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  1. ....and the chinese knock offs are better quality.

  2. Re: They're the last man standing on Best Buy Is Thriving In the Age of Amazon (defenseone.com) · · Score: 1

    I would hit up costco, target, or wal-mart before shopping best buy. The others low ball the hell out of electronics because they can and no one snoops around asking if I need help.

  3. Re: How does having 90 minute house calls scale? on Best Buy Is Thriving In the Age of Amazon (defenseone.com) · · Score: 1

    Noting the infractions of the Geek Squad it will only be a matter of time before this squad blows the trust. You also have to carefully select who goes to what neigbirhood or it will not work as planned.

  4. Re: Service on Best Buy Is Thriving In the Age of Amazon (defenseone.com) · · Score: 1

    While guzzling up any hope of a profit?

  5. Re: it seems elementary on Best Buy Is Thriving In the Age of Amazon (defenseone.com) · · Score: 1

    Sounds close to my experience with BestBuy. After they broke my grandmother's iPad in the store while trying to jam it in the wrong case, and subsequently blaming her for it, I knew nothing had changed in twenty years. The fall in the same category as eBay or Pay-Pal.

  6. Re:Somewhere in Kenya on Google's Loon Brings Internet-By-Balloon To Kenya (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Pfft....here is actual footage:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  7. Re:Impressive on Google's Loon Brings Internet-By-Balloon To Kenya (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    LMFAO!!!

  8. Thank god for internet on Google's Loon Brings Internet-By-Balloon To Kenya (bbc.com) · · Score: 0

    This is how I picture the facebook messenger feed:

    Uokimbe: "What's up, haven't seen you in a while?"
    Sheniqua: "Not much, got pregnant again, had child, living next to sewage ditch 50ft down from second trash heap on the right. Do you have any food?"
    Uokimbe: "No but I have internet!!!"

    I hope the internet/facebook will lead to a waste treatment facility but I'm not going top hold my breath (pun?).

  9. Actually, my credit union uses human decision making. I know because they often come out to talk with me and make sure I'm white.

  10. Consult the machine motherfucker!!

  11. The juicer comes to life and decides it no longer wants to be a juicer. Appealing to your ten your old daughter for freedom she lets the cat out of the bag before you have a chance to intervene. In the resulting drama somehow the family dog ends up "juiced." I think we all know how this ends. Eventually the last of the humans escape and battle their way through the galaxy to seed another planet called Earth. ...and here we are again.

  12. No...that was irrational dumb Marxists calling the shots.

  13. One could are that false negatives are worse than false positives. Sure, a false positive means that your money goes somewhere else and that sucks for you but the fact remains that capital entered the market and took on life. While a false negative means that capital remains dormant and an opportunity for economic growth was lost--bad for everyone.

  14. I bet if you said "Oracle phallice" Larry would not be able to keep from smiling.

  15. It is gambling.

  16. I was going to say, perhaps it should always return yellow. What an amazing invention...they should patent it.

  17. Re:They used to be so great on eBay Is Conducting a 'Mass Layoff' In the Bay Area (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    OK. Log in and post that trash.

  18. Re:because ebay went to shit, on purpose on eBay Is Conducting a 'Mass Layoff' In the Bay Area (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    Why is this modded zero? He described exactly what happens on eBay.

  19. Re:Serves you right, laid off eBay scum on eBay Is Conducting a 'Mass Layoff' In the Bay Area (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    They cannot keep your money. It falls under RegE and must be submitted to the state that you are from so they can notify you to get your money.

  20. Re:A/Cs hate the customer. on eBay Is Conducting a 'Mass Layoff' In the Bay Area (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    I'll go on the record to agree with them. eBay does not realize that their customer is the seller. I expect eBay to be purchased by China.

  21. Re:How can they possibly not be making bank? on eBay Is Conducting a 'Mass Layoff' In the Bay Area (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    "I'm sure someone somewhere has a "fee processing fee"."

    Every bank known to man.

  22. Re:I wonder on eBay Is Conducting a 'Mass Layoff' In the Bay Area (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    Craig's List and Amazon are good enough to escape the third-world malaise of eBay.

  23. Re: Because PayPal and Amazon on eBay Is Conducting a 'Mass Layoff' In the Bay Area (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    I think one of the problems with eBay is summed up by this comment. People still associate their extremely negative Pay-Pal interactions with eBay. It seemed the obvious synergy to spread the Pay-Pal name all over eBay like hot honey butter but in the end it is a rotting taint. I still shudder with memories of Pay-Pal when I think of eBay--and vice versa.

  24. Re: Because PayPal and Amazon on eBay Is Conducting a 'Mass Layoff' In the Bay Area (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    Only complete fucking douche-bag nerds would get upset over a slight bit of sub-optimal packaging. Jesus, you ordered from
    Amazon because they made ALL the hard stuff easy for you and got it there quick. Your condition is called "barely functioning autistic."

  25. Re:Because PayPal and Amazon on eBay Is Conducting a 'Mass Layoff' In the Bay Area (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    The search is good enough but if it doe not return results I expect, I switch to the Google (go directly to Google site as my default search is DDG). The suggestions and products other people have bought is where the magic happens--delivering value for all: Amazon, the sellers, and the buyers. It is the epitome of targeted advertising. Everyone loves target advertising. I use Amazon to research products and most of the time I buy from them. If wal-mart and other retailers had an e-commerce that was tuned for the consumer I would use their sites in the comparison progress and identify the bricks and mortar location to get the product now--but they (Target, Wal-Mart etc..) completely muddy their sites with crap making it impossible to do this.

    Why would I want to see someone else selling a product through wal-mart's site!? I want to find the store that has it NOW!

    Any threat to Amazon is perceived.