Walter P.

The website was recommended by one of the online "gurus" to solve my problem with the installation of Windows 10 Updates. However instead of helping, it made things worse. Originally I only got 1 error message from Microsoft, but after installing Speedyfixer, I now have 2. I contacted their seller: Click Bank and all they did was say that there will be no further charges for future extensions of the trial period. (Like I would try to buy anything from them again.) They did not even offer a refund of the program that I paid for even though it did not work as promised.

Why anyone would buy from DH Gate is beyond me. These must be masochists or people who WANT to lose their money eventually. No, they won't lose it the first, second, or third time around but I GUARANTEE 100% they will lose eventually. I was similarly skeptical of AliExpress (a division of the HUGE AliBaba), but after a few bad experiences, they LEARNED and not only that they GUARANTEE their products. They don't pay the supplier until you have received your goods and are satisfied. Now, what other internet company in the whole world does that? Even Amazon does not do it. Try filing a claim with Amazon and you will see the hoops you have to jump through. Since the early days of AliExpress, I would NEVER buy anything from a Chinese manufacturer without going through AliExpress. I've been burned too many times doing it. There are many, many crooks out there, and there is no one to complain to or to file complaints with. The Chinese Govt, just does not care about the small businesses. They can rob you all they want and they turn a blind eye. They only care about the big stuff like multi-billion dollar missiles.
Anyway, my advice: stay away from DH Gate. You WILL be burned.

I'm very surprised - they came in dead last in a current national survey, and the items in the survey which brought them in to this dead last position did not even include my most objectionable characteristic of this union of one bad and one good airlines.
My least, least favorite thing about United is their seating. Unless you are under 5'6" tall, you will not be happy. Expect your neighbor directly in front of you to be laying in your lap for a very, very, very long flight (even if it's only 1-1/2 hours or around that).
Who decides these things? Someone from ISIS's hospitality and accommodations group?
They should be tried at the Hague for crimes against humanity.
This is what happens when we allow these mega-mergers. Higher prices, lousy service, more delays, theft of award miles, animal-like treatments and crowding, hunger (not even snacks), fees for everything, and less benefits.
Welcome to the "un-friendly" skies.
Wish I could walk or ride my bike there (but it's just a little too far).

You buy a good software item that is "on sale" and you feel great about the deal. You agree to the terms, get the software and use it. However, a year later, you want better software and you buy that. You may or may not send a cancellation notice to the software company. Meanwhile, your first software item was not billed by the Software company but by one of the many middleman (some mentioned above).
Now you get a bill from this middleman for the FULL price of the software for a renewal. Whether you cancelled with the Software manufacturer or not, makes no difference. The terms that you had with the middlemen are such that you have to cancel with them and with the software manufacturer.
Let's say that you used a gift card for the software and you no longer have the gift card. Sorry! You're still out of luck. These middlemen keep ledgers of all their transactions and they connect the dots and all your purchases are now logged in under your name regardless of how many e-mail addresses you have, or phone numbers, or street addresses.
You are on the hook to them.
But let's say that the manufacturer (or even the middleman himself) is selling the software now at 1/2 the price. So what, you're on the hook for the FULL price (even if you never used the software).
How's that for service?
Most software that comes from other countries does use these middlemen, so those are the ones you should be the most careful about.
Always check off or handwrite a note (DO NOT RENEW AUTOMATICALLY).

The items sold on this site are available on a number of Chinese web sites at a fraction of the cost that you will end up paying if you win the bid.
The other problem is that the "collectibles" are pure junk that nobody wants. Who needs silver or gold clad anything? The amount of silver or gold that ca be recovered from these "Treasures" is so minuscule that no one would even try to do so. The postage is worth more than the silver or gold that is plated onto these items. Another problem is that the "silver" dollars that they are selling are fakes that have been plated in silver and make it look like they are the real thing.
As for the jewelry - you are better off buying costume jewelry at any "dollar" store.
If you go to Chinese web sites you can buy literally hundreds of thousands of watches that are far better and cheaper than you will probably find on this site.
If you read and do your homework about these auctions:
You're welcome!

This was the best travel service out there. But now that they got bought out, I hope they stay that way. However, if history and past experience is any indicator, most big companies buy the smaller "great" companies to either drive them into the ground and wipe out the competition, OR to skin them alive, take out the best parts, and dump the remainder. The big company will NEVER try to remake itself in the image of the smaller, better, company.

Most of the complaints and low stars that I see are because people treat this as a regular travel agency (which unfortunately it is slowly becoming but not because of their concept).
Priceline should be used like E-bay or any other bidding site. But you HAVE to be committed to what you want since you will be buying it at that price and under the conditions YOU agreed to. There is no second chances here.
The big problem I find is not with Priceline itself, but with the companies they work with. All major companies are aware of what Priceline is doing. If they are not, then they are still using Commodore computers.
Thus, since the major corporations which have bought out most of the competition, know what the deal is, they CONTROL what Priceline can accept and thus Priceline is becoming less and less relevant.
Only in times of severe OVERSUPPLY does Priceline maintain control and you get the best deals. Otherwise you pay what every other shmuck will pay.
Best advice: DO YOUR HOMEWORK.

Once they were great, then they were fantastic, then they were bad, now they are average. The only redeeming quality that they have is great seats. Their awards program is the pits. I no longer bother with it.
Delays? Part of their "service". They like to keep you waiting. Thus they hope to make themselves more desirable.

Horrible company. Don't bother with them at all. Ordered 7 items with them but really needed only one. Wouldn't you know it, the one I needed was back-ordered with NO shipping date available for the near future. So I cancelled the item. Instead of refunding my Credit Card they gave me Store Credit. Then when I got the package one of the 6 other items was missing. When I mentioned it to them (not even asking for a credit, they told me to send them a video of the package opening to prove that it was missing.
Are they kidding me?
The item was less than $5.00 so it was not worth making a fuss over but given that the 2 things happened on one order (plus the lack of obtaining a credit to your method of payment), I would definitely not recommend them.
If you do buy, shoot a video of the delivery person bringing it to your home. Then shoot a video of you opening the package. Then shoot a video of all the items in the package. Then make 10 copies of all documents. Otherwise you may never see your ordered items or have any chance for a claim.
This company is one of the worst I have ever dealt with.

I have been a Neat user for over 10 years (don't ask me why I like to be frustrated and angry - I just hate to give up). During that period of time Neat had 2 major changes in their software. I can't exactly recall when the first major change started but it was around the time they introduced the Cloud Service and "Sync". The sync was a disaster. The problem was that if your kept some of your old files in the computer as back up, Sync would find them and they would sync the old files and destroy your new ones. That's when I stopped using their cloud service.
The second major change was when they got rid of their strange, cryptic, and confusing file extensions such as. Nbak,. Nwdb,. Nwcab,. Nrx, etc. and started using PDF. That's when they dumped their old system into a "Legacy" program (they should have called it "prehistoric trash") and went into the new system that has NO RELATIONSHIP whatsoever to their old system. I've sent dozens of e-mails, tech-support messages, and even signed up (and paid for) their special "Neat Care" that was supposed to provide one with fast responses (acually, after one month, I never received even one response from this "Neat Care" department.).
Don't ever sign up for this "Neat Care" it's just money down the drain.
Anyway, no one at Neat was ever able to tell me if I could somehow combine my old files and the new PDF files into one comprehensive and complete record that I could use in case of any future IRS audits.
I just can't get that out of them no matter how many ways I ask.
I therefore assume that this cannot be done and you will have to keep 2 sets of files. One for Neat (old) and one for Neat (new).
Heaven forbid if they should ever change to another iteration of their system.
As for the program itself, it's the only one that does offer relatively "fair" sales receipts recognition which no other company has. This is why I use it.
However the recognition software is far, far from even a "good" category. It still requires hand corrections on almost every receipt. Also it does NOT remember mistakes. I have one vendor (local store) from which we have some 200 receipts yearly. No matter how many times we've corrected the store name, Neat just keeps using "avenue" as the store name. The strange part is that it does so with even famous world-wide stores.
It also does not recognize tax categories for particular vendors no matter how many time you change them.
When I received my new scanner and downloaded the new version of NEAT with the PDF extensions, I somehow received a Canadian Version of the program. This is strange since nothing in my orders ever mentioned Canada nor were there any Canadian addresses, or even transactions. So all the Tax Categories are now based on a Canadian tax system. How will that help me?
There are many more such issues but these can be relatively easily be corrected albeit with a lot of TIME and PATIENCE.
Last but not least I can't understand why Neat eliminated the "combine" feature that enabled the user to combine a couple of receipts (as you get in restaurants) into one entry. Or even combine a two page receipt into one. Why this change?

Why would anyone go to a site that has the word "zoo" in it. All it does is reminds me of how we (humans) are treated by the travel industry but especially the airlines. Bad enough that they treat us like animals, but why would I want to be reminded of it.
My other objection is that I've never, never, never found a bargain on "tz" (I don't even want to use the entire word). Where do they get their offers?
With so many other alternatives, how do they survive?

This is only for the rich. If you are poor (or even average) - this is only good for catching your saliva when you start salivating like Pavlov's dogs.

Got a promotional ad from Facebook about getting a sample of a Joanna Krupa endorsed product called Cellogica (actually sold by a company called Eco Health for $2.48. Never got the sample. But what I did get was a charge on my credit card for $2.48 and ANOTHER charge for $129.95 (less some discounts - probably from Facebook of $34.53). So the charge on my credit card was actually $95.42. However, I never got ANY products. Neither samples nor whatever it was that they were charging me for $95.42. Contacted my credit card company at CitiBank to refuse payment and they were "investigating". Also wrote to Cellogica and they finally responded that they would credit me for the $2.48. Had to write to them again to get another credit for the $95.42.
I don't know who this Joanna Krupa is, but if she's endorsing this company then she is as much to blame as they are. She should have had her attorneys check to see if they are a legitimate seller and not some type of scam operation.
Beware of this company and CHECK YOUR CREDIT CARD STATEMENTS.
Shame on Facebook for allowing these scams to be promoted.

I'm far from being a wine connoisseur, but I know what I like. However, bitter, acidic, tasteless, bland, flavorless, and plain wines are not in the category of my favorite wines. YET, Wine Spectator continues to give high rankings to these "junk" wines that I pour out after a couple of sips. Some of the cheap, bulk packaged wines taste a lot better that those that Wine Spectator has rated 89 and over. I no longer trust anything rate by Wine Spectator. The Wine Advocate and some of the lesser known but professional critics are better indicators of great wines.

I have been using the magazine's advice for many years but several years ago I decided to go with some of the Pro-Active ONLINE "Guru's" and got burned several times. Going back to my saved issues of Kiplinger's I found that had I followed the writers and experts featured in Kiplinger's, I would have done a lot better in my portfolios. Mind you - NO ONE, including such famous investors as Warren Buffett, have been right every time, all the time. It's an impossibility. But following advise from Kiplinger's writers and contributors; AND using some common sense, will help you more than MOST of the ONLINE fakes, frauds, and swindlers.

The only down side is that if you are set on a particular product, you may be disappointed. It may be, in your opinion, the best product on earth, but the buyers at Costco can wipe it off the map. Trying new products all the time is a hit and miss. Mostly hits but throwing out $20 worth of food can hurt.

When I was still investing, everyone was betting when they will go the way of Radio Shack. It's probably still the same now. How they survive? I have no idea. Now that one can buy from China directly through Alibaba, how can anyone justify paying more for a retina display dual booting octacore processor tablet - with a keyboard for more than $150? Bye Bye Best Buy!

I have one Apple product - an old iPod. Personally I think it sucks.
I hate that circle to get selections. Have yet (after 10 years) to get the selection I want to play. I have big fingers but this thing is especially made to frustrate.
One of these days it's going to be a hockey puck.
As for iTunes, their selections of classical music are very, very poor. So what's the point?

When you add up all their prices on a yearly basis, you're actually paying more for the 3 basic services: TV, Phone, Internet; than you would with cable providers.
What's the point? To have a dish on your roof? And no service when the weather turns bad?

The K-mart stores I've visited (3 in our neighborhood) looked like rejects of the original dollar stores (not the new ones). No rhyme or reason to their displays. People walking out with goods without paying ALL THE TIME because goods are store outside cash registers and clerks just don't care while security is virtually non existent. If there ever was a model for a non-store, this would be it. Would have done great in the old Soviet Union.