How 'bout "You will never get what you DON'T pay for". As in 'cheap' will bite you in the but later on.
I am fed up with products and devices that simply fill the landfills of Earth/Canada. The shipping container ships keep delivering load after load to Canada and the stuff just keeps filling the landfills and people are stuck in a never ending repeat expense of replacing the same items/devices that they need. It is sometimes absurdly very obvious and the corporations with their hands in my pocket for repeat expenses has become an absurdity that I resent very much. For example I am looking for another PC keyboard. I used to buy membrane keyboards and they felt OK but only lasted short years before becoming intermittent or not responding to my fingers. Then I saw all the spin and hype of mechanical keyboards. I bought several mechanical keyboards up to ~$125 +taxes each and all of them failed, they never delivered a reasonably enduring reliable dependable product, they had keys that eventually in short years never responded to my fingers(Left shift keys usually.) and where junk for various obvious and terrible reasons. So now there are light activated and magnetically activated/switched keyboards that are supposed to be totally different and a major terrific fabulous game changer in keyboard feel, operation, accuracy and life expectancy huge improvement. The good full size magnetically switched keyboard that I want is ~$300-$330 after discount plus tax and is very highly regarded and stated to be the de facto standard today. That's the going price for them and anything magnetically switched and less expensive has some sort of major reduced features and reduced capability. So it's ~$300-$330 for the keyboard or nothing. If all is factual and not fiction it will outlast several keyboards. I presently use a
SteelSeries Apex 3 membrane keyboard that has been the best value, most comfy and most reliable keyboard even when compared to the mechanical switch keyboards that I have owned out of many top leading brand keyboards. I order a ton of gear from Amazon near everyday and lots of the electronics and electronics related gear is junk or simply a cash grab. The issue is not Amazon and Amazon repeatedly treats me very well and persists in trying to make me feel better with it's excellent terms and policies but that is now a issue for me because it's the manufacturers issue and they should be responsible for all this stuff. The recent Braun Series 6 men's shaver is good as a shaver but the absurdly large countertop space consuming HUGE stand/charger/automated liquid cleaning system is a total cash grabber pocket emptying reoccurring expense on the owner. It is so absurdly obviously stupid that is makes me look like a stupid idiot fool when describing it. An electric shaver simply needs a fast easy rinse under hot water to clean it sometimes and not everyday and that's how it's been done for many decades and everybody was very satisfied and it was totally effective. It has a liquid cleaning cartridge that last as Braun states a rated 30 cleaning cycles. The stand/charger/automated liquid cleaning device auto engages the liquid cleaning cycle every single time that the bathroom light is switched ON. So if I go into the bathroom 10, 15 or 20 times in a day it engages 10, 15 or 20 times. It produces a terrible annoying loud buzzing noise that can be heard clearly in the living room and it commences the automated liquid cleaning cycle each time the bathroom light is switched ON. The liquid cleaning cartridge if bought in bulk costs ~$5-$7 each. It is obviously designed to be a reoccurring expense and empty the owners pocket. Check out my video review posted below if you want to hear it and see it doing it's absurd stuff and see how large it is. For a Braun shaver owner to be everyday remembering and constantly managing their electric shaver operation and managing the Brain shaver rechargeable battery charging cycles and taking the shaver out of the charger stand to disable the automated cleaning cycle is absurd and totally inconvenient and it's unreasonable to expect that. Braun makes and offers a tiny small plastic stand for the shaver that looks just like the hair clipper tiny little lightweight plastic stand and Braun dictates that the stand is between ~$35 and $50 each depending on who is selling it. The stand weighs grams, is tiny and probably costs fractions of a penny to manufacture and they don't even include it when buying the shaver and demand a terribly absurdly high expense for it. I found an Ebay seller in China that sold me one for ~$25 with no freight/shipping expense charges delivered to my door and that was a great deal as compared to the stupidly expensive $35-$50 prices plus delivery charges prices.
I also bought a highly rated digital audio/video playback device with an Android operating system with Bluetooth, wireless networking and everything an Android cel tel has built inside but with no cel tel electronics inside. It worked for ~2 weeks and then several unrelated issues started occurring one after the other. It had a bazillion features for playback of video and audio. I mean it had a bazillion features for configurations and all it needed was auto repeat, auto random playback, auto start and to be able to remember the last configuration of settings. As it was it kept forgetting the many settings required to get it to simply playback stuff and daily I had to go back into the settings and reset them back to where i had set them the day before. I thought that was unusual and maybe it was me but it became even more awkward. The actual needed various and critical settings for it's operation started to not appear and I looked all over in the menus and screens and they simply did not exist and they they existed and then did not exist etc. There where so many settings that I thought I was doing it wrong for some days and I tried learning and correcting myself but it was the device issues. Then it started needing to be reset and power cycled everyday and the features and settings returned to the menus and I knew for sure it was faulty. Finally the finger activated operation to access the settings became intermittent and I could not get the touch display to respond to my finger touch. It was fault after fault after fault. Again Amazon took it back and refunded me for all of the expense. Amazon is a terrific online etailer and simply obliterates every and all storefront retailers in the city of ~1 million people that I live in. I am very cautious about what I order in now.
The ~$750 high quality high performance 27" monitor that I bought ~<2.5 years ago upon my arrival at home recently when pushing the keyboard space bar instantly died right in front of my eyes. I telephoned MSI as MSI requested I do, no warranty extension or even thought of that even though it was only ~<0.5 years out of warranty and cost me ~$750, no concern at all for my ~$750 + taxes loss. The representative treated me as an inconvenience and an annoying person because I required more than a few seconds to make images of the monitor screen defect and email them to him. He sighed loudly multiple times to communicate to me that I displeased him, breathed deeply and exaggeratedly huffed and puffed loudly to show me he thought poorly of me for that and simply treated me like crap and then dismissed me because he had an agenda that did not include me and he considered me to have used enough of his time and energy. MSI is for sure not getting another dollar from me again. This type of stuff is reoccurring with representatives and service providers.
I contacted the cable ISP sales account admin about my download speed being <1000 Mbps. They advised me my service was a guaranteed 2Gbps download and had been that specification for years. Then I contacted tech support and the guy argued over and over about stuff unrelated to my situation and micro-managed everything I stated in chat while he used very poor English, used terribly built comments that where stated as questions when they where statements they where stated as questions and sometimes the English was so ineffective that I was very confused and then was making errors in his opinion that he further argued and denigrated while... this is the really annoying part... While I used a tiny little tech support chat window locked into the far lower right corner of the monitor with a tiny size ~4 font and only 3 comments visible at any time if the comments where kept very simply and small. I had to continually search back up into the comment stream to get details he referred to while he argued and micro-managed my comments causing the tiny chat window text to auto slam to the bottom comments causing more issues. He argues=d for ~20 minutes that the download speed difference of 400 Mbps and 600 Mbps second was not technically possible when the issue was I was getting on wireless a download speed of ~125Mbs. he simply either could not see what was actually the issue or he would not see the issue in reality. Anyway.. After over 3 hours in chat with him he finally relinquished authority and admitted there is a obvious issue and a tech was scheduled to come to my home.
The tech arrived fixed the issue in minutes and advised me that the modem/router has a special output CAT connector for the LAN and only that connector will do the 2.5Gbps download speed that I needed. After he left I checked the wireless download speed and it was still <100Mbps. So I contacted the ISP tech support again and they again sent another tech to my home. He arrived and from the second I saw him he was obviously showing t5hat this entire situation was a inconvenience and he did not want to be at my home doing a tech support service call. he then continually dictated to me to. "Forget about it", "It does not matter" and "No worries." He was dismissive to me and treated me like an idiot and a fool. He lazily slammed my easy to roll 5 wheel office chair into my new 55" big screen at the easily broken wire connectors area in the back of the monitor as he very obviously showed that the chair was too heavy and a bother for him to move it to access the F connector cable connector at the wall outlet. He repeatedly showed his disdain and frustration at being in my home and talking with me and he breathed heavily and deeply showing his disregard when we talked as he dismissed me each time and sighed to indicate all that he felt was wrong. While he did all that he whispered and talked so quietly that I had to ask him several times politely to repeat what he said. He dictated to me to go to #1 and then #3 and stuff like that when my PCs do not have identifying numbers on them. His numbering system was a fiction in his mind and had no relationship with the reality of my gear. he dictated that the issue was with the ISP, contact the ISP and get a refund and he could not explain why the previous tech was able to get my download speed to 2Gbps when he could only get <1Gbps. he dismissed me again, breathed deeply and heavily very loudly and sighed to show his disgust and exited to my great satisfaction that he was no longer in my home. It was incredible that such a person even exists and more incredible that he was tech support and passed a hiring interview and got into my home.
I called the ISP, explained the entire situation, told them I am not taking the ISP wasting >7 hours of my time and advised the ISP compensate me or face me in court in short time where I choose the court file location. This is the 3rd time I forced a service provider to pay me in compensation for wasting my time.
I received <1Gbps download speed for years from the ISP. The ISP for those years expensed me for 2Gbps per second download speed and the ISP never ever advised me in chat, direct voice talk or at the web page details that I searched through in their entirety for a long time in many web pages that to get the 2Gbps download speed I could only use the #4 LAN connector at the back of the modem/router. All the other 3 LAN connectors are limited at only 1Gbps download speed.
I was on the phone for over 12 hours in total from beginning to end with tech support and customer service mangers and the demand for compensation demand increased with each hour of my time they wasted. The second to last customer service manager told me $50 compensation and not a dollar more. I replied that then tomorrow morning I will be at the court registry for my file number acquisition and that I need his name and contact details because the judge will expect those and the judge will think very poorly of him if he does not provide them for me and he was instantly very nervous and then instantly put me on hold again to talk with his manager. He came back and denied the entire conversation ever occurred and actually called me a liar and told me to, "Shush." I told him all the telephone callas had been recorded in full with high quality sound and if I had to transcribe all of the the communications for the judge to read them that was what was required, that it is very time consuming labor intensive operations and doing that would simply increase further the dollar amount demanded for compensation. I advised him this is happening right here and right now with or without him and he better put me in touch with his manager ASAP or I will simply call back and get it done without him. He quickly transferred me to his manager. The result is that I made the ISP pay me for 3 months of free services at ~$95 each month plus the $50 for the lying representative that told me he never committed to the $50 dollars and that said to me that we never discussed the matters and plus another $75 because they irritated me and I wanted that for personal satisfaction as I told the manager. He gave it all to me in full and emailed me the pdf ISP account statement documents within several minutes.
I also in recent years made a telephone ISP service provider pay me in the amount of $380 and months later also in the amount of $470 because it lied to me repeatedly, put me on hold for up to 2 hours at a time waiting for a arrogant high level manager and the because the ISP expensed me for internet connection services that it never provided while it lied about the service standard and it's connection capability. They tried to treat me like a commanding over me superior people and treated me as assumed authorities over me and attempted shoving their lies and corporate bullying over me until the very last moments before I was going to either fax the corporation CFO with the document demands or go to court registry with the transcribed telephone recordings and expose the corporation for what it is. It was very satisfying to take them to task and make them compensate me.
