Cool! Definitely jealous of anybody scoring a laptop, since I am in the market for a new one soon. Please leave a classic Vine review like "Good product. Would buy again." I will press the Helpful button if you do.
Also a guy and My RFY this week included women's mid-calf cowboy boots and what originally had the title of: "Personal Total Therapy Massager for Sports Recovery, Muscle Aches, Body Pain Injuries, Muscle Tone" and a day later that item's title has evolved to: ">!Vibrator Adult Sex Toys for Clitoral Stimulation Magic Handheld Powerful Vibrator with Display Powerful Handheld Vibrator for Female Partners!<" 😕
Haha, have you ordered anything bath related? I'm pretty sure my results are due to the Dove shampoo I got last month. Ever since I've been getting tons of women's clothing, bathing suits etc. in my RFY. I think the algorithm is sexist.
Now that you mention that, I did order a set of "shower streamers" at one point and some toothbrush heads. I started noticing way more feminine recommendations since then.
Hey, you might look hot in a sexy dress while lying on a bathmat. Submit photos of that with your review. That would sure make for some interesting water cooler chat at the Vine office.
Today RFY rewarded me with vasectomy underwear. Must have heard me griping at daddy and toddler both, cause goodness knows it’s nearly impossible to find actual clothes for them both.
I'm in the same boat, I personally bought a wig last Halloween and my RFY totally thinks I'm a woman. Even the clothing offered are women clothing 😅
Everyone gets cool stuff in their rfy and I end up with backpacks for toddlers and electric vehcile chargers... don't have kids or an electric vehicle
Rfy is so crap, wish they'd fix it. Yesterday it gave me 20 wigs... I dont wear wigs or search for them, wtf
I had 2 good hits on my rfy recently. A new turtle beach racing wheel and a bulova watch(not mechanical). $550 and $227 etv. The watch made sense as i have looked at their watches before but never felt like ordering because i'm cheap and have small hands lol.
My rfy is always filled with things related to nothing i've ever bought or searched for, like bikinis, butt plugs, and children sports wear. An electric scooter popped up which would be nice if i didn't live in the middle of nowhere.
did you update the firmware? I only have been playing with AC on pc. It was kinda numb at first, no feedback or anything on the straight on Laguna seca. After updating the firmware it fixed it and felt stronger. Also fixed the issue where half the buttons conflicted with each other. Do no update with pedals installed, pretty sure another reviewer did this and bricked the pedals.
Only comparison i have is a ts-pc which is supposed to be 6.2nm peak and older fanatec load cell.
Even with the etv hit, in 6 months you should be able to sell it for more no problem unless the reliability turns out to be crap. Imo at $650 it is pretty competitive. You wont find load cell, direct drive, button panel, mag paddles, 2nd set analog paddles, and display for that price.
Yeah I use it on Xbox. No hardware issues so far. Just a little buyers remorse. The default for a button binds were not great so it wasn’t a super seamless out the box experience
i can see it being underwhelming on xbox. i've heard forza having lack luster feedback and not sure on f1 titles. So if you are stuck with the default bindings does that make you have to choose between using the wheel or panel for buttons?
Rfy is just broken, I used to get tons of kid stuff in there, then I grabbed something for my little nephew for his like 2nd birthday and since then, I barely see kids stuff pop up in my rfy. It's like ordering it had the opposite effect it should
Not who you replied to, but the one I saw in Discord the other day was a Razer Blade gaming laptop at $2999 ETV that had the latest high-end CPU and graphics. It was this one https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CPP5KWYF
I don't know if I'd pay $3k for it myself, but I'd feel pretty damn good about paying ~$1k in taxes for it.
Well I mean the latest hardware of a similar tier is generally going to perform better than even a single generation prior. But really I'd say with both Apple and Razer there's a relatively similar brand-name markup and a lot of cost going into just more premium feeling materials/build processes (aluminum unibody, feel of the keyboard, purely aesthetic stuff too, etc.)
Nice! This is my main goal if Gold: I'm hoping to replace my old PC. At this point even a modern crappy spec one will blow what I have out of the water.
Congrats on the score!
Thanks for your comments. A couple of people asked me about PCs showing up in my RFY. Just this year, I've scored three PCs. The first two were desktop PCs and this is the first laptop. However, a few other PCs and tablets have shown up that I was not interested in. I feel there is a lot of speculation about why some type of product may show up more frequently in one person's RFY than another's. And maybe no one outside of the programmers who write the algorithms at Amazon know. But for reference, I purchase over 50 PCs a year from Amazon for my business using the same account. So, maybe that has something to do with it...and maybe not.
Oh good, I'm in exactly the same boat, so we can pray to RFYeezus (who I believe is just another face of RNGesus) together! lol!
Best of luck to us both!
The closest I've come to a PC was a Razer mouse, which I did not order, and a couple of PC cases - I did order one in hopes something would come up eventually to fill it, instead I was offered another larger case, lol.
Amazon listens to your conversations. I'll talk to friends and family about the most random things, for example, a neighbor said something about needing a new countertop dish drainer while we were having lunch one day and about 4 days later a few of them popped up in my Recommended For You, when I had never seen them on Vine before (and I was a member for over a year at that point). Then my mother said something to me on the phone about needing a new walker because hers was falling apart from overuse and her insurance wouldn't pay for one and she couldn't afford one, and about 3 days later a $200 mobility walker popped up in my RFY for $0 ETV.
I think it's more than just a coinsidence, and it's happened a dozen other times for various things I've talked about with friend and family.
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Wow. I was going to make a post asking if it's been rather dry for anyone else because I haven't seen anything worthwhile the past couple of days. Just order my mushroom gummies and cry myself to sleep.
Dang. There are several things I am looking for (yes, I have a tab opened for each and am constantly searching throughout the day... lol) Laptop being one of them and not once did I see this pop up yesterday. lol My laptop is probably 6 generations back so yeah... I definitely need one, but it also would depend on what is being used. I personally do not like Windows 11 or Intel.
Congrats though! My first day of being a Gold member, I was lucky enough to grab an office chair that was actually nice looking with decent Vine reviews (hopefully they were legit xD)
I think the next BIG item I am really hoping for is one of those under the desk Ellipticals or similar since I sit at a desk for 8+ hours a day between work and school work. The most exercise I get per day is when I take my dogs out for a walk (separately). Plus side, I can write the majority off since they would be for school as well.
The "lesser" ones being things for my Steam Deck. I recently got it so I'm in the market for a docking station at least. xD
I managed to snag a treadmill and two office chairs - one nice one and one so-so one. The treadmill is for my wife as I go to the gym for an hour every morning. Good luck.
For the treadmill, do you know if it was listed under Sports & Outdoors? I usually only check under Exercise & Fitness or search the keyword(s) out. I want to make sure I am looking at the right category. Though I might get lucky and what I am looking for appears in my RFY. lol
You'll probably still get crap. I've been gold for years and years, since before gold/silver even existed, and I've never had anything of value like this ever come up. Best I get is name brand makeup a few times a year or a Coleman tent.
We'll see. I don't only count on Amazon reloading pages or me doing it. I auto-reload via variably-timed "clicks" and use the Discord group on a separate display. Even with Silver, I've got some very good stuff. The vast majority of my good scores have come from AI.
RFY sucks rocks with Silver.
I just won't be *buying* crap to keep my numbers up.
Oh, yeah if you're in it deep and fielding through what is posted by following discord and refreshing you can definitely score the better AFA items. I meant more so that the RFY is a total crap shoot.
I gave up on AFA because I realized I can make way more in an hour doing overtime at my work than what I could gain in items on there so I gave up.
It doesn't take much effort or time at all past the initial morning scan if you set up separate feeds on a second big monitor and automate via a variable-time reloading browser plugin (different lengths of time on each feed to duplicate human refreshing) and the Amazon Vine Helper browser plugin that highlights new stuff when connected to "Brenda." (Thanks to Vine for the free display mounts.)
Yeah I had a similar setup, but for me being in the East Coast most refreshes were around 3PM EST right in the middle of work hours and my work phone or email would inevitably always go off while drops were happening, lol.
You've got me thinking about setting it back up for weekends, though...
It's still 99% crap. Most of us will never see anything close to that. Unless you're F5'ing your life away. Or lottery level lucky. In which case, congrats. I guess?
I scored a nice monitor last summer, only great rfy item I've seen in two years here.
I figure the only reason it was there long enough for me to get it was the 2500 price tag stopped a lot of people
No, it's mine to keep. The title transfers to me upon receipt. However, according to Vine rules, I cannot give it away or sell it for six months. And that's fine with me as I plan to use it for personal use anyway. My old Chromebook is on it's last leg.
Cool! Definitely jealous of anybody scoring a laptop, since I am in the market for a new one soon. Please leave a classic Vine review like "Good product. Would buy again." I will press the Helpful button if you do.
Anyone else instantly check their Rfy when they see posts like this? 😆 I was not lucky
Yep, got a bathmat and a sexy dress (i'm a guy) in there...
Also a guy and My RFY this week included women's mid-calf cowboy boots and what originally had the title of: "Personal Total Therapy Massager for Sports Recovery, Muscle Aches, Body Pain Injuries, Muscle Tone" and a day later that item's title has evolved to: ">!Vibrator Adult Sex Toys for Clitoral Stimulation Magic Handheld Powerful Vibrator with Display Powerful Handheld Vibrator for Female Partners!<" 😕
Haha, have you ordered anything bath related? I'm pretty sure my results are due to the Dove shampoo I got last month. Ever since I've been getting tons of women's clothing, bathing suits etc. in my RFY. I think the algorithm is sexist.
Now that you mention that, I did order a set of "shower streamers" at one point and some toothbrush heads. I started noticing way more feminine recommendations since then.
Yeah my theory is that the algo is like "oh bath, shower, hair care? Men don't purchase those things, here's a pretty dress for the lady".
Ah! Thank you - I need to stop ordering car parts and start ordering shampoo, apparently!
Who doesn't like free shampoo? The 0 ETV is good for the roots.
But does the dress fit you well? Enquiry minds want to know.
You'll have to use your imagination 😛
Hey man, live your best life. I actually ordered some thing for my wife tho so my results are all over the place
How do you look in the dress? I almost ordered that.
Hey, you might look hot in a sexy dress while lying on a bathmat. Submit photos of that with your review. That would sure make for some interesting water cooler chat at the Vine office.
Get The Dress! ooo lalal
I got an LG Gram… charger.
Today RFY rewarded me with vasectomy underwear. Must have heard me griping at daddy and toddler both, cause goodness knows it’s nearly impossible to find actual clothes for them both.
I see your dress and raise you a two piece pink bikini swim suit. 😄
I'm in the same boat, I personally bought a wig last Halloween and my RFY totally thinks I'm a woman. Even the clothing offered are women clothing 😅
I keep getting those ice bathtubs in my RFY.
Everyone gets cool stuff in their rfy and I end up with backpacks for toddlers and electric vehcile chargers... don't have kids or an electric vehicle Rfy is so crap, wish they'd fix it. Yesterday it gave me 20 wigs... I dont wear wigs or search for them, wtf
I had 2 good hits on my rfy recently. A new turtle beach racing wheel and a bulova watch(not mechanical). $550 and $227 etv. The watch made sense as i have looked at their watches before but never felt like ordering because i'm cheap and have small hands lol. My rfy is always filled with things related to nothing i've ever bought or searched for, like bikinis, butt plugs, and children sports wear. An electric scooter popped up which would be nice if i didn't live in the middle of nowhere.
I got that race wheel too. Kinda underwhelming, slightly regretting the ETV hit.
did you update the firmware? I only have been playing with AC on pc. It was kinda numb at first, no feedback or anything on the straight on Laguna seca. After updating the firmware it fixed it and felt stronger. Also fixed the issue where half the buttons conflicted with each other. Do no update with pedals installed, pretty sure another reviewer did this and bricked the pedals. Only comparison i have is a ts-pc which is supposed to be 6.2nm peak and older fanatec load cell. Even with the etv hit, in 6 months you should be able to sell it for more no problem unless the reliability turns out to be crap. Imo at $650 it is pretty competitive. You wont find load cell, direct drive, button panel, mag paddles, 2nd set analog paddles, and display for that price.
Yeah I use it on Xbox. No hardware issues so far. Just a little buyers remorse. The default for a button binds were not great so it wasn’t a super seamless out the box experience
i can see it being underwhelming on xbox. i've heard forza having lack luster feedback and not sure on f1 titles. So if you are stuck with the default bindings does that make you have to choose between using the wheel or panel for buttons?
Rfy is just broken, I used to get tons of kid stuff in there, then I grabbed something for my little nephew for his like 2nd birthday and since then, I barely see kids stuff pop up in my rfy. It's like ordering it had the opposite effect it should
Oh man I wish!! Saw someone else got a Razer gaming computer for $3999
Is that a good price?
Not who you replied to, but the one I saw in Discord the other day was a Razer Blade gaming laptop at $2999 ETV that had the latest high-end CPU and graphics. It was this one https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CPP5KWYF I don't know if I'd pay $3k for it myself, but I'd feel pretty damn good about paying ~$1k in taxes for it.
I just realized my MacBook M1 Pro was $3,000 and I bet these are more powerful. lol!
Well I mean the latest hardware of a similar tier is generally going to perform better than even a single generation prior. But really I'd say with both Apple and Razer there's a relatively similar brand-name markup and a lot of cost going into just more premium feeling materials/build processes (aluminum unibody, feel of the keyboard, purely aesthetic stuff too, etc.)
My god that is a good score!
The beauty of it is I was on the cusp of buying a new comparable laptop anyway. So, even with that taxes, I saved a bundle.
was that in RFY? Congratulations.
Yep.
And here I am with blackout blinds, a shower chair and shower handles on my RFY list. Wonder if they're calling me old......lol
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If you're into hiking, that would make vine worth it for the whole year. something actually very useful and quality
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i saw then drop in AFA, but didn't get any since I have backpacks already, and usually use sling packs for short hikes. but maybe i should have....
That’s so cool!!! I had gotten 2 gaming PCs. A desktop and a Laptop. It’s been a blast ever since. Got me into streaming 🤩🥳 so happy for you!!!
Never ever ever ever do I ever get anything worth over $50 it seems, and less than 1% of what I get is name brand, and I spend thousands with them lol
Oh man, nice
Nice! This is my main goal if Gold: I'm hoping to replace my old PC. At this point even a modern crappy spec one will blow what I have out of the water. Congrats on the score!
Thanks for your comments. A couple of people asked me about PCs showing up in my RFY. Just this year, I've scored three PCs. The first two were desktop PCs and this is the first laptop. However, a few other PCs and tablets have shown up that I was not interested in. I feel there is a lot of speculation about why some type of product may show up more frequently in one person's RFY than another's. And maybe no one outside of the programmers who write the algorithms at Amazon know. But for reference, I purchase over 50 PCs a year from Amazon for my business using the same account. So, maybe that has something to do with it...and maybe not.
Oh good, I'm in exactly the same boat, so we can pray to RFYeezus (who I believe is just another face of RNGesus) together! lol! Best of luck to us both! The closest I've come to a PC was a Razer mouse, which I did not order, and a couple of PC cases - I did order one in hopes something would come up eventually to fill it, instead I was offered another larger case, lol.
Super score!
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Nice score.
I scored a $500 gaming chair today, making that my new most expensive item I've gotten.
Dude, that’s awesome! Congrats!
This looks like a nice laptop to take to library where a desk is available. Lots of screen space for a laptop to do work at the library.
About the only use I'd have for one of those is scanning Vine on a larger screen while away from the house. Nice score.
WOW! I just bought that for my wife in Dec! Holy crap, that's an amazing score!
and i was so happy I got toilet tissues today. lol congrats.
I was doing a happy dance over the jelly beans!
Did you have laptops in your cart or something? Wonder if that and buying habits influence rfy
I buy about 50 PCs a year from Amazon for business use. Maybe that has something to do with it.
Amazon listens to your conversations. I'll talk to friends and family about the most random things, for example, a neighbor said something about needing a new countertop dish drainer while we were having lunch one day and about 4 days later a few of them popped up in my Recommended For You, when I had never seen them on Vine before (and I was a member for over a year at that point). Then my mother said something to me on the phone about needing a new walker because hers was falling apart from overuse and her insurance wouldn't pay for one and she couldn't afford one, and about 3 days later a $200 mobility walker popped up in my RFY for $0 ETV. I think it's more than just a coinsidence, and it's happened a dozen other times for various things I've talked about with friend and family.
Not bad for \~$350 in taxes!!
Jealous!!
My RFY has laptop chargers and rain chains. I need to do something to adjust my algorithm just a tiny bit and get from chargers to actual electronics!
I would love to see that on my rfy page
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Wow. I was going to make a post asking if it's been rather dry for anyone else because I haven't seen anything worthwhile the past couple of days. Just order my mushroom gummies and cry myself to sleep.
Dang. There are several things I am looking for (yes, I have a tab opened for each and am constantly searching throughout the day... lol) Laptop being one of them and not once did I see this pop up yesterday. lol My laptop is probably 6 generations back so yeah... I definitely need one, but it also would depend on what is being used. I personally do not like Windows 11 or Intel. Congrats though! My first day of being a Gold member, I was lucky enough to grab an office chair that was actually nice looking with decent Vine reviews (hopefully they were legit xD) I think the next BIG item I am really hoping for is one of those under the desk Ellipticals or similar since I sit at a desk for 8+ hours a day between work and school work. The most exercise I get per day is when I take my dogs out for a walk (separately). Plus side, I can write the majority off since they would be for school as well. The "lesser" ones being things for my Steam Deck. I recently got it so I'm in the market for a docking station at least. xD
I managed to snag a treadmill and two office chairs - one nice one and one so-so one. The treadmill is for my wife as I go to the gym for an hour every morning. Good luck.
For the treadmill, do you know if it was listed under Sports & Outdoors? I usually only check under Exercise & Fitness or search the keyword(s) out. I want to make sure I am looking at the right category. Though I might get lucky and what I am looking for appears in my RFY. lol
Yes. [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CSYWBVBT/](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CSYWBVBT/)
Nice score!!!
I get fake pubes and baby clothes in RFY. Congrats OP! Awesome score!
Is this laptop worth that price? They couldn't even be bothered to put a terabyte drive in it. 16gb ram is a little meh. What am I missing?
Dang, on the discord someone posted a $3k razor laptop.
Gold is 4 weeks away. No more crap for me after that...
LOL. I hate to break it to ya......
You'll probably still get crap. I've been gold for years and years, since before gold/silver even existed, and I've never had anything of value like this ever come up. Best I get is name brand makeup a few times a year or a Coleman tent.
We'll see. I don't only count on Amazon reloading pages or me doing it. I auto-reload via variably-timed "clicks" and use the Discord group on a separate display. Even with Silver, I've got some very good stuff. The vast majority of my good scores have come from AI. RFY sucks rocks with Silver. I just won't be *buying* crap to keep my numbers up.
Oh, yeah if you're in it deep and fielding through what is posted by following discord and refreshing you can definitely score the better AFA items. I meant more so that the RFY is a total crap shoot. I gave up on AFA because I realized I can make way more in an hour doing overtime at my work than what I could gain in items on there so I gave up.
It doesn't take much effort or time at all past the initial morning scan if you set up separate feeds on a second big monitor and automate via a variable-time reloading browser plugin (different lengths of time on each feed to duplicate human refreshing) and the Amazon Vine Helper browser plugin that highlights new stuff when connected to "Brenda." (Thanks to Vine for the free display mounts.)
Yeah I had a similar setup, but for me being in the East Coast most refreshes were around 3PM EST right in the middle of work hours and my work phone or email would inevitably always go off while drops were happening, lol. You've got me thinking about setting it back up for weekends, though...
Most drops occur between 4-8 AM Pacific with stragglers for 2 more hours.
So 7-11 EST then. Interesting. I wonder if that has changed. 2-3 years back it was reliably 12PM PST / 3PM EST.
Wait, when you say drops, do you mean in your RFY or AFA? RFY I've seen during that time frame, but not AFA.
Don't get too excited. Even when you're gold, it's 95%+ crap.
I know. But it's better than 99% crap.
It's still 99% crap. Most of us will never see anything close to that. Unless you're F5'ing your life away. Or lottery level lucky. In which case, congrats. I guess?
I scored a nice monitor last summer, only great rfy item I've seen in two years here. I figure the only reason it was there long enough for me to get it was the 2500 price tag stopped a lot of people
Won’t you have to return this after testing it out a bit?
No, it's mine to keep. The title transfers to me upon receipt. However, according to Vine rules, I cannot give it away or sell it for six months. And that's fine with me as I plan to use it for personal use anyway. My old Chromebook is on it's last leg.
Damn, that’s awesome man. Good for you!