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Concepts to Consider:
- A shipping broker is sending out out, from mixed vendors, on a continuous basis. Huge amounts of little things can fit in a shipping container or air parcel or whatever.
- Predatory trade practices: selling at a loss to drive competitors out of business. You'd imagine the state has to be in collusion with such a scheme - but that could never happen in China.
- The Original Amazon.com business plan: they lose money on every order but make up for it in volume.
Suggestion: take advantage of the situation by ordering everything in dozens - since you'll need to replace the junk so often.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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I've bought no end of stuff from aliExpress and dx.com, a lot of it where the (free) postage obviously came to much more than the price of the item. Don't ask me how they do it, but it works.
You also get stuff a lot earlier, if you buy it directly from China, rather than wait for western companies to import stockpiles of it and have all their price-fixing discussions with other companies -- e.g. I had a kree lamp on my bike at least a year before I saw any available here (for more than double the price). It still works, BTW, but it's not on my bike, any more, because the missus likes using it to hunt snails in the garden (on full, it's brighter than daylight).
I can't think of an item I've bought where I was unhappy with the quality -- unlike when I buy from e-bay, where a good quarter of what I receive is disappointing.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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My son bought a hard case for PSP on eBay for £0.99. It arrived from China in about 2 days.
It was clearly a knock-off; the logo was not as it had appeared in the photo but just subtly different (different enough, I suppose, to avoid copyright problems). Otherwise the quality was excellent and he was delighted with it but he emailed to complain about the logo. They quickly replied that they were sorry he was not fully satisfied and said they would reduce the price by £1 to compensate. They credited the £1 to his eBay account.
Phil
The opinions expressed in this post are not necessarily those of the author, especially if you find them impolite, inaccurate or inflammatory.
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Movie Quote Of The Day
Get your homework done and if there are any guys in here no flirting. No dating until you are 40.
Which movie?
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Father Knows Best[^]??? 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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QA section on CP?
Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
I use 1TBS
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The youth of Paris 
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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The modern days.
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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Houses of Parliament - The Movie
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Adventures in Babysitting?
veni bibi saltavi
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The Forty Year Old Virgin.
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Dag nab it. You beat me to it. 
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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That is probably the nicest part of the area around Bristol these days.
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15 miles
4 days a week
40 people
That may save some non-renewable resources, but the cost (in money and non-renewable resources to manufacture) must be enormous! 
And human excrement is indeed a renewable resource: if we could process QA, we could run the whole site on that with energy to spare...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: if we could process QA, we could run the whole site on that with energy to spare
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As a regular user, it by no means is that bad, not great most of the time (slow, inefficient). But as a Bristol resident it seems to making use of the one thing that is in ample supply locally!
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...you forgot dirty, smelly, overexpensive, unreliable, and never when you actually need it. 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Nah! Not smelly use it regularly you loose your gag reflex at the smell. Price I do agree on. ALSO travelling in conditions that make envy the space that Veal Calves have.....
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OriginalGriff wrote: dirty, smelly, overexpensive, unreliable, and never when you actually need it
You just summed up ALL public transport in the UK 
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
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I suppose if the bus breaks down they have to ask for volunteers to go to the back of the bus and dump in some more fuel?
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I get an image in my mind of a bus where all the seats have been replaced by toilet stools, sort of like in this restaurant[^]...
Takes "performance anxiety" to a completely new level...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Johnny J. wrote: I get an image in my mind of a bus where all the seats have been replaced by toilet stools,
Actually, that is the image on the bus you linked to. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Imagine filling up.. Unleaded, Super Unleaded, Diesel, LPG and Organic..
Definitely need those disposable gloves before touching the nozzle 
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
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