Enterprise SSD "small deals"
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Ah, sorry! I thought your comment on the weight was FedEx’ weight, not JC. In that case I very much agree that something isn’t right, because like you JC has been meticulous about weight and volume for me.
just checked JC and they’ve measured mine to the same as yours. But funnily enough they’ve got a different volume for the same dimensions?! 2.04 dm³ vs your 1.77 dm³ for the same 23-3-30 cm…
Maybe they aren’t that accurate after all since your volume doesn’t math up..| 0.45 kg | 0.45 kg 2.04 dm3 (23-3-30 cm) |
So I stand corrected, they are more organised than what I thought. Sounds like a way to make it look not like a cancelled order to ebay.
This morning I ordered a $2 3.2TB SSD from another vendor, who resolved it the traditional way: by lying about my address being incorrect!
Hahahaha at least they’ve got some humor about it! We tried and failed to ”trick” the system but oh well.
Still rubs me the wrong way a bit though, since now we have to deal with the forwarder issue. I’m glad someone in this board presented this, as now we at least can cancel the shipment.
I cannot, not pay forwarder, and the customs documents are allready done, so this will cost me quite a bit.
the package has been received, and all the values/customs etc are all locked
I'm not sure the free publicity is worth the bad reviews on ebay for them?, this will cost me quite a bit , and a lot more than $50 in a gift card. the shipping, customs documents etc alone are around $150, in addition I'm now paying 25% VAT on the original purchase ammounts, which is also a bit.
since this is a forreign currency for me, I'm also getting hit with some costs on my CC used for the purchase since there was a diff in payment vs rturn date, also a loss.
the package has been received, and all the values/customs etc are all locked
I'm not sure the free publicity is worth the bad reviews on ebay for them?, this will cost me quite a bit , and a lot more than $50 in a gift card. the shipping, customs documents etc alone are around $150, in addition I'm now paying 25% VAT on the original purchase ammounts, which is also a bit.
since this is a forreign currency for me, I'm also getting hit with some costs on my CC used for the purchase since there was a diff in payment vs rturn date, also a loss.
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I would be quite cross if they'd done that to me. I'd rather have had an email immediately saying "sorry, we f*cked up" than ship me something useless in a box and waste CO².
yes, would have been MUCH cheaper for me, and I wouldnt bother giving negative feedback.
They must have sent me a lot of hats for the $500 I paid because my package is 2.6kg and I just noticed that the packaging is labeled as FedEx Envelope. Nice. My head will be nice and toasty next winter.
Yeah you make it sound so easy ...
I'd like to have a working System.
Even Bitwarden Password Manager is a PITA in its own Right ... Even when you are in the correct Folder, when creating an Item, you STILL need to type/select that Folder and after saving the Password, in order to copy it, you need to select ANOTHER Item, then back to the right one, otherwise the password isn't even available for copying.
The easiest Things (1-Step) get over-complicated for nothing into 3-4 Step Processes.
The voucher is worthless and they know it. Have you seen their prices? If they think the price you paid is too good you get a hat and the possibility to ask for a $50 voucher instead of the product you ordered. This clearly happens with some regularity because they have a template and a cheap swag hat to send already in stock.
If they informed you of why they cancelled your order on eBay, they'd be booted off the platform.
Disctech /discountechnology are scammers, plain and simple. They can "make it up to you" by shipping the product you ordered at the price you paid, even if that's their mistake.
I feel sorry for people who booked air freight for this. But definitely you should contact your forwarder's support department and/or the customs officials in your country. No way the "fair market value" of this hat is anywhere near the value of the SSDs you will pay VAT for.
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I have the opposite Way. I didn't play much withLooks like "Backups" only allows one backup. I can't see where a second or more backups can be set up. Stupidness like this makes Linux look bad.
restic yet, but as a general Rule, if you rely on a GUI-only Program, then you cannot easily script it.If you can script it (CLI), then you can do whatever YOU want to do it, automate it, schedule, etc.
I like GUIs, I'm not a
vim User etc (actually I use nano ), but for many Things the CLI is enough and more easy to configure.Plus you can actually use the Program on a Server where obviously you don't have a GUI
.As an occasional ebay seller, I am happy there is room for mistakes to be corrected. People make mistakes. Even as a buyer, I am happy I can retract a bid in an auction because I made a mistake once.
It is annoying that they played this little game with sending empty parcels without prior communication though. But only mildly annoying.
Not quite sure how that works.The backups would be on a hardened repo. As an e.g. with Veeam:
Hardened Repository - User Guide
To protect your backup files from loss as a result of malware activity or unplanned actions, you can add a hardened repository based on a Linux server to your backup infrastructure.A hardened repository supports the following features: Immutability: when you add a hardened repository, you...helpcenter.veeam.com
They say Certificate based Authentication ... How is that different from just using SSH with Certificates (yes ... there is actually an Option to add Certificates to OpenSSH on top of using the Private & Public Key Pair).
Also in that Case, if your management Client gets taken over, then you will be able to connect to the Backup Machine and delete the Backup
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They had multiple chances over the past days to correct the mistake in a way I would find acceptable:
1. Don't restock more of the item at the incorrect price
2. Communicate to buyers that it was a mistaken price and you are cancelling their order
3. ASK THEM if they want to receive swag or not
I am also a seller, and I know sometimes mistakes happen. The difference is in how you handle it. They have done exactly none of the items above, leading some people to declare full value of the goods and book air freight. If you're organised enough to send people a package with a hat, you're organised enough to send them a short message on the platform they bought the product.
This is unacceptable, especially from a business that clearly recognised their mistake because they sent people a hat and a sob non-apology letter.
Yea. Just bad customer service. As consumers, we will always jump on deals. If it's incorrectly listed just say so and cancel the sale. Or maybe let one or two slide since its your mistake. But the silent cancellation, lying about incorrect address and bad excuses just don't work. It makes the buyer angry.
Sometimes it is genuinely possible. Last year I ordered two unbranded PCIe SSDs from a large eBay seller:
They were listed at $8 each and the item description was just some random numbers from the PCB with zero search engine hits. They turned out to be new old stock Seagate Nytro 2TB SSDs that use the mptsas driver, so not even "run some ancient RHEL VM to use the vendor closed-source drivers."
Best deal I've ever had so far. Sadly, they only had the two.
