I've been investigating this scam since September 23, and here's what I found! Enjoy! 🔔Also, subscribe and stay tuned for my FINAL episode of 2023 on December 29! I'll tell you the story of the OUYA video game console, which was one of the most successful Kickstarter campaigns in history, but it also was a huge flop!
I'm actually almost as intrigued by the counterfeit postage as I am by the air freshener pretending to be something else! How in the world did it get delivered at all if the postage was fake?
They tell the addressee to pay to collect from the mail office. I’ve had it once where someone sent something without sufficient postage. But different countries and situations might have different processes.
Very possible they put enough real postage to cover standard delivery and faked it to look like it had priority tracking postage. The handler probably saw the fake and just downgraded it.
@@Xorthis They put a chinese dodgy tracking no. which no country recognises, but as china mail is subsidised the economy mail eventually gets through,,,most of the time. ha.
This has happened to me before, the reason your package took a month is because they used a fake label, got caught, probably got sent back to them and then they had to use real postage to send it to you.
It probably got sent from China. I wonder if they were in another box to cover up what they actually are sending. I think we can guess that this is one of those dropship products since there are multiple pages on Social Media sites promoting this air freshener with false advertising. lol The part where they left that one graphic that said it's an air freshener when they're trying to advertise it as a snow melter.
@@brandonroeder2461 There is a common expression: 能骗就骗 ("If you can cheat, then cheat"). Technically, it is a negative remark. In practice, it has become a...common expression in China. And, apparently, some people in China actually seem to be afraid to "lose face" if they are caught *not* scamming the shit out of everyone.
This device does obay the laws of thermoflask. It simply has a concealed, mil-spec, nanotechnology thermo nuclear reactor that absorbs heat energy from the quantum realm and isolates the hydrogen atoms in the snow build up, thus converting it into pure oxygen which is what freshens the air in your car as it melt the snow. It’s basic science really!
We just went from "Is Bikenda a scam?" to "How does a microwave work?" in 10 minutes. I love this channel. EDIT: Just saw the video ad with the Thomas and Friends clips on a website. Maybe someday your video will catch them red-handed and they will remove the ads.
I saw Big Clive take a couple of these apart, and I think they're kinda neat for what they actually are, which is to say, air fresheners. I almost wanna get one.
And that’s why this is so bizarre, they have a functional and nifty-looking air freshener they could sell legitimately (though perhaps use your own essential oils…)… but instead decide to actually *remove* the functionality and attribute super natural powers to it, for the double whammy of uselessness.
just grab air wick vent plugs 💁🏻♀️ existing cheap brand you slop it into the already existing ducts in your dashboard, and it just runs wind through as you drive - or, turn on the vents. sets you back less than the price of a hamburger
You can get these for about the same price I think, as long as you're not buying them from a scammer. Honestly, it'd be more or less like one of those hula girl dash ornaments for me, less about the function and more about the aesthetic.
I actually kind of like the design as an air freshener. Especially since you can use your own oils. Looks like a fun little thing to have on your dashboard. Its so funny these scamers decided to do this with it! Thanks for your deep investigation Edit: lmao at your reaction to the smell of the oil that came with the "real" product!
@@brandonroeder2461 I wanna say it's worth more than that at least because it comes with oils which can be spendy by themselves depending on the oil and quality, I actually thought it was legit a really cool idea. I think his reaction to the oils might be a cultural thing where maybe they really like some stronger more pungent scents in China, it could be he added too much, maybe it's supposed to just saturate the porous wood and release more slowly. I'd say $10 minimum with oils, maybe $3 without. That also looks like cedar, that alone when fresh might leave a scent and cedar is one of my favorites, you could always get a cedar oil too.
That's the thing with essential oils. They're highly concentrated so they're supposed to be diffused, not smelt up close. And don't forget the only reason they're called essential is because they have the "essence" of whatever they claim, not because they're actually essential (in the common meaning) to anything.
I saw this ad a month ago and laughed at it. No way it was going to melt snow. I also knew that car looked familiar. I remember that episode of ChrisFix
Just a heads up… whenever something says it ships in a certain amount of time, that is not referring to the amount of time it’s going to take for that product to reach your door… that estimate is the amount of time it’s going to take for the product to leave THEIR doors… this is pretty much a universal truth🤷♂️
This this this. Almost no one understands what the processing time is. At the very least it's "we have 1000 orders ahead of yours to ship before we ship yours" assuming everything is already ready and in stock. Which at minimum requires printing off a packing slip, a shipping label, packing the item and labeling it and tossing it into the mail bin.
I ordered a camera made in Japan once, years ago. They said it would take about thirty days, ground ship only. Shipped within 24 hours. On the 29th day it came! Here I thought customs would have it for three months.
I saw an ad for one of those scam superflashlights yesterday, and I kid you not, one of the clips they used was someone's TH-cam video of a flashlight accidentally blowing up an airplane mid-flight! I'm dead serious!
Hey Ken, if you want a good ice scraper, look for a brass ice scraper. The brass is soft enough that it won't scratch glass and thin enough that it forms to the curve of the windshield. I've been using one for years in MN winters and will never go back to the plastic ones. It even works great for thin frost if you don't want to wait for the defroster. Just keep in mind that the brass can scratch paint or damage trim so only use it on the windows.
Fun fact: 93.72% of all units went to TH-camrs whose audiences don't need to be told, like EEVBlog and Big Clive. For fragrance I recommend WD-40. It smells divine.
@@tomkroebel4936 WD-40 was one of two parts of an easter-egg in my comment that so far no one has pointed out. I suppose I should give it a few million years. In fact, I should ask one of these new smart artificial computer machines to spot it, to see if they've been fed quality entertainment.
Thanks crazy Ken!!! I was about to buy a few of these things because I just hate the thought of having to Snobrūm a few inches of snow off of my Blazer one more time. I figured if one was good, then three must work 3× better. One in the front on the dashboard, One stuck to the overhead console for the back seat, and a third one stuck to the lift glass. Thank you again, for taking one for the team! /s
@BrilliantDesignOnline Yep, I liked that one too. MY last one by that name lasted around eight seasons. My current one, called a SnowJoe is still going strong after six years, and I'm starting on its 7th season now. As far as not falling apart and the foam shredding, nothing yet. It's right on par with my old SnowBrum. I like Snow Joe more though, because of its poles and its stowage. It has three extensions... the one that threads into the broom, a second that acts as an extender, and the third that goes on the very end with a pretty decent basic scraper. When it comes time for stowage, it breaks down into the three poles, which all fit on top of the broom into a set of smallish plastic clips, which stays attached to the top of the broom.
Ken's video answers his own question about what does it smell like -- at 2:27 the fourth ad states "Every breath as if in the forest. Turbine active fragrance, plant aldehyde removal fresh air." Seems like if they are going to include this in their ad, they should hype as an additional feature -- freshen your air as you remove snow.
My mother bought me one of these about 3 weeks ago. I can testify that it (1) does not melt anything. (2) Does freshen the air. (3) Does not work when it is overly cloudy. Like on a snowy day. Fortunate for me I live in an area where the sun shines almost all year so the car stays nice and fresh smelling.
This fourth ad is clearly just trying to make people think that fugly spin top works the same way as a microwave: generating heat through violent molecular acceleration 12:56 Edit: I CALLED IT!
My mother ordered one of those... I filed a complaint with PayPal before the thing even arrived, stating that it's a scam, the seller just agreed to the request, refunding the money. The thing has arrived despite the refund, and of course doesn't do shit, doesn't even spin in direct sunlight for some reason.
Maybe there is a version of this product that ships with a slug of plutonium instead of the wood puck? Only way I could imagine it having any impact on the snow / ice. Keep up the great work Ken 😀👍
A tiny slug of enriched unobtainium, and some clever little self assembling von numman machine processors that build into a nanofactory that makes picotech bots out of atmospheric elements, running around all over your car, finding and burning water molecules one at a time into hydrogen and free oxygen, and then fill your fuel tank with hydrogen. 😂 I might read too much SF maybe.
Ken should have repeated the test after pouring all of the perfume over the wood puck and then igniting it ... I bet it would have at least set the cars interior on fire and thus melt the snow! ;-)
I love your sweater. I initially thought, "Oh, nice Christmas sweater!", thinking it was just light blue (for the winter cold), white for snow and green because...it's a Christmas color. And then I looked harder and about died laughing 😂
Just a tip, a push broom is great for moving large amounts of snow off the top of a car quickly. I use that for heavy snowfalls before using the regular scraper/brush.
You're lucky the "product" was delivered. I looked up counterfeit postage, they consider it to be "abandoned" and it's up to the post office if they choose to deliver it or not. Not surprised this thing isn't worth the plastic it's made from as far as a snow removal device. Do like the design of the proper air freshener. Also, love the "Bliss" ugly sweater, was going to buy one for my office party but they were sold out by then.
In the states, the USPS will either: 1. Deliver the package but not show any tracking information Or 2. Seize the package and refuse delivery and pickup at no charge to the recipient, however the USPS urges them to get a refund from the seller
Here's an old school "hack" to clean snow off your car a lot faster: use a construction broom (a.k.a. push-type, those with a 45 degrees angled head and stiff plastic bristles). Preferably a new one, as you really don't want to rub dust and dirt all over the paint, also better with a wooden handle so you can easily cut it down to fit into the trunk.
My wife actually bought one of these. It works pretty well as an air freshener IF the windshield is clear of ice and snow so that sunlight can shine on it. Doesn't do anything for melting snow or defrosting anything.
Gonna have to send your wife to a re-education camp, sadly; say Honey, since you fell for this, you will now have to binge watch EVERY Crazy Ken video in one shot.
⚠️Seen in the beginning of the video is the opportunity Rover on Mars the opportunity rover lasted from 2004 to 2018 Alyssa was the spirit rover which they identical lasted for 2004 to 2009. Obviously that’s kind of a bit weird showing the Mars expiration rovers on there.
The spaceheater PSA is important! I had an opposite situation happen, in that it wasn't a space heater, but a 1.5kw portable AC unit. I was in a hotel at a time all their rooms were booked in a tropical climate. The room AC was broken and the room was swelteringly hot. The hotel had no spare room to move me to, so provided a stand up portable AC unit. They plugged it into an extension cord... all was well for about 5 minutes, until the extension cord started to melt and release its emergency alarm smoke into the room. Thank goodness we were awake when it happened as the cord could have easily reached the ignition temp of the floor it was on...
Living in Key West I bought one for my car and the car has never been this ice free or smelled so nice ever before! The coconut scent really drowns out the scent of the decaying sargassum!
I saw something like this earlier last night, except instead you put it in your house and it “would” make the entire house 40 degrees in 10 seconds supposedly
I remember seeing ads for this not too long ago and I looked it up myself. I wanted to see if there was more information on their website, cause I hate scraping snow off the car. I figured it was too good to be true, especially because they never actually showed the thing working.
I glanced past this product the other day and just thought it was a circular ice scraper. Never would I have imagined they were claiming it magically removes snow.
BUT! Can you get a 1TB Bikenda??? and it is only 46.97, and as we all sense, that is a total bargain! I even gave them a tip: Never wear plaid with stripes; I know, I am just generous like that. So I bought a few and placed them in my car; I was simply amazed when not only all the snow off my car melted, but every single bit of snow in Montana! You know, I don't always by products from China, but when I do, I always buy gfhdsfgtjhdvvhjg. BTW, where DO we get this counterfeit postage? And just say NO to molecule violence. Golly, THANKS Ken!
If you want to melt snow, spread a black plastic trash bag on top of it and give sunshine a day to work. Black absorbs energy from sunlight. Energy melts snow. Slowly. But it works. One can also spread a black plastic trash bag on the car windshield when snow is in the forecast, and that makes it easy to just peel the snow off along with the plastic after it falls.
You can use an extension cord with a space heater if the wire in the cord is an appropriate gauge. A 10 gauge wire extension cord is perfectly safe to use it’s good up to 30 amps and home space heaters aren’t allowed to pull that much current even if they have access to the necessary voltage. Even a heavy duty worksite heater can use a 10 gauge cord. As long as the breaker trips before the cord reaches its current capacity it’s not a problem.
Apparently household microwaves don't heat ice even though they heat water, and the reason has to do with not being able to resonate the molecules of frozen water. My guess is that this is what they were referring to by "able to vibrate water even at the freezing point". It's still clearly not true, but maybe that is why they claimed it.
Thanks for taking the time to expose these crooks. Its fun to watch how foolish these products can be. If it doesn't feel right, it probably isn't right.
It totally works, I left mine in my car and 2-3 days later all the snow melted off completely! It was tough to adjust to driving to work with a foot of snow on the windshield for those days, but I never saw any police around me while I was driving so I think I did a good job of it!
Well, if you are really literal about it, they're correct, to a miniscule extent. Anything dark is going to warm up in the sunlight. A fraction of a degree. And if it spins, that is going to move air around. A very slight breeze at best. So they're not wrong. Not that it is going to melt a windshield of snow.
Hey Ken. Be careful sniffing random dropper bottles. One of our security team confiscated a small dropper bottle from a punter, opened it and took a sniff. They ended up in first aid because it was Amyl Nitrate (popper).
Fact check. If you place these things all over your car snow won't be able to stick to the surface of your car. It'll stick to the snow melter instead. With the sun activated spinning action it'll fling the snow off. You're welcome 😁
Love this guy! Reminds me so much of the Chris Farley character in the 1995 comedy classic, “Tommy Boy.” Enjoy Kenny Boy’s great comedy chops while learning a valuable lesson. I haven’t yet learned that lesson, but I’m sure it’s just me. I might hazard a guess that the underlying theme is, “Don’t buy scam products because they’re likely scam products!” A big thumbs up 👍 for Ken, a contender for first place in my TH-cam, ‘The Journey is the Reward’ category!
It takes 334 Joules for each gram of snow to melt or 334 kJ to melt a kilogram of snow. Unless developers invented compact fusion cells, It’s impossible to produce such quantities of energy from tiny solar panel the device have. Case closed.
It's amazing that when you really think about it..if it's solar powered how the hell would it work if the windows are covered with.. idk... SNOW?! I really wonder how people fall for something like this though..
As a mail carrier, yeah counterfeit postage of cheap Chinese crap has been a real problem these past several years. It was super bad around 3 years ago, but it still happens. Most of it comes out of California or Texas. They edit a label together using a real barcode from a completely different package in the same general area so it gets shipped to the right sorting plant, and the return addresses are all bogus too, usually shipped out from Airbnb locations so our only real option is to deliver it. We used to collect postage on delivery which was lousy for the person who got scammed, but now we're just eating the costs I'm guessing since we have it more clamped down on than a few years ago.
Essential oils nerd here, the reason the lemon orange smells like solvents is because it mostly is a solvent. Limonene or dipenteneis the primary smelly chemical in most citrus peels and also used as an industrial solvent, flavor additive, gallstone dissolving agent, insecticide/insect repellent, as well as many more uses. It is not meant to be smelled directly like that, rather diluted and put into a diffuser to fill a whole room with a fresh citrus scent. One drop of pure lemon peel extract should be enough to scent a medium room, multiple would probably leave you choking.
The question is, Why does TH-cam allow these short scammy products to be advertised before the videos we watch? I personally report and block the ads that advertise products like this.
16:24 this PSA only applies to usa and other places with similarly lacking regulations, and potentially to imported equipment but you shouldn't ve importing things like extension leads and power boards
I'm from the UK, and the same warnings definitely apply here as well. Although our present outlet standards (BS1362, 1950s) are newer than NEMA 5-15, we still have the same problems when it comes to overloaded extension cables and power strips. 🔥 „Daisy chained“ power strips are a common cause of electrical fires in British homes, and especially in cases where several daisy-chained cords terminate at a cluster of convection heaters! ♨
@@SkigBiggler then I feel like that wouldn't be up to regulations, but I'm aussie not uk so I don't actually know them, but I'd assume if regulations state it needs a fuse it only makes sense it would also state that the fuse needs to be the first thing that would burn out.
This was hilarious. I've seen this on my facebook few months ago. I literally left bunch of comments telling people don't buy this scam. This false advertisement BS. It's only a air freshener. And at least you confirmed my suspicions
16:30 actually you can. The issue? You need to assemble the extension cord for space heater yourself and make sure it has the correct gauge to handle the wattage, or alternatively buy an industrial one which has correct gauge. I made one for my washing machine with thick wire gauge and it worked fine ever since.
I had my heater connected to a "smart" outlet rated for outdoor use for about 4 years. I have yet to die. But yes, in general, only connect heaters directly to the wall outlet. Bonus points of you use the outlet with the sideways thing.
In case you haven't taken this on already, please expose the ridiculous claims made by makers of GMRS walkie talkies. The claims of 26 mile range are patently false outside of some rare case like summit-to-summit with nothing to block the signal. By the way, your pace and delivery is top notch - you're a Myth Buster for the 2020's!
This video did such a number on Ken that even his humor wasn’t left untouched. Thats how you know (insert company name here) is bad Edit: i did not know -you could do this- by inserting a dash at the end of each sentence
Damn that's a sweet ass shirt. Love that you've created this cool niche in the crowded review space. Another banger. I can't believe these mfs stole ChrisFix footage, somebody should spray some Soapy Wader in their eyes
I love how I see an online advertisement and think huh yeah the things probably a scam and then a Computer Clan video comes out proving it's a scam. My shit radar is getting pretty good
I kind of want to get this, for the air freshener portion obviously. I could use something like that in my car since the essential oils things last a lot longer and are more reusable than buying little trees.
Reason why fires happen due to extension cords is because most people do not use buy the appropriate wattage extension cord. I still would not use an extension cord for heaters the reason why fires happen is because of the heater being on all the time which requires a constant flow of electricity, so therefore the plug in a heater and b whenever you buy an extension cord, always make sure it can meet or exceed your voltage needs
This product is still available on Amazon with 5-star reviews. The reviews mention the nice additional feature of an air freshener. Such BS and Amazon doesn’t care do they
And big clive made a video about those 2 days before that video, is this like some coordinated effort to spread awareness about these things or something?? Like are they going to have creators release videos about these products every other day?
I've been investigating this scam since September 23, and here's what I found! Enjoy! 🔔Also, subscribe and stay tuned for my FINAL episode of 2023 on December 29! I'll tell you the story of the OUYA video game console, which was one of the most successful Kickstarter campaigns in history, but it also was a huge flop!
This video was great
BigCliveDotCom did this 5 days ago
Holy cow, this is amazing. When is the next video?
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In reality it's a neutron source, the center is plutonium. Perfectly legitimate
I'm actually almost as intrigued by the counterfeit postage as I am by the air freshener pretending to be something else! How in the world did it get delivered at all if the postage was fake?
It got sent back to them and they used real postage the second time. Only explanation
They tell the addressee to pay to collect from the mail office. I’ve had it once where someone sent something without sufficient postage. But different countries and situations might have different processes.
Maybe more expensive to send it back to China?
Very possible they put enough real postage to cover standard delivery and faked it to look like it had priority tracking postage. The handler probably saw the fake and just downgraded it.
@@Xorthis They put a chinese dodgy tracking no. which no country recognises, but as china mail is subsidised the economy mail eventually gets through,,,most of the time. ha.
This has happened to me before, the reason your package took a month is because they used a fake label, got caught, probably got sent back to them and then they had to use real postage to send it to you.
It probably got sent from China. I wonder if they were in another box to cover up what they actually are sending. I think we can guess that this is one of those dropship products since there are multiple pages on Social Media sites promoting this air freshener with false advertising.
lol The part where they left that one graphic that said it's an air freshener when they're trying to advertise it as a snow melter.
Which is just amazing considering how cheap drop shipping is from China. They couldn't afford that after selling these for >$50 after tax?!😂
@@brandonroeder2461 There is a common expression: 能骗就骗 ("If you can cheat, then cheat").
Technically, it is a negative remark. In practice, it has become a...common expression in China. And, apparently, some people in China actually seem to be afraid to "lose face" if they are caught *not* scamming the shit out of everyone.
@@klausstock8020 With a philosophy like that it's usually not long before they start eating their own.
@@MrStringybarkhave you been reading Lu Xun?
We OBEY the second law of thermodynamics in this house young man !
This device does obay the laws of thermoflask. It simply has a concealed, mil-spec, nanotechnology thermo nuclear reactor that absorbs heat energy from the quantum realm and isolates the hydrogen atoms in the snow build up, thus converting it into pure oxygen which is what freshens the air in your car as it melt the snow. It’s basic science really!
An air freshener that uses NASA technology to melt snow? Seems legit, NASA means smart people!
Maybe NASA used them to freshen the air if astronauts farted in the spacecraft cockpit.
@@SkyChaserComthey learned their lesson after that poop got loose on the Apollo
We dont want space snow
Actually, space exploration is a stupid waste of billions of dollars of money that is better used anywhere else.
Or people who make videos weirdly geared towards kids
We just went from "Is Bikenda a scam?" to "How does a microwave work?" in 10 minutes.
I love this channel.
EDIT: Just saw the video ad with the Thomas and Friends clips on a website.
Maybe someday your video will catch them red-handed and they will remove the ads.
But like ... If this worked it would turn your car into a human sized microwave.
I saw Big Clive take a couple of these apart, and I think they're kinda neat for what they actually are, which is to say, air fresheners. I almost wanna get one.
EEVBlog also reviewed them, Big Clive was first. There was no snow on his car, so clearly it does work in Australian summer time 🤪.
And that’s why this is so bizarre, they have a functional and nifty-looking air freshener they could sell legitimately (though perhaps use your own essential oils…)… but instead decide to actually *remove* the functionality and attribute super natural powers to it, for the double whammy of uselessness.
just grab air wick vent plugs 💁🏻♀️
existing cheap brand
you slop it into the already existing ducts in your dashboard, and it just runs wind through as you drive - or, turn on the vents.
sets you back less than the price of a hamburger
You can get these for about the same price I think, as long as you're not buying them from a scammer. Honestly, it'd be more or less like one of those hula girl dash ornaments for me, less about the function and more about the aesthetic.
I actually kind of like the design as an air freshener. Especially since you can use your own oils. Looks like a fun little thing to have on your dashboard.
Its so funny these scamers decided to do this with it! Thanks for your deep investigation
Edit: lmao at your reaction to the smell of the oil that came with the "real" product!
It's one cool little air freshener for sure, but I wouldn't pay anything over like $3 for it.😅
@@brandonroeder2461 I wanna say it's worth more than that at least because it comes with oils which can be spendy by themselves depending on the oil and quality, I actually thought it was legit a really cool idea. I think his reaction to the oils might be a cultural thing where maybe they really like some stronger more pungent scents in China, it could be he added too much, maybe it's supposed to just saturate the porous wood and release more slowly. I'd say $10 minimum with oils, maybe $3 without.
That also looks like cedar, that alone when fresh might leave a scent and cedar is one of my favorites, you could always get a cedar oil too.
That's the thing with essential oils. They're highly concentrated so they're supposed to be diffused, not smelt up close. And don't forget the only reason they're called essential is because they have the "essence" of whatever they claim, not because they're actually essential (in the common meaning) to anything.
They offered Animal an endorsement deal but he threw his drumsticks at them hence the "not tested on animal".
I saw this ad a month ago and laughed at it. No way it was going to melt snow. I also knew that car looked familiar. I remember that episode of ChrisFix
You could even see his logo there
Which episode was it?
Just a heads up… whenever something says it ships in a certain amount of time, that is not referring to the amount of time it’s going to take for that product to reach your door… that estimate is the amount of time it’s going to take for the product to leave THEIR doors… this is pretty much a universal truth🤷♂️
This this this.
Almost no one understands what the processing time is. At the very least it's "we have 1000 orders ahead of yours to ship before we ship yours" assuming everything is already ready and in stock. Which at minimum requires printing off a packing slip, a shipping label, packing the item and labeling it and tossing it into the mail bin.
I ordered a camera made in Japan once, years ago. They said it would take about thirty days, ground ship only. Shipped within 24 hours. On the 29th day it came! Here I thought customs would have it for three months.
I saw an ad for one of those scam superflashlights yesterday, and I kid you not, one of the clips they used was someone's TH-cam video of a flashlight accidentally blowing up an airplane mid-flight!
I'm dead serious!
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Hey Ken, if you want a good ice scraper, look for a brass ice scraper. The brass is soft enough that it won't scratch glass and thin enough that it forms to the curve of the windshield.
I've been using one for years in MN winters and will never go back to the plastic ones. It even works great for thin frost if you don't want to wait for the defroster.
Just keep in mind that the brass can scratch paint or damage trim so only use it on the windows.
Snow Brum
I remember bigclive did disassemble those things, and its just a solar powered spinny car perfume.
What is concerning is that Amazon are allowing vendors to sell those things there and TH-cam showing promotional videos of that product.
False. This product works great and creates an immense amount of energy! In fact, I use it to power my Iron Man suit!!
Fun fact: 93.72% of all units went to TH-camrs whose audiences don't need to be told, like EEVBlog and Big Clive.
For fragrance I recommend WD-40. It smells divine.
WD-40 is the ONLY fragrance for real engineers!
@@tomkroebel4936 WD-40 was one of two parts of an easter-egg in my comment that so far no one has pointed out. I suppose I should give it a few million years.
In fact, I should ask one of these new smart artificial computer machines to spot it, to see if they've been fed quality entertainment.
Thanks crazy Ken!!! I was about to buy a few of these things because I just hate the thought of having to Snobrūm a few inches of snow off of my Blazer one more time. I figured if one was good, then three must work 3× better. One in the front on the dashboard, One stuck to the overhead console for the back seat, and a third one stuck to the lift glass. Thank you again, for taking one for the team! /s
BTW, Snow Brum is THE BEST for snow off the vehicle, for anyone who does not know, look it up.
@BrilliantDesignOnline
Yep, I liked that one too. MY last one by that name lasted around eight seasons. My current one, called a SnowJoe is still going strong after six years, and I'm starting on its 7th season now. As far as not falling apart and the foam shredding, nothing yet. It's right on par with my old SnowBrum. I like Snow Joe more though, because of its poles and its stowage. It has three extensions... the one that threads into the broom, a second that acts as an extender, and the third that goes on the very end with a pretty decent basic scraper. When it comes time for stowage, it breaks down into the three poles, which all fit on top of the broom into a set of smallish plastic clips, which stays attached to the top of the broom.
Ken's video answers his own question about what does it smell like -- at 2:27 the fourth ad states "Every breath as if in the forest. Turbine active fragrance, plant aldehyde removal fresh air." Seems like if they are going to include this in their ad, they should hype as an additional feature -- freshen your air as you remove snow.
My mother bought me one of these about 3 weeks ago. I can testify that it (1) does not melt anything. (2) Does freshen the air. (3) Does not work when it is overly cloudy. Like on a snowy day. Fortunate for me I live in an area where the sun shines almost all year so the car stays nice and fresh smelling.
Super impressed that you were able to line this up with the one day of snowfall!
This fourth ad is clearly just trying to make people think that fugly spin top works the same way as a microwave: generating heat through violent molecular acceleration
12:56 Edit: I CALLED IT!
This is truly the air freshener of all time
And by the way, as an air freshener, I use one on my workbench, but with my OWN type of oils. It works quite well and it looks cool, too.
My mother ordered one of those...
I filed a complaint with PayPal before the thing even arrived, stating that it's a scam, the seller just agreed to the request, refunding the money. The thing has arrived despite the refund, and of course doesn't do shit, doesn't even spin in direct sunlight for some reason.
I' more concerned about Greg, please check on him when can!
Maybe there is a version of this product that ships with a slug of plutonium instead of the wood puck? Only way I could imagine it having any impact on the snow / ice.
Keep up the great work Ken 😀👍
would be to heavy lol ;)
Funny you should mention that, the one I got had a little packet of Thorium powder you dump in the tray.
A tiny slug of enriched unobtainium, and some clever little self assembling von numman machine processors that build into a nanofactory that makes picotech bots out of atmospheric elements, running around all over your car, finding and burning water molecules one at a time into hydrogen and free oxygen, and then fill your fuel tank with hydrogen.
😂 I might read too much SF maybe.
Ken should have repeated the test after pouring all of the perfume over the wood puck and then igniting it ... I bet it would have at least set the cars interior on fire and thus melt the snow! ;-)
I love your sweater. I initially thought, "Oh, nice Christmas sweater!", thinking it was just light blue (for the winter cold), white for snow and green because...it's a Christmas color. And then I looked harder and about died laughing 😂
It’s pure “bliss”
I'd wear it.
Websites are asking for tips now?
Technology has gone too far. We need to shut down the Internet and return to the stone age. I want to be a caveman.
Going clubbing and hair dragging? Count me in!
Those ain't tipping, it is stealing someone's pocket, but in much more legal way
Must be the payment plugin they use, I’ve seen the same tipping prompt in legitimate storefronts.
@@AbeM. Yeah, it looked like the same one I recently saw at a local pizza place.
As soon as I saw that wooden circle piece I knew it's one of those air freshener smell dispenser things.
The molecules move violently... when you throw it in the trash.
Just a tip, a push broom is great for moving large amounts of snow off the top of a car quickly. I use that for heavy snowfalls before using the regular scraper/brush.
What a NASA-level tip
You're lucky the "product" was delivered. I looked up counterfeit postage, they consider it to be "abandoned" and it's up to the post office if they choose to deliver it or not. Not surprised this thing isn't worth the plastic it's made from as far as a snow removal device. Do like the design of the proper air freshener.
Also, love the "Bliss" ugly sweater, was going to buy one for my office party but they were sold out by then.
In the UK, the recipient would have to pay a charge. Counterfeit postage is considered fraud and that carries a potential lengthy prison sentence.
@@tgheretford wait the one who sent it or received it because if its the one who received it WTF punishing the wrong person
@@admiralkaede The one who receives it. £5 charge if I recall correctly.
@@tgheretford that is beyond crazy it just incentivizes the sender to cheap out
In the states, the USPS will either:
1. Deliver the package but not show any tracking information
Or
2. Seize the package and refuse delivery and pickup at no charge to the recipient, however the USPS urges them to get a refund from the seller
Here's an old school "hack" to clean snow off your car a lot faster: use a construction broom (a.k.a. push-type, those with a 45 degrees angled head and stiff plastic bristles). Preferably a new one, as you really don't want to rub dust and dirt all over the paint, also better with a wooden handle so you can easily cut it down to fit into the trunk.
BigClive recently reviewed and reverse engineered one of them
My wife actually bought one of these. It works pretty well as an air freshener IF the windshield is clear of ice and snow so that sunlight can shine on it. Doesn't do anything for melting snow or defrosting anything.
Gonna have to send your wife to a re-education camp, sadly; say Honey, since you fell for this, you will now have to binge watch EVERY Crazy Ken video in one shot.
14:34
*Eats a SunChip realizing that this chip has been in the car for years*
HOO
Love how in that second ad, they even show the side mirror defrosting somehow! Love to know how this incredible technology manages to do that!
Oh shoot Ken got the Bliss sweater.
⚠️Seen in the beginning of the video is the opportunity Rover on Mars the opportunity rover lasted from 2004 to 2018 Alyssa was the spirit rover which they identical lasted for 2004 to 2009. Obviously that’s kind of a bit weird showing the Mars expiration rovers on there.
funny, i saw tylertube review basically the same thing. and he knew it was just an air freshener and added scent to the wooden part.
The spaceheater PSA is important! I had an opposite situation happen, in that it wasn't a space heater, but a 1.5kw portable AC unit.
I was in a hotel at a time all their rooms were booked in a tropical climate. The room AC was broken and the room was swelteringly hot. The hotel had no spare room to move me to, so provided a stand up portable AC unit. They plugged it into an extension cord... all was well for about 5 minutes, until the extension cord started to melt and release its emergency alarm smoke into the room.
Thank goodness we were awake when it happened as the cord could have easily reached the ignition temp of the floor it was on...
I love these investigation videos!
Living in Key West I bought one for my car and the car has never been this ice free or smelled so nice ever before!
The coconut scent really drowns out the scent of the decaying sargassum!
Another masterpiece from the craziest of Ken’s!
ya, that thing was sponsorded on FB in my language, but shows cars in the USA, saying, winter time in the netherlands is harsh !, LOL !
I saw something like this earlier last night, except instead you put it in your house and it “would” make the entire house 40 degrees in 10 seconds supposedly
Every episode is great and you deserve a huge following. Thank you for exposing the BS products in the world.
10:40 Nothing stonger in this world than a Dell Poweredge server rail....
I'm fascinated that you got an alert for counterfeit postage and yet still managed to get it delivered? Wild.
I remember seeing ads for this not too long ago and I looked it up myself. I wanted to see if there was more information on their website, cause I hate scraping snow off the car. I figured it was too good to be true, especially because they never actually showed the thing working.
The air freshener actually seems pretty cool since it spins to waft the smell around you can always buy oils from any store really
If you live in a cold, snowy climate, get yourself a remote starter for your car. Let your car clear itself off while you stay warm inside. 👍
I glanced past this product the other day and just thought it was a circular ice scraper. Never would I have imagined they were claiming it magically removes snow.
BUT! Can you get a 1TB Bikenda??? and it is only 46.97, and as we all sense, that is a total bargain! I even gave them a tip: Never wear plaid with stripes; I know, I am just generous like that.
So I bought a few and placed them in my car; I was simply amazed when not only all the snow off my car melted, but every single bit of snow in Montana! You know, I don't always by products from China, but when I do, I always buy gfhdsfgtjhdvvhjg. BTW, where DO we get this counterfeit postage? And just say NO to molecule violence.
Golly, THANKS Ken!
If you want to melt snow, spread a black plastic trash bag on top of it and give sunshine a day to work. Black absorbs energy from sunlight. Energy melts snow. Slowly. But it works. One can also spread a black plastic trash bag on the car windshield when snow is in the forecast, and that makes it easy to just peel the snow off along with the plastic after it falls.
You can use an extension cord with a space heater if the wire in the cord is an appropriate gauge. A 10 gauge wire extension cord is perfectly safe to use it’s good up to 30 amps and home space heaters aren’t allowed to pull that much current even if they have access to the necessary voltage. Even a heavy duty worksite heater can use a 10 gauge cord. As long as the breaker trips before the cord reaches its current capacity it’s not a problem.
Apparently household microwaves don't heat ice even though they heat water, and the reason has to do with not being able to resonate the molecules of frozen water. My guess is that this is what they were referring to by "able to vibrate water even at the freezing point". It's still clearly not true, but maybe that is why they claimed it.
Ken, you are Da Bomb, Baby ❤I love you mucho. Thanks for doing these videos!! You always make me laugh, Bro!! 😂
I have one of these in every room of my house and cooking has never been any easier!
I think that if there are people stupid enough to believe that that crap can remove snow, they deserve to be scammed.
translation notes: the box reads "dancing car aromatherapy." so it's sorta right.
Thanks for taking the time to expose these crooks. Its fun to watch how foolish these products can be. If it doesn't feel right, it probably isn't right.
One of the most fun I've had watching a video. I cant wait for the next tech shenanigans from you!
It totally works, I left mine in my car and 2-3 days later all the snow melted off completely! It was tough to adjust to driving to work with a foot of snow on the windshield for those days, but I never saw any police around me while I was driving so I think I did a good job of it!
THANK YOU! i have been reporting these ads to youtube but they have been doing nothing about it.
Well, if you are really literal about it, they're correct, to a miniscule extent. Anything dark is going to warm up in the sunlight. A fraction of a degree. And if it spins, that is going to move air around. A very slight breeze at best. So they're not wrong. Not that it is going to melt a windshield of snow.
Hey Ken. Be careful sniffing random dropper bottles. One of our security team confiscated a small dropper bottle from a punter, opened it and took a sniff. They ended up in first aid because it was Amyl Nitrate (popper).
Fact check. If you place these things all over your car snow won't be able to stick to the surface of your car. It'll stick to the snow melter instead. With the sun activated spinning action it'll fling the snow off. You're welcome 😁
Love this guy! Reminds me so much of the Chris Farley character in the 1995 comedy classic, “Tommy Boy.” Enjoy Kenny Boy’s great comedy chops while learning a valuable lesson. I haven’t yet learned that lesson, but I’m sure it’s just me. I might hazard a guess that the underlying theme is, “Don’t buy scam products because they’re likely scam products!”
A big thumbs up 👍 for Ken, a contender for first place in my TH-cam, ‘The Journey is the Reward’ category!
It takes 334 Joules for each gram of snow to melt or 334 kJ to melt a kilogram of snow. Unless developers invented compact fusion cells, It’s impossible to produce such quantities of energy from tiny solar panel the device have. Case closed.
It's amazing that when you really think about it..if it's solar powered how the hell would it work if the windows are covered with.. idk... SNOW?!
I really wonder how people fall for something like this though..
As a mail carrier, yeah counterfeit postage of cheap Chinese crap has been a real problem these past several years. It was super bad around 3 years ago, but it still happens. Most of it comes out of California or Texas. They edit a label together using a real barcode from a completely different package in the same general area so it gets shipped to the right sorting plant, and the return addresses are all bogus too, usually shipped out from Airbnb locations so our only real option is to deliver it. We used to collect postage on delivery which was lousy for the person who got scammed, but now we're just eating the costs I'm guessing since we have it more clamped down on than a few years ago.
Essential oils nerd here, the reason the lemon orange smells like solvents is because it mostly is a solvent. Limonene or dipenteneis the primary smelly chemical in most citrus peels and also used as an industrial solvent, flavor additive, gallstone dissolving agent, insecticide/insect repellent, as well as many more uses. It is not meant to be smelled directly like that, rather diluted and put into a diffuser to fill a whole room with a fresh citrus scent. One drop of pure lemon peel extract should be enough to scent a medium room, multiple would probably leave you choking.
I believe in the product.
I ordered one to be delivered to the sun and, with the benefit of sola power, there is now no snow on the sun.
I honestly hope Chris Fix take some sort of legal action against them for using his footage
you gotta give them credit for having the massive balls to sell you a magical stove knob that melts snow with magical sciency words
The question is, Why does TH-cam allow these short scammy products to be advertised before the videos we watch?
I personally report and block the ads that advertise products like this.
16:24 this PSA only applies to usa and other places with similarly lacking regulations, and potentially to imported equipment but you shouldn't ve importing things like extension leads and power boards
I'm from the UK, and the same warnings definitely apply here as well. Although our present outlet standards (BS1362, 1950s) are newer than NEMA 5-15, we still have the same problems when it comes to overloaded extension cables and power strips. 🔥
„Daisy chained“ power strips are a common cause of electrical fires in British homes, and especially in cases where several daisy-chained cords terminate at a cluster of convection heaters! ♨
@@dieseldragon6756 doesn't the uk have fuses in their plugs? how do you burn a cable with an inline fuse
@@ComfyCherryif the cable has a fuse rated for the correct amperage, but the cable cannot handle it, the cable will become the fuse
@@SkigBiggler then I feel like that wouldn't be up to regulations, but I'm aussie not uk so I don't actually know them, but I'd assume if regulations state it needs a fuse it only makes sense it would also state that the fuse needs to be the first thing that would burn out.
This was hilarious. I've seen this on my facebook few months ago. I literally left bunch of comments telling people don't buy this scam. This false advertisement BS. It's only a air freshener. And at least you confirmed my suspicions
Thanks for watching! And the sad thing is, it’s not even an air freshener! At least the Bikenda isn’t.
I'm under the impression that China has a place called "Usa", so they can say that it's made "in Usa"...
their flags are more red than that of the USSR
Hey now Ken, plastic can be 100% natural, PLA is a bioplastic made from renewable sources, in the case of 3D printers its made from corn iirc
Yeah but this isn’t. : p
It doesn’t look like any PLA printed stuff I’ve ever seen.
16:30 actually you can. The issue? You need to assemble the extension cord for space heater yourself and make sure it has the correct gauge to handle the wattage, or alternatively buy an industrial one which has correct gauge. I made one for my washing machine with thick wire gauge and it worked fine ever since.
I had my heater connected to a "smart" outlet rated for outdoor use for about 4 years. I have yet to die.
But yes, in general, only connect heaters directly to the wall outlet. Bonus points of you use the outlet with the sideways thing.
I see the Linode logo and I go like whoooop that must be Ken!
Big Clive & EEVblog covered this subject nicely
In case you haven't taken this on already, please expose the ridiculous claims made by makers of GMRS walkie talkies. The claims of 26 mile range are patently false outside of some rare case like summit-to-summit with nothing to block the signal. By the way, your pace and delivery is top notch - you're a Myth Buster for the 2020's!
This video did such a number on Ken that even his humor wasn’t left untouched. Thats how you know (insert company name here) is bad
Edit: i did not know -you could do this- by inserting a dash at the end of each sentence
Damn that's a sweet ass shirt. Love that you've created this cool niche in the crowded review space. Another banger. I can't believe these mfs stole ChrisFix footage, somebody should spray some Soapy Wader in their eyes
I'm laughing at the FDA certification
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I've actually seen an ad for this thing and I'm so glad i just ignore them. I'm glad my BS detector is working!
First time I saw an ad for these I said "lets see how long before Krazy Ken does an episode about them!!
😂
I love how I see an online advertisement and think huh yeah the things probably a scam and then a Computer Clan video comes out proving it's a scam. My shit radar is getting pretty good
I kind of want to get this, for the air freshener portion obviously. I could use something like that in my car since the essential oils things last a lot longer and are more reusable than buying little trees.
Reason why fires happen due to extension cords is because most people do not use buy the appropriate wattage extension cord. I still would not use an extension cord for heaters the reason why fires happen is because of the heater being on all the time which requires a constant flow of electricity, so therefore the plug in a heater and b whenever you buy an extension cord, always make sure it can meet or exceed your voltage needs
Solar panel should work well in a car covered by snow 😂
This product is still available on Amazon with 5-star reviews. The reviews mention the nice additional feature of an air freshener. Such BS and Amazon doesn’t care do they
If your car is covered with snow, how does the solar panel work?
It's so funny to see this as a few days ago, EEVblog did a similar video on some "Kinetic Molecular Heater" :^)
And big clive made a video about those 2 days before that video, is this like some coordinated effort to spread awareness about these things or something?? Like are they going to have creators release videos about these products every other day?