I am triggered by the misuse of "revert". It means "return the way it was" not "respond".

Handsomedan:

 

Eva888:

 

Bought three bottles of extra virgin olive oil online. Bottles arrived but the labels look like they had been put on by a child lots of bubbles and not professional, thus suspect bottles have been filled here in NZ and possibly diluted with cheaper seed oil.  Have now put a glass of it in the fridge to see if it coagulates as genuine olive oil does. If it doesn’t what should my next step be. 

 

I think the next step is dependent on the test results...

 

Sometimes the labels can be a bit over enthusiastic . 

Purchased a bottle of Pams Extra virgin olive oil.  Said so on the label, thought I'd give it a crack,  Nigel.

Taste test.  Bitter, slimey.  Blech. 

Took it back, i said it was rancid. Got refund. Remaining bottles still on shelf ..

The absolute debacle that is screenconnect in the last 3 months.

Handsomedan:

 

Eva888:

 

Bought three bottles of extra virgin olive oil online. Bottles arrived but the labels look like they had been put on by a child lots of bubbles and not professional, thus suspect bottles have been filled here in NZ and possibly diluted with cheaper seed oil.  Have now put a glass of it in the fridge to see if it coagulates as genuine olive oil does. If it doesn’t what should my next step be. 

 

I think the next step is dependent on the test results...

 

Pleased to say that the olive oil I tested went cloudy and almost solid in the fridge in 24 hours so my suspicions fell short. Of course it’s not a definitive scientific test but have had others that leave a percentage of seed oil on top that stays liquid. Honestly if you saw the labels they were badly puckered which is very unusual and thus raised questions. 

Eva888:

 

Pleased to say that the olive oil I tested went cloudy and almost solid in the fridge in 24 hours so my suspicions fell short. Of course it’s not a definitive scientific test but have had others that leave a percentage of seed oil on top that stays liquid. Honestly if you saw the labels they were badly puckered which is very unusual and thus raised questions.

 

You are right to be sceptical. Counterfeit food is big business.

If it was a limited production of olive oil it is very likely hand labelled. I don't know olive oil prices but a friend owned a small vineyard in Martinborough. If you couldn't produce wine that sold for a premium price you couldn't compete in the (at the time) $12 - $15 range as it cost about $8 to bottle and label.

elpenguino:

 

Eva888:

 

Pleased to say that the olive oil I tested went cloudy and almost solid in the fridge in 24 hours so my suspicions fell short. Of course it’s not a definitive scientific test but have had others that leave a percentage of seed oil on top that stays liquid. Honestly if you saw the labels they were badly puckered which is very unusual and thus raised questions.

 

 

You are right to be sceptical. Counterfeit food is big business.

 

The olive oil trade is known to be rife with fraudsters...

https://www.euronews.com/culture/2024/01/15/olive-oil-scams-are-proliferating-how-do-you-spot-a-fake-extra-virgin 

The job all procrastinators hate. I have to spend hours sorting gmail storage which has given me 28 days to fix or lose access. I had already spent time going through old photos that I only found by searching by year back to 2006 and since then it seems to have triggered the 'your storage is full,' messages the same day, even though I had deleted quite a lot. Hoping I can download many of those older photos to a laptop and then delete off Google. 

I would be happy to pay Google a one off fee for a set amount of storage but that’s not an option. I don’t want monthly payments going out. 

@Eva888:

 

The job all procrastinators hate. I have to spend hours sorting gmail storage which has given me 28 days to fix or lose access. I had already spent time going through old photos that I only found by searching by year back to 2006 and since then it seems to have triggered the 'your storage is full,' messages the same day, even though I had deleted quite a lot. Hoping I can download many of those older photos to a laptop and then delete off Google.

 

I would be happy to pay Google a one off fee for a set amount of storage but that’s not an option. I don’t want monthly payments going out. 

 

Have you deleted the Recycle Bin contents in both Gmail and Google Photos?

Eva888:

 

The job all procrastinators hate. I have to spend hours sorting gmail storage which has given me 28 days to fix or lose access. I had already spent time going through old photos that I only found by searching by year back to 2006 and since then it seems to have triggered the 'your storage is full,' messages the same day, even though I had deleted quite a lot. Hoping I can download many of those older photos to a laptop and then delete off Google. 

 

I would be happy to pay Google a one off fee for a set amount of storage but that’s not an option. I don’t want monthly payments going out. 

 

I relented and paid. My time is more valuable to me than the cost of a years subscription. It's not the cheapest way to solve it, but time and convenience, ended up winning the day for me. 

networkn:

 

Eva888:

 

The job all procrastinators hate. I have to spend hours sorting gmail storage which has given me 28 days to fix or lose access. I had already spent time going through old photos that I only found by searching by year back to 2006 and since then it seems to have triggered the 'your storage is full,' messages the same day, even though I had deleted quite a lot. Hoping I can download many of those older photos to a laptop and then delete off Google. 

 

I would be happy to pay Google a one off fee for a set amount of storage but that’s not an option. I don’t want monthly payments going out. 

 

 

I relented and paid. My time is more valuable to me than the cost of a years subscription. It's not the cheapest way to solve it, but time and convenience, ended up winning the day for me. 

 

 

 

I am very tempted to purchase since I now see they have a yearly payment option, however, I also use Apple devices that are running out of storage and don't want two subscriptions.

Have spent a few hours deleting old photos and videos and emptying bins. Standing at 94% full, sigh. 

When I opened gmail on the laptop and tried to sign in, it would only send a verification notification via its App on my devices…which I don’t have loaded, I have the Apple Mail app instead. Therefore I didn’t get the verification and couldn’t sign in. 

Luckily remembered I had downloaded ten Google back up codes before a trip and could use these. I strongly recommend anyone with a gmail account to get a set of these codes, especially when travelling where the risk of getting locked out is greatest. 

If you enable mfa using an Authenticator app you can use that instead of a verification notification. 

It’s what I do because I don’t have notifications enabled on any of my Google apps. 

Customers that think "not letting me log in" is an error message and "I know what my password is" is an answer to checking "Have you reset your password like asked?"

Finding that someone has entered product codes into an excel sheet with a backslash instead of a forwardslash and their reason was that it was dividing the numbers if they used a forwardslash. FFS these people end up employed.

richms:

Finding that someone has entered product codes into an excel sheet with a backslash instead of a forwardslash and their reason was that it was dividing the numbers if they used a forwardslash. FFS these people end up employed.