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Is it really worth your eyes and the extra money to take a risk on the glasses that you're still not giving up on them and planning on researching them? Why not just buy one that you know is reputable?
Where would you suggest one could get one?
Buying any PPE from Amazon is probably a bad idea. Counterfeit or not, the barrier to entry is just too low. eg, there are specialized climbing harnesses on Amazon which confuse the CE EN standard and the concept of notified bodies. (Which certify conformity.) Leads to hilarity like a climbing harness claiming conformity with the standards for intubation tubes. Or, climbing equipment which is mislabeled as to its cou…
Amazon is, for me, full of bafflement pricing.
Trying to work out what I need to buy to get free shipping becomes impossible because of the Prime Only deals, the Add On items, the difference in shipping between books only or other stuff.
Now I just buy all books from Wordery and everything else from eBay.
I hope this is a wake up call for Amazon and they start cleaning up and cutting back the third party sellers. It's to the point where I don't bother checking Amazon for a lot of things because I know it will be too hard to find a legit seller.
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Bravo? Amazon sells counterfeit shit all over. They're panicking and trying to avoid a tiny bit of the inevitable damage. I bet they'll settle quickly versus risk the full extent of their malicious behaviour become public knowledge.
Well... Bravo in the sense that by recalling they admit they have counterfeit problem. It is not too late ever for a company to admit they made a mistake. Look at the catholic church
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They put some sort of deadly chemical in baby milk to make it more frothy, because that's a sign of more protein... they don't give a shit ("they" being some turbo-capitalists...).
No, "they" are not "turbo-capitalists." "They" are criminals. Or were, in any case. At least some of the executives responsible for that incident were executed.
Reading the comments here, I wonder if folks have read the article? The problem seems to be not that Amazon has recalled counterfeit items but rather they have recalled legitimate product, blaming the legitimate seller for the fact that Amazon can't keep straight where their safety-critical inventory came from. It is as if they have a bin for "Viagra" in the warehouse into which they put shipments from Pfizer, along…
I have received a counterfeit product from Amazon and I thought they were going to handle it excellently, but then they dropped the ball asking me to return a dangerous item to the seller for them to pass it on to the next person. I refused and fortunately got a refund, but all the effort was on me.
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"Après moi le déluge! is the watchword of every capitalist and of every capitalist nation. Hence Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the labourer, unless under compulsion from society." --Karl Marx s/labourer/consumer/
You know, it does seem like some people need to be reminded that China is nominally Communist. ("It's not real Communism." But it's a real outcome of the attempt to create Communism, so it counts just fine.) The thing is, if you want safety, what you want is a separation between the manufacturer and the regulator. In Communism, the manufacturer and the regulator are de facto the same entity. Communism lacks any entit…
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They put some sort of deadly chemical in baby milk to make it more frothy, because that's a sign of more protein... they don't give a shit ("they" being some turbo-capitalists...).
No, "they" are not "turbo-capitalists." "They" are criminals. Or were, in any case. At least some of the executives responsible for that incident were executed.
Is there anything particularly dangerous about viewing the sun directly? When I was dumb and young I'd look at the sun for seconds at a time without any problems developing so far. Is the danger that an eclipse encourages you to stare at the sun without encountering any pain?
Just to add to the other replies, there's another thing very different about a partial eclipse vs. when you looked at the sun as a kid. You were looking at a full sun, not a smidgen of a sun. There was so much light hitting your eyes that they stopped down naturally, giving you some protection. And there was so much bright light that you really couldn't look at it for very long without involuntarily looking away or c…