otrfun wrote:
Well I can see from both of your posts you're the eternal optimist--lol!
If you reread my post, you'll notice I merely expressed an opinion, based on some of my experience building/using/testing several lifepo4s using most of the test equipment you mentioned. I also included the opinions/reviews of Will Prowse and a thousand or more consumers who purchased lifepo4's on Amazon.
I just read your post and it contains *only* your opinion . . . and nothing more.
I might add, it's the general consumer that directly or indirectly determines whether the vast majority of us keep our jobs or not. They ultimately decide what works and what doesn't work, by purchasing, or not purchasing, any given product or service.
Not even the most skilled marketing department and/or talented electrical/mechanical engineer has the power to make the general public purchase something they don't want . . . at least in the good ole USA, where we have the freedom to choose.
I do a lot of shopping on Amazon. While the old tried and true adage "if it sounds to good to be true - it usually is" there surely are some deals to be had however considering just about anyone can sign up for selling on their platform AND the "reviews" there are not gated by people that ACTUALLY purchased (let alone tested) the products most of the reviews are fairly to completely useless. (forgetting of course many companies have been caught 'planting' favorable reviews)
I have dozens of stories I could tell from my years of shopping on that platform. The GOOD news is that getting a return authorization is fairly easy and if a product does not function/perform as advertised it can just be returned for something else that might. :)
Thankfully for us consumers there are both folks that DO KNOW how to test things AND countless user forums where people share what they bought/used and what worked for them. :)
While no matter how many times a day they call I'm not going to buy a fake 'extended warranty' for my car somebodies wayward marketing is endlessly filling my mailbox with fliers for products have have no need/use or desire for. :)
- Mark0.
