Shocking...
Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2026 1:32 am
I buy a lot of discounted stuff from Amazon and AliEx.
Latter can be *hilarious* due clunky translation and peroptomistic claims, plus absurdly excessive postal fees hidden rather slyly...
The fad for 'multi-terabyte' memory sticks, a scant-few gigabytes with hacked addressing, seem to have 'fallen off the map', but there's a new monster a-foot.
My browsing kept presenting me with rubber 'caps' to fit on my alloy tent poles' top spike.
As a rain-storm excluder, and a way to prevent wind getting in through grommet and 'flogging' fabric, okay.
But their blurb claims the rubber 'cap' provides protection from lightning !!
No, no, no, no, no.
Absolutely, lethally no.
Worse, would provide false sense of safety...
( A cousin spent decade doing lightning rod stuff: His *repeatable* anecdotes were, to put it mildly, shocking...)
So, I used the AliEx provision for reporting product as dangerous.
I also pointed out that victims were unlikely to survive to complain...
Let's see what happens !!
Latter can be *hilarious* due clunky translation and peroptomistic claims, plus absurdly excessive postal fees hidden rather slyly...
The fad for 'multi-terabyte' memory sticks, a scant-few gigabytes with hacked addressing, seem to have 'fallen off the map', but there's a new monster a-foot.
My browsing kept presenting me with rubber 'caps' to fit on my alloy tent poles' top spike.
As a rain-storm excluder, and a way to prevent wind getting in through grommet and 'flogging' fabric, okay.
But their blurb claims the rubber 'cap' provides protection from lightning !!
No, no, no, no, no.
Absolutely, lethally no.
Worse, would provide false sense of safety...
( A cousin spent decade doing lightning rod stuff: His *repeatable* anecdotes were, to put it mildly, shocking...)
So, I used the AliEx provision for reporting product as dangerous.
I also pointed out that victims were unlikely to survive to complain...
Let's see what happens !!