ALIEXPRESS Deals Compilation (29.5.2023)!
Check products in compilation image: https://i.imgur.com/bDjPSDJ.jpeg or https://i.ibb.co/pQgr5Tj/54d6a2fdb380.jpg
-1- PZOZ 1m Micro USB Cable 3A
👌 https://bit.ly/3WCYaXG
👉 Price: 1.30 USD USD
✏️ Coupon: $1 off on $2 coupon "PZOZ05201"
-2- 5ml Perfume Refill Bottle
👌 https://bit.ly/3MxcJHC
👌 Price: 1.49 USD USD
-3- Mini Quick Wire Conductor Connector D1-3O 10Pcs
🌐 https://bit.ly/42eD6rV
⭕️ Price: 2.12 USD USD
-4- Voltage Current Capacity USB Tester
🌀 https://bit.ly/3oFvil9
🔹 Price: 2.39 USD USD
-5- TDS Meter Digital Water Tester 0-9990ppm
👉 https://bit.ly/45BXiXl
〽️ Price: 2.51 USD USD
-6- 3D Printer Filament Spool Holder 2pcs
✳️ https://bit.ly/3qeHB8D
💣 Price: 3.71 USD USD
-7- 3Pcs Drill Socket Adapter Drill Extension
✳️ https://bit.ly/43tMQ2r
📉 Price: 4.05 USD USD
-8- Lint-Free Nail Polish Remover Cotton Wipes 540pcs
🔗 https://bit.ly/3OFOpWV
🥇 Price: 4.19 USD USD
-9- Pet Dog Brush Comb Self Cleaning
❇️ https://bit.ly/40qLunQ
⭕️ Price: 4.25 USD USD
-10- AZDENT 10 Rolls Dental Flosser 50m
❇️ https://bit.ly/42hcgiK
💥 Price: 4.54 USD USD
-11- 185mm Stripping Crimping Pliers 10 in 1
🌀 https://bit.ly/42djCUn
🥇 Price: 4.69 USD USD
-12- 4Pcs Multifunction Punch Free Wall Mounted Storage Box
🌍 https://bit.ly/43dIn4j
🚨 Price: 4.71 USD USD
-13- Magnetic Car Phone Holder
🌍 https://bit.ly/3WE9piE
💣 Price: 4.83 USD USD
-14- Flowers Building Blocks 1pc
🔗 https://bit.ly/3WGsuAN
✌️ Price: 4.98 USD USD
-15- 16cm Son Goku Super Saiyan Figure
🔗 https://bit.ly/43hu1zN
💣 Price: 5.54 USD USD
👌 Coupon: $1 off on $1,01 coupon "9V4LSE2IYKKS"
-16- Baseus Alloy Car Trash Can with 30 pcs. Bags [EU/CN]
👉 https://bit.ly/3OFPJJm
⭕️ Price: 6.15 USD USD
-17- MR.GREEN Curve Handle Eyebrows Tweezers
✌️ https://bit.ly/3ozumPa
💰 Price: 6.26 USD USD
-18- 5m Accuracy GPS Tracker
👌 https://bit.ly/3BZvn66
🥇 Price: 6.92 USD USD
🔖 Coupon: 75% auto discount in cart!
-19- Sectyme Wireless Doorbell
🌐 https://bit.ly/43fuClI
🔹 Price: 8.94 USD USD
✌️ Coupon: $1 off on $1,01 coupon "CODE052901"
-20- Kingston 128GB Micro SD Card
👉 https://bit.ly/3C3paGm
🥇 Price: 9.02 USD USD
-21- Baseus PD3.0 QC4.0 Car Charger 45W
📌 https://bit.ly/3IMhbBz
🚨 Price: 9.71 USD USD
-22- Xiaomi MIIIW Wireless Mouse
🔗 https://bit.ly/3qlzMh9
📉 Price: 9.91 USD USD
-23- Toocki GaN 40W USB C Charger 2 Ports
✳️ https://bit.ly/3IMGFi9
👌 Price: 10.38 USD USD
✏️ Coupon: $4 off on $4,01 coupon "TOOCKI73"
-24- Mini Bouquet Building Blocks Flowers
👉 https://bit.ly/3BZ3jzW
🚨 Price: 10.48 USD USD
-25- FCOB COB LED Strip Light 480 LEDs/m 5m RA90
❗️ https://bit.ly/3MGAsW1
💣 Price: 10.75 USD USD
-26- ORICO SD Memory Card Storage Case
🌍 https://bit.ly/3MGt0dv
🚨 Price: 11.70 USD USD
🖍 Coupon: $2 off on $2,01 coupon "PHCDUSD2"
-27- UGREEN Lifting Phone Holder Stand
✳️ https://bit.ly/43rcQeE
✌️ Price: 11.81 USD USD
📌 Coupon: $2 auto discount in cart + $5 off on $5,01 coupon "PAAA9W"
-28- Essager 65W USB Car Charger
❇️ https://bit.ly/3WC6aZd
💰 Price: 11.95 USD USD
-29- Hiseeu 1080p No Card IP Camera
✳️ https://bit.ly/3N3ETMa
📉 Price: 14.07 USD USD
🖍 Coupon: $5 off on $5,01 coupon "8FUCSFFWKJ3F"
-30- ORICO Strong Heat Dissipation M.2 SSD 2280 Heatsink
🌍 https://bit.ly/45yQs55
👌 Price: 15.74 USD USD
-31- AUXITO 2Pcs H3 LED Headlight Bulbs
❇️ https://bit.ly/45z7bFn
📉 Price: 17.83 USD USD
-32- Gan 356M Magnetic Speed Cube 3x3
✅ https://bit.ly/3oBQQiB
🚨 Price: 20.73 USD USD
-33- Realme TechLife Buds T100 Bluetooth 5.3 AI ENC
🌍 https://bit.ly/3V4a6Ru
🥇 Price: 23.36 USD USD
-34- Youpin Adyss P1000 Portable Retractable USB Charging Fan with Ring Light
🌀 https://bit.ly/3q80kT0
📉 Price: 51.88 USD USD
⏳ Coupon: ALIBUY6FAAZ
-35- AJAZZ AK873 Hot Swap Mechanical Keyboard 87 Keys
👉 https://bit.ly/41qk01H
💰 Price: 74.63 USD USD
✌️ Coupon: $2 off on $68 coupon "21FZE5XINYSU"
-36- ORICO UFSD 411MB/s Pen Drive Type-C 512GB
❗️ https://bit.ly/3ovT2Z4
👉 Price: 83.44 USD USD
✂️ Coupon: $3 off on $59 coupon "ORICO5FANS3"
-37- TP-Link 2.5G Ethernet Switch 8 Port 2.5GBASE-T RJ45 2500Mbps
❇️ https://bit.ly/3Hl88qn
👉 Price: 112.60 USD USD
-38- Anker Soundcore Space Q45 ANC Headphones
🛒 https://bit.ly/3C0BAyR
〽️ Price: 117.94 USD USD
-39- Reolink IP Camera Argus PT Dual Wifi 4MP with Solar [EU]
🛒 https://bit.ly/43d3bbZ
✌️ Price: 132.15 USD USD
🔖 Coupon: $25 off on $129 coupon "REOLINK924"
-40- Xiaomi Sound Move Speaker BT5.3 Speaker HARMAN AudioEFX
❇️ https://bit.ly/42tvmmx
🚨 Price: 132.84 USD USD
-41- Teclast T40 Pro T618 8/128GB 10.4 Inch Tablet [EU]
✅ https://bit.ly/3okcZBG
〽️ Price: 137.10 USD USD
👌 Coupon: $41,77 off on $164,86 coupon "T40PRO038"
-42- Zhiyun Smooth 5 Gimbal
✳️ https://bit.ly/43cpjmK
💲 Price: 164.83 USD USD
-43- 4Pcs for Tesla Model 3 18 Inch Hub Cap
❇️ https://bit.ly/3UmSGz1
🥇 Price: 182.20 USD USD
-44- 700W Portable Power Station 576Wh AC 230V [EU]
🌀 https://bit.ly/3C0OX1X
🚨 Price: 289.66 USD USD
🔖 Coupon: $11,36 auto discount in cart + $11,36 off on $71 coupon "1AQRHSTQCICD"
Products compilation image: https://i.imgur.com/bDjPSDJ.jpeg or https://i.ibb.co/pQgr5Tj/54d6a2fdb380.jpg

Hi ecommerce - I'm Paul and I follow the e-commerce industry pretty closely for my Shopifreaks E-commerce Newsletter. Each week I post a summary recap of this week's top stories, which I cover in depth in the newsletter. .

1. STAT OF THE WEEK: 70% of e-commerce shoppers experienced shipping delays without any reason provided by the business for the delay. Faced with that experience, 90% of respondents said they are less likely to buy from a brand again after a poor online shopping experience, while 29% say they are increasingly willing to share a negative review online. – According to Koerber .
2. If some of Temu's deals appear too good to be true — it's because they are! An analysis of the company's supply chain costs by WIRED shows that Temu is losing an average of $30 per order as it throws money at trying to break into the American market. Most of Temu's subsidies are in the form of free international shipping, with even a small package costing the company around $14 to ship to the US (although it offers the shipping for free). When adding in the additional product discounts and cash coupons that Temu gives to customers, the average loss per order jumps to $30. .
3. The FTC has proposed new rules in the US called “click to cancel” that will impact e-commerce subscriptions — but in a good way for consumers! The rules would require any business selling subscriptions to add a simple cancel mechanism on the same website as the initial transaction, and include the same number of steps. In other words, a “one click subscription” would require a “one click cancelation.” This “click to cancel” rule is part of the FTC's proposed changes to its 1973 Negative Option Rule, which establishes how subscription sellers must communicate offers, ensure consent, manage billing, and simplify cancellation. .
4. BigCommerce announced new leadership including the appointment of Daniel Lentz as the company's CFO, Chuck Cassidy as its General Counsel, and Hubert Ban as its Chief Accounting Officer. .
5. Google is launching Product Studio, a new tool that allows Shopping merchants to quickly edit and customize their product images for free using generative AI. According to Google's data, product listings with more than one image typically see a 76% increase in impressions and a 32% increase in clicks compared to listings with a single image. With the new generative AI tool, text prompts can be used within Product Studio to quickly make visual adjustments to product images, such as generating new backgrounds for seasonal campaigns. The tool also allows sellers to instantly remove the existing background of an image if they need a blank backdrop, and increase the quality of small or low resolution images. .
6. Morning Consult published their annual report of Most Trusted Brands for 2023. The survey ranks roughly 1,500 brands in the US, most of which were dominated by big, well-established names including: #1 Band-Aid, #2 UPS, #3 Amazon, #4 Lysol, #5 Kleenex, #6 Cheerios, #7 Visa, #8 Dove, #9 The Weather Channel, and #10 FedEx .
7. Axios, in collaboration with market research firm Harris Poll, also ran a recent survey to determine the Most Reputable Brands in the US. The results were very different from Morning Consult's most trusted brands. Only one company overlapped in the top ten which included: #1 Patagonia, #2 Costco, #3 John Deere, #4 Trader Joe's, #5 Chick-fil-A, #6 Toyota, #7 Samsung, #8 Amazon, #9 USAA, and #10 Apple . Bottom of the list included: #90 Family Dollar, #91 Balenciaga, #92 BP, #93 Bitcoin, #94 TikTok, #95 Spirit Airlines, #96 Meta, #97 Twitter, #98 Fox, #99 FTX, and #100 The Trump Organization .
8. The latest data from PYMNTS shows that high earners are feeling the pinch of credit card debt and that their wages aren't keeping up with inflation. This is resulting in higher-end retailers who depend on wealthier households feeling the pinch as well. The data shows a number of correlations including that for bouseholds earning more than $100k annually, 42% were living paycheck-to-paycheck in April 2022. That number has crept up to over 49% this past year. .
9. Netflix must have forgotten what love is since 2017 when it made its famous tweet that “Love is sharing a password.” The company has finally launched its ill-awaited crackdown on password sharing in the US and the UK. The new rules state that subscribers are permitted to share their account with members of their own household, which Netflix defines as “you and the people you live with.” Netflix will begin using a variety of tools, such as IP checking, to spot when people are using another household’s account and prevent them from doing so, or give them the option of adding a household for $7.99/month. The company expects cancellations, but optimistically (or idiotically) predicts that those same people will come back again, which will overall lead to more people paying for subscriptions. .
10. Laws are changing in Australia to treat BNPL as a credit product. Finally! When was it NOT a form of credit? BNPL should have been recognized as a credit product the day the first BNPL company put up a coming soon landing page. Australia’s Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services Stephen Jones said that a litany of issues reported to the Australia Securities and Investments Commission have added up to “unacceptable levels of unaffordable lending occurring, largely concentrated amongst low-income borrowers.” He added that “BNPL looks like credit, it acts like credit, it carries the risks of credit.” Jones promised draft legislation in the coming months and the introduction of a final bill to the Australian Parliament by the end of the year, which will include the need for BNPL firms to hold Australian Credit Licenses and comply with Resonspible Lending Obligations. .
11. Bill Gates said that AI could kill Google Search and Amazon as we know them, and that the technology could radically alter user behaviors, resulting in people never needing to visit a search website again or use certain productivity or shopping tools. Gates remarked that the first company to develop it will have a leg up on competitors. .
12. A recent study conducted by Lloyds Banking Group revealed that a UK consumer falls victim to a purchasing scam that originates on Facebook or Instagram every seven minutes, resulting in a cost of over £500k per week. (That man is Michael Scott.) The banking group is now urging Meta and other tech giants to take responsibility and contribute to refunding innocent victims of scams. .
13. Analysts at Bernstein project that Reliance Industries is poised to outpace Amazon and Flipkart in the race for India's $150M e-commerce market, citing the conglomerate's robust retail network, mobile network, and home field advantage as its biggest assets. Reliance already operates the country's largest retail chain with over 18k stores and is leveraging its presence to form partnerships with Meta, Shein, and other companies as a strategic advantage against its competitors. .
14. Shopify is introducing its POS hardware to the Canadian market. Its mobile selling device, the POS Go, which is built to run Shopify’s POS software, was first rolled out to retailers in the US in 2022. .
15. Meta announced that ads in Instagram search results will now be available through the Instagram Marketing API, allowing third-party social-management platforms to offer a new Instagram ad-placement type in their apps. Meta began testing the placement in March and are now opening it up to all brands. .
16. Shein is exploring plans to build a factory in Mexico as one of its manufacturing hubs outside China, which could shorten shipping time and cut distribution costs for customers in Latin America and USA. Earlier this month I reported that Shein is creating a hub in Brazil. .
17. Amazon opened the first phase of its Metropolitan Park on Monday, its long-awaited second headquarters in Arlington, Virginia that can hold up to 8k employees. However not all Amazon employees are excited about the new office location (or any office location). At least 1,000 office workers are planning a walkout this Wednesday to take a stand against the company's return-to-office mandate. .
18. The Vietnamese government is putting pressure on TikTok to police its content and remove videos that fall short of the state’s standards, or risk a ban. Eight government departments are targeting toxic content deemed “to pose a threat to the country’s youth, culture and tradition” — including videos that simply criticize college degrees. .
19. eBay unveiled generative AI on its mobile app to help sellers list new items for sale, however the company forgot to inform sellers and didn't label the icon. When clicked, the icon replaced sellers' entire product descriptions with AI generated text, with no way to recover the original description. .
20. Boozt AB, a Sweden-based online fashion retailer, blocked 42,000 customers for returning too many items, calling their actions too costly for the company and the environment. The company said that these particular customers represented less than 2% of their 3M customers, but around 25% of the total return volume. .
21. Twitter withdrew from an agreement with the EU to cut down misinformation on its social network, which the company joined alongside other tech companies in 2018. Thierry Breton, the EU internal market commissioner, noted that fighting disinformation will be a legal obligation from August 25th, due to the EU's Digital Services Act, so the agreement would become irrelevant. .
22. Jeff Bezos is ripped now! The Amazon founder started working with personal trainer, Wes Okerson, who's also trained Tom Cruise and Gerard Butler, and now he's gotten super buff. This is about the least e-commerce specific news you'll ever see me share in this newsletter, but the Jeff Bezos before / after photo is kind of wild! .
23. Amazon will close its official Amazon app store in China on July 17, which launched in 2011 as an alternative to the Google Play Store. Amazon noted that its marketplaces and AWS services will remain operational in China. However while it may be leaving China, the Amazon App Store will soon be bringing more Android apps to the Windows ecosystem. The expanded partnership will allow Windows users to access a wider range of Android apps seamlessly. .
24. Google updated the badges some merchants display for their product listings in Google Search to say “Top Quality Store” instead of the original “Trusted Store” badge. Google said this is just a name and title change and won't have any impact on search rank or performance. .
25. Auctane, an e-commerce shipping specialist that operates brands such as Metapack, ShipStation, Packlink, ShipEngine, Stamps.com, and others, appointed Albert Ko as its new CEO, who previously served as CEO of EWS, which is best known for the Zelle payments network. Current CEO Nathan Jones will join the company's Board of Directors. .
26. eCampus.com, a website that sells textbooks and course materials, announced that it would keep offering textbook rentals, even though its retail partner Amazon was exiting the business. The company had been powering the program behind the scenes for Amazon since 2012, and plans to keep it going through its own website. .
27. Walmart is partnering with Pawp, a veterinary telehealth provider, to offer Walmart+ subscribers free access to virtual veterinarians for a year, starting this week. Currently Pawp charges $99 for an annual membership. .
28. Alibaba Group said that it aims to hire 15,000 people this year, dismissing rumors circulating that the company planned to cut 20% of its staff. They also mentioned that more than 3,000 of those hires would be newly-graduated students. .
29. Plus 7 seed rounds, IPOs, and acquisitions of interest including a $12M Series A round by Laced to grow its resale marketplace for authenticated sneakers.

I hope you find this news recap helpful. See you next week!
-PAUL

Hi ShopifyeCommerce - I'm Paul and I follow the e-commerce industry closely for my Shopifreaks E-commerce Newsletter. Each week I post a summary recap of this week's top stories, which I cover in depth in the newsletter. .

1. STAT OF THE WEEK: 70% of e-commerce shoppers experienced shipping delays without any reason provided by the business for the delay. Faced with that experience, 90% of respondents said they are less likely to buy from a brand again after a poor online shopping experience, while 29% say they are increasingly willing to share a negative review online. – According to Koerber .
2. If some of Temu's deals appear too good to be true — it's because they are! An analysis of the company's supply chain costs by WIRED shows that Temu is losing an average of $30 per order as it throws money at trying to break into the American market. Most of Temu's subsidies are in the form of free international shipping, with even a small package costing the company around $14 to ship to the US (although it offers the shipping for free). When adding in the additional product discounts and cash coupons that Temu gives to customers, the average loss per order jumps to $30. .
3. The FTC has proposed new rules in the US called “click to cancel” that will impact e-commerce subscriptions — but in a good way for consumers! The rules would require any business selling subscriptions to add a simple cancel mechanism on the same website as the initial transaction, and include the same number of steps. In other words, a “one click subscription” would require a “one click cancelation.” This “click to cancel” rule is part of the FTC's proposed changes to its 1973 Negative Option Rule, which establishes how subscription sellers must communicate offers, ensure consent, manage billing, and simplify cancellation. .
4. BigCommerce announced new leadership including the appointment of Daniel Lentz as the company's CFO, Chuck Cassidy as its General Counsel, and Hubert Ban as its Chief Accounting Officer. .
5. Google is launching Product Studio, a new tool that allows Shopping merchants to quickly edit and customize their product images for free using generative AI. According to Google's data, product listings with more than one image typically see a 76% increase in impressions and a 32% increase in clicks compared to listings with a single image. With the new generative AI tool, text prompts can be used within Product Studio to quickly make visual adjustments to product images, such as generating new backgrounds for seasonal campaigns. The tool also allows sellers to instantly remove the existing background of an image if they need a blank backdrop, and increase the quality of small or low resolution images. .
6. Morning Consult published their annual report of Most Trusted Brands for 2023. The survey ranks roughly 1,500 brands in the US, most of which were dominated by big, well-established names including: #1 Band-Aid, #2 UPS, #3 Amazon, #4 Lysol, #5 Kleenex, #6 Cheerios, #7 Visa, #8 Dove, #9 The Weather Channel, and #10 FedEx .
7. Axios, in collaboration with market research firm Harris Poll, also ran a recent survey to determine the Most Reputable Brands in the US. The results were very different from Morning Consult's most trusted brands. Only one company overlapped in the top ten which included: #1 Patagonia, #2 Costco, #3 John Deere, #4 Trader Joe's, #5 Chick-fil-A, #6 Toyota, #7 Samsung, #8 Amazon, #9 USAA, and #10 Apple . Bottom of the list included: #90 Family Dollar, #91 Balenciaga, #92 BP, #93 Bitcoin, #94 TikTok, #95 Spirit Airlines, #96 Meta, #97 Twitter, #98 Fox, #99 FTX, and #100 The Trump Organization .
8. The latest data from PYMNTS shows that high earners are feeling the pinch of credit card debt and that their wages aren't keeping up with inflation. This is resulting in higher-end retailers who depend on wealthier households feeling the pinch as well. The data shows a number of correlations including that for bouseholds earning more than $100k annually, 42% were living paycheck-to-paycheck in April 2022. That number has crept up to over 49% this past year. .
9. Netflix must have forgotten what love is since 2017 when it made its famous tweet that “Love is sharing a password.” The company has finally launched its ill-awaited crackdown on password sharing in the US and the UK. The new rules state that subscribers are permitted to share their account with members of their own household, which Netflix defines as “you and the people you live with.” Netflix will begin using a variety of tools, such as IP checking, to spot when people are using another household’s account and prevent them from doing so, or give them the option of adding a household for $7.99/month. The company expects cancellations, but optimistically (or idiotically) predicts that those same people will come back again, which will overall lead to more people paying for subscriptions. .
10. Laws are changing in Australia to treat BNPL as a credit product. Finally! When was it NOT a form of credit? BNPL should have been recognized as a credit product the day the first BNPL company put up a coming soon landing page. Australia’s Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services Stephen Jones said that a litany of issues reported to the Australia Securities and Investments Commission have added up to “unacceptable levels of unaffordable lending occurring, largely concentrated amongst low-income borrowers.” He added that “BNPL looks like credit, it acts like credit, it carries the risks of credit.” Jones promised draft legislation in the coming months and the introduction of a final bill to the Australian Parliament by the end of the year, which will include the need for BNPL firms to hold Australian Credit Licenses and comply with Resonspible Lending Obligations. .
11. Bill Gates said that AI could kill Google Search and Amazon as we know them, and that the technology could radically alter user behaviors, resulting in people never needing to visit a search website again or use certain productivity or shopping tools. Gates remarked that the first company to develop it will have a leg up on competitors. .
12. A recent study conducted by Lloyds Banking Group revealed that a UK consumer falls victim to a purchasing scam that originates on Facebook or Instagram every seven minutes, resulting in a cost of over £500k per week. (That man is Michael Scott.) The banking group is now urging Meta and other tech giants to take responsibility and contribute to refunding innocent victims of scams. .
13. Analysts at Bernstein project that Reliance Industries is poised to outpace Amazon and Flipkart in the race for India's $150M e-commerce market, citing the conglomerate's robust retail network, mobile network, and home field advantage as its biggest assets. Reliance already operates the country's largest retail chain with over 18k stores and is leveraging its presence to form partnerships with Meta, Shein, and other companies as a strategic advantage against its competitors. .
14. Shopify is introducing its POS hardware to the Canadian market. Its mobile selling device, the POS Go, which is built to run Shopify’s POS software, was first rolled out to retailers in the US in 2022. .
15. Meta announced that ads in Instagram search results will now be available through the Instagram Marketing API, allowing third-party social-management platforms to offer a new Instagram ad-placement type in their apps. Meta began testing the placement in March and are now opening it up to all brands. .
16. Shein is exploring plans to build a factory in Mexico as one of its manufacturing hubs outside China, which could shorten shipping time and cut distribution costs for customers in Latin America and USA. Earlier this month I reported that Shein is creating a hub in Brazil. .
17. Amazon opened the first phase of its Metropolitan Park on Monday, its long-awaited second headquarters in Arlington, Virginia that can hold up to 8k employees. However not all Amazon employees are excited about the new office location (or any office location). At least 1,000 office workers are planning a walkout this Wednesday to take a stand against the company's return-to-office mandate. .
18. The Vietnamese government is putting pressure on TikTok to police its content and remove videos that fall short of the state’s standards, or risk a ban. Eight government departments are targeting toxic content deemed “to pose a threat to the country’s youth, culture and tradition” — including videos that simply criticize college degrees. .
19. eBay unveiled generative AI on its mobile app to help sellers list new items for sale, however the company forgot to inform sellers and didn't label the icon. When clicked, the icon replaced sellers' entire product descriptions with AI generated text, with no way to recover the original description. .
20. Boozt AB, a Sweden-based online fashion retailer, blocked 42,000 customers for returning too many items, calling their actions too costly for the company and the environment. The company said that these particular customers represented less than 2% of their 3M customers, but around 25% of the total return volume. .
21. Twitter withdrew from an agreement with the EU to cut down misinformation on its social network, which the company joined alongside other tech companies in 2018. Thierry Breton, the EU internal market commissioner, noted that fighting disinformation will be a legal obligation from August 25th, due to the EU's Digital Services Act, so the agreement would become irrelevant. .
22. Jeff Bezos is ripped now! The Amazon founder started working with personal trainer, Wes Okerson, who's also trained Tom Cruise and Gerard Butler, and now he's gotten super buff. This is about the least e-commerce specific news you'll ever see me share in this newsletter, but the Jeff Bezos before / after photo is kind of wild! .
23. Amazon will close its official Amazon app store in China on July 17, which launched in 2011 as an alternative to the Google Play Store. Amazon noted that its marketplaces and AWS services will remain operational in China. However while it may be leaving China, the Amazon App Store will soon be bringing more Android apps to the Windows ecosystem. The expanded partnership will allow Windows users to access a wider range of Android apps seamlessly. .
24. Google updated the badges some merchants display for their product listings in Google Search to say “Top Quality Store” instead of the original “Trusted Store” badge. Google said this is just a name and title change and won't have any impact on search rank or performance. .
25. Auctane, an e-commerce shipping specialist that operates brands such as Metapack, ShipStation, Packlink, ShipEngine, Stamps.com, and others, appointed Albert Ko as its new CEO, who previously served as CEO of EWS, which is best known for the Zelle payments network. Current CEO Nathan Jones will join the company's Board of Directors. .
26. eCampus.com, a website that sells textbooks and course materials, announced that it would keep offering textbook rentals, even though its retail partner Amazon was exiting the business. The company had been powering the program behind the scenes for Amazon since 2012, and plans to keep it going through its own website. .
27. Walmart is partnering with Pawp, a veterinary telehealth provider, to offer Walmart+ subscribers free access to virtual veterinarians for a year, starting this week. Currently Pawp charges $99 for an annual membership. .
28. Alibaba Group said that it aims to hire 15,000 people this year, dismissing rumors circulating that the company planned to cut 20% of its staff. They also mentioned that more than 3,000 of those hires would be newly-graduated students. .
29. Plus 7 seed rounds, IPOs, and acquisitions of interest including a $12M Series A round by Laced to grow its resale marketplace for authenticated sneakers.

For more details on each story, see the full edition: https://www.shopifreaks.com/how-much-money-does-temu-lose-per-orde
What else is new in e-commerce? Share stories of interesting in the comments below (including in your own business) or on shopifreaks.
See you next week.
-PAUL

Updated May 2023
I recently changed Reddit accounts and it's been about a year, so it seemed prudent to repost this for visibility. :)

Link to the Below Zero guide

https://subnauticamap.io/ - This is an interactive map of the crater. However, be warned that it will show the general location of things you need to find. This can be toggled but if you have zero point of reference for the places mentioned in this guide, this map should provide one.

General tips are at the bottom, however, they rely on you having played at least part of the way through the game so I don't recommend checking them until at least part 3, AKA "Going Traveling"

Subnautica is a game primarily about exploring your environment while overcoming the trepidation that the game sets up in you over doing so. Although there isn't a perfect guide to being able to clear the game, there also isn't an unambiguous path of progression for the player, either.
Consequently new players often find themselves at an impasse in terms of progression and where to go. The following is a no-nonsense, straight to the point guide on how to progress, but it's not a bible. You can do most of this just by exploring and wandering around.
A blind playthrough is critical to the first time player experience. This is often true of every game but for Subnautica it makes or breaks the whole story - you need to have no idea what the hell is going on the first time you clear the game. If you spoil it for yourself you will regret it, please believe me in this. This guide is meant to give you a nudge when you find you don't know where to go next, it's not really meant as a walkthrough, even though it can be used as one. Do yourself a favor friends, don't go wandering /subnautica or the wiki too much and this guide will not lead you astray. It is written specifically for brand new players.

The Beginning

When you first arrive on 4546b, you find yourself with basically nothing. You're hungry, thirsty, your lifepod is broken and your cookies are gone. The Aurora is burning (and you nearly did too) but despite all that, you're alive and this planet is about to get some Ryley in it.
The environment around you has most of what you need to get started. The metal scrap strewn around the shallows provides an easy source of Titanium while you can break limestone and sandstone to get the minerals you need for your starting tools. You'll want the quartz you find for glass.
Although you have a number of options for making equipment, at this stage I don't recommend using resources for the air pump or pipes. Truth is they don't really have much use; they create a breathing line from the surface for when you're diving, but they're expensive and there's better alternatives in your near future.
Once you have a scanner and knife, take the time to scan everything you can. All the local wildlife can be scanned and most of the flora.
Your objective at this point is to build a repair gun, knife, seaglide, flashlight and scanner.

Branching Out

Now that you've got your basic tools and you can get around a little, it's time to begin exploring. At this point you've seen the deeper waters on the edges of the kelp forest.
It's time to go take a look.
The red grassy plains have what you need to progress to deeper waters. You'll want to explore the wrecks there. There are four grassy plains surrounding the shallows at compass points and cave systems exist in three of them which will become relevant later, but are largely out of your reach for now. It is out here that you will find fragments necessary for an important task you must complete soon. Raiding the aurora will require the laser cutter you learn to make here. You'll also want a propulsion cannon, which you can find the fragments to near the side of the Aurora. DO NOT GO AROUND THE BACK OF THE AURORA. SERIOUSLY. You are not prepared for that level of giggling insanity yet.
By now you've fixed the radio and may have triggered the sunbeam event, in which case you will want to go follow that. Give yourself the full span of time to go to the island and explore unless you'd prefer to explore after the event, but don't let yourself get distracted by what you find there and miss the ship arriving. The signals you've been getting are important prompts and need to be checked out when possible, so make sure you take the time to do that. Also, when you go to either island DO NOT PARK YOUR SEAMOTH NEAR THE BEACH. DO NOT PARK YOUR SEAMOTH NEAR THE BEACH. There is a real risk of it phasing through the ground and becoming inaccessible and then you'll end up on this subreddit asking how to get it back like the other 5 guys a week. Seriously.
Also note that bringing an ion cube to the top of the mountains caves will let you do something interesting up there, but I won't be specific. A scanner room at this spot is ideal not just to track the reaper leviathan on the eastern side of the island but there is quite a lot of shale and lithium here as well, which is probably something you're gonna want.

Going traveling

At this point you should have a seamoth, your basic tools, a laser cutter, propulsion cannon and lead suit. You are prepared. It's time to go to the Aurora... but only if you've gotten the communication from Alterra with the captains door code. Otherwise, you must wait for that radio event. You can go explore the ship anyways of course, but not having the code means you can't get into the captains room, requiring you to go back and get it later. So it's up to you. You can open the door anyways if you get the code off the internet or something but since the game gives it to you anyways, you can always wait for the prompt. If not, the door code is 2679
If you have a cyclops I don't recommend taking it, since reapers hang out at the front and back ends of the ship. However, a seamoth is small enough to fit through the broken superstructure of the ship at the front and thus avoid this danger. There are two ways to access the ship and although it seems impossible, you CAN in fact climb up to access the open one. Otherwise, you can use the prop cannon to move the debris out of the way of the door near water level. Be sure to take the time to explore inside and use the carry-all bags to leave stuff you want to keep from the ship out the front so you can come back and pick it all up later. There's lots of useful stuff in there.
As a side note here, the leech-like things that annoy you in the reactor room are called Bleeders. I hate Bleeders personally, but I noted that if you grab one with the propulsion cannon and fling it into the wall out of sheer spite then other bleeders will be attracted to the body, which makes grabbing and doing the same to them quite easy. Clearing the entire room of those little #*([email protected]'s only takes a couple minutes.
You can get the codes for various rooms inside from the PDA's you find. Also note that some doors can only be opened once you repair them. Sometimes the Aurora glitches and these repair sections don't work but because the ship has two entrances, you can always go around the back to clear the whole thing, which is... annoying. If you don't mind being patient, leaving the Aurora and doing other things for awhile will reset the wreck, allowing you to come back later and potentially be able to repair the doors then.
The codes for the ship are:
Cabin No. 1: 1869
Captain's Quarters: 2679
Cargo Bay: 1454
Lab Access: 6483

Time to go down

With the Aurora repaired you have the ability to wear things other than the lead suit, so it's time to chuck that in the trash 'cuz you won't need it again. It's time to get the outer wrecks in the zones beyond the shallows and hoo boy ain't that gonna be an experience.
The cyclops is your friend here. But what's this, you don't have a cyclops? Well, that's okay. You may have found one of the engine fragments on the aurora in the cargo bay but if you missed it, it's not really a big deal. Your next objective to build one is to go explore mushroom forest and the underwater floating islands for the fragments you'll need. If you've been following your radio signals you've probably been to the aurora rendezvous point by now, but if not, take the time to go thoroughly explore that island. One of the PDAs you need to find the next place is not at the degasi base, but on one of the paths of the island near an arch of rock. You'll need to explore the island thoroughly to find it. Make sure to scan everything and bring back plant samples if you have a seabase. You can use plant pots to keep food trees on your cyclops for easy access to food without worrying about curing everything all the time.
Once you have the cyclops, you need to take the time to upgrade your seamoth to depth so you can explore the various wrecks, supplement your PDA database and establish yourself properly for long-term operations. At this point in the game you should be aiming for or already have:
A seabase, even a basic one. A couple corridors with lockers are invaluable for storage and operations and the scanner room is MISSION CRITICAL. If you haven't built one yet, get on that!
A seamoth, either at or being upgraded to 500m depth
Knife, flashlight, repair gun, seaglide, scanner, laser cutter, propulsion or repulsion cannon, rebreather
Be sure to check everything, then check it again! It's easy to miss things on the island. Be sure to check the buildings on the tops of the hills there too. Although it would be nice to be able to plant land beacons (hint hint, Unknown Worlds), it's not feasible for marking out the precursor gate on the floating island so unfortunately, it's not of much use unless you have your base on one island or the other. I don't recommend the floating island for this for reasons which will become apparent later in the game.

Looking into the abyss

If you've explored most of or all of the wrecks and no longer have missing technology, it's time to go deeper. If you've been following your PDA signals you need to check out the degasi bases and follow their story, as they lead you to a large, deep cave which is the path to deeper places you need to explore.
There are several inlets to the place you need to reach. Northern Bulb Zone where it meets Mountains has a large entrance. Blood Kelp Zone and Trench both have entrances. The last one is in deep grand reef, where the final Degasi base is. I personally recommend either Deep Grand Reef or Bulb Zone but the latter has the most accessibility.
Raiding the final Degasi Base before exploring this cave system will get you the orange precursor key which you'll need to access something hidden at the southern end of the caves near blood kelp trench's entrance. While working down here I strongly recommend making liberal use of beacons as navigational guides if you're new to this place. It is VERY confusing and looks very same-y if you haven't spend a lot of time here.
Deep inside the caves you'll come upon a chamber with a massive skull sitting on a chunk of land in the middle and access to a slightly lower part of the cave system which is not green. This is the Cove Tree Cave and the brine there will not hurt you the way the green brine does. This leaves you able to free dive there to gather materials without needing to rely on your prawn.
This chamber with the skull is, in fact, the central chamber of Lost River. It is an excellent place for building a scanner station and the entire area is ludicrously rich in resources. It's a perfect place to stock up and catch up any upgrades, tools or devices you may be lacking so far. You'll want the resource stocks for later and honestly, it's just a really cool place to have a base in general.
The Disease Research Facility is in the north-eastern arm of Lost River, accessible through the Bulb Zone entrance. A juvenile ghost leviathan guards the path but as with most leviathans, operating in silent running and staying above or below it while sticking to the cave walls will get you by without any issue. If they do notice you, just pop a decoy, go full speed for about 5-8 seconds and then drop the engine to low and stay in silent running until you get far enough for the big ugly to stop bothering you.
The southern part of Lost River holds a large chamber with a ghost leviathan juvenile and houses another rather large skeleton. This area in particular is rich in large ore deposits and crystallized sulfur that you'll be needing for some big upgrades.
By the way, remember the cyclops shield? By now you're probably noticing that using the auxiliary functions on the cyclops eats a lot of power. Redundant power cells are your friend and if you feel you're worried about power costs while exploring, you lose nothing by having a buttload of spare power cells. It can pay off, being able to spam the shield for awhile and run away.
You'll want that shield for what's coming next.

Once More Unto The Deep

By now you've probably explored Lost River a bit and you're wondering where to go from here. If you've built a scanner room in the central chamber, you'll have noticed that the scanner, when at full range, shows a chamber below Lost River.
This is the inactive lava zone and it is here your answers lay.
You have two access points to reach this chamber. The North-east arm past the disease research facility and the cove tree caves. Both entrances are equally difficult to get through but the first one feels more open, if you don't mind the ghost leviathan circling around above the opening.
This chamber is rich with even more valuable resources, if you somehow haven't got enough already. The cove tree cave entrance leads to the western part of the ILZ chamber. The North-east entrance leads to the north edge of the chamber. The chamber itself is rather oval-shaped, with the western edge of it relatively empty and the eastern part containing a massive lava bubble.
If you wander around down here long enough the PDA will prompt you to take a look at that bubble a bit more closely. You will need two purple precursor keys to access the facility inside. Now that you're down here you'll notice there's a fair number of warpers, crimson rays (who are harmless) and leech-like things which will attach to the hull of your ship and drain power. That sounds like a problem, doesn't it?
Don't worry though, we got you covered. Once you're down here, go grab some kyanite and you can build the cyclops thermal reactor which pretty much eliminates the whole running out of power problem. The shield is a great way to get the leeches off your hull at the same time.
As for the leviathan, the sea dragon isn't actually a whole lot of threat. It might spit fire at you and is capable of picking up and biting the prawn but will mostly ignore you if you don't go hanging out in front of it.
With that said, treat it like any other leviathan while in the cyclops. Drive slow, keep an eye on it and if it gets curious, drop a decoy and move away ASAP. Cutting your engines once you've gotten a little distance will almost always make them lose interest.

But Wait, There's More!

If you've explored the inner depths of the lava bubble, then you have the blue key, ion battery plans and have opened the portal to the QEP. Great! Now coming down here in the prawn isn't a big deal and you don't have to drive the cyclops all the way down here to go grab resources. A small scanner base down here would be great for quickly finding what you need.
As you can probably guess, there's an even deeper chamber than this, which is the active lava zone. You can find the entrance by following the lava flows around the ILZ and keeping an eye on the floor. You'll find a large space big enough for the cyclops to lower down into.
Down here you'll find 2 sea dragons to avoid, so don't you get conservative with your power. By now you'll probably have built ion power cells and those can run your shield and sonar together for a full 5 minutes with silent running going so don't be shy about using them!
Getting into the alien base down here will require two blue keys, one for accessing the facility, the other for accessing the inner facility. It is here you will find the ion cube fabricator which requires the prawn. You can use this to open the warp gates in the facility. Six ion cubes in total are required for this. Four for the warp gates on the upper floor and two in the Sea Emperors tank. One of these leads back to the upper floor, if you find you're struggling to get back out. This gate in particular is about halfway up the tank at the back and sits on a large ledge. An ion cube is provided to activate it, giving you a way to walk out of the tank if you find you're struggling to get out.
And... that's pretty much it, really. After that encounter you'll know where to go and what to do. The paths laid out for you in the final facility lead you to the places you need to go to find the things you require.

Tips and tricks

• Keep floaters in your cyclops. When you're operating above 500m, running out of power, floaters will allow you to passively bring your ship to the surface without power expense so that you can resupply it. This is pretty much a last ditch move but it never hurts to be prepared.
  
• You can fit up to 8 basic plant pots in an observatory, which will grant you twice the amount of growing space as an indoor grow bed for the same amount of floor space while also making the crops more easily accessible.
  
• The engine comparment of the cyclops has a lower deck behind the vehicle bay which everybody ignores, but it's a great spot for plant shelves and marble melons for food security.
  
• Load your vehicles. Dedicate storage in them to supplies. Water, food, medkits, beacons, flares (bonesharks and crabsquids react to them) and spare power supplies for the vehicles. Keep this kit supplied and you will never be caught unprepared for an 'oh crap' situation.
  
• Okay, so you don't want to give up inventory space for your vehicles. The next best thing is then to fill a watertight locker or two with food, water, medpacks and maybe a couple spare batteries and power cells, then drop them someplace with a beacon next to them. Do this a dozen times in random spots around the map as you travel and now you have emergency caches you can access if you get into trouble.
  
• When you reach the point where materials gathering is easy, consider creating vehicle-creation drop points. 2-3 spots on the map with a mobile vehicle bay, a couple lockers with everything you need for a new seamoth and some basic supplies. If you lose your vehicle, it's a lot easier to make a replacement and get the mats than to get the mats to make a replacement.
  
• The propulsion gun is your friend. Use it to grab items to pick up, use it to grab cave crawlers and yeet them into low orbit, use it to pick up rocks and fling them at things you particularly don't like. Use it to collect gas pods from gasopods without getting hit by the cloud. Use it to move debris in wrecks. Bring a spare battery specifically for it because flinging things around uses a lot of power but the sheer utility of the tool makes it worth the cost.
  
• You'll be tempted to deck your seamoth out with all the toys but the truth is once you have the prawn, it's obsolete. Don't fall into the temptation of continuing to build tons of upgrades for it unless you plan to use it for a fast-fetch vehicle for things you need from far away. However, with that said, the seamoth is really the superior vehicle for wreck-diving.
  
• Keeping a second air tank in your inventory and swapping them mid-dive is a perfectly viable option. However, the tanks only refill when wearing them, so make sure to switch again once you're back in breathing space. This can and will save you when wreck diving and two ultra high quality tanks equals 450 seconds of air in total, or 7m30s of air.
  
• Speaking of air, you can use the air bladders alternate use key (F on PC - the same button for self-scanning) to get a few seconds of air out of it into your tank. It's not much - 20 seconds or so - but sometimes, that little bit extra can save your life if you're just out of reach of your vehicle.
  
• You can collect flora and fauna samples as you progress through the game and have a garden base specifically for growing plant samples from around the crater. Obviously this looks really nice (creepvine in an alien tank under the floor provides the room in your base with a nice golden glow) but is also useful later.
  
• SCANNER ROOMS. SERIOUSLY PEOPLE. If you're struggling to find the magnetite, go to Jellyshroom. If you're struggling to find Jellyshroom, always remember that lifepod 17 is directly next to one of its exit points. The range upgrades are incredibly important and the HUD chip makes the whole thing work.
  
• Farm supplies! You don't need to work or power anything to grow crops. Consider dropping a foundation with some growbeds, a beacon and your farmables (gel sack, creepvine seeds, creepvine samples, acid mushroom, blood oil and deepshrooms). Now you can stock up on things like batteries, rubber, lubricant, benzene, polyaniline. Keep a few of these crops in your cyclops for planting in new spots and never run out of the stuff you need while keeping your home base nice and lag free.
  
• Creature decoys can be deployed both by hand and by prawn propulsion arm, which lets you pull items out of your inventory to 'throw'. You can also do this with the propulsion cannon by using the F key (the alternate tool use button, the same one you use to self-scan, for all you console folks).
  
• Turning off your engines greatly reduces the chance of a leviathan damaging the cyclops, even if it's right on top of you. Moving is what gets their attention. If one is swimming near the sub, cut all engines and just wait patiently for it to get a little distance, then silent running and max speed for a few seconds. Pop a decoy for good measure if you want to make absolutely sure.
  
• You can access the right side of the Aurora relatively safely by going south to Crag Zone and then banking east into the deeper parts of crash zone. Most of the reapers are up by the ship, sticking to the bottom will keep you relatively safe and net you as much titanium as you will ever need.
  
• Blood kelp zone, the sea treader wreck and the meteor crater in Dunes all have secrets that you may find interesting.
  
• Remember the Bleeders in the reactor room of the Aurora? Bring a grav trap along - they're cheap, it's disposable - and enter through the top door by climbing along the wreckage up there. Pop the grav trap in the reactor room and kill one of them with the propulsion cannon - the others will come for the body and be stuck in the trap, making picking them off much, much easier than it would be trying to find them all individually. You can just leave the trap behind. If you have the stasis gun, you can wait for them to stack up in the grav trap, stun them, then drop gas pods amidst the several bleeders and watch them get bodied.
  
• Gas pods 'o doom also work against leviathans. They work against EVERYTHING. You just need a lot of them, but getting a lot of them is really easy with the propulsion cannon (which can fire them too, by the way).
  
• Reefback barnacles are a good source of copper and silver, but beware the tiger plants on their backs. If you have a reinforced dive suit, tiger plants can't hurt you, but without one they're a pain. You can yeet them with the propulsion cannon. That trick works for drooping stingers too.
  
• Beacons everywhere. No seriously, everywhere. You'd be amazed how few people use them as much as they ought to be used.
  
• Eastern red grass plains has deep caves with a type of plant which can only be found in a few select spots on the map. Bulb Zone's lifepod has caves with some nearby and the Dunes also has some, but a Reaper is guarding them. If you do manage to find the spot though, it's GREAT for rubies!
  
• Scanner room cameras are a good way to keep track of nearby leviathans. They also force the terrain to load, which is required for the scanner room to actually pick things up. Stalkers will snag the cameras and move them around, but they're pretty useful for quickly getting the scanner room working right. The wildlife ignores the cameras too, so if you want a really nice picture of some creature you really hate getting close to, they're a great way to get it.
  
• Breed some stalkers, release them outside your base next to a pile of metal scrap and never worry about finding teeth for glass again. Barring that? Drop a random beacon in the kelp forest and wait for a stalker to collect it, follow it back to their stash and drop a grav trap.
  
• Light sticks can be good for wreck diving, as are flares. Flares provide much better lighting in large open spaces than the flashlight or seaglide. It makes them a good alternative to the flashlight in the early game.
  

• DO NOT PARK YOUR SEAMOTH NEAR THE BEACHES. DO NOT PARK YOUR SEAMOTH NEAR THE BEACHES. DO NOT PARK YOUR SEAMOTH NEAR THE BEACHES.

• The following is a list of zones where one can find particular ores. It isn't a complete list, but will allow you to find everything you need in a timely fashion:
  

Lithium - Jellyshroom, Bulb Zone, Mushroom Forest, Lost River
Loose Lithium - Mushroom Forest, Mountains, Grand Reef, Shale, lost river
Magnetite - Jellyshroom is the only biome with large nodes
Loose Magnetite - Jellyshroom, mountains, cove tree cave, blood kelp zone, lost river
Rubies - Dunes, Spare Reef Caves, Lost River, Grand Reef, Underwater Islands
Diamonds - Lost River, Shale, Inactive Lava Zone, Sea Treader Path, sometimes caves
Table Coral - Shallows, Lost River
Copper - Mushroom forest, blood kelp zone, bulb zone, lost river, limestone, Inactive Lava Zone
Silver - Crag Zone, Mountains, Lost River, sandstone, Inactive Lava Zone
Gold - Jellyshroom, Blood Kelp Zone, Lost River, sandstone, shale
Lead - Sandstone, mountains, crash zone, lost river, Inactive Lava Zone
Titanium - Crash Zone, Dunes, Limestone, Lost River, Inactive Lava Zone
Metal Salvage - Crash Zone, Crag Zone, Kelp Forest
Kyanite - Inactive Lava Zone
Crystalline Sulfur - Lost River
Nickel - Lost River
Uraninite - Blood Kelp Zone, Blood Kelp Trench, Lost River, Inactive Lava Zone, Grand Reef
Quartz - Dunes, Crag Zone, Lost River, Inactive Lava Zone, Red Grassy Plains
If you're reading this guide and have any suggestions for additional information, feel free to share them for the next iteration.

Good luck, survivor!

What will you be doing with this PC? Be as specific as possible, and include specific games or programs you will be using.

• My younger sister would like to be able to play games like Fortnite, GTA, and just AAA games in general. Basic school programs like PPT, Word, should work on almost anything I assume?

What is your maximum budget before rebates/shipping/taxes?

• ~$750, absolute max of $800

When do you plan on building/buying the PC? Note: beyond a week or two from today means any build you receive will be out of date when you want to buy.

• ASAP, a week from now at most

What, exactly, do you need included in the budget? (ToweOS/monitokeyboard/mouse/etc)

• Everything except a mouse

Which country (and state/province) will you be purchasing the parts in? If you're in US, do you have access to a Microcenter location?

• Georgia, United States. There's a Microcenter about half an hour away from me.

If reusing any parts (including monitor(s)/keyboard/mouse/etc), what parts will you be reusing? Brands and models are appreciated.

• Uhuru brand mouse I bought from amazon a while back. Model is WM-02L.

Will you be overclocking? If yes, are you interested in overclocking right away, or down the line? CPU and/or GPU?

• I'm not interested in overclocking

Are there any specific features or items you want/need in the build? (ex: SSD, large amount of storage or a RAID setup, CUDA or OpenCL support, etc)

• Would prefer a decent amount of space/storage for games. Other than that, no specific preferences.

What type of network connectivity do you need? (Wired and/or WiFi) If WiFi is needed and you would like to find the fastest match for your wireless router, please list any specifics.

• WiFi, don't really know the specifics

Do you have any specific case preferences (Size like ITX/microATX/mid-towefull-tower, styles, colors, window or not, LED lighting, etc), or a particular color theme preference for the components?

• Nope!

Do you need a copy of Windows included in the budget? If you do need one included, do you have a preference?

• Not really a need, but Windows 11 is a preference

Extra info or particulars:

My school/library dream
This morning from maybe 6am to 9am I dreamt I was at a high school, as a student. Siddenly it's time to switch classes and I go to another building, The Back Building, which looks like a library or bank from the brown/red brick facade, pillars, wide strore-front windows and commercial-business front doors. The door is locked. But then somebody comes to open it, it is my friend Steveo, who has animorphed into AJ McLean from the Backstreet Boys. We explore the building together. It's an abandoned library, full of aged and decrepit reference books that don't make any sense in their text or fonts or spellings. Aisles and aisles, but they're all short height 4'0 tall shelves. Within minutes of going in circles in this space I find an abandoned classroom corner, with old late 90s PCs and some old black-cased Macintosh computers, and countless educational cd-rom games for kids from that era. There are old turnstile magazine and book racks with the wire rims, there are plastic cube chairs designed for preschools. There are special-needs pediatric positioning chairs and wheelchairs and orthopedic equipment designed for children with cerebral palsy.
And then suddenly, a bunch of other people come in the door, everyone is on the autism spectrum, mostly within the middle of the spectrum, everyone struggles with different aspects of expressive and reciprocal communication, lots of stimming. For reference, I'm autistic/aspergers, diagnosed back in 2004.
We all have adventures and different discussions about the environment we are in. Then suddenly there's a countdown timer on the wall, and we have to find all the hidden back rooms, closets, bathrooms, and staircase to the upper level. We find the stairs, two sets of open-backed switchbacks and carpet with rubber foot grips on top of the carpeting. The headroom going up becomes more narrow, lower, and I'm speed-crawling up the stairs, almost hitting my head on the 3ft high sloped ceilings, cautious not to slip thru the open backs of the steps. I get to the tip landing after maybe 10 tiers of switchback stair cases, and suddenly I see the bathrooms and 1 bigger room. All those stairs for just bathrooms that weren't even ADA and a small craft/playroom, in what was supposed to be a shuttered special-ed library/school. I go into the craft room and it's filled to the brim in an organized manner with board games, multi-task toys, plastic play sets, puzzles, dolls, building sets, high quality wooden building blocks; it is an 80s/90s treasure trove of every Kid Thing ever found in Sears and ToysRUs catalogs. I pick put a fabric tote bag bc I didn't have backpack, and start filling it with toys and games and puzzles. Then the countdown clock starts ringing, the time is getting less and less. I race my way down the discombobulated stair cases, back down to the bottom reference library section. I sift thru a few books in hopes I could find something obscure in readable condition, but all the pages have mold and dust mites and book-damage to them from being neglected for so long. I get a strong hug from AJ McLean, and then myself and the 100 other autistic teens leave out the door. Suddenly, there's a whole barricade-line of other high school teens waiting to get into the old library. I turn around, and it's morphed into a typical school building. The building I came out of was no longer there. It was raining outside and the other teens waiting to go in all wore plastic rain bonnets on their heads, like old babushkas. There were maybe 100 of them, just waiting to go inside their newly built high school building. I didn't get to go in.
Then the dream shifted to me going to Costco or some warehouse store I've seen in other dreams, but it's been many years since I've last had the same store in any dreams. I still had the bag of games and toys and puzzles with me.
At some point, I woke up. But the dream was basically me exploring a special-ed school and teachers reference library with bad architecture that didn't make sense for its purpose. There was also my long time friend who shape shifted into AJ McLean from the Backstreet Boys. Just an overall strange dream.

This morning from maybe 6am to 9am I dreamt I was at a high school, as a student. Siddenly it's time to switch classes and I go to another building, The Back Building, which looks like a library or bank from the brown/red brick facade, pillars, wide strore-front windows and commercial-business front doors. The door is locked. But then somebody comes to open it, it is my friend Steveo, who has animorphed into AJ McLean from the Backstreet Boys. We explore the building together. It's an abandoned library, full of aged and decrepit reference books that don't make any sense in their text or fonts or spellings. Aisles and aisles, but they're all short height 4'0 tall shelves. Within minutes of going in circles in this space I find an abandoned classroom corner, with old late 90s PCs and some old black-cased Macintosh computers, and countless educational cd-rom games for kids from that era. There are old turnstile magazine and book racks with the wire rims, there are plastic cube chairs designed for preschools. There are special-needs pediatric positioning chairs and wheelchairs and orthopedic equipment designed for children with cerebral palsy.
And then suddenly, a bunch of other people come in the door, everyone is on the autism spectrum, mostly within the middle of the spectrum, everyone struggles with different aspects of expressive and reciprocal communication, lots of stimming. For reference, I'm autistic/aspergers, diagnosed back in 2004.
We all have adventures and different discussions about the environment we are in. Then suddenly there's a countdown timer on the wall, and we have to find all the hidden back rooms, closets, bathrooms, and staircase to the upper level. We find the stairs, two sets of open-backed switchbacks and carpet with rubber foot grips on top of the carpeting. The headroom going up becomes more narrow, lower, and I'm speed-crawling up the stairs, almost hitting my head on the 3ft high sloped ceilings, cautious not to slip thru the open backs of the steps. I get to the tip landing after maybe 10 tiers of switchback stair cases, and suddenly I see the bathrooms and 1 bigger room. All those stairs for just bathrooms that weren't even ADA and a small craft/playroom, in what was supposed to be a shuttered special-ed library/school. I go into the craft room and it's filled to the brim in an organized manner with board games, multi-task toys, plastic play sets, puzzles, dolls, building sets, high quality wooden building blocks; it is an 80s/90s treasure trove of every Kid Thing ever found in Sears and ToysRUs catalogs. I pick put a fabric tote bag bc I didn't have backpack, and start filling it with toys and games and puzzles. Then the countdown clock starts ringing, the time is getting less and less. I race my way down the discombobulated stair cases, back down to the bottom reference library section. I sift thru a few books in hopes I could find something obscure in readable condition, but all the pages have mold and dust mites and book-damage to them from being neglected for so long. I get a strong hug from AJ McLean, and then myself and the 100 other autistic teens leave out the door. Suddenly, there's a whole barricade-line of other high school teens waiting to get into the old library. I turn around, and it's morphed into a typical school building. The building I came out of was no longer there. It was raining outside and the other teens waiting to go in all wore plastic rain bonnets on their heads, like old babushkas. There were maybe 100 of them, just waiting to go inside their newly built high school building. I didn't get to go in.
Then the dream shifted to me going to Costco or some warehouse store I've seen in other dreams, but it's been many years since I've last had the same store in any dreams. I still had the bag of games and toys and puzzles with me.
At some point, I woke up. But the dream was basically me exploring a special-ed school and teachers reference library with bad architecture that didn't make sense for its purpose. There was also my long time friend who shape shifted into AJ McLean from the Backstreet Boys. Just an overall strange dream.

Not exactly sure where to grab the logs as i don't think it will save it,
I have had to force shutdown as it doesn't fully shut it down properly and times out the process.
[!!!!!!!] Failed to execute shutdown binary.
is the message. And here is the system specs

System: Host: shiela Kernel: 6.3.4-arch1-1 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Xfce v: 4.18.1 Distro: EndeavourOS Machine: Type: Desktop System: Gigabyte product: AB350-Gaming 3 v: N/A serial: Mobo: Gigabyte model: AB350-Gaming 3-CF serial: BIOS: American Megatrends LLC. v: F52h date: 07/27/2022 CPU: Info: 12-core model: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X bits: 64 type: MT MCP cache: L2: 6 MiB Speed (MHz): avg: 2696 min/max: 2200/4672 cores: 1: 4280 2: 2151 3: 2200 4: 4304 5: 2150 6: 2151 7: 2141 8: 2200 9: 4291 10: 2200 11: 1860 12: 2228 13: 4299 14: 2181 15: 2151 16: 4308 17: 2151 18: 2200 19: 2154 20: 2200 21: 4305 22: 2200 23: 2200 24: 2200 Graphics: Device-1: AMD Navi 22 [Radeon RX 6700/6700 XT/6750 XT / 6800M/6850M XT] driver: amdgpu v: kernel Device-2: Logitech C922 Pro Stream Webcam driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo type: USB Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.8 with: Xwayland v: 23.1.1 driver: X: loaded: amdgpu unloaded: modesetting,radeon dri: radeonsi gpu: amdgpu resolution: 1: 1920x108060Hz 2: 1920x108060Hz 3: 1920x108060Hz 4: 1920x108060Hz API: OpenGL v: 4.6 Mesa 23.1.1 renderer: AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT (navi22 LLVM 15.0.7 DRM 3.52 6.3.4-arch1-1) Audio: Device-1: AMD Navi 21/23 HDMI/DP Audio driver: snd_hda_intel Device-2: AMD Starship/Matisse HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel Device-3: Logitech C922 Pro Stream Webcam driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo type: USB Device-4: HP HyperX Virtual Surround Sound driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid type: USB API: ALSA v: k6.3.4-arch1-1 status: kernel-api Server-1: PipeWire v: 0.3.71 status: active Network: Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet driver: r8168 IF: eno1 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: 1c:1b:0d:ee:6e:a3 Bluetooth: Device-1: Realtek Bluetooth Radio driver: btusb type: USB Report: rfkill ID: hci0 state: up address: see --recommends Drives: Local Storage: total: 7.83 TiB used: 166.38 GiB (2.1%) ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 970 EVO Plus 1TB size: 931.51 GiB ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD20EARX-32PASB0 size: 1.82 TiB ID-3: /dev/sdb vendor: Western Digital model: WD5001FZWX-00ZHUA0 size: 4.55 TiB ID-4: /dev/sdc vendor: Kingston model: SV300S37A480G size: 447.13 GiB ID-5: /dev/sdd vendor: Patriot model: Spark size: 119.24 GiB Partition: ID-1: / size: 931.51 GiB used: 166.38 GiB (17.9%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 ID-2: /home size: 931.51 GiB used: 166.38 GiB (17.9%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 ID-3: /valog size: 931.51 GiB used: 166.38 GiB (17.9%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 Swap: ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 15.63 GiB used: 9.5 MiB (0.1%) dev: /dev/zram0 ID-2: swap-2 type: file size: 16 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) file: /swap/swapfile Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 54.5 C mobo: 31.0 C gpu: amdgpu temp: 43.0 C Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0 fan-1: 0 fan-3: 0 gpu: amdgpu fan: 0 Info: Processes: 464 Uptime: 26m Memory: available: 31.27 GiB used: 5.5 GiB (17.6%) Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.27 

​

Hey there. I just bought a new top storage trunk for my motorcycle, it comes with built in extra led lights. There is a black ground wire and a red positive wire coming from the trunk. Here's what I think I'm supposed to do to wire this to my bikes brake light. I basically tap the red wire into my bikes brake hot wire(when I locate the right one). Then I just ground the cases black ground wire to a good ground spot on the bike with a screw. I have a feeling I'm not supposed to tap the boxes ground wire into the bikes brake lighting ground wire. Am I right on this, or should I just tap the boxes ground into the bikes lighting ground wire? Thanks to anyone that can help me out, happy memorial day weekend!

LOCAL 32707 (NORTHERN ORLANDO, FL) PM ONLY, NO CHATS PLEASE!
timestamps
First is what I'd call a "survivor" PC. Found it locally, was told that it was not working and it had been in a closet for 4 years. I cleaned it up a good bit, reseated the ram, and it started right up. Cable management isn't great, but I'm looking to get this to someone who will love and appreciate it. Everything works with no known problems. CPU: i7-4790k Mobo: ASUS Z-97K (the fancy brown one with the gold "ASUS" medallion. Actually includes M.2! Needs a bios update, but it has flashback capability. Cooler: Old corsair single fan AIO (still works!!!!) RAM: 16GB (2x8) Corsair Vengeance DDR3-1600 10-10-10-27 GPU: MSI dual fan GTX 970 4GB OC (not the red/black gaming one, but the all black one with the blue fan stickers) PSU: EVGA 600BR 80+ Bronze PSU Case: Unknown old corsair mid-tower w/ disc drive EDIT: NO STORAGE
Price: $300 OBO LOCAL ONLY 32707
Next I have an MSI Z270 Gaming Plus mobo with i3-7100 CPU. This was a bonus that I acquired with the above PC. I will not separate the 2, so consider the CPU free with purchase of the mobo. There is no obvious physical damage and no bent pins, but I have not tested these parts and as such THEY ARE SOLD ABSOLUTELY AS-IS.
Price: $80 shipped, $60 local OBO
Last, I have my dual monitor KVM switch. I added a 3rd monitor so this became obsolete for me. Takes 1 HDMI and 1 DP from each PC and outputs 1 HDMI and 1 DP to your monitors, press a button to switch. Comes with the USB cables that go from KVM to the PCs and the little wired remote button, but no monitor cables will be included. Retails for like $100 or $120 on amazon, I think?
Price: $65 shipped, $50 local OBO
PMs with questions and offers welcome

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 3.7 GHz 6-Core Processor	£151.97 @ Amazon UK
CPU Cooler	be quiet! Pure Rock 2 Black CPU Cooler	£38.47 @ Amazon UK
Motherboard	MSI MAG B550 TOMAHAWK MAX WIFI ATX AM4 Motherboard	£178.48 @ Amazon UK
Memory	Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 CL18 Memory	£83.98 @ Amazon UK
Storage	Western Digital Black SN770 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive	£49.99 @ Amazon UK
Video Card	MSI GeForce RTX 3060 Ventus 2X 12G GeForce RTX 3060 12GB 12 GB Video Card	£279.98 @ Amazon UK
Case	NZXT H5 Flow RGB ATX Mid Tower Case	£109.99 @ AWD-IT
Power Supply	Corsair RM750 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply	£119.99 @ Amazon UK
Keyboard	G.Skill KM360 Wired Standard Keyboard	£71.91 @ Amazon UK
Mouse	Glorious MODEL O Wired Optical Mouse	£44.99 @ Amazon UK
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	£1129.75
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2023-05-29 20:05 BST+0100

I've finally decided to pull the trigger on purchasing my first cab but im on the fence between 2 specifically...
My two choices are either the Shinku Hadoken cab w/riser from Walmart for $408~ (after tax) or a Used (Great Condition) MvC Cab w/riser+stool for $350 I found locally.
I'm planning to SoftMod it to make it a multicade but I've heard it's alot more difficult on the MvC cab since there's more steps involved to install APKs & I've heard you can't even use a USB drive as external storage due to DRM restrictions. However, I'm a big fan of the MvC cab design so I'm torn! On the other hand I heard softmodding Shinku is pretty much plug & play + external storage is supported.
So for those who own either (or both) cabs which would be the best choice/value? (with intentions to softmod it)

I've been using the WQXGA 2560x1600 resolution for a decade (decades?) now, and it's too much of a jolt to work at any other res including 2560x1440, which isn't tall enough. In the last few years there's been some laptops that came with a 2560x1600 screen, and that's what I'm looking for since I think the prices have fallen enough that I can afford one.
Use case will actually be more of a thin client setup where it will simply rdp over an ipsec tunnel to another system doing the heavy lifting, so the only thing that really needs to be good on the unit is the screen, keyboard, a bit of storage, and battery life. Even ram can be as little as 4/8GB as long as win7 or some flavor of linux can install on it that has an l2tp ipsec client and an rdp client. A keyboard with numpad and a larger screen (16-17") is a requirement as it's already going to be a pain to be without my model M and trackman wired.
I know there were models made by LG, Lenovo, Dell, Asus, MSI and others that have the screen (as that's usually the limiting spec), and I'm open to any manufacturer except the generic knockoff stuff (if they even made something this nice). For budget I'm trying to keep under ebay prices.
Now there is an upgrade to 2560x1600--WQUXGA 3840x2400 which I've seen in the wild that I could also potentially use since it is also 16:10, but I believe it would be too expensive right now unless someone is getting rid of one in a 'divorce sale' or other sale at an insanely good price. Still, if someone has one feel free to PM me about it.
Since I've mentioned 16:10, the predecessor to 2560x1600 was 1920x1200, but it is too low of a resolution for my use case so unfortunately those are out (unless win10 iot rdp 'scaling' of 2560x1600 onto 1920x1200 is good, but I never looked into that--feel free to enlighten me via PM if it is an option though).
Payment by Paypal and I can cover shipping to 94010 via a prepaid UPS label. Cash if local--which would be awesome because I could really use it this week.
Several purchases on homelabsales and heatware under the same user name as well as HardForum and ServeTheHome. :)
I'm sure I've missed a thing or two on my first post, so feel free to reply and I'll update the post with corrections/additions. Thank you in advance!
TL;DR - Want 2560x1600 16-17" screen laptop with full size keyboard under ebay prices with a working screen, keyboard, storage, and battery.

As the title suggests.
Was at final boss for Ghosts of the Deep Dungeon on a solo attempt, and got "broccoli"ed back to my desktop. Saw I had a new driver, the attempt lost anyway, figured I would update and then practice.
Post update, significant stuttering as soon as I start the encounter. Dropping to 9FPS. My monirot is a 155Hz, and I have Radeon Chill used to limit FPS to 141. Freesync is enabled also, but why work extra hard to ouput 180 when I don't need to.
I tried rolling back the driver to the previous 23.4.3 I was on up until the broccoli code, but the issue persisted.
Not sure what I should be doing. This happened the last time I updated the driver also, and I basically had to go through every setting in the PC and game with a fine tooth comb for ~6 hours to actually get back to a playable level.
I was running the game at 2560x1440 Windowed fullscreen, and then DIM in a chrome tab on my second monitor. Nothing else at that moment.
I have heard some people say I should cap the game at 120 fps. I could, but is that necessary?
Below are my build specs.
PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	Intel Core i5-6500 3.2 GHz Quad-Core Processor	-
CPU Cooler	CRYORIG H7 49 CFM CPU Cooler	-
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170X-UD3 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard	-
Memory	Kingston HyperX Fury 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-2133 CL14 Memory	-
Storage	Samsung 850 Evo 120 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive	-
Storage	Samsung 860 Evo 500 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive	$74.98 @ Amazon
Storage	Seagate BarraCuda 1 TB 3.5" 7200 RPM Internal Hard Drive	$31.49 @ Amazon
Video Card	PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 5700 XT 8 GB Video Card	-
Case	Phanteks Enthoo Pro ATX Full Tower Case	$139.99 @ Amazon
Power Supply	EVGA SuperNOVA 750 G2 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply	-
Operating System	Microsoft Windows 10 Pro OEM - DVD 64-bit	$129.55 @ Other World Computing
Case Fan	Noctua F12 PWM 54.97 CFM 120 mm Fan	$21.78 @ Amazon
Case Fan	Noctua A14 PWM 82.5 CFM 140 mm Fan	$23.95 @ Amazon
Case Fan	Noctua A14 PWM 82.5 CFM 140 mm Fan	$23.95 @ Amazon
Case Fan	Noctua A14 PWM 82.5 CFM 140 mm Fan	$23.95 @ Amazon
Case Fan	Noctua A20 PWM 86.46 CFM 200 mm Fan	$41.29 @ Newegg Sellers
Monitor	LG 25UM56-P 25.0" 2560 x 1080 60 Hz Monitor	-
Monitor	Dell S2719DGF 27.0" 2560 x 1440 155 Hz Monitor	$419.00 @ Amazon
Mouse	Logitech G600 MMO Gaming Mouse Wired Laser Mouse	$37.99 @ Amazon
Headphones	Sennheiser RS 175 Headphones	$198.96 @ Amazon
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	$1166.88
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2023-05-29 14:30 EDT-0400

About this item:

1. Compact Freezer: Ideal for any small space where cold storage is needed, this (uses less power than a light bulb) countertop freezer can be used as a kitchen, office, basement or garage freezer
2. Flexible Food Storage: Our small freezer features a removable flat slide-out wire shelf for added flexibility and is perfect for storing breast milk, ice cream and frozen food
3. Quick Freeze and Consistent Temperature: Built to ensure efficient temperature distribution, this stand-up freezer features a mechanical temperature control setting ranging from -10°– 2°F
4. Secure: The perfect freezer for garages, offices, basements and other small spaces, this upright freezer includes a cylinder lock and 2 keys for added security when storing your food
5. Modern Design: Our freezer features a sleek black door and coordinating black cabinet; The recessed handle provides a flush finish with the door

Buy Best Discounted Offer: https://amzn.to/3IKJkc2

Howdy.
TLDR: What's the reliability of a Sonos system like these days, given a solid, reliable home network? (Our network is a mesh WiFi 6 setup, and each point has three Ethernet ports, so wiring would be possible if doing so made things more reliable.) How are they doing these days?
Background / context:
I'm considering purchasing a Sonos Amp and a couple of One SLs for our home, as multiroom music using neither Google Chromecast/Nest nor Amazon Fire TV/Echo products has been reliable: speaker groups can't be created or found, content won't play to them, lots of drop-outs and random stops, static/noise, and on and on....
I tried Sonos about 10 years ago, when they were still a relatively new company, and my experience wasn't great. I purchased two Play:3 speakers and ended up returning them. No amount of troubleshooting I did with Sonos (who were very helpful) fixed things -- the two wouldn't stay in a stereo pair consistently, the iPhone app would randomly not find them and I'd have to reset the speakers and reconnect them, music would stop playing, etc. Granted, nothing was wired, but my WiFi was reliable, and I regularly streamed Netflix at "full HD" without issues.
Anyway, I'm thinking about giving them a shot again. I'd really like a simple multiroom audio setup in our 1,750 sq. ft. home that just works (too much to ask for in 2023?). I'm fine with and "get" having to reboot a cable modem or gateway/router once in a blue moon, but living on the daily with drop-outs, static, music stopping, speakers not connecting or not being found is tiresome. First-world problems...I know!
Our use-case is (should be?) pretty simple: TV audio and music in the living room, plus music in our master bedroom, kitchen, and office. We have two nice Klipsch bookshelves and a sub in the living room, connected to a Sony 90W/channel AVR. All we have hooked up to the AVR is an Amazon Fire TV Cube and a Blu-ray player. There's a single Echo in the kitchen, and we were thinking of additional Echos for the bedroom and the office, but multiroom audio between just the living room and the kitchen is so bad that...why would I bother? Thinking about One SLs for the kitchen, bedroom, and office, and a Sonos Amp to replace our AVR, which would give us a wattage upgrade, and anything we have connected to the AVR could easily be connected to our TV...so not a big deal.
In my mind, the above sounds good, but only if the reliability and quality-of-life are there.

Item	Price	MSRP	% Off	History*
8bitdo Pro 2 Bluetooth Controller For Switch, Pc, Android, Steam Deck, Gaming Controller For Iphone, Ipad, Macos And Apple Tv(black Edition)	$70.26	$75	6% off	Lowest price $69.46 on 2022-12-19
After The Fall Frontrunner Edition Psvr - Playstation	$31.57	$45	29% off	New Lowest
Aksys Games Under Night In-birth Exe: Late [cl-r] Collector's Edition Ps4	$75.94	$80	5% off	Lowest price $55.62 on 2021-3-11
Amd Ryzen 7 5700x Without Cooler	$249.98	$250	0% off	Lowest price $228.15 on 2022-12-5
Amd Ryzen 9 7800x3d 8-core, 16-thread Desktop Processor	$599.99	$600	0% off	New Lowest
Among Us: Ejected Edition - Playstation 4	$64.50	$120	46% off	New Lowest
Assassin's Creed The Ezio Collection - Nintendo Switch	$29.96	$50	40% off	Lowest price $19.99 on 2022-11-28
Asterigos: Curse Of The Stars Deluxe Edition - Playstation 5	$46.77	$55	14% off	New Lowest
Asterigos: Curse Of The Stars Deluxe Edition - Xbox Series X	$54.56	$55	0% off	New Lowest
Astronite - Playstation 4	$28.84	$35	17% off	Lowest price $24.8 on 2023-4-24
Astronite - Playstation 5	$30.31	$35	13% off	Lowest price $25.6 on 2023-4-24
Asus Rog Strix X670e-e Gaming Wifi 6e Socket Am5(lga 1718) Ryzen 7000 Atx Gaming Motherboard(18+2 Power Stages,pcie® 5.0, Ddr,4xm.2 Slots,usb 3.2 Gen 2x2, Wifi 6e,pcie Slot Q-release, M.2 Q-latch)	$599.99	$600	0% off	Lowest price $598.98 on 2023-5-23
Asus Tuf Gaming P1 Portable Gaming Mouse Pad (nano-coated, Water-resistant Surface, Durable Anti-fray Stitching, And Non-slip Rubber Base) - Demon Slayer, Inosuke	$19.99	$30	33% off	New Lowest
Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration - Nintendo Switch	$39.99	$45	11% off	Matches low
Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration - Playstation 4	$34.00	$45	24% off	New Lowest
Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration - Xbox One & Xbox Series X	$39.99	$45	11% off	Matches low
Atelier Ryza Ever Darkness & The Secret Hideout Nintendo Switch Games And Software	$65.00	$65	0% off	Lowest price $62.31 on 2021-9-12
Battlefield 2042 - Playstation 5	$24.99	$90	72% off	Lowest price $14.99 on 2023-5-11
Below Steelbook Edition Playstation 4	$51.02	$65	21% off	New Lowest
Beyond A Steel Sky: Beyond A Steelbook Edition - Playstation 4	$26.47	$70	62% off	New Lowest
Biomutant Nintendo Switch	$32.00	$45	28% off	New Lowest
Blade Assault - Playstation 4	$32.97	$40	17% off	New Lowest
Call Of Duty: Wwii - Playstation 4 - Bilingual - Playstation 4 Edition	$39.00	$45	13% off	Matches low
Chaos Head Noah & Chaos Child Double Pack - Nintendo Switch	$55.20	$62	10% off	Lowest price $54.03 on 2022-12-26
Clash: Artifact Of Chaos - Zeno Edition (ps5)	$44.46	$45	1% off	Matches low
Clive N Wrench Collectors Edition Playstation 4	$62.89	$80	21% off	New Lowest
Clive N Wrench Collectors Edition Playstation 5	$79.04	$80	1% off	New Lowest
Clive N Wrench Standard Edition Playstation 5	$54.09	$55	1% off	Lowest price $54.03 on 2023-5-14
Cobra Kai 2 Dojos Rising - Playstation 5	$33.07	$45	26% off	Lowest price $29.96 on 2022-11-29
Code Vein - Xbox One	$36.23	$55	34% off	Lowest price $9.97 on 2021-11-9
Corsair 5000d Airflow Tempered Glass Mid-tower Atx Pc Case - White	$179.98	$180	0% off	Lowest price $169.98 on 2022-4-19
Crypt Of The Necrodancer Collectors Edition - Playstation 4	$46.38	$60	22% off	Lowest price $22.96 on 2022-6-1
Cyberpunk 2077 - Xbox One	$27.88	$30	7% off	Lowest price $19.96 on 2022-8-19
Death's Door - Nintendo Switch	$29.99	$35	14% off	Matches low
Demon Turf - Xbox Series X	$25.50	$30	15% off	New Lowest
Destroy All Humans 2 Reprobed 2nd Coming Edition - Xbox Series X	$279.26	$380	26% off	Lowest price $222.03 on 2023-4-1
Disney Tsum Tsum Festival Switch	$44.00	$50	12% off	Lowest price $34.96 on 2020-7-9
Doki Literature Club Plus! Premium Physical Edition - Nintendo Switch	$39.99	$40	0% off	Lowest price $19.99 on 2022-6-17
Dungeon Munchies Collector's Edition - Playstation 5	$78.70	$100	21% off	New Lowest
Dusk Diver 2 - Playstation 4	$37.06	$65	42% off	New Lowest
Family Feud - Xbox One	$19.17	$20	4% off	Lowest price $14.96 on 2021-11-9
Far Cry 5 (bilingual) - Playstation 4 - Standard Edition	$27.71	$30	7% off	Lowest price $19.95 on 2020-12-1
Far Cry 5 (bilingual) - Xbox One - Standard Edition	$27.56	$30	8% off	Lowest price $19.99 on 2020-7-9
Fifa 23 - Playstation 4	$44.98	$75	40% off	Lowest price $39.96 on 2022-11-30
Garfield Lasagna Party - Nintendo Switch	$38.68	$45	14% off	New Lowest
Genesis Noir - Nintendo Switch	$46.74	$50	6% off	New Lowest
Ghostbusters: Afterlife - Bilingual - Uhd/bd Combo + Digital [blu-ray]	$29.94	$33	9% off	Lowest price $19.99 on 2022-12-23
Gigantosaurus Dino Kart Xbox Series X	$44.46	$45	1% off	Lowest price $35 on 2023-5-8
God Of Rock - Nintendo Switch	$34.70	$45	22% off	New Lowest
Grand Theft Auto V - Playstation 5	$40.28	$45	10% off	Lowest price $13.99 on 2022-10-21
Grand Theft Auto V - Xbox Series X	$44.89	$45	0% off	Lowest price $13.99 on 2022-10-21
Hokko Life - Nintendo Switch	$30.42	$45	32% off	New Lowest
Hori Nintendo Switch Gaming Headset (pikachu Cool) For Nintendo Switch, Switch Oled Model & Switch Lite - Officially Licensed By Nintendo & Pokémon Company International - Nintendo Switch - Pikachu Cool Edition	$64.95	$65	0% off	Lowest price $18.15 on 2022-8-28
Hori Nintendo Switch Gaming Headset (pikachu Pop) For Nintendo Switch & Switch Lite - Officially Licensed By Nintendo & Pokemon Company International -nintendo Switch Accessories - Pikachu Pop Edition	$64.86	$65	0% off	Lowest price $28.42 on 2022-5-31
Hori Nintendo Switch Horipad Mini (pikachu Pop) Wired Controller Pad - Officially Licensed By Nintendo & Pokemon Company International - Nintendo Switch - Pikachu Pop Edition	$34.21	$35	2% off	Lowest price $23.43 on 2022-8-22
Hori Nintendo Switch Mini Pad (super Mario Edition) Officially Licensed By Nintendo	$39.58	$40	1% off	Lowest price $14.63 on 2022-6-5
Hori Nintendo Switch Split Pad Pro (black) Ergonomic Controller For Handheld Mode By Hori, Officially Licensed By Nintendo - Nintendo Switch Accessories - Translucent Black Edition	$69.95	$70	0% off	Lowest price $56.05 on 2022-1-5
Hori Nintendo Switch Split Pad Pro, Pokémon Pikachu And Eevee - Nintendo Switch Accessories - Pikachu & Eevee Edition	$79.99	$90	11% off	Lowest price $70.36 on 2021-10-17
Hunt Showdown Limited Bounty Hunter Edition Xbox One	$30.00	$35	14% off	New Lowest
James Pond Codename Robocod Nintendo Switch Games And Software	$18.54	$20	7% off	Lowest price $9.6 on 2020-11-2
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure All Star Battle R - Playstation 4	$34.10	$60	43% off	New Lowest
Killer Queen Black Nintendo Switch Games And Software	$23.72	$45	47% off	Lowest price $18.8 on 2020-11-30
Kirby Star Allies - Standard Edition	$72.16	$75	3% off	Lowest price $49.96 on 2018-11-22
Lemon Cake - Playstation 4	$18.75	$35	46% off	New Lowest
Lets Build A Zoo Xbox Series X - Playstation 4	$30.47	$40	23% off	Lowest price $25.29 on 2023-5-19
Lg 27gn800-b Ultragear Gaming Monitor 27 Inch Qhd (2560 X 1440) Ips Display, Ips 1ms (gtg) Response Time, 144hz Refresh Rate, Nvidia G-sync Compatible, Amd Freesync Premium, Black	$349.99	$350	0% off	Lowest price $348.98 on 2022-11-26
Lg 27gp850-b Ultragear Gaming Monitor 27” Qhd (2560 X 1440) Nano Ips Display, 1ms Response Tim, 165hz Refresh Rate, Nvidia G-sync Compatible, Amd Freesync Premium, Tilt/height/pivot Adjustable Stand	$449.99	$450	0% off	Lowest price $449 on 2021-6-23
Life In Willowdale Farm Adventures - Playstation 5	$37.98	$45	15% off	Lowest price $25.5 on 2023-4-24
Life Is Strange True Colors - Playstation 4	$28.28	$75	62% off	Lowest price $24.95 on 2022-11-18
Little Witch Nobeta Nintendo Switch	$64.73	$65	0% off	New Lowest
Maglam Lord -playstation 4	$32.10	$60	46% off	New Lowest
Marvel's Midnight Suns Legendary Edition - Playstation 5	$64.99	$115	43% off	Matches low
Marvel's Midnight Suns Legendary Edition - Xbox One & Xbox Series X	$64.99	$115	43% off	Matches low
Maximum Games Kingdom Majestic Playstation 4	$20.29	$50	59% off	Lowest price $19.96 on 2020-10-21
Maximum Games Kingdom Majestic Xbox One	$39.05	$50	21% off	Lowest price $11.53 on 2021-4-6
Maximum Games Street Power Soccer Ps4	$12.50	$45	72% off	New Lowest
Microsoft Xbox Wireless Headset - Wireless Headset Edition	$109.98	$130	15% off	Lowest price $99.98 on 2023-4-18
Monopoly Plus + Monopoly Madness - Playstation 4 / Playstation 5	$49.87	$55	9% off	Lowest price $18.8 on 2022-10-10
My Fantastic Ranch - Playstation 5	$26.41	$45	41% off	New Lowest
My Universe My Baby Dragon - Nintendo Switch	$33.70	$40	15% off	New Lowest
My Universe: Shiba Inu Travel Case For Nintendo Switch	$22.50	$25	10% off	New Lowest
Namco Bandai Ps4 Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth Hacker's Memory	$26.43	$35	24% off	Lowest price $23.99 on 2019-6-7
Nba 2k23 - Nintendo Switch	$19.99	$75	73% off	Matches low
Nba 2k23 Michael Jordan Edition - Xbox One	$115.00	$115	0% off	Lowest price $59.99 on 2022-11-18
Neptunia Sisters Vs Sisters - Playstation 4	$52.00	$60	13% off	New Lowest
Neptunia X Senran Kagura Ninja Wars - Nintendo Switch	$57.86	$60	3% off	Lowest price $45.2 on 2023-2-27
New Joe And Mac Caveman Ninja T-rex Edition (ps4)	$44.99	$45	0% off	Lowest price $40 on 2023-5-22
New Joe And Mac Caveman Ninja T-rex Edition (ps5)	$41.98	$45	6% off	New Lowest
New Tales From The Borderlands Deluxe Edition - Nintendo Switch	$19.99	$55	63% off	New Lowest
New Tales From The Borderlands Deluxe Edition - Playstation 5	$19.99	$55	63% off	New Lowest
Nickelodeon Kart Racers 3 Slime Speedway - Xbox One & Xbox Series X	$27.10	$45	39% off	New Lowest
Nintendo Switch Lite Duraflexi Protector (animal Crossing: New Horizions) By Hori - Officially Licensed By Nintendo - Animal Crossing Edition	$19.08	$23	17% off	Lowest price $10.5 on 2022-8-27
Nintendo Switch Lite Duraflexi Protector (clear)	$18.10	$20	9% off	Lowest price $16.34 on 2021-3-14
Nintendo Switch™ – Oled Model Splatoon™ 3 Special Edition	$448.98	$465	3% off	Matches low
No Man's Sky - Nintendo Switch	$59.48	$75	20% off	Lowest price $49.99 on 2023-1-7
No Man's Sky - Playstation 5	$70.25	$75	6% off	Lowest price $39.95 on 2022-11-20
Oculus Rift S Pc-powered Vr Gaming Headset - Windows	$549.99	$550	0% off	Lowest price $449 on 2020-12-11
One Piece Odyssey - Playstation 4	$69.10	$75	7% off	Lowest price $54.99 on 2023-3-10
One Piece Odyssey - Playstation 5	$66.09	$75	11% off	Lowest price $54.99 on 2023-3-10
One Piece Odyssey - Xbox Series X	$67.93	$75	9% off	Lowest price $54.96 on 2023-3-10
Overcooked All You Can Eat - 13200 Xbox Series X Games And Software	$30.06	$58	48% off	Lowest price $29.96 on 2021-12-25
Pdp Gaming Officially Licensed Switch Pull-n-go Travel Case: 2-in-1 With Built-in Console Stand & Interchangeable Compartments: Animal Crossing Tom Nook	$54.39	$60	9% off	Lowest price $39.99 on 2022-11-30
Peppa Pig World Adventures Playstation 4	$39.98	$45	11% off	New Lowest
Persona 5 Royal: Steelbook Launch Edition - Playstation 5	$74.63	$75	0% off	Lowest price $39.96 on 2022-12-11
Pga Tour 2k23 - Xbox Series X	$29.70	$85	65% off	New Lowest
Playstation Vita Code: Realize Wintertide Miracles	$26.69	$30	11% off	Lowest price $19.27 on 2022-9-27
Pny Geforce Rtx™ 4080 16gb Xlr8 Gaming Verto Epic-x Rgb™ Triple Fan Graphics Card Dlss 3	$1601.11	$1700	5% off	New Lowest
Poker Club Playstation 5	$15.27	$30	49% off	Lowest price $8.86 on 2022-8-19
Potion Permit - Playstation 4	$44.92	$45	0% off	Lowest price $42.5 on 2023-2-13
Powera Enhanced Wired Controller For Nintendo Switch - Golden M	$29.99	$35	14% off	Lowest price $19.96 on 2020-11-20
Powera Enhanced Wired Controller For Nintendo Switch - Pikachu Blush	$34.07	$35	2% off	Lowest price $24.2 on 2022-9-2
Powera Enhanced Wired Controller For Nintendo Switch – Pokémon: Snorlax & Friends, Gamepad, Game Controller, Wired Controller, Officially Licensed	$33.60	$38	11% off	Lowest price $25.37 on 2022-11-19
Powera Folio Case For Nintendo Switch Or Nintendo Switch Lite - Nintendo Switch Accessories	$35.00	$35	0% off	Lowest price $11.92 on 2021-7-23
Powera Nano Wired Controller For Nintendo Switch - Mario Medley, Nintendo Switch - Oled Model, Gamepad, Game Controller,	$25.56	$30	14% off	New Lowest
Powera Protection Case For Nintendo Switch - Oled Model, Nintendo Switch Or Nintendo Switch Lite - Quantum Crash	$21.06	$25	15% off	Lowest price $19.37 on 2023-1-8
Powera Transporter Bag For Nintendo Switch Or Nintendo Switch Lite - Nintendo Switch Accessories	$36.71	$40	8% off	Lowest price $14.87 on 2021-3-15
Psychonauts 2 Motherlobe Edition - Playstation 4	$63.70	$90	29% off	New Lowest
Razer Limited Edition Boba Fett Wireless Controller & Quick Charging Stand Bundle For Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One: Impulse Triggers - Textured Grips - 12hr Battery Life - Magnetic Secure Charging	$158.98	$220	27% off	New Lowest
Razer Limited Edition Captain America Wireless Controller & Quick Charging Stand Bundle For Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One: Impulse Triggers - Textured Grips - 12hr Battery Life - Magnetic Secure Charging	$147.03	$150	1% off	Lowest price $122.96 on 2023-4-22
Razer Universal Quick Charging Stand For Xbox Series X/S: Magnetic Secure Charging - Perfectly Matches Xbox Wireless Controllers - Usb Powered - Lunar Shift (controller Sold Separately)	$49.99	$55	9% off	New Lowest
Rust - Playstation 4	$19.96	$50	60% off	Lowest price $14 on 2022-11-26
Samsung Odyssey Ark 55-inch Curved Gaming Screen, 4k Uhd 165hz 1ms (gtg) Quantum Mini-led Gamer Monitor W/cockpit Mode, Sound Dome Technology, Multi View, Hdr10+ (s55bg970nn) 2022	$2499.99	$2500	0% off	Matches low
Sandman	$195.30	$300	34% off	Lowest price $193.91 on 2023-2-25
Scarlet Nexus - Xbox One & Xbox Series X	$13.47	$65	79% off	New Lowest
Seagate Storage Expansion Card For Xbox Series X/S 1tb Solid State Drive - Nvme Expansion Ssd For Xbox Series X/S (stjr1000400)	$204.99	$300	31% off	Lowest price $204.98 on 2023-5-26
Seagate Storage Expansion Card For Xbox Series X/S 2tb Solid State Drive - Nvme Expansion Ssd For Xbox Series X/S (stjr2000400)	$384.99	$400	3% off	Matches low
Sherlock Holmes (4k Ultra Hd + Blu-ray)	$25.49	$27	5% off	Lowest price $21.99 on 2022-11-5
Sims 4 Star Wars Journey To Batuu Bundle - Playstation 4	$14.50	$50	71% off	Lowest price $13.11 on 2022-2-22
Spongebob Squarepants The Cosmic Shake Bff Edition Xbox Series X	$233.79	$240	2% off	Lowest price $212.5 on 2023-5-8
Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order Playstation 4	$29.99	$40	25% off	Lowest price $29.96 on 2021-6-3
Steelseries Arctis 9x Wireless Gaming Headset – Integrated Xbox Wireless + Bluetooth – 20+ Hour Battery Life – For Xbox One And Series X - Arctis 9x Edition	$194.99	$200	2% off	Lowest price $169.95 on 2022-11-28
Subnautica + Subnautica: Below Zero Switch - Nintendo Switch Games And Software	$54.57	$75	27% off	Lowest price $39.96 on 2021-11-25
Super Neptunia Rpg - Playstation 4	$27.35	$29	5% off	Lowest price $12.99 on 2022-11-17
Syberia The World Before Collectors Edition (ps5)	$116.44	$195	40% off	New Lowest
Temtem - Nintendo Switch	$44.98	$50	10% off	Lowest price $44.95 on 2022-12-9
Temtem Xbox Series X	$37.21	$50	25% off	New Lowest
The Callisto Protocol Standard Edition Xbox One	$40.07	$75	46% off	Lowest price $29.99 on 2023-4-30
The Chant - Xbox Series X	$28.59	$35	18% off	Lowest price $24.99 on 2022-11-20
The Cruel King And The Great Hero Storybook Edition Nintendo Switch	$79.76	$80	0% off	Lowest price $49.99 on 2023-1-14
The Jackbox Party Pack 7 Xbox	$29.35	$30	2% off	Lowest price $19.13 on 2022-10-16
The Pathless Nintendo Switch	$42.47	$50	15% off	New Lowest
The Persistence Nintendo Switch Games And Software	$39.06	$45	13% off	Lowest price $31.96 on 2022-8-10
The Persistence Playstation 4	$18.60	$40	53% off	Lowest price $17.53 on 2022-11-28
The Quarry - Xbox One	$17.00	$75	77% off	New Lowest
The Quest For Excalibur: Puy Du Fou - Nintendo Switch	$21.59	$35	38% off	Lowest price $14.36 on 2022-12-24
The Quest For Excalibur: Puy Du Fou - Playstation 4	$17.64	$20	11% off	Lowest price $12.88 on 2023-2-22
The Smurfs Mission Vileaf Smurftastic Edition Playstation 4	$29.73	$45	33% off	New Lowest
Them's Fighting Herds Deluxe Edition - Xbox One & Xbox Series X	$25.69	$45	42% off	New Lowest
Thrustmaster Tca Yoke Pack Boeing Edition (xbox Series X, Xbox One, Pc)	$628.99	$640	1% off	Lowest price $349.99 on 2023-3-17
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Extraction - Xbox One & Xbox Series X/S Edition	$12.85	$40	67% off	New Lowest
Train Life: A Railway Simulator - The Orient-express Edition - Xbox One & Xbox Series X	$34.84	$45	22% off	Lowest price $23.3 on 2023-4-10
Trash Sailors - Nintendo Switch	$30.41	$40	23% off	New Lowest
Trash Sailors - Playstation 4	$20.89	$40	47% off	New Lowest
Valkyrie Elysium - Playstation 5	$33.00	$75	56% off	New Lowest
Waku Waku Sweets Switch	$29.30	$30	2% off	New Lowest
Wanted Dead Playstation 5	$60.00	$75	20% off	New Lowest
Wolfenstein: Youngblood - Playstation 4 Deluxe Edition [amazon Exclusive Bonus]	$24.95	$28	10% off	New Lowest
Wreckfest - Playstation 5 - Standard Edition Edition	$33.22	$40	16% off	New Lowest
Wwe 2k23 Xbox One	$59.98	$75	20% off	New Lowest
Xbox Wireless Controller For Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, And Windows Devices – Robot White	$64.58	$65	0% off	Lowest price $59.93 on 2022-8-23
Yomawari Lost In The Dark Deluxe Edition - Nintendo Switch	$48.70	$60	18% off	New Lowest
Ys Vi: The Ark Of Napishtim The Ark Of Napishtim (original Soundtrack) (vinyl)	$146.42	$160	8% off	Lowest price $139.67 on 2022-8-25
Yum Yum Cookstar - Nintendo Switch	$47.20	$55	14% off	New Lowest
Zorro: The Chronicles - Xbox Series X	$35.79	$45	20% off	Lowest price $20.8 on 2023-4-24

*History is a beta feature, only goes back as far as I've been tracking this item, and may not be 100% accurate

I’ve been promising my son a PC for more than 2 years but have been too poor to deliver on my promise. I was approved for an Amazon credit card and I’m hoping I can use that to finally build him a PC for his birthday, so long as nearly everything can be purchased from Amazon.

What will you be doing with this PC? Be as specific as possible, and include specific games or programs you will be using.

• Gaming - He plays a lot of indy games and lo-fi type games (Pizza Tower, Terraria, Ultrakill), but he has requested a PC that can handle playing newelarger games. He wants to play RDR2, GTA, Doom eternal, Amid Evil, & Subliminal. He would like a machine that can eventually accommodate VR gaming in the future.

What is your maximum budget before rebates/shipping/taxes?

• $2000 maximum on Amazon (balancing budget/build quality)

When do you plan on building/buying the PC? Note: beyond a week or two from today means any build you receive will be out of date when you want to buy.

• ASAP

What, exactly, do you need included in the budget? (ToweOS/monitokeyboard/mouse/etc)

• Everything. Including monitor, keyboard, mouse, OS, cables, wifi & wired internet connection, misc. parts, etc.

Which country (and state/province) will you be purchasing the parts in? If you're in US, do you have access to a Microcenter location?

• USA. No Microcenter access. Would like to source completely from Amazon.

If reusing any parts (including monitor(s)/keyboard/mouse/etc), what parts will you be reusing? Brands and models are appreciated.

• None

Will you be overclocking? If yes, are you interested in overclocking right away, or down the line? CPU and/or GPU?

• Unknown/not a priority

Are there any specific features or items you want/need in the build? (ex: SSD, large amount of storage or a RAID setup, CUDA or OpenCL support, etc)

• None

Do you have any specific case preferences (Size like ITX/microATX/mid-towefull-tower, styles, colors, window or not, LED lighting, etc), or a particular color theme preference for the components?

• None

Do you need a copy of Windows included in the budget? If you do need one included, do you have a preference?

• Yes. No preference

**Extra info or particulars:

• His older brother built his own PC 2 years ago and has offered his advice. He suggested this build: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/jC2ZsL

Skullcandy generally gets the label of “Beats at home”. Considering that Beats are already widely lampooned (although they have improved substantially since Apple bought the brand), my expectations were through the floor.
As I was walking through Walmart with some friends, I saw a set of Skullcandy Jibs for less than $8, so I bought them as a joke. To my surprise, they were discounted, so I got them for only $3.
When I got back home, I decided to run them through my normal tests, comparing them to Dankpods’s favorite set of KBEARS. I chose those because these are both pretty cheap.

0: Base Features

The Skullcandy Jibs are wired. The build quality is cheap, but better than expected. The wires are the worst parts, making lots of noise. They also have controls for pause/play and volume control in the wire. Hilariously, these IEMs came with a 2 year warranty as if $3 was worth the trouble of getting them repaired. They also came with extra earbud tips. Edit: Upon trying them with my phone, the volume buttons basically acted like a home button. L.
Build Quality: 3/10
Features: 6/10
Price: 10/10

1: 12D Test

First, I listened to the “12D” version of “Feel Good Inc” by Gorillaz to test directionality. As one would expect, the KBEARS performed better, but surprisingly, the Skullcandy Jibs had more than 2 directions, but it was unable to display front and back directions.
IEM Direction Score: 4/10

2: Bongo Test

One kinda strange test I always do is the bongo test. This entails listening to the song “Sabbath Bloody Sabbath” by Black Sabbath. When the bridge comes in at 3:17, there are bongos being played at like the opposite end of the studio which many people probably wouldn’t notice. The clarity that you hear these bongos is an informal but good test of clarity and instrument separation.
While the KBEARS had no problem displaying the bongos, the Skullcandy Jibs had a lot of trouble. Sometimes, the bongos were completely undetectable, and at all other times they were very muddy. This is almost as bad as anything could fail the bongo test, but surprisingly, I’ve heard worse.
Bongo Score: 2/10

3: Complex Songs Test

Now is when things get a little crazy. I listen to something (really anything) with many layers of instruments or samples that I’m already deeply familiar with. In this case, it was “Nobody Cares” by Superorganism and “Tell Me A Joke” by Quadeca.
The KBEARS passed with flying colors, of course, but the Skullcandy Jibs performed better than expected. They were able to pick up almost all of the details of the tracks, but there were some noticeable issues with separation.
Clarity/Separation Score: 5/10

4: Other Scores

While these are actually kinda fun to listen to, they are extremely bass-heavy. This is clearly what they were going for, but obviously you should never use these in a studio. I had no issues with comfort, making these beat the KBEARS in one category. Because these are wired IEMs, they would theoretically be good for travel, but pretty bad for the gym. This is especially the case because of the noisy wires.
Balance: 2/10
Comfort: 8/10
Balance: 3/10
Portable Use: 5/10

Total: 48/100

Overall, these sound like they’re $15. Usually, that wouldn’t be a compliment, but because they’re $3, it kind of is in this case. Predictably, about 1/5 of the score came from the price, so if you’re rolling in cash these are a 42/100.
Would I spend $8 on them? Not really. But 3? Sure. I’ve bought energy drinks more expensive than that and these are kinda fun to listen to. Keep in mind, a 48 is an F, but I guess if you’re dirt broke, this is an option that does indeed exist.

[[email protected] ~]$ inxi -Fazi 12System: 12Kernel 6.2.15-300.fc38.x86_64 12arch x86_64 12bits 64 12compiler gcc 12v 2.39-9.fc38 12parameters BOOT_IMAGE=(hd0,gpt7)/root/boot/vmlinuz-6.2.15-300.fc38.x86_64 root=UUID=6b96f349-dcbf-4743-b1f6-4bab06f14529 ro rootflags=subvol=root resume=UUID=fb4afc85-b0f6-4c51-96a4-ecc32d2b6b0b rhgb quiet 12Desktop GNOME 12v 44.1 12tk GTK 12v 3.24.38 12wm gnome-shell 12dm GDM 12v 44.1 12Distro Fedora release 38 (Thirty Eight) 12Machine: 12Type Laptop 12System HP 12product HP Pavilion Laptop 15-eh1xxx 12v N/A 12serial  12Chassis 12type 10 12serial  12Mobo HP 12model 88D0 12v 78.51 12serial  12UEFI AMI 12v F.25 12date 03/20/2023 12Battery: 12ID-1 BAT0 12charge 22.0 Wh (58.4%) 12condition 37.7/37.7 Wh (100.0%) 12volts 12.3 12min 11.3 12model HP Primary 12type Li-ion 12serial  12status charging 12cycles 15 12CPU: 12Info 12model AMD Ryzen 5 5500U with Radeon Graphics 12bits 64 12type MT MCP 12arch Zen 2 12gen 3 12level v3 12note check 12built 2020-22 12process TSMC n7 (7nm) 12family 0x17 (23) 12model-id 0x68 (104) 12stepping 1 12microcode 0x8608104 12Topology 12cpus 1x 12cores 6 12tpc 2 12threads 12 12smt enabled 12cache 12L1 384 KiB 12desc d-6x32 KiB; i-6x32 KiB 12L2 3 MiB 12desc 6x512 KiB 12L3 8 MiB 12desc 2x4 MiB 12Speed (MHz) 12avg 1403 12high 1472 12min/max 1400/4056 12boost enabled 12scaling 12driver acpi-cpufreq 12governor schedutil 12cores 121 1472 122 1397 123 1397 124 1397 125 1397 126 1397 127 1397 128 1397 129 1400 1210 1397 1211 1397 1212 1397 12bogomips 50310 12Flags avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm 12Vulnerabilities 12Type itlb_multihit 12status Not affected 12Type l1tf 12status Not affected 12Type mds 12status Not affected 12Type meltdown 12status Not affected 12Type mmio_stale_data 12status Not affected 12Type retbleed 12mitigation untrained return thunk; SMT enabled with STIBP protection 12Type spec_store_bypass 12mitigation Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl 12Type spectre_v1 12mitigation usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 12Type spectre_v2 12mitigation Retpolines, IBPB: conditional, STIBP: always-on, RSB filling, PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected 12Type srbds 12status Not affected 12Type tsx_async_abort 12status Not affected 12Graphics: 12Device-1 AMD Lucienne 12vendor Hewlett-Packard 12driver amdgpu 12v kernel 12arch GCN-5 12code Vega 12process GF 14nm 12built 2017-20 12pcie 12gen 3 12speed 8 GT/s 12lanes 16 12link-max 12gen 4 12speed 16 GT/s 12ports 12active eDP-1 12empty DP-1,HDMI-A-1 12bus-ID 04:00.0 12chip-ID 1002:164c 12class-ID 0300 12temp 50.0 C 12Device-2 Quanta HP Wide Vision HD Camera 12type USB 12driver uvcvideo 12bus-ID 1-3:3 12chip-ID 0408:5425 12class-ID fe01 12serial  12Display wayland 12server X.org 12v 1.20.14 12with Xwayland 12v 22.1.9 12compositor gnome-shell 12driver 12X 12loaded amdgpu 12unloaded fbdev,modesetting,vesa 12dri radeonsi 12gpu amdgpu 12display-ID 0 12Monitor-1 eDP-1 12model AU Optronics 0x27ed 12built 2018 12res 1920x1080 12dpi 142 12gamma 1.2 12size 344x194mm (13.54x7.64") 12diag 395mm (15.5") 12ratio 16:9 12modes 12max 1920x1080 12min 640x480 12API OpenGL 12v 4.6 Mesa 23.0.3 12renderer AMD Radeon Graphics (renoir LLVM 16.0.4 DRM 3.49 6.2.15-300.fc38.x86_64) 12direct-render Yes 12Audio: 12Device-1 AMD Renoir Radeon High Definition Audio 12vendor Hewlett-Packard 12driver snd_hda_intel 12v kernel 12pcie 12gen 3 12speed 8 GT/s 12lanes 16 12link-max 12gen 4 12speed 16 GT/s 12bus-ID 04:00.1 12chip-ID 1002:1637 12class-ID 0403 12Device-2 AMD ACP/ACP3X/ACP6x Audio Coprocessor 12vendor Hewlett-Packard 12driver snd_rn_pci_acp3x 12v kernel 12alternate snd_pci_acp3x, snd_pci_acp5x, snd_pci_acp6x, snd_rpl_pci_acp6x, snd_pci_ps, snd_sof_amd_renoir, snd_sof_amd_rembrandt 12pcie 12gen 3 12speed 8 GT/s 12lanes 16 12link-max 12gen 4 12speed 16 GT/s 12bus-ID 04:00.5 12chip-ID 1022:15e2 12class-ID 0480 12Device-3 AMD Family 17h/19h HD Audio 12vendor Hewlett-Packard 12driver snd_hda_intel 12v kernel 12pcie 12gen 3 12speed 8 GT/s 12lanes 16 12link-max 12gen 4 12speed 16 GT/s 12bus-ID 04:00.6 12chip-ID 1022:15e3 12class-ID 0403 12API ALSA 12v k6.2.15-300.fc38.x86_64 12status kernel-api 12tools alsamixer,amixer 12Server-1 PipeWire 12v 0.3.71 12status active 12with 121 pipewire-pulse 12status active 122 wireplumber 12status active 123 pipewire-alsa 12type plugin 124 pw-jack 12type plugin 12tools pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl 12Network: 12Device-1 Realtek RTL8822CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter 12vendor Hewlett-Packard 12driver rtw_8822ce 12v N/A 12modules rtw88_8822ce 12pcie 12gen 1 12speed 2.5 GT/s 12lanes 1 12port f000 12bus-ID 02:00.0 12chip-ID 10ec:c822 12class-ID 0280 12IF wlo1 12state up 12mac  12IP v4  12type dynamic noprefixroute 12scope global 12broadcast  12IP v6  12type noprefixroute 12scope link 12WAN IP  12Bluetooth: 12Device-1 Realtek Bluetooth Radio 12type USB 12driver btusb 12v 0.8 12bus-ID 1-4:5 12chip-ID 0bda:b00c 12class-ID e001 12serial  12Report rfkill 12ID hci0 12rfk-id 0 12state down 12bt-service enabled,running 12rfk-block 12hardware no 12software yes 12address see --recommends 12Drives: 12Local Storage 12total 476.94 GiB 12used 224.11 GiB (47.0%) 12SMART Message Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends 12ID-1 /dev/nvme0n1 12maj-min 259:0 12vendor Micron 12model MTFDHBA512QFD-1AX1AABHA 12size 476.94 GiB 12block-size 12physical 512 B 12logical 512 B 12speed 31.6 Gb/s 12lanes 4 12type SSD 12serial  12rev HPS1022 12temp 50.9 C 12scheme GPT 12Partition: 12ID-1 / 12raw-size 51 GiB 12size 51 GiB (100.00%) 12used 42.9 GiB (84.1%) 12fs btrfs 12dev /dev/nvme0n1p7 12maj-min 259:7 12ID-2 /boot/efi 12raw-size 1024 MiB 12size 1022 MiB (99.80%) 12used 36.1 MiB (3.5%) 12fs vfat 12dev /dev/nvme0n1p5 12maj-min 259:5 12Swap: 12Kernel 12swappiness 60 (default) 12cache-pressure 100 (default) 12ID-1 swap-1 12type partition 12size 8 GiB 12used 0 KiB (0.0%) 12priority -2 12dev /dev/nvme0n1p6 12maj-min 259:6 12ID-2 swap-2 12type zram 12size 7.07 GiB 12used 642 MiB (8.9%) 12priority 100 12dev /dev/zram0 12Sensors: 12System Temperatures 12cpu 59.8 C 12mobo N/A 12gpu amdgpu 12temp 49.0 C 12Fan Speeds (RPM) 12fan-1 0 12fan-2 0 12Info: 12Processes 401 12Uptime 57m 12wakeups 8 12Memory 7.07 GiB 12used 3.89 GiB (55.1%) 12Init systemd 12v 253 12target graphical (5) 12default graphical 12tool systemctl 12Compilers 12gcc 13.1.1 12Packages 12pm rpm 12pkgs N/A 12note see --rpm 12tools dnf,gnome-software,yum 12pm flatpak 12pkgs 70 12Client Unknown Client: flatpak-session-helper 12inxi 3.3.26