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Please stop doing this… the annual rant.

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Posting this across all categories, to make sure everyone sees it…

As most of you know i work in a bubble. I am my own source of deals, and pretty much everything that appear here have been found the old fashioned way – i dug for it on Amazon, Ebay, etc… often spending hours upon hours doing so. I don’t check any other deal sites. Everything i find is my own, and i’m proud of that fact.

Every once in a while (like once a year) i poke my head out of the bubble, just to see if i’m missing anything important. You will instantly know when it happens, because it inevitably leads to this rant.

I’ve been doing this long enough… i know every single decent deal i post here gets lifted by the one i affectionately call Petunia within minutes. And not just 3d printing stuff anymore, it’s just about everything… Petunia is quite a voracious whore.

Petunia is not “mentally challenged” (though i hear things), and is not an invalid. Neither are the two brothers that run the “red light district”. Between the 3 of them, they are more than perfectly capable to do what i do – actually look for deals themselves.

So let them… let them do their own work, and let them find their own deals.

Stop running over there with the stuff you find here. It’s incredibly disheartening to see something that took me hours to flush out immediately show up over there. It doesn’t make me feel any better knowing that these deals are being hand delivered there by the same people who see them here first. At the very least make them “earn it” at least a little bit…. they’re perfectly capable of lifting deals from my site themselves, trust me on that one 🙂

The way i see it – when you do this, you take my hard work and hand it over to someone who put in zero effort, while flipping me a middle finger in the process. It’s very disrespectful, to say the least.

Please stop doing it…

Thank you.

Ok, that’s it for the annual rant… back to deals 🙂

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David

I appreciate your hard work! Thank you.

placemat

Now I’m curious who Petunia and red light district are 🤔

glabifrons

Woah! I didn’t even know there *was* a discord for this site!
(subscribed/joined/whatever) 🙂

PhatDaddyG8Z

Truly appreciate your hard work, thank you.
Have to admit though, I’ve walked the Red Light District late nights every now and again and I’ve come across Petunia a couple of times… looked pretty used up. lol
Thanks again.

Pachenko

I appreciate all the work you put in. Especially, the everything beyond 3D printing deals!

Jon

Thank you for your hard work! I visit almost daily.

Rodney

I couldn’t agree more. Thanks for what you do. You have saved me and my boys lots of money and made us DEEP in 3D printing. And, never once have we shared your findings. Keep on keeping on, it’s appreciated!

Egor

Sux!! I don’t check in Discord at all, but I’m sorry this is happening. I check this website every single day without fail. I don’t even print that much, but all the little doodads you find for dirt cheap are fun to play with. I appreciate all the effort you put in this!!

glabifrons

I just wanted to say that you’ve found some of the most *incredible* deals… ones that I’ve been kicking myself for only buying one of.
Like this:
https://plasticfantasticdeals.com/233-40-askhand-mini-pc-amd-ryzen-5-5600h-3-3-4-2ghz-6c-12t-32gb-ram-1tb-nvme-ssd/
I commented some tips for others the 2nd time this one came up, as it’s been a fantastic little micro-VM server for me. In fact I just ordered 64GB of RAM to upgrade it. 🙂
I *definitely* should have bought 2. It’s still the most powerful computer in my house (that includes all our gaming PCs).

This was freakin’ *phenomenal*!
https://plasticfantasticdeals.com/ktc-gaming-monitor-1440p-ips-100hz/
That was by far the best monitor deal I’ve ever found! I use if on my work computer and I’m half-tempted to swap it for my 4K Philips that I use on my personal machine, just because it has FreeSync and G-Sync!
I should’ve bought 3 (my kid could also use an upgrade).

This… best deal *anywhere* on a DSI touchscreen:
https://plasticfantasticdeals.com/osoyoo-touchscreen-monitor-for-raspberry-pi-5-800×480/
I should’ve bought 2-3 of ’em. DSIs are hard to come by for a reasonable price.

There’ve been others too, but these immediately popped to mind since I still work with them on a regular basis. The only deals that come close to the mini-PC deal are from Aliexpress, and it’s risky ordering something like this from them (always make sure the store isn’t new… most of the best deals are scams and the store will vanish before your your misdirected shipment arrives wherever it was sent… see the FAQ on r/aliexpress if that doesn’t make sense, they have the scams documented by number).

anthony

I appreciate it. I’ve ordered so much because of this site that my better half gets irritated about the number of packages. I now only buy filament if it’s dirt cheap now. I do appreciate the work put into this.

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