“this is a very good price and significantly lower than usual. Your ability to find one cheaper pack on Amazon (a pack with quite a lot of 1-star reviews complaining it doesn’t actually carry 50k mAh) does not change that fact.”

Just because someone posts one example does not mean that there are no more than one example. I had assumed that virtually everyone would understand how to do a product search on Amazon and see this for themselves, but I was obviously wrong. [HINT: clicking on the magnifying glass on the top of Amazon’s page on the previous provided link will accomplish this]. Just picking a few examples off the first page of search results, here are a few more of a very long list:

20000mAh Charger with Flashlight for $29.99

10000mAh Charger for $11.99

20000mAh Charger for $25.99

There could certainly be numerous other factors involved in determining a product’s value versus the competition, but the claims made in the ad copy that this particular product is exceptional on the basis of A.)price and B.)listed battery capacity are easily refuted with a simple search on Amazon. This is not opinion, this is fact.

“You say “sorry to be the village contrarian” but, sorry, that’s not true at all. You are not sorrry. You are gleeful about it. You show up on every Daily Deals post and try as hard as you possibly can to find a way to tear it down and complain about it, even when all you can come up with are pretty flimsy complaints. It appears to me to be your new hobby, not something you are sorry about.”

If you’re keeping track of IP addresses, you should have noticed that my previous post (the first comment) on the previous day’s ‘Daily Deals’

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150407/09561930573/daily-deals-izon-view-security-camera.shtml

in which I disputed the writer’s warnings that the video security camera was insecure, and I pointed out that it was indeed encrypted and was designed with at least a basic level of security. Although I didn’t know about the security problems (pointed out lower in the thread) at the time, I’d like to know how my pointing out that the vendor states that the device has “bank-level security” is in any way “tearing it down” or “complaining about it”? I actually thought that Gretchen Heckmann (or whoever writes the copy) was not giving the product enough credit, and stated my reasons why.

As far as your claim of “showing up on every Daily Deals post” — it should be obvious that many (possibly most) of them have no negative comments, and some have no comments at all. On the small number I’ve commented on, I just call it as I see it, and if I see something I don’t agree with and can prove otherwise — either positive or negative — then I’ll make my point . If these techdirt Daily Deals articles would simply stick to the facts and stop making unsupported (or easily refuted) claims, then I’d have nothing to debunk.

The “try as hard as you possibly can” claim is far from it. When Mike Masnick said that the “lifetime subscription” VPN was the top seller, I was about to post a long (and very negative) reply, but I already said before why I thought those things are scams (regardless of the price) and I figured it was time to take a back seat and let someone else say something about it — but sadly no one did.

I would very much like to see Techdirt run a successful shop — but an honest shop. It’s a fairly simple formula: don’t make dubious claims, or promises that can’t be kept, and there will be far fewer disputes.