n_emoo

@n_emoo@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's dangerous to go alone. Take this.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lets just balace the penny by saying it makes you 100x more likely to succeed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon customer discovers his Intel Core i9-13900K is an i7-13700K in disguise⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Here I agree with you. They either got a retun reason like “never used, changed my mind” or simply figured out that for a vast majority of purchases with return codes like this, it is safe to reshelf the object and ship it as new.

  Whether the object is to be considered “new” or “like new / used” is probably a gray area. I’m not aware of where most other retailers draw the line on this one (walmart, target, costco, etc.). I’m sure the problem is even harder for online retailers, mostly because its much easier for people to lie on an online return form.

  Regardless, my only gripe was people in this thread assuming a conspiracy where they intentionally rotate and peddle defective items hoping someone eats the cost.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon customer discovers his Intel Core i9-13900K is an i7-13700K in disguise⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Playing devils advocate here but… I suspect what is happening here is a previous purchaser bought it (broke it?), returned it under a different reason (eg. I dint like it) and Amazon decided it is not worth the hassle of rechecking every return labeled as such.

  Mind you this is no consolation for someone like you who has go to through this return process, but I cant believe Amazon is “winning” by keeping a defective product like this in rotation long enough for someone to “eat the cost”. Defective products hurt Amazon as well and I’m sure they’d rather take the hit if they could pin point which products are defective.

  You could argue that they should bear the cost of validating every return, but clearly someone has crunched the numbers and the program is likely not cost effective.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The state of Playstore⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If I understand correctly, carrier locking is different from Bootloader locking. A Samsung flagship can be bought unlocked by paying full price, but you cannot unlock the bootloader and install Graphene, for instance.