What to look for inside a vacuum cleaner before you buy it
Vacuum cleaners are sold on suction figures and on how they look in a showroom. Neither tells you much. What matters is airflow, sealing, and whether the parts that wear can be…
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What the salesperson is not telling you about protection plans
I sold these. Not because I believed in every one of them, but because they were part of the job and the targets were real.
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Is it worth paying extra for a smart refrigerator
No, for most households. I will give you the reasoning rather than just the verdict, because there are a couple of cases where the answer changes.
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Why buying last year’s flagship phone is usually the smarter move
The gap between one generation of flagship phone and the next has been narrowing for years. The gap in price has not.
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Do you actually need the titanium model of the latest phone
Almost certainly not, and the reason is that the material of the frame is one of the least important things about a phone you keep in a case.
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How to tell if a budget smartphone is actually worth buying
Budget phones have got remarkably good. They have also got remarkably good at looking good while cutting the things you cannot see in a shop.
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Is the newest model of your streaming stick actually any faster
Usually yes, and usually not by enough to matter, and the cases where it does matter are specific enough to name.
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How phone carriers hide the true cost of a free upgrade
I managed a phone store in Portland for four years, so I have delivered this pitch several hundred times. Let me explain what I was actually doing.
