Tsk Tsk Tsk Amazon

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Oh Amazon, what are we going to do with you.

I needed a new power strip, that would accept 4 or 5 of those wall wart power adapters, and they wouldn’t all fit on my current one. So I went looking on Amazon for one that might work, and I found this:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002YU25NY/ref=sr_ph?ie=UTF8&qid=1448857993&sr=1&keywords=quirky

It comes in a selection of cute designer colors. Notice the difference between them. I’m cheap, so guess which one I bought, even if it does offend my manly sensibilities ( I kid. Anyway, it’s going to be behind the couch, so you cant see it anyway.)

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Um, you do know that simple, straight, power strip ARE available with the outlets arranged sideways, right?

But: use this opportunity to get in touch with your feminine side.

Until the flexing breaks the conductor wires inside the silly thing.

Then you can find the ordinary, rigid model.

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I solved that problem by buying a dozen short power-cord extenders like these. They go into the power bar and my wall warts go into them.

4

And many of those are still not spaced far enough apart if you’re using larger wall warts.

Though I doubt the OP’s adorable pink floppy thing would solve that problem any better.

5

I use a Power Squid.

6

That would useful in black. I have several aquarium lights that have wall transformers.

7

For aquariums I think you really ought to use the power squid. They just go together.

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I got one a portable USB power brick cheap by taking the lime green one. Actually, I consider that a feature rather than a bug when it gets buried at the bottom of a bag.

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That’s what she said!

10

We have one of those in black and I really like it, because you can bend it around a couch leg and it doesn’t wander around the floor like a straight one does sometimes.

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:slight_smile:

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Steve MB, do you happen to have any Boots of Speed?

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Hey! I’ll have you know … Ok, you got me.

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I guess I made my point ineptly, but I thought it was funny that the pink one was $4 cheaper than the other colors.

I do like that power squid though. Ia! Ia! Cthulhu Fhtagn!

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Hey, we have a pink car seat in my husband’s car because it was seven dollars cheaper.

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Since this thread is here, I’d like to add a word of praise for Amazon. I bought some (probably Chinese made) cosmetic parts for my car (they’re badges that go into a recess on the seats that are inexplicably deleted on US models of this particular car, leaving a noticeable and pointless gap). The third party seller had 80% positive feedback, so I didn’t worry too much about it.

Well, 21 days later I get a package from China. Yay! My badges! I installed one. Then I went to do the other one. Fuck! They sent me two of the passenger side ones and this won’t fit! So I e-mailed the seller, and 25 days later another package shows up … with the same two passenger-side badges.

I e-mailed again. This time they ignore me. So after two more weeks I try to file a complaint ticket with Amazon. Unfortunately, their “A to Z guarantee” is only good for 60 days, but I file one anyway. They call me, and say they can pursue a guarantee claim if I want, but how about they just refund my money? Um, yes!

So thanks, Amazon.