No stars for this experience
592865
Received a substitution for advertised product that has had an adverse reaction to my dog in the past. I would never have ordered this substitution.
4669068
The worst experience I have ever had with a piece of software.

I recently built a new PC to replace a very old XP running machine. After assembling all of the components, I decided to purchase Windows 8.1. Originally, I was simply going to run Windows 7, but I had heard that 8.1 had fixed a lot of the issues people were having with the OS. For my own instance,  it booted up fine for the first 20 minutes. I actually didn't mind the Metro look and things were looking promising. However, after said 20 minutes, the OS crashes to a blank screen and will not reboot. I tried simply restarting the computer, but it hangs on that screen and will not do anything. I tried to do a hard reset, and Windows 8.1 will do the same thing after about 20 minutes of use. It's extremely frustrating because there are so many help topics from people who are having issues with this OS that I can't find one specific to mine. Also, Microsoft's  support for this is beyond useless.

I can get 8.1 to boot in safe mode, which is how I'm posting this review right now. I can't find a solution to this problem, and I'm at a loss of where to go next. It's extremely disappointing to pay $110 for a piece of software that doesn't work properly. Needless to say, Microsoft is on my list of companies that I will not purchase anything from in the near future.

If you need an OS, just buy Windows 7. Don't make the same mistake I did.
2760647
I have ordered a lot of CD's over the years on Guided Meditations and some are very good, some not so good. This one is the worst I have ever encountered. It is a recording of a live session that Kornfield did and sounds like it. The recording of the CD is an obvious afterthought. Besides the sarcasm, thick New York accent, and flippant attitude hard to find a single redeeming quality that would justify the purchase of this CD. Most of what is covered, is on any other beginning meditation CD with far better audio quality and a much more pleasant delivery. I just tossed this one in the trash.
4735175
This is really god damn bad. You are better off going to fanfiction.net and reading some fanfiction there because that is better than this. If you want a legitimate book experience, this ain't it. Paying for this is like paying for dogs***. Do not buy.
1508597
I rarely do reviews but this pathetic customer service experience is worth telling others about.  I went through so many steps trying to troubleshoot a device that was clearly broken when it arrived (bluetooth would not connect nor sync, even though it works just fine with all my other devices).  There was a 24 hour wait between customer service email responses, with yet more ridiculous lists of things to try (but I still did).  Then there was the email that put me over the top, where they suggested I should BUY three obscure batteries to put in the thing.  Seriously?!  No more time and money to waste on this.  I'm returning it (thank you Amazon) for a full refund  Oh, and when I emailed back that I was giving a one star review on Amazon, I got a response in five minutes.  Too little, too late.
2696055
This is a great example as to when I should have listened to the one star comments. NO SOUND! And yes, I would like my measly fifteen odd dollars back!
4944331
I bought these expecting a high quality surround sound experience similar to that of the Turtle Beach headphones I use with my Xbox and Playstation.  These headphones fail miserably at that.  The "surround sound" comes from poor software emulation.  With or without the surround sound feature enabled, the quality of the speakers in general is underwhelming.  I feel like I got ripped off with these.  Even just getting the drivers and software installed was a huge hassle.  They included a CD with drivers on it, but if your computer lacks a disc drive then you are stuck downloading the drivers from their web server half way across the world (there is no U.S. website).  The 22mb download took over an hour.  These are immediately getting put into a drawer and never used again.  Such a waste of time and money.
1827929
Titanfall is OK, and can be fun, but based on the hype I was truly hoping for a chance to reinvent my personal online experience. And this is because I truly suck compared to most FPS gamers. I am at best an average player that enjoys FPS's but the complete and utter suffering I have endured online during years of MW and COD have resulted in a series of premature abandonments of 60 dollar titles. Finally, for as much slack as it has received,  Ghost's Squads totally saved my butt in online participation as I do OK and don't get slaughtered the minute I enter the field. With all the noise over Titanfall, I had hoped for a fresh chance to compete with all the other kids with its claims of original gameplay, so that I might have another opportunity to be OK online. But without the ability to practice in any way, no single player to try different styles, I still get butchered by the run-and-gunners. Sadly, Ghosts Squads (and the Ripper) still is a better online experience for the average (or below) player.
I will keep trying - I am better at parkouring, better at going up than across, but at the end of the day, competitive play is still the domain of the person who is twitchier than I.

I would like to add that I purchased this from Microsoft because they had a preorder 10 dollar store credit. Please, please never buy from them. I certainly won't again. I never received the credit, and trying to get this from MS has been absolutely painful. Long waits, getting passed around from the store to XBoxLive and back again without any resolution. Just astoundingly awful customer service, remarkably so.

BTW, and this has nothing to do with Amazon or the game other than I will never not buy a video game from Amazon again...finally got someone at the MS store to understand my problem, and she gave me a code after about 45 minutes of her talking to her supervisor. My guess is that she was just having a smoke break, cuz the code was just bogus. Seriously. Will never, ever, purchase from Microsoft again.
2159616
it's the worst experience ever. After I received this USB guess what happen, it turned out it's broken, when I transfer files to the USB it makes a sound which mean it's not in a good condition also when the sound comes which is happening all the time it becomes very slow after that, it stops.
3927981
The Star rating above for "fun" above should read ZERO stars. Sorry. My bad.

I never write reviews for products I have never even tried--unless something that is relevant to other potential buyers prevents me from trying or owning it, in which case a review is necessary to inform potential buyers. That is the case with Red Alert 3, where the Draconian copy protection issue has indeed prevented me from purchasing a game that I had looked forward to owning with nothing but joyful anticipation for a long, long time--until the day it was released, and EA Games insulted my dignity.

In a world where so many people are quick to give up their dignity in favor of "security", "comfort", and in this case, the ability to play a video game, I have no choice but to boycott Red Alert 3 and all other EA Games products.

The executives at EA games have never met me. Why then do they assume that I go to work each day to earn money, spend a large sum of that money on one of their video games, and then GIVE what I just paid for away to thousands of people whom I've never even met on the internet? For that matter, why do they assume that I would ever know HOW to do something like this, if I wanted to? This is an insult to my dignity, and an overestimation of my technical skills, for no good reason.

Furthermore, calling those lawbreakers who DO copy software "pirates" is a profound insult to every victim of real PIRATES throughout history--people who have been disfigured, raped, murdered, and sold into slavery. I'm sorry, but calling a paying customer a potential "pirate" is far more of an injury to me, than enduring the "suffering" of never owning a game that I otherwise would have gladly purchased at full price.

Let your own conscience be your own guide. But make no mistake about it--the DRM issue with Red Alert 3 IS relevant, and it IS grounds for boycotting all EA Games products. Not only has EA Games totally ruined this gaming experience for me, but they have even corrupted my memory of fun and comradery that I enjoyed playing previous versions of Command & Conquer with my friends over the years. EA Game executives have taken so very much away from us. Why then would anyone who possesses even a shred of self-worth even consider purchasing another one of their products?

I give this product 0 stars, because the manufacturer has created conditions that provide zero pleasure from this product.
3953201
Words can't even describe the let down with this situation
763732
I literally did a search to rate this movies so no one else has to waste a second to watch this movie. I watched 30 minutes and that was because I was stuck on the runway for 50 minutes and it was the only movie I downloaded before take off. Horrible movie. I turned it off and went to sleep. Deleted it as soon as I got to my hotel.
1346313
After researching for weeks and thinking that the negative reviews were one off's i decided to pull the trigger and buy this. After receiving, setting up and synching with Penultimate note app my experience only lasted an hour at the most with this product. As it states in a lot of the reviews the writing experience is not good and i could barely write an eligible sentence. The pen kept disconnecting and the power kept shutting off which depends on how you hold a pen in the first place. I really wanted this to work so i could use it on my iPad for notes. But unfortunately after 1 hour of use and trying everything i am returning the product for a full refund.
2075511
I was not familiar with Mr Donohue, but purchased this on reviews elsewhere.

This artist has an obvious command of the acoustic guitar and technical skills. Yet, somehow, the result is LESS than the sum of the parts. None of the pieces sounded smoothly executed - most were filled with fluffed notes, rushed phrases and generally clumsy renditions. Having been a pro musician, I recognized the signs of having a BAD night. It was so painful to experience that I had to fast forward and was not able to bear even one entire tune. It was like watching someone do note for note renditions of tunes that they were reading from tablature.

On top of that, the producers of the video have managed to achieve a remarkable feat - to make a high-end custom guitar (Somogyi) sound like a cheap Yamaha. On my high end system the guitar had mushy lows, brittle highs and a missing midrange. This coupled with no room sound whatsoever creates an effect like the guitar is resting on your head - not pleasant.

Finally, the choice of material - if you don't know anything about this artist, then imagine a surfeit of technique joined together with very trite, standard, middle of the road, extremely safe folk and blues with some Americana thrown in and a dash of faux jazz (think Dixieland instead of swing or bebop). No harmonic sophistication displayed at all!

I do not enjoy slagging products for fun - and I don't want to scare off potential fans for an artist - but this product was a huge disappointment to me. The current standard for steel-string acoustic playing is fairly high, and this does not come close.
4430597
Most uncomfortable gaming experience I have had in my entire life.  It's like being back in high school again, where everyone has has to assert their dominance and make you feel inferior to them.  The first half of the game is all "respect my authoritah!" and "bow before me, and kiss my ring", and "i killed that person you love, let's act out me killing them in front of you to rub it in".  I have been a gamer since the days of the Atari 2600, and have never had a worse gaming experience than this game.  Never has a game been less fun than this one.  There's also the fact that you are playing the story from 4 (?) different people's point of view, so you are jumping all over the place asking yourself "WTF is going on".  It's like the people that wrote this script had ADD.  Then there's the fact that Telltale's game engine is awful.  The graphics are subpar, and there are constant screen freezes where either the game can't handle the mediocre graphics, or it is saving every single button choice you make.  Really takes away from the immersion of the game when you have 10-15 second delays constantly while the game is doing whatever it is that is causes the freezing.  I am slightly more than halfway thru this game, and I would say it is the worst game I have ever played.  I genuinely can't play more than one chapter at a time before I am bored or uncomfortable enough that I need to turn the game off and go play something that is actually fun.  I would not recommend to anyone, even serious Game of Thrones fans.
550537
I'm no idiot, and I can find my way around a computer and setting up various peripherals without any issue, and if there is an issue I'm able to figure it out within a short amount of time by use of manuals, manufacturer website, helpdesk, etc.

Ha! Not with this product.

I've been trying for four days to use this as a bridge between my existing wireless network and my home printer which I cannot have hooked directly to my main wireless router. Simple, right? I read the reviews and everyone loooooves this product, right?

HA!

FOUR DAYS. I have called customer service twice and spent countless hours on the manufacturer's website and no help whatsoever.

Firstly, I'm not trying to be cruel or have an "ugly American" attitude, but the customer service agents I spoke with were completely non-understandable. Absolutely unable to communicate with them. They didn't understand me, and I certainly didn't understand them and both times I ended up hanging up in frustration after 10+ minutes on the phone with them.

Secondly, the instructions that came with the product were laughable. Can't even consider them "instructions". Ikea has more detailed instructions. But, i read the other Amazon reviews and went to the website. Slightly more helpful, and the disc that came with the router was laughably translated to English. One line said "The an access of the option for the password, what is needed for." WHAT THE EFF DOES THAT MEAN?

The password and SSID are printed in -4 font on the back of the router, which leads to hours of fun as you try to decipher if that number with the smudged ink is a 5, a 6, or an S. Is that a 1, an I, or an L? Who knows? Are your settings wrong, or did you enter the wrong password & ID? Who knows?! That's part of the fun...spending hours (literally) entering every possible combination of 5, 6, and S's, L, I, i, and 1's, O and 0's...oh the hours I could have spent feeding the hungry, or training my cats, or solving the world's most pressing mathematical problems. Nope! I'm deciphering 5's and S's.

Despite attempting every. single. option given (straight up router, access point, bridge, client, AP, repeater), I could never get this to work. Not even I disabled my primary wireless router and attempted to use this as the main router.

I am left with the conclusion that this product doesn't work. Just plain ol doesn't work. Rebooting, and rebooting and rebooting, Dozens of IP addresses and AP address and MAC addresses entered, password after password, frustratingly non-understandable customer service and "I'd laugh if I weren't about to throw this router through the window" translated websites. Doesn't matter. The product is faulty, will be returned and I will not be ordering another one.

Non-techy's beware when a large proportion of user comments come from people who preface their reviews with "I'm an IT Professional..." or "I've been working with computers since I got my first Commodore 64..", this may not be a product for normal, non techy (even if you know your way around computers and electronics) people.
4027932
Games, like every form of entertainment, are subjective so I would never tell anyone not to at least try something out.  I came really close this time.  Lets start with the load time--this practically cripples the game and makes the whole experience annoying.  The graphics, though not a big deal since really this game is for those into the CB series, did not impress me.  Movement of the characters has an annoyingly N64 like feel to it.  This was my second attempt at getting into the CB series and I think it will be my last.  Those into the series, which I am not, may find something appealing about it although I'm not sure what.