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Stuff Tracker
Track your purchases and find the most similar stuff on the market later | |
I have an electric fan. A fairly large-sized fan on a stand, of a style that has been duplicated many times. This fan keeps me cooler in the summer, has endured almost constant use for half of the year and more than one fall, and has lasted for several years longer than expected. Who made it? I have
no idea. I once had a pair of sports shoes which I purchased for the monetary equivalent of an hour's labor. They were comfortable and durable, lasting over ten years. I would buy the same brand again if the logo hadn't worn off. Unfortunately by the time came for an encore I'm sure the brand would have been purchased by Evilcorp and I would end up with six miserable months of blistering feet before the sole wore out. I once had a sauce pan, well you get the idea.
You submit your longer term purchases and a nominal fee to this company when you make them including the brand name and purchase price. The company, in return, does its level best decades down the line when you want a replacement to tell you which company made the original product, whether its standards and parent company or ownership has changed, and if applicable which company seems to be making an actually equivalent product in the present. It can also offer an immediate purchase of the closest comparable item.
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Bone for using term “flesh out” which is second only to “reaching out” on the boke index. It’s an imaginary bone that will land when least expected for extra impact. |
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//an imaginary bone that will land when least expected for extra impact// ;_- |
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Thanks for putting flesh on the bones of that idea. |
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[+] not so much for helping remember brands, but for tracking if quality of brands are as good now as they were years ago. |
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Doc Martens haven’t been the same since manufacture was outsourced. |
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the bun is durable. But the idea can be simply replaced with a good long argument with various AI chats, telling on each other's failures. You are bound to find it in the end. |
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Android phones have a camera feature that basically does exactly this. It's called Google Lens (alternatively, Samsung has its own version called Bixby Vision). I used the latter just last week during a move to find a match for an end table I bought years ago, so I'll have a matched pair. Simply take a picture of something, tap the little eye-shaped Bixby Vision icon at the top of the screen, and it took me right to an eBay listing for the exact same table. |
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What you really need is a way to locate other people who purchased the same item at the same time but for some reason they didn't use it, but put it in its box in their attic or cupboard. The app would contact them and offer to buy the item off them for the original purchase price + rpi. |
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Otherwise as pointed out you will suffer from reduction in manufacturing standards over time/ |
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//a way to locate other people who purchased the same item at the same time but for some reason they didn't use it// - if anyone else has a blue 'Dr Seuss' brand baseball cap with a red peak that they bought in the mid-90's could they please let me know, as mine's starting to wear out. |
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It's mine. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding the idea, but I don't understand how it's different than the camera apps I just described, and those are beyond widely known to exist. First time you use the camera on a Samsung phone it's telling you about the feature, and it's been in the Google Photos app since 2018. |
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// Perhaps I'm misunderstanding the idea // |
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Perhaps. My bun was for the service / database tracking quality of branded products over the years, and how to find similar quality products now. |
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I guess I'm confused by the first part of the post seeming to contrast with the rest. He said he would buy the same brand again if the logo hadn't worn off. |
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I said I would do that, but that it would be a mistake. Your lens thing just finds items which look almost exactly the same, a different concept. If the precise same item is still made to the same standards it's just what I want. But generally this isn't the case. |
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// Unfortunately by the time came for an encore I'm sure the brand would have been purchased by Evilcorp and I would end up with six miserable months of blistering feet before the sole wore out.// Furthermore there are many product which LOOK exactly the same but are made by different companies to different standards. Fans, keyboards, and earbuds come to mind. |
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//The company... does its level best decades down the line when you want a replacement to tell you which company made the original product, whether its standards and parent company or ownership has changed, and if applicable which company seems to be making an actually equivalent product in the present.// |
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//Your lens thing just finds items which look almost exactly the same, a different concept.// |
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Not exactly. Your last line in the post says "It can also offer an immediate purchase of the closest comparable item." |
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I just took a picture of the shoe on my left foot (I'm wearing Adidas Gazelles)and applied the Google Lens to it. Of course it immediately identified the brand and model line of the shoe, and provided handy links to half a dozen sites where I can buy them, but it also showed me some other shoes that are very comparable from other brands, like Gola. Maybe we have different ideas of what comparable means? |
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Yet suppose you bought those shoes a few years ago, and wanted to replace them today - but [Voice]'s Stuff Tracker warned : "The shoes sold under that label today are not as good as those you bought in 2019. Poorer material and workmanship. Previous manufacturing by child slave labor in China has been outsourced to political prisoners in Cambodia. Here's the best quality replacement available today..." |
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Would easy access to that kind of info be worth something to you? |
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// Maybe we have different ideas of what comparable means?// |
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I mean: comparable to the product you purchased years ago, as opposed to just being the same brand and appearance. Maybe the closest thing on the market to your 1980's Disney brand Mickey Mouse plate purchased at Disney World (which survived three kids growing up using it) would be a Muji plate sent by way of a Chinese shop willing to add the logo. |
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Might also be useful on the dating market. |
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"The man you are currently lensing is not as financially capable as the one who just dumped you, because he does not know how to manage physical coins or count in his head, and when the solar flare disables the satellites he won't even be able to find his way to a shop to buy anything anyways" |
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Might need more fleshing out. |
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