Aedis

The other thing that might be a dealbreaker for you is no contactless payments with things like google wallet will work. But you could always just attach your credit card to the back of your phone and :tada: it works again lol

The R1S doesn’t have a start/stop button. Or at least the 2025 version doesn’t.

Afaik Walmart does the same.

EBay is a different service as is Wayfair.

Your own website as the manufacturer doesn’t have the reach of these other platforms. (in an age of SEO and AI searches it really doesn’t have to be that way).

The strongest argument here is in favor of Aliexpress. Which isn’t without issues and heavily lobbied by amazon to have even more issues in the US.

Absolutely, stop using Amazon. Except what’s the alternative? They’ve wedged themselves in that space, and bought out any other competitor. So either they get forced to compete with themselves (by breaking the company apart) or they adhere to anti-monopoly laws where they’re not allowed to influence other prices as part of their agreement.

The actual train is >30 years old, it was only painted like that 8 years ago. (Probably repainted a couple of times too lol)

Why would you ever need more than one button to go back?

Oh… a button, that is on the back?

Yeah I realized my mistake halfway through writing this.

Two things can be true at the same time. You can condemn evil and still be evil yourself. It’s very hypocritical of them but it doesn’t make their argument weaker, It just says that they aren’t going to be the ones to do anything about it.

The lines between fact (…) and opinion can be blurry at times

Are they though?