Category: Miscellaneous

Amazon Luna Black Friday Scam

This is really silly — we ordered a Luna controller on Black Friday because it was on sale, with the idea of it being a gift for when Anya finishes school for the half. I specifically did not associate the controller with our account. Today, we noticed that the “free trial” had already been activated.

Trying to talk to Amazon didn’t really go anywhere — I couldn’t even get the fellow to understand why automatically starting a free trial (before the item actually even arrives) during a gift-giving season where people are generally buying something weeks before it would be opened was problematic. Evidently there’s no such thing as a Luna controller plus 30 days Luna+ bundle — there’s a controller and a free trial. And the free trial starts when you place your order — not when you get the controller, not when you start using it. Ultimately, they say you’ve got to call back during M-F 9-5 kind of hours when someone from Luna is available.

Not something I’m available to deal with today, but a very odd practice for a company that size. Like no one thought through the logic on this one?!? Buy it on Black Friday, 30 days later is December 27th. So people getting Christmas gifts have three days to check it out?

If they’re offering a free trial to anyone who signs up, why bundle it with the controller??? I could have gotten the controller and just signed up for the trial the day the present would be given.

Library Adventure

Scott went to a whiskey tasting with a friend, so I drove everyone downtown. Anya and I visited the main branch of the Cleveland library (where she happily read a few books until it was time to pick them up). Wandering around the building, though, we found a few art installations. This one was really cool — and would be a neat way to dry herbs!

Dragon Chow

I calculated the “best deal” on dragon chow berries per fake gold coin in Anya’s DragonMania Legends game — I always tell her to get Clan Blue Hazel because you don’t need to keep “re-planting” them every couple of minutes, but the spikey cherries that grow in 30 seconds are actually the best “deal”.

 

Type Berries Coins Hours Berries Coins Berries per Coin
Spikey Cherry 65 195 0.008333 5 15 0.333333333
Purplemon 352 1950 0.083333 27.0769231 150 0.180512821
Clan Blue Hazel       2,860          19,500 2          220.00          1,500.00 0.146666667
Blue Hazel       2,600          19,500 2          200.00          1,500.00 0.133333333
Clan Sour Cone 1105 9750 0.5 85 750 0.113333333
Sour Cone 975 9750 0.5 75 750 0.1
Dragonscale       5,200          52,000 6          400.00          4,000.00 0.1
Dragonlandic Berry     19,500        195,000 12       1,500.00        15,000.00 0.1
Clan Star Fruit     71,500        780,000 24       5,500.00        60,000.00 0.091666667
Star Fruit     65,000        780,000 24       5,000.00        60,000.00 0.083333333
Sweetroot   650,000   10,400,000 48     50,000.00      800,000.00 0.0625
Candied Pear   390,000     7,500,000 42   130,000.00   2,500,000.00 0.052
Spring Cherry     97,500     2,600,000 1       7,500.00      200,000.00 0.0375
Clan Royal Fig   396,000   10,800,000 24   132,000.00   3,600,000.00 0.036666667
Royal Fig   360,000   10,800,000 24   120,000.00   3,600,000.00 0.033333333
Squarey Berry   120,000     4,800,000 6     40,000.00   1,600,000.00 0.025

First Firefly of 2023

I had been thinking it seemed like the fireflies were missing this summer — even searched the news and read an article about all of the things negatively impacting firefly populations (development, climate change, and light pollution). But I saw one on the greenhouse when I checked on the baby turkeys this morning. And, this evening, even though there’s a thunderstorm … we’re seeing little lights floating around the back yard.