What a fantastic piece by a really good author. Worth reading in its entireity, long as it is.
Wai.. Lemme explain something to you.. Youre mr. Lebowski. I'm the dude. So thats what you call me.. That or.. Uh.. The duder or el duderino if youre not into the whole brevity thing
Look uh.. Im not tryin to scam anybody here ..Im just ..uh..
Is this a... What communitiy is it?
Lets just balace the penny by saying it makes you 100x more likely to succeed.
Or a reverse Narcos TV show where south american authorities enter and destroy US gun factories.
Playing devils advocate here but.. I suspect what is happening here is a previous purchaser bought it (broke it?), returned it under a different reason (eg. I dint like it) and Amazon decided it is not worth the hassle of rechecking every return labeled as such.
Mind you this is no consolation for someone like you who has go to through this return process, but I cant believe Amazon is "winning" by keeping a defective product like this in rotation long enough for someone to "eat the cost". Defective products hurt Amazon as well and I'm sure they'd rather take the hit if they could pin point which products are defective.
You could argue that they should bear the cost of validating every return, but clearly someone has crunched the numbers and the program is likely not cost effective.
Pricey as they may be, I have seen tickets cost this much via scalpers. Considering that and the fact that most dota players and watchers are in their 30s, they might still sell out.
Im gonna take a second and thank @smorks for taking responsibility to give us this server, then selflessly giving away control and the funds in his charge to the new foundation.
We are grateful for your hard work and transperency.
If I understand correctly, carrier locking is different from Bootloader locking. One implies freedom to use the device on any provider network, while the other is for installing a custom ROM. A Samsung flagship can be bought unlocked by paying full price, but you cannot unlock the bootloader and install Graphene, for instance.
Sadly the r/dota2 community doesnt seem to have migrated that much. Which is a shame because everyone from pro players to valve use it as an official means to communicate.
Calmer than you are