Amazon sells more than 100 million items on Prime Day

[paddy-stone]

I almost bought a Philips Hue bundle, but realized it was only cheaper because of the price of the hub included, which I don't need another of.

Also, was considering another AP, but again decided against it, mainly because the "problem" of coverage only happens to me while in the kitchen occasionally. And I might get a new router anyway when the new standard in security comes out (WPA3), until then I can cope or dig out my range extender - and yes I know that might be a fair old wait as it's not even finalized yet, is it?

[mynameisjuan]

2 minutes ago, paddy-stone said:

the "problem" of coverage only happens to me while in the kitchen occasionally

Metal and electronics. Both the bane of wireless. Not much you can do about it except positioning the router to bounce off the wall with least appliances or buy and AP. 

[paddy-stone]

3 minutes ago, mynameisjuan said:

Metal and electronics. Both the bane of wireless. Not much you can do about it except positioning the router to bounce off the wall with least appliances or buy and AP. 

Yeah I already mentioned the AP, thanks anyway.

[Brooksie359]

6 minutes ago, mynameisjuan said:

Metal and electronics. Both the bane of wireless. Not much you can do about it except positioning the router to bounce off the wall with least appliances or buy and AP. 

I honestly hate how fickle Wi-Fi can be. I use ether net if at all possible even if it requires a power line adapter. 

[Noctus]

7 minutes ago, mynameisjuan said:

Metal and electronics. Both the bane of wireless. Not much you can do about it except positioning the router to bounce off the wall with least appliances or buy and AP. 

 

4 minutes ago, paddy-stone said:

Yeah I already mentioned the AP, thanks anyway.

Are "AP's" extenders of some kind? Not getting the Abbreviation.

[paddy-stone]

4 minutes ago, Noctus said:

 

Are "AP's" extenders of some kind? Not getting the Abbreviation.

Access Point, basically they are usually wired into your network to extend the wifi coverage of your home.

[Noctus]

2 minutes ago, paddy-stone said:

Access Point, basically they are usually wired into your network to extend the wifi coverage of your home.

Feel like an idiot now.... was literally talking about "Access Points" in another thread lol 

[AHaskin14]

didn't buy my $140 Nvidia Shield that everyone kept writing articles about.....because it never actually went on sale....

[paddy-stone]

24 minutes ago, Noctus said:

Feel like an idiot now.... was literally talking about "Access Points" in another thread lol 

Na, don't - acronyms are probably the worst thing ever, especially nowadays when almost everything gets shortened to acronyms

 

[dtaflorida]

3 hours ago, AdamTheSlave said:

I feel like the only guy that isn't giving into things like Alexa/Google Home.... I just don't really see the use of them. Yeah I know you can make a smart home with them, and that's swell. But I really couldn't care less about that stuff. I think what I fear is my home network getting compromised in some way, and some russian 9 year old running scripts on the things to DDOS a local power station or simply turn on my furnace and shut off my A/C in the middle of a hot summer

 

If it weren't for my wife cashing in on deals we wouldn't have a Google Home either. She's not techy, but she found some deal where you got like the value of the Home mini back in Walmart credit + $10 or something... essentially you make money off it with the deal she had worked out. Absolutely hilarious since part of the deal required that you activate the Home mini and tell it to redeem part of the deal... my neighbor was part of the shenanigans and they don't speak the english too good and spent half an hour trying to tell it to redeem the deal lol. 

 

Once it's in your home tho you end up finding uses... even if only to just pull out as a party trick to show up your neighbors: "Hey! Google! Play some music!" or "Leap into Spring Savings!". 

[maartendc]

I bought some basic household items I needed anyway on prime day, just because they were giving out $10 reward cards for doing so.

 

So yeah... if you count my 2 bottles of Vitamin supplements and pack of dental floss I bought.. not surprised they sold 100 million items. Not all those products sold are 4K TV's or GTX 1080's.

[Okjoek]

I'm going to wear it as a badge of honor that I wasn't one of them.

[Amazonsucks]

18 hours ago, SC2Mitch said:

S: Reuters

 

Amazon has reportedly sold over 100 million products during its Prime Day extravaganza sale which has roughly netted Amazon over $1 to $2 billion in revenue. This is despite the server issues that hampered the Amazon.com website briefly. 

During the day it was confirmed that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos was announced as the world's richest man with a staggering 150 billion dollars. 

 

Amazon did not provide full sale details, but provided the estimate of 100m products. They also confirmed to Reuters they had sold over 1m Amazon Branded Smart Hubs (echo, dot, home) 

 

Not bad for a single day of hard work. 

Yeah a single day of his slave driven employees' and the taxpayers' hard work.

 

http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-warehouse-workers-have-to-pee-into-bottles-2018-4

 

https://hightowerlowdown.org/article/time-play-amazons-new-hit-game-milk-taxpayer

 

Its really sad as that as a species people are stupid enough to bug gheir own homes with Echo like products in an Orwellian dystopian nightmare.

 

[spellmanuk]

i bought two waterbottles that whernt even in the sale cause they where still cheaper than the camping shop