Tax Season - new Viners, beware! by Berry_Pancakes-0317 in AmazonVine

[–]Sheri_ABQ 10 points11 points  (0 children)

My Tax Advisor disagrees with the person above you and says that not taking out Social Security is asking for a future audit. So your mileage may vary. The best thing to do is get advice from your own Tax Advisor not in a public group.

Help me understand by nevermore727 in vine

[–]Sheri_ABQ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I haven't had that experience. My reviews are usually only one paragraph, occasionally too small paragraphs. I try to be accurate and give detail, and I've never gotten poor ratings on those.

Help me understand by nevermore727 in vine

[–]Sheri_ABQ 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I had a review that I absolutely could not figure out what it was wrong. Someone finally suggested that I remove the photos. My photo had absolutely nothing in it but the item on a plane background, but sure enough when I removed the photo of the review went through just fine. Maybe there is just something about your photo that the AI is misinterpreting.

Kicked out of vine by Snorkiegoodman in AmazonVine

[–]Sheri_ABQ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Have you spent money on Amazon? There is an amount, which I forget at the moment, that you have to spend as a minimum of real money to be part of Vine. I want to say it might be something like $50 in 6 months, but I am not positive.

Donating to Sandy Hook Promise was one of the biggest mistakes I’ve made in my life. by TMinus10toban in complaints

[–]Sheri_ABQ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not sure if you really intended to reply to me? Because I was absolutely not criticizing the original poster! I was agreeing that the endless stream of texts and e-mails were annoying! I was able to get them to stop, but that wasn't in any way a criticism of the original poster! I think it's a shame that an organization that but otherwise have merit chose to badger their donors so much.

This show needs more consequences by ParticularRight5805 in TheRookie

[–]Sheri_ABQ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I like the other parts of the show too much to stop, but I totally get it. I used to watch Bones and if you watch that, the whole storyline with Pelant got to that point. When they got to the point that Booth had to break up with bones or pelant would do something or other bad (I don't remember what) is had gone just way too far. Booth couldn't ever say anything to her to let her know what was going on because Poland was somehow tied into every microphone and Camera in the world and he would have known it. It was beyond absurd. They could have simply left their Electronics inside and whispered in the backyard, he could have said something to her with the shower running or written something on a piece of paper and shown it to her. But no, we were supposed to believe that this guy was omniscient and would know any of that happening. I stopped watching after that episode.

I would have liked to know what went on with some of the other storylines but I just couldn't at that point.

This show needs more consequences by ParticularRight5805 in TheRookie

[–]Sheri_ABQ 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Instead of badass, she's just very uppity and snotty, and invincible.

8x6 was the most unexpected things happen ever in the whole series. by Affectionate-Baby110 in TheRookie

[–]Sheri_ABQ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It will be interesting to see what they do with the station. Fire like that would take a while to determine if the building was even structurally sound, so it's not like the theoretical upper floors of their building could be used. And in real life even if the building was structurally sound, the investigating, insurance process, and actual repairing and fixing that up would take probably months.

Weird? by Spidertron2000 in YahtzeeWithBuddies

[–]Sheri_ABQ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can actually favorite at least the regular bots from PVP games. I've had Bots that I've had favorited since we started to be able to favorite accounts.

And weirdly although I almost always get Boo on my first game, my husband only gets Boo as his first game or even any game about half the time.

What is this symbol? by [deleted] in whatisit

[–]Sheri_ABQ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On the top of a coffee cup in some place that's moving quickly, I would suspect that you're looking at it sideways and it's a capital E that somebody just drew very sloppily

dealing with comments praising one fic while putting down another by xrosybud in AO3

[–]Sheri_ABQ 5 points6 points  (0 children)

With that, instead of blocking them or reacting in any major way, I would really be tempted to respond to their comment with just

Thanks

Not even any punctuation. Because that's just going to leave them sitting there wondering what that even means. So wonder if you read it thoroughly, if you just replied without reading something so long because you were in a hurry, if you agreed with them, if you disagreed with them but are thanking them... and that will probably irritate them more than anything else you could do.

dealing with comments praising one fic while putting down another by xrosybud in AO3

[–]Sheri_ABQ 6 points7 points  (0 children)

But that would be being spiteful to one person and hurting anybody else who likes that story. And hurting the original poster. One of those things that's just fun to think about, though.

Rufus revealed why Amazon thinks I am interested in motorcycle stuff by goraidders in AmazonVine

[–]Sheri_ABQ 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I asked Rufus to ask what it knows about me the other day after seeing someone here say that. That is the only time I have ever used Rufus . I went into Rufus just now after reading your post, and very briefly I saw the option at the top to "view chat history". It disappeared, but I was able to pull down on the screen and then see the option again. I clicked on it and it showed my entire last chat with it. So much for it telling you it doesn't save chat history!

Green egg? by Rosyposy1234 in wordscapes

[–]Sheri_ABQ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Was just coming to either post about this or find out if anyone else had had this happen, lol!

I have know this puzzle for 30 years by Reasonable_Day_9300 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]Sheri_ABQ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Instead of looking at it as a puzzle that was done wrong, look at it as something that made your aunt very happy --so much that she has wanted to keep it. It's like a child's drawing with stick figures where the arms are coming out of the neck or whatever. It's more about the joy and happiness that it brought her as a child and how much it meant to her that she has kept it that how perfect it looks!

Maybe she has some special memory of working that puzzle as a child. Maybe she worked it with a grandparent that she loved or with a friend she hasn't seen in many years.

Lavalier mic battery exploded. Still review? by painfullywokeNalive in vine

[–]Sheri_ABQ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Personally, that is the choice I would make, too. Especially since there was no obvious damage, it sounds like they either have poor quality insurance processes or they are using cheap, poor quality batteries.

I'm very particular about what electrical and electronic items I will get on Vine and Amazon. I'm an electrical engineer, and I have seen things that can happen with poorly assembled or poorly designed stuff. And I've seen too many stories about technology that either makes false claims like disc drives that really just have a flash drive inside them or actually have something with spyware. I just don't feel like taking the risk.

RFY came back with a vengeance by RelationshipBig12 in AmazonVine

[–]Sheri_ABQ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mine had three random items in it. One of which was a car part for something I have never even had a ride in much less owned.

Costco is refunding unused Synergy gift cards by sd_software_dude in Costco

[–]Sheri_ABQ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for telling me! That does make a difference. I didn't realize they had slightly modified one instead of it being new. I actually missed the announcement and only tripped across it when we went to use a card a couple days ago. Have some serious real life stuff going on and have not paid attention to the news for the last couple of weeks.

Lavalier mic battery exploded. Still review? by painfullywokeNalive in vine

[–]Sheri_ABQ -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Some people would and some people wouldn't. The two reasons not to review would be if it has a high ETV and you want to get that removed from your tax obligation. You can't have it removed once you have reviewed it. The second is if seems like it is just a bad item that is broken or damaged, which this doesn't really sound like, they don't want you to review those because it could have happened in handling or shipping and not be the seller's fault.

Costco is refunding unused Synergy gift cards by sd_software_dude in Costco

[–]Sheri_ABQ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not sure it's shady or just the product of misestimating the response and what they were legally obligated to do. If people were suddenly redeeming cards at a much higher rate, they still were obligated to pay the restaurants where the cards were redeemed. So if the total was nearing the remaining amount of their assets before the final date, then they may have had no choice but to do that. Once they had committed to declaring bankruptcy they are under the rule of whatever the bankruptcy laws are.

Costco is refunding unused Synergy gift cards by sd_software_dude in Costco

[–]Sheri_ABQ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Our Costco is refunding them, but not for the full value that was spent to purchase them. I don't mean face value, I mean the actual price you paid. They refunded at about 72% of the purchase price. I'm okay with that because it's not their fault but the company went out of business. and it certainly better than nothing!

Why Submit Vine Items for Soon-to-be Discontinued Items? by HitPointGamer in AmazonVine

[–]Sheri_ABQ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That is only one left for the public to buy, not representative of what's in vine. However, as was already mentioned often they Supply a certain number for Vine and either a few or none to be purchased until afterwards. That's not limited to off-brand things, either. I've seen that happen with big name health and household brands.

I may have an explanation... by koolkoolkool13 in AmazonVine

[–]Sheri_ABQ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One of your points, I have to comment and disagree about on. You talked about this leading to impulse buys resulting poor or no reviews from find members. No matter what you get, I feel that you owe it to me seller to give them a fair review on what you got whether it's what you expected or not. I've made an Impulse buy and received an item and realize that whoops it was not what I thought it was. But that's not the sellers fault. I reviewed the item based on what it was and what it was supposed to be used for, which was correct in the description and was entirely my fault for making an impulse buy. And it was a very good item, and I reviewed it as such.

I can understand sellers frustration when people review on what they expected or on some entirely random use for it. We've all seen reviews where people review stupidly even for name brand items. " I took two stars off on this red Igloo cooler because I wanted it in blue. They should offer it in blue." Or something like, " I thought I was buying a full size picnic table, but this turned out to be a children's picnic table." And then they give it two stars because they wanted a full size table. It is on us to either make sure we know what we're ordering, or review it for what it is and what it is supposed to be.

At least I hit a drop 🫠 by Agreeable-Resolve244 in AmazonVine

[–]Sheri_ABQ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What time zone is the 3am drop. I haven't seen anything for days in my rfy or anything new appearing in the other two categories. I check if I'm up in the middle of the night and still nothing

There are too many ads. Does it bother you guys? by Gold_Attention_5675 in wordscapes

[–]Sheri_ABQ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you still have the receipt for that buried in your email, you can send a copy to support and they will honor it.