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Comments (7)HI socks: thanks for the tip on retailmenot.com and ebates.com. We printed out coupon for $36 off from Vision Works, but didn't bring it along, since thought our kid's glasses would be covered by insurance (can't use coupon). When we were ready to pay, our insurance didn't go through, and we had to DRIVE ALL THE WAY home, just to fetch the coupon. I don't like shopping at Bed & Bath Beyond since it's a hassle to take the 20% coupon along. I forgot one time, and the store clerk won't give me one. What I love about the Internet is it ENABLES the average person to take care of themselves better, without paying $$$ to "experts" who don't give a damn. My husband is "one" with his car, so when it broke down, he knew immediately that's the generator. He took his old generator to the auto-shop to be tested. They tested it WRONG, and told him it's OK. So he took his car to the dealer. The dealer charged $$$ for diagnostic tests, but could not find anything wrong with his car. HIs car broke down again !! He got mad and took it to his friend, a mechanic. His friend agreed that it's the generator, put a new one in, and it WORKED !! Same with my sister, a retired Internal Medicine doctor with decades of experience. My period stopped at menopause (51) for months, then it came back ungodly heavy. My M.D. sister told me it's cancer. I disagree, and told her it's from the pumpkin seeds I eat for months. She didn't believe me until I dug up researches from government website that prove the potent estrogenic effect of pumpkin seeds. My 12 year old daughter was also eating tons of pumpkin seeds, and had 1-month-long period. Both of our bleeding stopped when we stopped the pumpkin seeds, with the Internet confirmed our suspicion....See MoreTrane Xl950 Tstat ... good, bad, ugly?
Comments (7)As a former Trane engineer and a current HVAC contractor, I can give you some general information. By the way, I have a 19 SEER Trane communicating system in my home I purchased while at Trane. The 19 SEER communicating systems in general will save some money on energy and most (with the exception of Trane) are pretty quiet. Ours sounds like a jet engine taking off, but we have it installed pretty far from our living room and bedroom so it's not a huge deal. The communicating systems do EXACTLY what the standard 24 volt systems do with the exception of offering outdoor air temperature. The Trane system will be energy efficient and until it breaks will provide some savings. In general, Trane systems are cost efficient to install. Trane calls this "first cost". The kicker is when you have a fan motor fail, get your checkbook out. Contractor cost for the one in our house is $900! That would be an installed cost to you of around $2000 for a fan motor. I installed ours in 2008 (as a Trane engineer) and since have replaced an expansion valve and a capacitor. This is with regular maintenance. Needless to say, I'm not a big fan of Trane residential equipment, so take my comments with a grain of salt. I'm also not a huge fan of ultra-efficient equipment and feel that the payback is long to never for the added efficiency. If, however, you have your heart set on ultra-high efficiency equipment, you might take a look at the Carrier Infinity system. We've installed a lot of these and they are extremely energy efficient, quiet, and so far, reliable. You could also look at Amana. They have some very high efficiency equipment at around 75% of the cost of Trane or Carrier. The bottom line is that quality isn't what it was back in the day. Most of the components are made somewhere else and put together as cheaply as possible. The most important factor, bar none, is the contractor you choose. They should be someone you can trust to do the installation correctly and honor the warranty after the job. If you need more information, please feel free to visit our blog at Air and Energy Blog....See MoreReviews on Sunco Lighting LED Downlights?
Comments (7)Although I cannot be sure of the lighting and all lines of this company I could only tell you that I bought some wrap around shop lights that have a 3-inch cord and they offer no extension which makes these lights completely useless to me but I have not seen any other complaints from other purchaser so I might be alone in My Views but after questioning the company about their limited use of these lights I was assured they were going to make extension cords only to be told 6 months later that they don't know where I heard that from her that they're not going to offer extensions so I can only give this company a low rating if any they seem to be unwilling to meet the customer demands even if it means more revenue for their company Although they did promise to reimburse my purchase price well after warranty expires only due to their misleading information but are yet to find out if this will actually be done so I'll get on top of it and post if they actually perform which would be appreciated but I'd much rather them fit the needs of the customer rather than the customer having to fit the needs of the company...See MoreAmazon Reviews? Free merchandise?
Comments (11)There are groups out there on Facebook and other places that exist to receive products at a discounted rate in exchange for a fair and honest review. I was part of one for a while, mostly just to see how things worked. A FB friend of mine posted that a Facebook review group was looking for referrals to participate in getting low cost products, and did any of her friends wish to participate. I bought (for cheap) and reviewed 6 products before I dropped out. This is how it worked: each day a number of products were listed in a special FB page as being available. Usually each product had only a certain number of slots, so maybe 100 people or even 700 people could sign up to try a product. The idea is that if the product was something you truly wanted to try or use, you could sign up. Then we were given a discount code to use. Went to Amazon, ordered the item using the discount code. When the item arrived, I would use it for a week, and then post a review. Now the deal is you are really to use the item and post a "fair and honest" review, and then let the group know your review is posted by way of a submitted form, at which time the admins go read it to make sure it's written well with enough detail about why the product was great and gives 4-5 stars. If you can't honestly give the product 4-5 stars, you are supposed to contact an admin prior to leaving a review, at which point they advise you not to leave the review at all. So in the case where reviewers don't like products or could not give them 4-5 stars, you are not going to see any negative reviews at all. As I said, I tried 6 products before dropping out. They were truly things I wanted to try, like a bike lock and a potato masher, and bought from anywhere from $1.50 to $4. I was able to review 4 products with 4 or 5 stars, but two of them I couldn't review because they weren't up to snuff. Even though there were thousands of reviewers in this group, I did see some of the same names over and over again signing up to try new products. So you know people were buying products they might not necessarily want or need. (Maybe they were reselling them on eBay or Craigslist.) I also looked at lots of reviews for things I purchased and reviewed in this program - some reviews were very good and thoughtful, but the vast majority were sloppy and whipped out. I dropped out because I didn't want to support this system, the manic pace is hard to keep up, and I really only did it to find out how these reviews for discounted items worked. These people who seem to do it professionally must have lots of junk drawers filled with useless crap or maybe they donate a lot to Goodwill. Now if they had sold an iPad or something for $4.50, I might have stayed in a while longer. ;) While I appreciate Amazon reviews, I do now read them with a much bigger grain of salt. I was looking at an item the other day and many reviews included the same canned verbiage, so it was easy to tell they were faked....See More- 10 years ago
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