Psh, that's high-balling it. If the dealer gets anything more than breaking even in this situation, the buyer messed up.
The dealer dismissed an offer of 2 grand off the first time. You need to show him that next time you won't be so generous. Teach those snakes to be open to bargaining again, or they'll only continue to raise prices year after year.
And they're more desperate to sell
I'd just be happy if that meant the conversation was over...
Then the process should happen on the phone locally and not by connecting to their servers which run the processes and then send commands back to the device through your phone...
If you don't pull it off well then you might make the other person kinda grumpy
You should offer them something even lower when they do
It is bad design. The entire system control could be on a microcontroller inside the machine itself. There's no reason to route data through a cloud server just for basic functionality (other than greedy data farming, of course).
That's a single point of failure, and not even very reliable, for something that provides a basic necessity to a living being.
That being said, any pet owner who relies on an automated feeder and doesn't check it regularly to make sure it's working properly, is neglecting their pets. They share a portion of the responsibility here.
Still, I wish products marketed for pets were regulated better to ensure safety.
They should have made better decisions, but if they paid a middleman to outsource their storage to third company and the middleman goes out of business without having any terms with the storage provider regarding the data rights of their clients, then that sounds like somebody committed fraud and should face consequences
Yeah, but relying on a shady outsourced cloud storage middleman provider was kind of a terrible decision
Yeah, I was like how is this even a question
Beat me to it 🤣
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