You’re not alone. I bought a rather popular facial exfoliation system and tried it for two weeks like the products manufacturer recommends. What I found out was that the “consumables” (filters and “diamond” coated exfoliating tips) were consumed excessively quick (tips didn’t last but a few sessions before becoming smooth and needing to be replaced).

I went through the consumables and the extra kit I purchased in that two week period. I returned the main product but ate the cost of the kit ($43) and left my review describing the cost associated would well exceed the products cost ($150) in less than two months, and that there were cheaper alternatives available. Within a week I had almost a hundred (found this helpful) tags, and I started getting weird numbers calling me rather late at night.

Since I work nights and early mornings often this wasn’t an inconvenience, but what happened after I answered some of the calls was a problem. I was cursed at and hung up on, told my mother did various things with dogs and or monkeys and hung up on, and sometimes I’d get an individual who would tell me that I’ll die for doing what I’m doing (I had no clue I was doing anything). The numbers were usually spoofed to local prefixes and after a week or two of the crap I contacted Amazon and explained the problem and what it was related to.

Amazon tells me that they are going to investigate, and maybe two days later I receive a canned email message from Amazon telling me that my review has been removed due to not meeting community standards. I literally have done close to a thousand reviews of everything I’ve bought since I’ve been on Amazon. I’ve got followers and used to keep up with that stuff, but after they removed the review I couldn’t write on my page or make reviews that were actually “approved”. I had to literally use another Amazon account to post the reviews which were “rejected” on the other account.

The product was plastered on sponsored ads everywhere on Amazon at the time. However, now it’s name has changed and the logo changed and the old one just vanished. Even calling the number for the old products order line for consumables has been disconnected.

I still get random calls from “Asian” sounding individuals. Sometimes they just say my name and hang up or I’ll get a “fuck you dog or monkey fucker” (they’re usually Indian sounding) then the hang up.

It happens a lot more than people realize. Especially when the watch is in play too. Often in impacts that are require the full support of all the public services, phones will get away from the drivers or passengers. The older button press to alert on the watch way was a sure fire solution to get someone to your exact location quickly. I’ve had patients come into the ER with the watch screen shattered and the phone screen shattered, but the service still worked and they were found in some east jesus knees rural setting in the dark and wreaked.

I’m going to need to look at the statistics since it is something we track (that they were responded to by automated phone services), but it does have a small error margin since our cardio patients with pacemaker/cardioverters/life vests all go home with a 4g monitor. I know that I’ve personally been involved in around 30 calls this year that involved the cellphone being the saving grace in an MVA. Not sure how many going back 5 or 6 (can’t remember when it actually started) years since apple started doing the SOS button press.