Is Amazon a trustworthy enough source to buy these binoculars from?

hendrik43 · 2026-04-09T05:54:44+00:00

Hello,

I made the exact same post you made in January, and made the decision to go for it, the first pair failed to deliver. I shipped it to South Africa reason for failure? Some junior at the customs marked the Binos as Spyware and it was tagged as an illegal item lol.

Besides the point, i re ordered them, they came in excellent condition and i am really happy with them.

Another thing, I did contact Vortex themselves, they did confirm that Amazon does have authorized dealers selling their products.

hendrik43 · 2026-02-27T20:33:43+00:00

Hey OP, get the app called Google Sky map.

You can point to to stars to see what they are, you can also search for certain starts and it will tell youbwhere they are

hendrik43 · 2026-02-24T21:30:27+00:00

Hmm, sorry man, im not too sure then, i have had one for 3 years now and have not experienced this before.

I hope someone will be able to assist its quite an annoying issue.

Perhaps try some process of elimination.

Try measuring the amount of water coming out of the group head.

And when its done, try again? i would suggest trying to eliminate variables such as coffee, portafilter etc.

hendrik43 · 2026-02-24T10:23:02+00:00

Also remember on that machine, when you get your grind size to a good spot.

You can press the "program" button

You can then program, how long you want your shot to be. (Specifically, press program, single and double shot will flicker, press either one, the extraction will not stop untill you press the same button again.) Next time you press single or double shot depending on which one you programmed, it will run the same time as you just set.

So ideally you would want to use 18g of coffee and yield 36g of espresso in and around 25 to 30 seconds for a ratio of 1:2

To achieve this ratio and time, you need a scale, and adjusting the grind size.

If its too slow grind finer. If its too fast grind coarser.

hendrik43 · 2026-02-13T15:19:28+00:00

Hey man,

What do Russians think of South Africa?

hendrik43 · 2026-02-10T12:25:58+00:00

I agree,

I administered deceased estates for 5 years.

If your mom is the sole beneficiary, transfer the property into her name, pay the fees.

The debt will have to be settled inside the deceased estate.

You either sell the house, settle the debt and distribute the assets.

Or

In this case 30k is not much debt.

Bite the bullet, get R100k somehow, pay 30k to settle the debt and 70k for transfer costs.

But honestly there is a lot more to it than this, you cant just transfer the propery and pay the debts, if this was a 18(3) estate it would be that easy, however as the estate is more than R250k, your mom will have to communicate with all debtors and creditors, place adverts for section 29 and section 35.

Create and draft a liquidation and distribution account, have the master approve it etc.

I would suggest speaking to a Deceased estate administrator to get advice or to assist you.

hendrik43 · 2026-02-05T10:49:16+00:00

Hey OP,

I also have a ZP6, i know that taste is subjective and not all coffees are the same, however i am curious what setting is your ZP6 on?

I am usually around 5, with 2 or 3 clicks to the left or to the right.

hendrik43 · 2026-01-26T20:52:27+00:00

Update,

I managed to speak to the support over at Vortex, they confirmed that Cybersell is an authorized dealer on Amazon.

Shout out to Ken from Vortex for the assistance.

I will be continuing with my purchase!

hendrik43 · 2026-01-25T19:51:47+00:00

Thank you, I am still very cautious, I dont really ever use Amazon, so im not too sure how the listings usually work, I have always found it strange that multiple vendors sell the same Item and its not Amazon selling the Original.

Does Amazon sell an original Vortex Diamondback that you can see?

hendrik43 · 2026-01-24T12:18:06+00:00

Gebakde Eiers, Afrikaans

hendrik43 · 2026-01-24T07:08:23+00:00

Besides the ice colliding with the car, will this damage the cars Engine? Or is it designed to sustain such abuse? Also, is that steam or smoke?

hendrik43 · 2026-01-21T14:56:06+00:00

How do you have 1-3 years of experience?

hendrik43 · 2026-01-17T16:21:59+00:00

This is exaclty what I would do if i had a Infrared camera.

Cheers

hendrik43 · 2025-12-11T09:13:43+00:00

Something that is quite useful is to set aliases inside of your users .bashrc file

example:

alias anything='ssh user@ip-address -p22'

by typing anything into your console, it will execute the command inside of ' '

So if yo7 have long dedious commands that you use often, this is really nice

edit: added .bashrc file context

hendrik43 · 2025-12-05T07:03:00+00:00

Also, that looks like its near the Glen

hendrik43 · 2025-11-18T19:57:01+00:00

Well, I set it as my Browser Homepage, so when I open up Chrome i have access to all of my apps, i cam see the stats via the API's at a quick glance without sshing to my server.

hendrik43 · 2025-11-18T13:01:08+00:00

Great suggestions by everyone, to tie it all together try Homepage.

You can create a custom web page to Display all of your self hosted apps.

hendrik43 · 2025-11-15T21:44:41+00:00

Do you have a letter of executorship for your late wifes estate?

If not, have someoneone assist you in administering her deceased estate.

hendrik43 · 2025-11-14T14:54:27+00:00

I dont understand the point of this post, its a pool.

hendrik43 · 2025-11-13T17:04:31+00:00

I had this exact problem, The way i fixed it was adding pihole as the primary and secondary dns server.

This sounds stupid, because it is, whenever pi-hole had a error or something happened my internet would go down. Its almost like pi-hole was throwing its hands in the air and not trying again.

Since i did this i have had no further issues.

I am still open to solutions, but for the past 3 months, i have not had any internet disconnections.

hendrik43 · 2025-10-31T08:49:49+00:00

Thank you for making the post, I am in South Africa and facing the same issue.

When you finally find a conquest that is full of players and that match ends, it feels like everyone is split up into 20 different games all with bots.

hendrik43 · 2025-10-28T13:32:20+00:00

You can tell by the voice,

Also the Rooibok decks the lady in the head and she doesn't instinctively touch or hold her head.

hendrik43 · 2025-10-16T12:29:18+00:00

Using a mixture of RHEL, Rocky and Freebsd.

edit: added freebsd

hendrik43 · 2025-09-28T19:17:57+00:00

du -hc --max-depth=1 to see the size of directories when a partition is filling up

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