Garbage article, clickbait tile; they're talking about the Hubble tension, not any kind of anisotropy in the Hubble constant. The latter would be actual news.
Just once, I wish a journalist would ask for a clarification wrt absense of evidence. "Are you saying you don't know or have no way of knowing whether there was a data breach?"
The accelerometer on my X finally started failing, making it impossible to hang up voice calls. It wouldn't turn the screen back on after I took the phone away from my face :-D
I would estimate that U.S. soldiers, are enormously more disciplined on average than U.S. police. More training, stricter rules of engagement, more significant and immediate consequences for violating those rules, better discipline, tighter command structure. There's no comparison whatsoever.
Their return policy isn't great by any means. I buy a $2000 49" Monitor that arrives not working and I can't return it because I opened and tried to turn it on? Yeah, ok.
Opened TVs, combos and monitors 37" and larger — original packaging cannot be unsealed
Opened computers and computer software — original packaging cannot be unsealed
Electronic software downloads
Opened consumable items (e.g., film, tapes, paper, bulbs, CD, DVDs, ink cartridges, etc.)
Any computers built or modified by B&H to customer specifications
Select special-order merchandise, or any item indicated on the website as nonreturnable
Underwater equipment that has been submerged
Opened or unwrapped educational tapes and books
> A US Labor Department lawsuit filed in 2016 accused B&H, the largest non-chain photo and video equipment store in New York City, of heavily discriminating against Hispanic employees by forcing them to use separate, unsanitary bathrooms.
Man, I had no idea. Forcing an ethnic group to use separate bathrooms? Whoever thought that was a good idea?
> Their return policy isn't great by any means. I buy a $2000 49" Monitor that arrives not working and I can't return it because I opened and tried to turn it on? Yeah, ok.
I know some consumer protection laws aren’t as strong as others – I’m blessed to live in Australia in this regard – but surely this just isn’t legal?
Which is bad, from a consumer protection perspective.
The retailer should absolutely be on the hook. They are the ones with a working relationship with the manufacturer, and hence are best positioned to be able to hold the manufacturer accountable.
As an Australian who lives in the US atm, they are right to be grateful for the ACCC (consumer protection watchdog). I certainly am now. In the US you have to rely on retailers who treat good consumer protection as a competitive advantage like Costco, REI, Best Buy, sometimes Amazon, etc. In Australia you can easily hold any retailer accountable (and they’re all just generally better behaved with this stuff anyway, so you rarely have to force them).
> In the US you have to rely on retailers who treat good consumer protection as a competitive advantage
For the most part, credit card chargebacks serve a similar purpose, though of course the retailer may ban you from their store afterwards.
Absolutely agreed that the retailer is on the hook. The customer is not making a deal with the manufacturer to buy the good; the customer is making a deal with the retailer. Along the same line, I dislike it when retailers try to weasel out of shipping issues by blaming it on the parcel carrier. That's only valid if the customer went to ups.com and created and paid for a shipment themselves!
Bestbuy etc take opened items like that back up to 30 days. I think it used to be much longer in the past but I would 100% expect to be able to return a dead tv/monitor/electronic of any sort to a big box store take my broken item back even if I opened it and plugged it in to use it.
I rarely buy from box stores but when I do that and being able to test things in person is the only reason I ever go near a bestbuy/etc.
Opened software such as Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server, and Microsoft Windows Server clients
Electronic software downloads
Point of Sale Activation Cards that have a dollar value
Micro Center Gift Cards (except as required by law)
Products with customer-induced damage such as, but not limited to, aerial drones with damage due to pilot error. So let’s be careful out there!
Microphones and microphone accessories *
VR Headsets, Headphones, including AirPods, Earbuds, and Over-the-Ear Products
* Hardware items deemed defective are eligible for exchange
newegg shipped me six 16TB hard drives that were garbage. Some looked like a claw hammer ripped through their soft aluminum shells. Some had no connectors.
