Re: Why is this HDD so small?

In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Sun, 14 Mar 2021 14:50:17 -0500, Mark
Lloyd <[email protected]> wrote:

>On 3/13/21 3:01 PM, Ken Blake wrote:
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>> As far as I'm concerned, Amazon is completely reputable. I buy many 
>> things from them--probably somewhere around 100 a year--and I've never 
>> had a problem, except once when a product I expected to receive never 
>> arrived. Amazon not only refunded what I had paid, but also gave me a 
>> credit ($10, If I remember correctly).
>
>I have occasionally has problems with Amazon orders (such as a router 
>that arrived dead), put always got good customer service.

I've had no major problems with them either. 

I had an FM transmitter that didn't have enough range.  I might have
kept it anyhow but I'd acciedentally bought two of them.  Kohs's took
them back for Amazon. 

And an electronic thermmoter that showed low battery when I got it.  It
still seemed to work except at 96.2, I might be dead, who knows.  Well,
the doctor's thermometer just about agreen with mine,   

So I put in another battery, ffrom a card with 50 button batteries that
I bought August 8 of last year, and the thermometer still shows lo every
time I start. The problem with the battery card is that it has no date
on it.  Other than that it's identical in style to my previous card that
had a printed date but was already expired by a year or two when I
bought it. But only cost a dollar.  This was $6.50 and they stopped
printing dates on the card.   It still is getting a 4.2 out of 5 rating.

I'll say this, the ad doesn't say it was made in the 21st century, or
even the 20th. 

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01CUL19B0/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

So I don't know whether both batteries in the thermometer are weak or
the thermometer shows lo battery when it shoudln't. 


Oh, and looking at the list of things I bought, how could I forget a
whole refurbished computer.  It just stopped after a little while,
started at 3 minutes, had worked its way up to 45 minutes, but still.
And it wasn't the exact model I'd ordered.  But they gave me a pre-paid
return label, all I had to do was repackage it and I paid for pickup
instead of taking it to UPS.   I got the refurn no more than a couple
days after the vendor got it back. 

A couple days ago, a weekday, I was taking a walk around my n'hood and I
saw the Amazon truck. The guy stopped at least 4 times and delivered to
at least 6 hours out of 109.   I have a note in my address, "Please hide
to right", and most deliverers do hide what I get.  This guy was hiding
each of them.    (Not that theft is a problem but I want to keep my good
recored. In 37 years I've only not gotten one delivery that was noted as
delivered, a repair CD iirc.  Rather than hunt for it with the delivery
company I just bought another one.  This n'hood is dead almost all day
on weekdays.  Everyone's at work or school, few cars in the lot, and no
one is outside. I can hardly believe it was delivered and stolen.)