greenthrowaway
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Holy shit I’m sick of these newsletter pop ups. This one shakes and fills the screen before you even get to read a word.
Plagued Consoomers / Consoomer Culture - Because if it has a recogniseable brand on it, I’d buy it!
- Thread starter Spez
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Sounds like your standard ghetto nigress. And it sounds like she says gifs and not gifts.
She has probably gotten in debt or saved up for a long time.
About the sock organizer. I have yet to experience losing socks, and everything else than black or white socks on adult looks autistic.
Edit: This video about Amazon cracking down on Chinese sellers.
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Unless the local fetishist is stealing individual socks from the laundromat that device seems like way more hassle than it's worth.
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'Luxury Fashion & Beauty/Automotive/Business
I would love to hear what insights this bird has on cars. As it happens she even has a review of the 981 Boxster: https://youtu.be/gKzQXuDVm4c
Key points in this review:
This is a Porsche Boxster it has a 2.7 litre engine (x2 for the retards in the back)
The black wheels of doom were her choice and she had them painted
'I got the PDK model'
'Flappy paddle gearshift so it's pretty cool to drive'
'It's so okay if you want to drive in heels because there's no gear changes'
REVS FROM COLD
Our first piece of actual consumer advice relates to the interior: Porsche embossed headrests are a £1000 option and she wouldn't bother with it. Also, Alcantara good
'That slot there is where you can put like a SIM Card? I don't know what that does'
This row of blanks shows you all the options she couldn't afford
Vague description of sport mode and traction control
Fuck me, fill up your car
Mistakes oil pressure for oil level
'This is the key for the car it looks like a little car'
Second piece of consumer advice talks about how there are two boot spaces, the frunk is the deeper of the two
'If you want to get under the bonnet of this thing you can't, you just can't'
She once transported a wardrobe in this car with the roof down
Talks about how weight distribution makes it good in the winter and she's never had a slide - I'm sure this has nothing to do with her never turning the traction control off or driving it anywhere near the limit
Third piece of consumer advice: £70 to fill the tank
'The brochures are always hopeful on fuel economy aren't they, I am getting about 10mpg' She admits she drives like a retard
Fourth piece of consumer advice: Servicing costs. First one will set you back about a grand. Tries to cope with main dealer servicing costs by saying it's only every 2 years 'so it's basically like a BMW or Mercedes where you spend £500 every year'
'I always get rid of my cars before the first 4 year service because that's a lot of money' - Probably the most consoomer thing she's said in the whole video. Coincidentally this will have nothing to do with a 3 year PCP deal.
The black wheels of doom were her choice and she had them painted
'I got the PDK model'
'Flappy paddle gearshift so it's pretty cool to drive'
'It's so okay if you want to drive in heels because there's no gear changes'
REVS FROM COLD
Our first piece of actual consumer advice relates to the interior: Porsche embossed headrests are a £1000 option and she wouldn't bother with it. Also, Alcantara good
'That slot there is where you can put like a SIM Card? I don't know what that does'
Vague description of sport mode and traction control
Fuck me, fill up your car
Mistakes oil pressure for oil level
'This is the key for the car it looks like a little car'
Second piece of consumer advice talks about how there are two boot spaces, the frunk is the deeper of the two
'If you want to get under the bonnet of this thing you can't, you just can't'
She once transported a wardrobe in this car with the roof down
Talks about how weight distribution makes it good in the winter and she's never had a slide - I'm sure this has nothing to do with her never turning the traction control off or driving it anywhere near the limit
Third piece of consumer advice: £70 to fill the tank
'The brochures are always hopeful on fuel economy aren't they, I am getting about 10mpg' She admits she drives like a retard
Fourth piece of consumer advice: Servicing costs. First one will set you back about a grand. Tries to cope with main dealer servicing costs by saying it's only every 2 years 'so it's basically like a BMW or Mercedes where you spend £500 every year'
'I always get rid of my cars before the first 4 year service because that's a lot of money' - Probably the most consoomer thing she's said in the whole video. Coincidentally this will have nothing to do with a 3 year PCP deal.
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It wouldn't cost so much money if she kept it filled at the 1/3 or half full mark. How do people like this have cars? What if she gets stuck somewhere? I get jittery the moment my needle goes below half full like I'm committing a crime.
I can see why car dealerships love when idiots walk onto their lots. Like what a sucker.
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Another video of hers. Is Harrod's like, rich-people shopping Disneyland? What's the big deal?
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Her car is ugly, her taste in clothes tacky and the fillers on her face very obvious which sort of defeats the purpose. Absolute insanity that she drops thousands upon thousands of pounds on useless, bad-looking crap. It's not even a moral judgment on my part, it's just... Incomprehensible.
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Pffft yeah right, I'll believe that shit when I see it.
The chinks have absolutely flooded Amazon with worthless shit and worse-than-worthless fakes of a lot of things, especially everything electronic. Good luck finding decent DC power supplies, rechargeable batteries, flash memory, power banks, phone chargers and car mounts, cables, adapters ... fucking anything ... without having to wade through pages of JULOPEI, FJORDAL, EQUIMEO, RIPAOUF, ZIDAING, NEIBONG, ZITWANK, FUKMEI or LIKARSE "brand" bullshit with engrish descriptions copy/pasta'd from the last iteration of the same product with a different seven-random-letter brand name on it from before they got banned from Amazon and had to change the letters in their label printers.
Whenever enough people post enough negative reviews to make it obvious that a given listing is a cheap, low-quality chink ripoff of something useful and sales start to slow down (or when their abhorrent and nearly non-existent "customer service" drives enough people to demand refunds from Amazon directly and Amazon gets pissed and boots them from the storefront), they literally just roll a new 7-letter brand name, open a new Amazon account, re-post the exact same listings (often with identical copy and photos from past listings) and turn loose an army of bots to post fake reviews.
Look up some 1TB MicroSD cards (they're real now, holy shit) and note the prices. They're hundreds of dollars. But there will always be some listings for about $20-$30. Take a look at the overall rating of those items. Almost always 4 or 5 stars(!), with hundreds or even thousands of ratings. Yet there are very few actual reviews, and they all generally say the same thing: "these are fake, they're really just hacked 16GB cards that lie to the host and report 1TB, then when you write more than 16GB of data to them they just shit the bed." Except for a few early reviews, which all say something generic like "great product" or "works well no problems" or "wonderful seller" or "good for when I need to store files on a card."
It wouldn't be quite as obnoxious if Amazon's search engine for their own fucking site wasn't built from sweaty cat taint. Go look up a brick-style 15V power adapter with a standard 5mm/2.1mm plug that can reliably output 300+ watts (i.e. 20A or better). Hilariously, the more specific your searches get, the worse the results get. Punch in something like "15V 20A power adapter" and it'll flood the first two pages of results with fucking cell phone chargers that barely hit 2A at 5V. It'll seriously show results that contain literally none of your search terms.
For even more fun, try to find an 18650 rechargeable battery manufactured by Samsung, Panasonic or Sony with a protection circuit. Not rebranded by them, but actually produced by them. Have fun wading through all the options you're given that aren't 18650's, have impossibly high capacities like 10,000mAh (the physical chemistry of the 18650 form factor limits it to about 4,000mAh if you're willing to forego the protection circuit and can tolerate slow charge times and low discharge rates), have "brand" names you can't pronounce, but are promised to have "Sam-Sung Cores" in them.
Want one of those Christmas laser light projectors to stick in your lawn and point at your house? Neat. There's thousands of clones of about 4 or 5 "designs" at your disposal. Want one that won't turn to manure after a few weeks of use? Good fucking luck. There's a handful in there, but the chinks have buried them in a flood of pure shit.
You can eventually find what you need (usually), but not before you've thumbed through hundreds of pages through dozens of searches sifting through an endless sea of chinesium garbage. Since I'm shitting on them so much anyway, I'll conclude my rant by wondering aloud how exactly the Chinese haven't already poisoned, flooded, bombed, crushed, electrocuted or suffocated themselves back to the stone age by now. They're not just sending us the garbage and keeping "the good stuff" ... they don't make good stuff. They build skyscrapers with fucking cardboard FFS!
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Hahaha
I've experienced the end result of this firsthand. There was a smaller seller from whom I bought a certain handmade something and it was really nice. Didn't think much of it until a few months later when I got a physical letter in the mail from the seller that said: "Hey we're really sorry to bother you like this, but since you didn't leave a review, can you please do so? Normally we wouldn't ask like this, but a Chinese company is copying our product and this will help us prove we're the original seller."
The letter included screenshots and everything. I felt really bad for them.
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Shopping mall exclusively with luxury stores.
Here's why the laser treatment did almost nothing for her. She choose something shitty and weak. For the most bang for your buck, it's good ol CO2 laser that is king. Not fractionated or fraxel laser. You are supposed to look like a burn victim afterwards, and it's supposed to take weeks to heal.
To me, it looked like she got IPL Which is just Intense Pulsating Lights. It's not even a laser.
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>repro
Just buy a flashcart instead, it can even be one of the Chinese Everdrive clones, they do fine.
Phil Kessel
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Tbh if you're stupid enough to buy a $800 advent calendar without checking what it contains, then you deserve to get scammed.
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The fun with advent calendars is not knowing what you get, and no parents is going to buy their kid this. So it's not like they can buy it for you, unless if you give them the money to buy it. But then you have people without people they can trust with their money.
But honestly, you can't expect much for only 800 usd from a designer brand. Mystery boxes has been known to be a scam for a long time anyway, but I really don't expect any intelligence from someone that use Tiktok unironically.
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Designer advent calendars are tacky escort stuff, real rich people form classy upbringings only buy from certain collections. This one from Chanel IS a scam but a somewhat transparent one since a) the content was listed b) the design was cheap and plastic like.
As you said: Tiktok “fashion lovers” are what they are.
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To be honest entirely, why waste your money on even the cheap $1 advent calendars that taste like chocolate flavoured cardboard when you can just watch Ashens open Advent tat to really get the full experience of how companies just use the entire concept to unload stock they can't sell.
They've literally become company lootbox dumping grounds, unless you actually make candy/chocolate. Then it's just overpriced but at least the treat is nice.
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I've been getting recommended a lot of his videos lately and they're really off putting. He reviews bags and bags and bags of future landfill, knowing it's future landfill. It feels just as wrong to watch as people who collect future landfill like Funko pops, but I won't judge him as harshly because at least he's doing it for views and making a living off it. His overheads per video must be tiny because everything he buys is bottom of the barrel made in china crap.
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I find it fascinating in a way because there's no demand for the crap he finds at Poundland, yet it exists. The Lootcrate boxes were blatantly cheap shit with a Marvel logo on it that sometimes ended up in dollar stores because they had to move their stock, yet Lootcrate went on for years. In this endless screeching world about how we need to be more environmentally friendly, companies will still churn out cheap plastic garbage that ends up going back to their warehouse to be liquidized, and they still have the gall to turn around and blame the public for global emissions and pollution. It's incredible.
I believe in free markets and capitalism, and I don't think anyone should be buying pompom chicks for $1 at Dollar Tree, but it is interesting to me to see it in the first place because surely they cannot be making their money back on this. So why make it in the first place? It's all going to be in a landfill at the end of the day regardless, but maybe if they didn't produce the crap to begin with, those pompoms will be used somewhere else or not at all. But here we are, with companies and people trying to squeeze every penny out of you at any chance they can get and making pompom chicks in the slight chance you'll give in to get it as a "Decoration".
Advent calendars used to be crap chocolate for $1. Now even Chanel is doing them. Le Creuset just came out with a Harry Potter dishware set. Cashiers at gas stations are surrounded by impulse crap items and masks, trying to convince you that hey, maybe with that $30 fillup, you should buy a lighter and mask with the Batman logo on it.
So much if going to be thrown out at the end of the day, so I respect Ashens for making money off showcasing this crap and why you shouldn't buy it. But yeah. It's all bottom of the barrel and clogging up the earth.
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On advent calendars: Whittard, the posh tea company, has an advent calendar for tea and coffee bags out at the moment. It's expensive at £60, but as someone who has turned their nose up at coffee bags it's been a nice way to try them out before committing to a box of one variety of coffee bag for work. I'd say it's the only advent calendar I have ever had that has been remotely useful and not a total waste of money.
I probably won't buy it again next year
I probably won't buy it again next year
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I agree, I get range anxiety like hell and tend to fill up when my tank hits at least 1/4. On the other hand I know people that always put the bare minimum into their cars to keep them fuelled, I think it's just a personal thing.
How you buy a new car without a service pack is beyond me. I once bought a used car from a main dealer that gave me 2 free services on a pack the original owner bought! At the very least, I'd say with a car like a Porsche it's almost essential for the purpose of the car's provenance later on to have the servicing done at the dealer, but you'd shell out the extra on purchase for that because the service packs normally come at a discount, compared to going back to the dealer every time on your own.