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Talking of deliveries, why is it that Amazon’s own delivery people are the worst?
DHL, usually good, but one delivery person is scared of dog’s, so drives past our house and then marks the package as not deliverable, even when we are waiting on the doorstep.
UPS excellent. DPD is OK.
Amazon, the first direct package was left on the doorstep of our office building, facing the street on a Friday evening, after the office had closed for the weekend. Luckily the packet was still there at 9 on Monday morning!
And last week, I ordered an SSD. The package hat been cut open and the box with the SSD removed and the SSD carefully removed from the bottom of the box! Luckily, the delivery person didn’t seem to be able to work out what it was, so he stuffed it back in the packet and left it in my mailbox. I reported it to Amazon and got a gift card for my trouble.
In c’t magazine last month, there was a case of a customer who ordered a Sony Xperia smartphone, the first delivery contained a re-sealed packet with moisturiser in it. Amazon apologised and sent a replacement, it contained shampoo, the third attempt contained face peeling masks.
The customer tried to get a refund, but Amazon locked his account, permanently, because he failed to return the 3 Xperias!
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Maybe I noticed it more this episode, but Rene has developed a bad habit of mumbling over other people. Makes it a challenge to follow conversations sometimes.
It’s not René’s fault - it’s his ISP, VideoTron. We’ve been struggling with it for some time. Due to the latency in his connection he often starts talking after others have already launched into their speech. I am at a loss for a solution to this other than hand signals which would really damage the flow. -sigh-
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My guess is that they are being cheap (not paying well). You get what you pay for.
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In this case, you don’t get (quality and caring about your job or your customers) that you don’t pay for… IMHO.
I participated in the MKBHD shootout. I was underwhelmed. I get the idea of using social media since that’s where a lot of photos are compared. I wish he took some photos that were a little more challenging. How about some night scenes, moving subjects, zoom shots, portraits, etc. And the random single elimination tournament format means you can’t see how any device does across a range of conditions, and it almost guarantees a bunch of surprising results.
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According to Wikipedia:
Norelco is the American brand name for electric shavers and other personal care products made by the Consumer Lifestyle division of Philips. For personal care products marketed outside the United States, Philips used the Philishave trademark until 2006. Philips then dropped that name and began using the Philips name.
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