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Category: Negative Reviews

  • PayPal HERE – Damage to reader detected. Contact PayPal for assistance.

    I had a PayPal HERE card reader in the cupboard since 2017 and thought to use it for some payments, but unfortunately I received the “Damage to reader detected. Contact PayPal for assistance.” error. This was a pristine PayPal HERE card reader, used once or twice, stored in it’s original box. From everything I have…

  • Bad Review of Perth Premier Studio (premierstudio.com.au) and their dishonesty

    In March 2016, my dad excitedly let me know he had won a “Premier Photographic Experience valued at $500″ from Premier Studio (premierstudio.com.au) by entering a competition in the HIA Perth Home Show. Given I have two young daughters, he was looking forward to getting some family portraits of them for his home. I took it on…

  • Review of Crow Away (it doesn’t work)

    Crow Away, the  “proven, safe and most humane way to deter crows”. I read the number of positive online testimonials and decided to give it ago.  I paid for the full Crow Away Android app from the Google app store. Crows are significant nuisance in suburbia,  picking off rubbish from bins, pecking fruit of trees…

  • Review of Plunkett – $4.5k down and 1 year wasted

    Following up a comment I posted on productreview, here is the timeline of events when I signed the PPA and paid the $4500 fee; 8th Sep 2012 – Signed PPA, Informed verbally by Sales Rep slab down by Christmas. 18th Sep 2012 – “we also need the landscaping plan done for submission to council, a…

  • MSI X79-GD65 (8D) and Intel i7 3820 Nightmare and SOIC BIOS replacement

    After many countless hours and out-of-pocked expenses I thought I would share the experience of MSI’s X79-GD65 (8D) motherboard and the Intel i7 3820 CPU. The MSI X7-GD65 (8D) was purchased from PC Case Gear for $299, the Intel i7 3820 for the same price. Once it was all hooked up I got the following…

  • The nightmare of unlocking a phone on the Optus network

    I spoke how easy it was to unlock a phone on the Vodafone network, now what about the Optus network? Well turns out it is almost impossible. Let’s say I acquire a phone locked to the Optus network; Firstly, I need to know the Optus phone number associated with that phone when it was purchased…

  • Open letter to Canon Inc – faulty Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM lens

    Dear Canon Inc On two occasions I have purchased the Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM lens, and on both occasions there were serious faults causing the lens to not work and perform useless. On the first occasion I got the familiar stuck/locked zoom, and this was repaired by myself. Read the comments left by…

  • Do not use Kashgar Tours

    We recently had a bad experience with Kashgar Tours who also go by the name Uighur Tours during our trip along the Silk Road. We purchased overnight train tickets with them. When it was time to collect the tickets we were informed they had forgotten to grab our passport information, and this was all on…

  • Review of USB Safely Remove – the device cannot be stopped right now

    Sick of constantly experiencing the Window’s “The device ‘Generic volume’ cannot be stopped because a program is still accessing it.” message, I decided to give the program USB Safely Remove a test. The first time trying to stop my USB hard-disk-drive I get the following “Could not find any processes locking USB device!”, great, the…

  • Bad review – Budget Car Rentals (Doha)

    I’ve rented a number of cars from a number of companies, Budget is the first one I have come across that has this policy. I rented a car on the 21st May on a 1750QAR monthly rate, returned it on the 2nd September. All other companies have worked out the remainder days (12 days in…