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they have copper strips akin to the edge connectors on PCi cards that slot into motherboards
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And that is why you have to read the reviews, not just count stars or eggs. Take Amazon's Marketplace vendor reviews for example. Many of those reviews are actually product reviews so you have to read through them and look for patterns, such as the vendor frequently shipping the wrong item, takes longer to ship than promised, makes lame excuses for its mistakes, etc. I've shied away from many Marketplace vendors that had otherwise good reviews because a high percentage of the reviews were actually product reviews and a high percentage of the actual vendor reviews were less than stellar or showed a pattern of vendor incompetence, such as late shipments (actually, not all that big a problem unless one is on a schedule), shipping wrong items, poor packaging of shipments, blaming the customer for complaints, etc.
Nigel, is this you or did someone steal your avatar?
Ran across it while searching for hardwood lumber.
To me, the hardest thing about Amazon reviews is they take all reviews for every vendor of the product, including themselves, and lump them all together. So, when you see 'the item was poorly packaged and the wrong item sent', you really have no idea which vendor they are talking about unless they name them. It lends a new meaning to the saying 'one bad apple can spoil the whole barrel'.
It's the same with Windows OS on Amazon, if one vendor sells a pirated product and the review does not state who it was purchased from, it makes everyone selling that OS suspect, including Amazon. And that simply isn't the case.
Very true. Unfortunately, I'm seeing a related issue on Newegg reviews---they often combine reviews of similar but distinct products into the same list.
Suppose you are researching 3 TB drives and locate one of possible interest and begin looking at the reviews--you'll see reviews of the 1 TB and 2 TB versions of the drive mixed in with the 3 TB reviews.
I think this is a relatively new development---at least I don't recall it from 2 or 3 years ago.
Not that you should place a lot of credence in Newegg reviews generally.