Wyze Cam Pan V3 is $10 dollars off. Nice to see Mashable promoting a Wyze product.
When we see it hit $20 we’ll know the v4 is imminent. $30 is what I got my Panv3s for a couple years ago during prime day, don’t think it has ever gone lower than that.
Maybe the price is not a fantastic deal. I am more impressed that Mashable is promoting a Wyze product.
Wasn’t implying that, it matches the best price (or at least close to it that I’ve seen). Maybe it was briefly $25 once or twice but I don’t think so?
That being said, I would not be the least bit surprised to learn that mashable was compensated. There are very very few sites left that do not get money for reviewing/promoting products, and if they want to keep getting that money, they will be mostly favorable reviews.
It has been sad seeing sites that were very vocal about not accepting compensation, and making it clear when they had received a free product for the review but you could tell it had not influenced them much, if at all, to what those sites have become now.
Wirecutter post New York Times buyout is a prime example. Anandtech is another, though they aren’t quite as shameless about it, there’s still some useful info in there if you’re able to filter through it.
I remember receiving PC Magazine as a teenager (yes, was always a geek). Now pcmag.com is just pure advertising and affiliate links. They even promote grey market key sites for their commission.
Used to get PC World and PC Computing too. The best was all the ads in the back where you could get free demo disks and usually came with some other shwag too. I still have a small spool of bare fiber optic cable, and an Intel Pentium keychain (with what I’m assuming was a die that did not pass testing inside it). And one of those intel dolls that is all dressed up in the clean room suit. Probably some other good ones around that I’ve forgotten about.
Now I just settle for free enterprise networking gear out e-waste at our data centers. Millions original value, relatively worthless now, but hey, who else can push 100 gigs in their house (using smartbits synthetic data of course, since nothing I have can saturate a 100 gig NIC).
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