?

Buce posted:

this is pretty much exactly what happens

I forget who it was, maybe AT&T (years ago now). So many layers of defense it was almost impossible to speak to a person. I spent easily an hour just trying for work. They ought to just have the computer prompts say “gently caress you, go away”

codo27
Apr 21, 2008

One of the great tragedies of Amazon's success is that it happened in spite of what a piece of poo poo website it actually is.

theflyingexecutive
Apr 22, 2007

codo27 posted:

One of the great tragedies of Amazon's success is that it happened in spite of what a piece of poo poo website it actually is.

Ma Bell didn't have the best telephone network. Standard Oil didn't have the best oil refining. Stands to reason Amazon would be bad for actually ordering products.

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Tad Naff
Jul 8, 2004

I told you you'd be sorry buying an emoticon, but no, you were hung over. Well look at you now. It's not catching on at all!
:backtowork:
Who's a good boy!

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