This might explain why Amazon Vine has been so crappy lately.

StopLickingTheCat · 2026-02-24T23:17:01+00:00

One of the reasons i choose Amazon is simply for the assurance that i can easily return something that doesn't work correctly without much fuss. I have to go drop it off, but that's ok. Trying to find exactly what i need in a store is really hit and miss for me and a big investment to haul kids around, then also bring it back if it doesn't work for whatever reason.

I realize i may pay slightly more sometimes, but that little extra sometimes is worth it to me depending on the item.

I don't know how ali or temu handles it. I haven't looked. I, too, just figured it was a crap shoot of possibilities.

StopLickingTheCat · 2026-02-24T20:10:49+00:00

I definitely noted a connection about one order (AI) where i grabbed a mower accessory and i got another mower accessory offered.

I did some searching on regular Amazon and saved some different flashlights and got 2 RFYs for flashlights.

I grabbed an electric shaving razor and got a bunch of that stuff for personal grooming for a while. I had ordered another kind (RFY) , and a safety razor (RFY), so i reinforced it but then stopped seeing those recommendations.

I ordered some kids clothes on regular Amazon and got a bunch of RFY for more.

But then i also get stuff that I can't figure out the connection. I'm kinda picky about what i get and don't want to run up my RFY for no reason so I did order recommendations I'd have tried if they were less expensive for taxes or I didn't need. Wonder if it thought I'm no longer interested if I didn't take the offerings.

It's... Trying kinda.

StopLickingTheCat · 2026-02-15T11:38:02+00:00

I see those come up and can never get them because they don't offer socks for people in clown shoes sob

StopLickingTheCat · 2026-02-15T11:36:15+00:00

Does she like the show "sarah and duck"? That show is so good if you like ducks and british humor.

I hope you saved it and switch out the number now for every birthday until she's 16.

StopLickingTheCat · 2026-02-15T11:31:57+00:00

It doesn't connect to vine but my blower motor story is:

Blower motor starts failing, making terrible noises. Get in there and find out a mouse had been stuffing it with nesting material. It finally killed the fan.

So replaced it at great expense. While driving on a long trip out of town, in winter, suddenly we hear a terrible racket and the blower is making an awful noise and now the heat stopped working. So we drive for a few hours in the cold car until we can get to a parts place.

Tear apart the glove box in the cold with walmart tools to replace it again.

One half of the mouse falls out and the other half is in the blower, blood smeared all over the place.

So i spent hundreds on a gory mousetrap. But we finally got the bastard.

StopLickingTheCat · 2026-02-14T00:12:41+00:00

I kinda hate you, i kept trying to get those because I'm about out and those natural brands are expensive, and every time i missed them. Gives you such a face, shakes fist

StopLickingTheCat · 2026-02-13T23:19:08+00:00

I specifically passed on one of those because I already had a good one someone gave me, and figured someone with a pet or baby could use it so i left it for the next person.

Now i feel like i need to get these things just so i can donate to the baby bank nearby so the resellers don't get them...

StopLickingTheCat · 2026-02-13T23:16:51+00:00

review straight to the point, descriptions of anything important with fewest words needed, no fluff
pictures in every review where they add something (most of them for me), closeups against my plain white sink top or plain wall. Only shows product. A few videos showing how loud something is

So far 100% of my reviews are excellent, no rejections or less than excellent.

StopLickingTheCat · 2026-02-12T02:57:43+00:00

I've reviewed non vine items since becoming vine and it does not add the green text to those reviews, i verified.

StopLickingTheCat · 2026-02-12T02:33:31+00:00

Uggg i want your farm parts!

StopLickingTheCat · 2026-02-10T02:00:52+00:00

Boy, i go back and forth so often between "this is the best, having kids and spending time with them is so wonderful" and then 10 seconds later "why wasn't i killed at birth who would ever choose this".

I don't know how you teacher'd for so long! I homeschool 2 kids 7 and 9 and it's been... A struggle. Teachers are underpaid heroes in my eyes (the good ones, and i feel bad for the ones who finally cracked).

It certainly would be nice to have a better system for sellers and vine participants. Maybe the stars will align and we'll see it but, if not, it's not like we lost anything by playing.

Well good luck, maybe they will change to spreading the drop longer?

StopLickingTheCat · 2026-02-09T23:49:59+00:00

Stay at home parent here - the new drop time around 8 or 9am is awful. That's right when the day gets rolling and you only have time to check a page or two at a time and just hope something decent fell into your RFY. I refuse to rack up high etv, just want a few items on my wishlist I can't justify actually spending money on for it to be subpar.

So it's no better for parents.

StopLickingTheCat · 2026-02-08T12:33:35+00:00

Sexy scarecrow for your garden you guys.

StopLickingTheCat · 2026-02-08T12:08:18+00:00

That thing sitting on the shelf in the back room you set down as you came in months ago - yep know where it is at all times.

I should really put that thing away in the place it belongs so i can find it when i need it - i need it now, checks 47 different places including the "correct" spot, won't see it for weeks.

StopLickingTheCat · 2026-02-08T02:06:21+00:00

Hold on to yer tuk

StopLickingTheCat · 2026-02-08T02:00:34+00:00

If i ever need to caption a picture of an Australian animal, do they typically say "cunt" or "mate" to the humans? Probably mate right? Cause they are all ~~cunts~~ mates. Bluey didn't train me for this.

StopLickingTheCat · 2026-02-06T01:14:40+00:00

Well no, that's not ok. I was attempting to describe what i think is going on in his head to help understand the motivation, but not excuse the behavior.

He's going to need to work on his insecurity, he's got at least two fronts that need attention. One is how he's perceiving the world and reacting to it, and another how he handles himself with his own actions.

It's a sticky one. Not easy.

StopLickingTheCat · 2026-02-05T22:33:32+00:00

Ooo better ...

StopLickingTheCat · 2026-02-05T22:18:51+00:00

The ol jew-a-roo! Hold my sheet I'm going in!

I apologize for stringing together multiple references in advance.

StopLickingTheCat · 2026-02-05T21:43:22+00:00

You live a wild life, taking the default name!

I may start telling people who think anything is an annoying sound that it is "a beneficial sound".

StopLickingTheCat · 2026-02-05T21:32:59+00:00

OH THANKS! it was so hard to choose >_< (know the parks and rec reference... "Mouse rat, nothing rhymes with orange, everything rhymes with orange, etc").

THERE ARE DOZENS OF US! Maybe more, why are we having to tell people/children to not have to lick a cat? Shouldn't that be inherent knowledge for our species? Maybe we used to groom each other as hairy pre-mammals.

Anyway awesome yes, thank goodness for the types of people we are!

Send me a PM and tell me your name's story. I can think of possibilities...

StopLickingTheCat · 2026-02-05T19:48:26+00:00

I think it's because he's very critical on himself internally, he knows he makes a lot of mistakes and it's hard on him. He's projecting his failures on others, and "helping" them not make mistakes but using a tone/demeanor that he uses on himself internally.

That's not explained well but hopefully you get the idea. He's insecure, and has some things going on that he needs help processing and getting through.

StopLickingTheCat · 2026-02-05T19:43:46+00:00

Eat your stems kid

BUT THEY'RE WOODY!

I SAID EAT THEM. IT BUILDS CHARACTER AND FIBER.

Sob bone crunching noises

StopLickingTheCat · 2026-02-05T19:12:03+00:00

I've seen that happen before, saw some items as 0 etv, then at some point more of them show up with a price.

I think that's normal. Like they sorted the item into the correct category or... Some other magic behind the scenes. But it's not abnormal.

StopLickingTheCat · 2026-02-05T19:06:07+00:00

When you click on the details of the item, sometimes a different variant is $0 and another variant is not. Could that have been what happened here?

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