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vienna
04-06-17, 05:56 AM
The next time you feel you need to vent about your frustration about some web connected product or service, this result might need to taken into account:

http://mashable.com/2017/04/05/garadget-bad-review-bricked/

All I know is, if I am ever given a "smart" heart pacemaker, I'm going to be inclined to give the manufacturer a really good review, no matter what...



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Catfish
04-06-17, 06:09 AM
Sometimes i am happy that those WLAN devices can still be turned off with one click, by me. :hmmm:

Jimbuna
04-06-17, 06:36 AM
Am currently in the process of having a wireless home security system installed which can be controlled via an app on my iPhone.

Best be careful, would hate to be denied access to my own home :)

vienna
04-06-17, 06:47 AM
I would have thought that would only happen if you transgressed against the missus...

...or is the rolling pin still in style?... :D




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Jimbuna
04-06-17, 06:56 AM
^ Aye most fearsome and efficient security device ever known to man :)

Platapus
04-06-17, 10:52 AM
Am currently in the process of having a wireless home security system installed which can be controlled via an app on my iPhone.



I have never understood the attraction of such a system. From a practical viewpoint, how many times does one need access to the security system while not at the home?

They make keypads that will let selected people in only at specific times.

The problem I have with wireless systems is that the easier you make it accessible to the "good guys" the easier it is accessible by the "bad guys".

Onkel Neal
04-06-17, 01:32 PM
I can see where the business owner is coming from. Too often people go from 0 to total flaming jerk. At least give the business a chance to make good.

Fubar2Niner
04-06-17, 02:35 PM
^ Aye most fearsome and efficient security device ever known to man :)


http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-H0AOMd6QC9g/UvI520vl8AI/AAAAAAABWn0/5EVMRCo083I/s1600/rolling-pin.jpg

Never argue with thisun

Jeff-Groves
04-06-17, 03:36 PM
How I wish my 2nd ex-wife used a rolling pin!
:doh:
She used this!
http://image.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/69636/69636,1267013413,2/stock-photo-an-old-fashioned-cast-iron-frying-pan-47362774.jpg

A rolling pin would have been foreplay!
:haha:

August
04-06-17, 04:59 PM
I can see where the business owner is coming from. Too often people go from 0 to total flaming jerk. At least give the business a chance to make good.

I have to agree. No matter what you do or how much you try there is just no pleasing some customers. We have a couple where I wish we could just go in with a cash refund, throw it down on their counter, rip out our equipment and say see ya later.

fireftr18
04-06-17, 09:02 PM
The story didn't say he didn't try to get help. He may have tried and couldn't get the help he needed. In frustration, he lashed out. The owner in turn, instead of trying to make it right, shut him down, and then made excuses.

STEED
04-07-17, 05:35 AM
The Shop motto of the past..

The customer is always right even if they are wrong.


Seems there is a new motto now..

The customer is a nitwit and we have the right to sell rubbish to that nitwit.

Platapus
04-07-17, 08:02 AM
I think there is one indisputable undeniable fact here.

We don't know the whole story from both sides.

Maybe both sides are right?

Jimbuna
04-08-17, 10:23 AM
I have never understood the attraction of such a system. From a practical viewpoint, how many times does one need access to the security system while not at the home?

They make keypads that will let selected people in only at specific times.

The problem I have with wireless systems is that the easier you make it accessible to the "good guys" the easier it is accessible by the "bad guys".

I've only gone wireless because the previous system obviously wasn't and about five year ago when I had a new wooden floor laid, I noticed the next day the passive sensors weren't working and didn't have the heart to ask the floor layer to come and rip his work up for what was probably a 'pinched' wire/cable.

vienna
04-08-17, 10:37 AM
I've only gone wireless because the previous system obviously wasn't and about five year ago when I had a new wooden floor laid, I noticed the next day the passive sensors weren't working and didn't have the heart to ask the floor layer to come and rip his work up for what was probably a 'pinched' wire/cable.

Jim, you're becoming a softie in you dotage... :03:

Then, again, if you had called him back to deal with the 'pinch', he might have adopted an 'American' stance and ripped up your floor because you had an issue with the way it affected your system... :D



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Jimbuna
04-10-17, 07:37 AM
Jim, you're becoming a softie in you dotage... :03:

Then, again, if you had called him back to deal with the 'pinch', he might have adopted an 'American' stance and ripped up your floor because you had an issue with the way it affected your system... :D



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Then I'd most likely end up 'ripping' a certain part of his anatomy off :):03:

vienna
04-10-17, 07:46 AM
As I said, a softie... :D




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