Category: Research
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Amazon
Super not a fan of Amazon, I could always find whatever item elsewhere or the original site for half the shipping or less cost. **Examples** I also hate the idea of signing up for a membership to have someone else have automated services push their crap on me. Automated helpful things SURE, but automated marketing…
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CONTENA – UNDERHANDED MARKETING PRACTICES
The below email is a sample of the emails I’ve been receiving asking to join CONTENA, a place where writers are supposedly able to make a career off using. Sarah, There are certain points during our lives when a single positive action or decision can reward us for many years to come. In January we did…
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Stat Canada – Misusing our trust
Open Media is a trusted source for underhanded things our government and large companies get involved in. Currently, the privacy commissioner is investigating Stat Canada for the below privacy crimes: Hundreds of thousands of people in Canada face having their personal banking information taken by Statistics Canada – including account balances, ATM withdrawals and credit…
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Sumac
This plant grows in my backyard in Vernon, British Columbia. I started researching what uses it had, and to my surprise, I found out that there are more then just a poisonous Sumac! (As you can see, my yard can be a bit of a desert, so this is not the kind that grows in…
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Google’s Reverse Image Search
So you’re doing google searching, and find an item you really like! But it’s on WISH or another like-minded site and you don’t have an account because why would you when they buy and up-sell stuff and charge you shipping they never had to pay from other wholesalers! So what do you do to make…
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Salt Scam
Some days, I like a cup of warm salt water, and on one of these such days, I used some ‘Himalayan Salt’. But as the pink dissolved into a film on the top and the salt itself dissolved layer of particles and dirt in the bottom, I started doing some research. I came across this…
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