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		WalterBright 81 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A queasy selling of the family heirlooms Jerry Seinfeld, on the life of things we buy: 1. buy treadmill from Amazon with one click, delivered to your door 2. put it in the living room corner 3. after a while, put it in the garage 4. more time passes, move it to the storage unit 5. take it to the dump Amazon could do us all a favor, and have one-click send it directly to the dump.

fxtentacle 80 days ago [–]

Sadly, this also matches my impression of the quality level of treadmills sold on Amazon. They are cheap and optimised for easy transport rather than usability.

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