u/Thick-Neighborhood91

As the title states... I am stuck in Trumball Valley at the very end of everything.

For context - I quit playing before Trumball became a map you could move to, and i never did my lethal legacies. I took a group through a few nightmare maps to get re-acclimated before I move this group to lethal and do the builder legacy.

I cant get Izzbee and Dr Hoffmans quests to come back. I finished with Tressie and her botany experiments. I helped Mickey complete his redemption arc. RIP Ray Santos....

The last thing that happened was the second part of chatter after I got the code book with Chavez. He said he'd keep it if it means she'll talk to him. So she reaches out and asks if he knows what G-H something was for, he said it was for like, supply drops or something. That was the last of it.

All the plague hearts are gone, there are no infestations, its pretty calm for Nightmare.

I asked google to help me figure it out.

I opened a large slot,

I said NO to the other enclave on the map (cannibals) until they eventually left. They were the only enclave engaging regularly

Ambient stuff is just wandering traders.

I drove all over around the map

I drove up north to their place and traded with them.

I drove to Chavez

I drove to drops of goodies on the map.

I exited multiple times and reloaded.

I am just dicking around waiting for this stupid thing to pop so I can leave and try out my first lethal map. I am about to say F it and forget whatever this Haven device is for.

Ray took over my radio chatter, his story went pretty quickly and then it was just, a random survivor here and there. A mechanic enclave just showed up on the map and I am not interacting with them. I have an allied enclave who supply me ammo since I got here. A new enclave who needed a backup buddy, Mickey, Chavez, the scientists up north, and a neutral enclave who have never said a word to me.

I recruited the backup buddy from that enclave just to get rid of it.

I'd like the achievement, I do have Haven devices in my forever community locker. (I have no idea how unless my forever community that was modded back in 2019 with a cheat facility that can craft any mod in the game - maybe it crafted that for me?) So theoretically I can use one if I wanted that facility but st this point i don't give a darn about it, I just want to finish the map.

Any advice? What else can I try?

Hey folks. I would love some feedback on a really odd situation I've found myself in. I'm going to paste the email I am about to send to customer service I would like to post it here for you (it's at the bottom) but I will explain first. And FYI my review does not mention any health claims or most of what I am about to say to you here here.

TL/DR got original item through vine, paid for more, have an issue I contacted the seller about, then Vine offered me more and now I am stuck in limbo mid-convo with the seller.

I got a bag of Mushroom coffee back in January. It was amazing, the flavor was incredible, it smelled wonderful, and my husband and I definitely noticed a lot of positive changes in our daily lives. We always have a 2nd or 3rd cup of coffee and didn't need it anymore. We both tend to take a mid day nap (I'm a mom and he works really long shifts) but neither of us need those anymore. Digestion was a lot better, when they say mushroom coffee can clean you out, its no joke. Some of those shrooms have been linked to clearing parasites and though I didn't do any lab testing I could definitely see why the claims are there. No jitters, no withdrawals, no negative effects at all. It literally changed our daily lives. We don't drink coffee without it, ever. Neither of us have drank it by itself though, or alone in milk - we add it to our regular coffee.

After vine product #1 we paid for the next 3 bags. I set up a subscription the first time I bought it (#2) and when bag 4 was going to come, I got an email saying it couldn't be processed. The listing was gone, and when I went through my order history, the icon was blank and the OOPS page came up. I was upset, and rightly so. Ryze is all hype and costs twice as much, I couldn't find another product that compared. I was still willing to try others, but we still had half a bag so I waited. Then I got an email confirming my subscription, and the product was back, but as a New to Amazon listing. I was happy it was coming so I didn't give a damn.

However, when I opened the bag, it was so different. It wasn't as dark in color, even the bag was a lighter color. But the smell was different, so was the taste. They had a darker roast of instant coffee added to it, that this bag lacked. The smell wasn't as strong, it looked like a finer powder, vs a more ground coffee look to it. Adding it to our coffee didn't make our coffee as rich as the precious cups. Something was off. So I reached out to the seller, since I just bought this bag. I looked and even had AI look for a way to contact them. There is no company info online, the bag doesn't have company info on it, neither does my old bag but once I noticed that I got pretty concerned... I was able to find them on Instagram though so I sent a message asking what changed. I explained the differences, kept my message real short and sweet. They responded asking for my order information and they'd refund me. I don't want my money back, I want to know what happened. Was this bag a One-Off and the next bag will be back to its old self?

I wrote my review, I listed what I had expected from being a loyal customer repeating my purchase, and then explained what was different. I included photos to compare the bag, front and back, and a comparison of the actual product side by side. I still had some left, thankfully.

And the damn night I reviewed my paid for bag of coffee, RFY had another one. And I absolutely requested it. The next morning it showed up in my reviewed items through vine and the day my review posted, it listed it as a vine review in trade for a free product.

I am in the middle of a conversation with the seller, that had no connection to vine because its a new product on amazon. So I don't know what to do. I still want to know what changed, I still want to express my concerns and find out if this is going to be the new product and I can either deal with it or take my paid for business elsewhere. I probably wont but that's the solution they'd give. "This is what we're doing going forward, like it or leave it." I still have an ongoing subscription to this as well! There is definitely going to be a way for them to know and perhaps trace it to me...

And perhaps they found a more efficient way of manufacturing it, or perhaps they found a cheaper supplier for mushrooms. I don't know but I just wanted to have the conversation, and then decide what I wanted to do next. I feel like I got myself into this mess by requesting another product but how was I to know? And now I don't know what to do going forward. I wanted to ask customer service how to proceed, but they tend to not be able to do much except remove it from my liability/agreement. Is there a different way to contact someone other than VCS for guidance?

What would you do?

(this is the email I was about to send to vcs and I pretty much explained it all in my post but if anyone would word it differently I am open to feedback)

Hello, I need advice on how to proceed with a product I originally got through vine. Order ***

I ordered *** Mushroom coffee through Vine In January. It was incredible and we loved it, so I ordered another bag on my own and paid for it, set up a subscription and have bought 3 more bags. The last bag I got was in the middle of May, and it was different. I had an email saying my subscription couldn't be processed. The entire listing and product no longer existed on amazon. I was so upset - we loved it. But THEN I got another email telling me my subscription had processed, there was a "New to Amazon" listing of the identical product with no reviews. When it arrived, it was noticeably different. It was lighter in color, so was the bag. The smell was different, the taste was different as well. It had a dark roast coffee in it I definitely noticed that the new bag didn't have. I reached out to the company, this new listing had no ties to my vine order so I was coming to them as a new customer who paid for their item. I wanted to know what changed, was there a new manufacturer, a new blend, new ingredients? Why is this different than every other bag I have bought? I had a hard time tracking them down and ended up going through Instagram, as the only source of contact I found. They responded offering me a refund, and an email address to continue the conversation.

Here is my dilemma. The night I wrote my review for the item I paid for, the new one from my subscription, I was later offered the exact same product in my " Recommended for You" tab within Vine. Of course I requested it! The following morning my review posted, and showed that it came from a Vine member in exchange for a free product. I reviewed the one I paid for, but its attached to the new bag through Vine. I am still in the middle of a conversation with the seller, and I do not know how to proceed. As a loyal customer, I still want to know what has changed, but I need advice on how to proceed with this situation. I do not want to violate any agreement I have with Vine and lose my membership, but I still need to know this information as a consumer who did buy their product.

I am in a really strange situation here, and any help you can offer would be sincerely appreciated.

Thank you.

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Hey, so as my title says, my account was flagged for violating Community standards by cybersecurity. The best I can guess is that there was a potential for some fishing scam.

I had entered my daughter into a contest called America's favorite student,. I did a deep dive andit's legit. If they win they get $20,000, fly to Pasadena meet Bill Nye and tour the planetary Society. I had shared the link to her profile so my friends and family could vote several times, several family members and Friends also shared my post. Last night they were all taken down and all of our accounts got flagged, limitations got put on, and we've been putting time out for a month. I did a search for America's favorite student within Facebook and there was a lot a couple of days ago, and I can only find one or two now. It looks like it's platform wide.

The process was you post the link, it shows the profile picture of your student, or your kid whatever, and then someone clicks it. Thdn it takes into a verification page where you log into Facebook. If you're clicking it through Facebook you don't have to put in any information, because you're already logged in. The only way to do one free vote a day is to login through facebook, but anybody could buy votes through donations, and many of my family did this. You don't have to have Facebook to do that. Just to do the free vote every day.

What really stinks is that it started out with almost 42,000 kids. My daughter made it through every round into the quarterfinals, where only 1,042 kids remain. I workef so hard on this for her. I know it's just a contest, but she wanted it and we were really invested. Emotionally not financially.

Anyway, I was just looking for any kind of feedback that might shed some light on why this happened.

I can't seem to add a photo, I'm doing this quickly and from my phone. But I can put them in the comments, "we restricted your content for safety measures because it may not be following our rules".

I couldn't find anything in their rules that said anything about it that made any sense to me, it says that I could have it reviewed in case it was a mistake but we all know that that's a dead end.