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Danni Jensen on IGG provided this link with the official UK FCA stand on crowdfunding: https://www.fca.org.uk/consumers/crowdfunding

I'm yet to be hit by it myself. 🙂 But just as refunds are fair from a consumer perspective, it is equally fair from a vendor perspective that there should be a reduction if it can't be put right back on the shelf and resold as new. That is one of the reasons why I always take great care when opening something that I either might want to return, or give to someone else.

We got the same in Europe, if the returned product can not be sold as new directly. e.g. need some testing and resealing of the package for sealed products. If you return say a fork, it is pretty easy to see if it is undamaged, but if you someone returns a storage medium, it (among other things) needs inspection for virus,

That is an interesting perspective. People being conservative in taking in new technologies might find a real keyboard less unfamiliar than touch-typing as being more similar to the typewriter they know/knew.

This is all very well, and except for the grouping in the middle layer seems a fairly objective description. But it is absurd to categorize something where you expect/hope for something in return as investments or non-investments based on the nature of the return and not the expected value. If you fund something from the good of your heart or to support something (e.g. LineageOS, or Greenpeace) without any clearly priced value of the outcome, it is clearly not an investment. (*) But if you expect/hope to profit by a reward with a value not substantially less than the funded amount, it o

...It actually raises an interesting question for a tax layer. If I take a €400 perk and get a product with a street price of €500, would I then be legally obliged to report the €100 as financial taxable income? I never thought of that.

Oh I did. And to the VAT thing. Yes of course. If you got money back from an invest and used that to buy a product these products would also have VAT on them. The difference is that you are not ALSO taxed on how much the value of the product exceeds the value of the investment. So in that aspect we are better of in crowdfunding than with other investments

Thank you for emphasizing the important word here: "bought" we do not buy anything on IGG we invest. That is the whole point of crowdfuning. It is no different from getting stocks or bonds in that aspect. The difference is that with crowdfunding we expect a material reward of a product cheaper than it could be bought, versus normal financial investment were we home for an economical reward.

Yeah I know they were upped a year ago or more, so most likely that is it. *G* They are too busy these days for me to bother them with it though 😉

I wonder if it is because I'm a Mod, that I'm allowed to upload more, but it is then compressed heavier???

How odd! Poorer quality! But when uploading it clearly tells that it is 1.9MB

I draggged&dropped from explorer. For the experiment I will try to re-upload your image: EDIT: Removed Rob's image.

The lawn is some 1000-1500m² but the infested area shown is less than 100m². So yeah must be a heavy one. I set up a trap, and will see if I can catch it....

But even my 1920x1080 image of only 0.6MB was reduced further... 😕 Did you do it on a PC or from a phone? Could also be that the initial post are allowed a higher resolution?

(downloading that gives a 1200x675 images of 0.14Mb 🤮 )

....Here a simple Crop from Paint to FHD (0,6MB)

Interesting when I download the above, it is still oriented wrong, and only ¼ MB, the source I uploaded was 6.4Mb..... The original (and correctly oriented) was 4000x3000, the up side down download 1200x900 Yours came down as 2560x1920 and 1.6MB. Does that match the resolution you set in the camera App?

You mean like to show what the damned Mole did to my lawn in cover of the snow now melting? EDIT: Removed to clutter the thread a little bit less....

There are other threads, The problem is that forum heavily reduces the images, so any details (or lack hereof) would not be easily visible, unless, people also posts cut out blow ups of strategic areas. So the Forum software makes a real fair photo thread a little hard to do. ADD: that is shown, we can download in full better resolution each of us.

Ah that sound the problem several have encountered with the earpiece. It seems to be a mechanical issue, try to check if the display part is tight together at the earpiece end. Some have reported that they pressing it can hear it 'snaps' back in place and the works. Could that be what you experiences? If it fixes it, perhaps check that the screws behind the stickers are not loose.

If you are pessimistic it is always nice with a spare or two.... 🤣

Uh "(170mm x 90mm x 23 mm)." that's quite a handful... But still interesting though.

This sort of anti-correlates with that most true nerds would stay away from a social thing like this forum, and thus never get to the poll. 🤣

I'm a little confused here I thought we were talking an SD card, this sound more like an SSD drive? And for SSD 2TB is more likely to be real.

I would still recommend to test it, they usually just wrap around ignoring the higher addressing, so when it goes beyond the limit it will write into your existing data. It might still look OK at a directory-level, but with some file-content smashed....