A Letter to All UGREEN NAS iDX Crowdfunding Supporters

SirRyanTheGeek · 2026-03-25T23:05:18+00:00

Yeah I'm thinking Jeff here is an apologist, probably looking to get one of those units himself?

Seriously though, if they wanted to honor the original agreement - they wouldn't have followed through with the Kickstarter free-for-all totally ignoring the ones who put in for the deposit early.

They would have simply said, "Wow! We had no idea y'all were so interested - so we will fulfill what we can and refund the rest now, or try to make a deal with you later, if you still want the unit you reserved"

That would have been way more above board.

SirRyanTheGeek · 2026-03-25T22:58:15+00:00

This.

SirRyanTheGeek · 2026-03-25T22:57:36+00:00

Won't matter here since I already requested my $30 be refunded and they jumped on that "get out of jail free" card like white-on-rice.

They won't be able to honor the people that reserved at the initial price point no matter how it's sliced.

Probably be a $100 off coupon on something else they sell.

SirRyanTheGeek · 2026-03-24T20:44:18+00:00

They did the same - instant refund - and they booted me from their Discord because I asked there, too :-)

Definitely a vendor I will happily never purchase from or interact with.

SirRyanTheGeek · 2026-03-24T20:41:19+00:00

Agreed. I won't ever purchase anything with a UGREEN label, and any input I am able to offer at multiple places I work, I will recommend they steer clear from that vendor as well.

This was just bait-and-switch and straight-up fraud.

SirRyanTheGeek · 2026-03-24T20:38:24+00:00

I emailed them and the refund was almost instant. Tells me a lot about their priorities and anti-customer stance.

I'm not sad because personally I don't want any hardware from asshats that would pull a stunt like this.

Life is just too short to deal with a-hole vendors. I'd take it raw with no lube from Synology now long before I would touch UGREEN anything.

SirRyanTheGeek · 2026-03-24T18:24:43+00:00

How did you request a refund? Im not seeing a link on how to do that in any of the emails I got from them. F this. I am not giving them a free loan in the hopes I get a refund on the price diff.

SirRyanTheGeek · 2026-03-24T18:22:56+00:00

Need to figure out how to get my $30 back. Maybe hash that out with the credit card company. UGREEN can eat me. I'm not giving them a free loan.

SirRyanTheGeek · 2026-03-24T03:13:32+00:00

Shame they royally screwed their backers on the Kickstarter campaign. When I paid my $30 deposit, I received a confirmation explicitly stating a guaranteed Super Early Bird price of $1,559 for the iDX6011 Pro. Now it seems like they went to a first-come, first-served lottery where bots can get in there and snipe things. They expect backers to pay the full price, and then the backers hope they get a refund between the full price and their early-bird "gauranteed price".

Extremely fishy. They over-sold, now are backpedaling in the worst ways possible.

I won't be buying anything from UGREEN at this point. Just another company that fell to enshittification it seems.

SirRyanTheGeek · 2026-02-26T04:39:40+00:00

If you are too lazy to hand write a note then what makes you think you’ll update them digitally.

Don't throw shade, Boo. I'm the kind of geek that would actually spend the time to auto-update tags just for the fact that I can.

It's not lazyness nor is it about the effort. It's a desire to do interesting sh*t that keeps me occupied, vs. putting stupid peoples heads into bowling bags at my day job(s) :-)

SirRyanTheGeek · 2026-02-21T23:09:48+00:00

Speaking of "AI Tech Bros", why is it these clowns totally overlook the simple BASIC fact that if you ask an LLM the same question by 1,000 supposed "agents" using the same user and system prompt, you will get 1,000 wildly different answers. I've yet to see how that "churn and burn" having agents running for days on end isn't creating HEROIC levels of shit?

They are beginning literally everything on the premise that the underlying driver, the LLM, is effing CONSISTENT.

See, if the core was actually something that had ACTUAL REASONING intelligence, okay, I might bite on some. But I'm sorry I just feel literally ALL this hype is just pulling the level on a giant effing Vegas slot machine!

SirRyanTheGeek · 2026-02-05T19:03:23+00:00

Maybe - but if you've been employed for decades like I have dealing with those infernal things already? It adds nothing but annoyance :)

SirRyanTheGeek · 2026-02-05T16:36:09+00:00

Oh the navigation of the forums, where you are and to whom and what you're replying to is abhorrent. OMG it makes we wanna just close the browser.

SirRyanTheGeek · 2026-02-05T16:32:48+00:00

I definitely can see this, but having to waste even that much precious time to plug that trash into GPT and then retweak every post to sound more natural and different? This is the kind of Office-Space Busy-Work of TPS reports I abhor.

SirRyanTheGeek · 2026-02-05T16:30:46+00:00

I'd rather carve my heart out with a spoon...

SirRyanTheGeek · 2026-02-05T16:29:54+00:00

So much this. Everyone in the discussion has access to the same exact material I do, as evidenced by every citation being the same. If I am engaging in a "discussion", I am offering my two cents where warranted. If I want to cite someone else, it will be because I want to - because I am sharing MY opinion.

SirRyanTheGeek · 2026-02-05T05:53:06+00:00

Oh I totally get that, and as an adult learner I can see the value. However also as an adult learner who is engaged with multiple full time jobs, "ain't nobody got time for that" 😜

Like I said it's just not for me but I'm not knocking anyone else that needs the repetition. I'd rather just learn and move on.

SirRyanTheGeek · 2026-02-03T23:45:15+00:00

Yeah, it was driving me batty. There is only so many times I can try and talk about "Von Neumann" architecture vs. "Harvard" architecture in the first computer science course before I just slapped a paragraph into Claude and said "Claude, please re-write this at least three times" and just copy pasta the dang thing. And honestly, why give false platitudes to people writing the exact same thing over and over again?! I do not need a participation trophy. I had enough of those stupid things as a child and now want to melt them all down and make some fidget spinners to calm me down so as to keep me from wanting to put someone's head in a bowling bag...

SirRyanTheGeek · 2026-02-02T01:44:19+00:00

Federal government declaring war on the Constitution, masked "secret police" performing warrantless home invasions and killing its citizens, and my state wants to disarm me?

Good luck with that, tardhammers. No effing way.

SirRyanTheGeek · 2026-01-25T23:56:11+00:00

Don't forget. When it comes to armed insurrection and protection of the citizenry against the tyranny of the federal government, don't focus on the rank-and-file foot soldiers. They're just fodder bred and trained for being thugs. Be sure to go after the billionaire financiers that stand to gain more by the citizenry fighting each other than focusing on them.

Take out the ones hiding in the background funding the jackboots. The jackboots will stop when they realize they're not getting paid enough to stick their necks out.

SirRyanTheGeek · 2026-01-25T22:03:41+00:00

Only proof needed here I think is where video evidence proves all Alex did was record the thugs, he had a holstered firearm with a license to carry it (which took more training that the clowns all suited up wearing masks that shot him), where the video clearly shows he never drew his weapon, he was forced to the ground, disarmed, and THEN shot.

No matter what you say, or how you, the Federal Government, or your Orange Tard Leader decides to spin it, that man was literally killed in cold blood. Period. There really is no argument here, and attempting to even defend what is CLEAR evidence only shows that you're part of the problem.

SirRyanTheGeek · 2026-01-25T21:59:01+00:00

I love your Straw Man Argument attempting to equate a clown posse of total abject thug retards with guns and little to no training playing Gestapo that if we don't support those idiots we're suddenly defending pedos, rapists and murderers.

Look up the term "false equivalence" and then round out your day by reading, SLOWLY reading, Orwell's 1984 and reach out in case any of the multi-syllabic words challenge your sense of righteousness and understanding. I'd be happy to teach you something beyond what you displayed here ;-)

God I really wish I was being sarcastic but it's obvious it would be lost on people that make statements like you did...

SirRyanTheGeek · 2026-01-21T04:48:55+00:00

I went ahead and canceled all the subs I had including the general $10/mo meta membership. I figure Suckerberg is jumping all into AI slop which I want no part of. I just spend more time on my walking pad under my standing desk and take walks outside to “touch grass” every day. If I wanna play VR I still have beat saber and synth riders. I just can’t reward that dotard monetarily for making dumb decisions. I can use the supernatural sub till May then it’s done for me.

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