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BarkingGhostar

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Monday I placed an order for the UHD Blu-ray box set of Harry Potter. Cheapest price on Amazon was $114, but Amazon was selling it for $1240. I chose Amazon as the seller over their partner. Anyway, was supposed to have gotten here on Wednesday but its not even on a truck out for deliver, but has an Amazon Prime delivery agent TBAxxxxxx tracking number. This evening I go look and find Amazon selling the same damn box set for $72. That's +$50 less. I tried to get a hold of someone to get the price adjusted but the only interaction I could muster was online chat, and they refused. So, I cancelled the original order and placed a new one. Seriously, WTH Amazon? You're late in doing your good deed and follow it up with Go Frack Yourself attitude?


Happy Holidays, NOT!
 

BarkingGhostar

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I''m about to go to bed and Walmart emails saying they cancelled my order do to unusual activity. I order a UHD Blu-ray player from Walmart where they were the seller. This was an item suggested to me that Amazon themselves don't sell, but only their partners who wanted considerably more for it. I used Walmart's guest checkout as I wasn't planning on making any other purchases to warrant setting up a normal account. I just noticed the email. It was still showing as being in stock today and their idea of free delivery was December 7th (more than a week). Yet, they cancelled the order without telling my what was fraudulent. Hell, I used my Costco Visa so maybe they are upset about that?

This holiday online orders has turned into a bullshit show at best.
 

repoman0

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Jun 17, 2010
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Nice .... I'm extremely jealous!

How much did it end up going for?

$809. More than I wanted to spend on a GPU, but I got a lot of use out of the OG 1070 it’s replacing. The card is literally twice as big, pretty absurd

I joined the unofficial microcenter discord channel a few days ago, happened to see some guy report stock in Cambridge. So I got dressed, hopped in the car and had it 15 mins later. They sold the rest 15 minutes after that. But seems like stock might be starting to stabilize a bit, at least at Microcenter stores where bots can’t get them.
 
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sdifox

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but service for 8
 

nutxo

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May 20, 2001
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I spent like 150 bucks last night replacing missing pieces of silverware. Just fucking disappeared. My adult children have no idea where it went....
 

BurnItDwn

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I bought a used Geforce RXT 2060 from a friend who didnt need it any more. Replaced a R9 Fury in my main box since it was struggling with 3440x1440 resolution.
R9 Fury is goin in another box here, replacing a RX470
RX470 is then going in a family members box to replace his ancient old Geforce that struggles to play old games at 1280x1024.
 
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Captante

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I bought a used Geforce RXT 2060 from a friend who didnt need it any more. Replaced a R9 Fury in my main box since it was struggling with 3440x1440 resolution.
R9 Fury is goin in another box here, replacing a RX470
RX470 is then going in a family members box to replace his ancient old Geforce that struggles to play old games at 1280x1024.


Nice ... After much deliberation I went with a straight 2k 32 inch gaming monitor instead of an Ultra-wide. (Dell S3220-DGF)

I'm in the same spot with my GTX-980 right now though. 2k gaming is completely doable at max-detail in older games @ 165hz but cutting edge stuff requires settings reduced and refresh rate lowered to 120hz or even (gasp) 60hz sometimes!



Had hoped to snag a 3070/80 or maybe a used 2070/80 Super for an xmas gift to myself but the GPU price situation is completely out of hand right now.
 

aigomorla

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My brother wants me to build his new gaming machine, and told me he did not want to delete and redownload games.
I told him it would easily break 1000 dollars.... but he wants it.... so *shrug*

15.6TB of pure R0 SSD carnage...
Theoretically i think 3 in R0 alone should cap your SATA6G.
4 x R0 is just... overkill.... his system has a 2TB Rocket Gen4. boot OS and 15.6TB as a Game Drive.

How many AAA games he will now be able to store in R0... He's ready for GTA9000 the over 9000gb edition when rockstar comes out with it. lol.



Incase anyone is wondering.. i have 4 of those in R0 also, and it keeps load times pretty close to my 4TB nVME when loading maps/games.
Dont underestimate Raid-0 SATA SSD's for gaming drives..... @ 3 drives you almost don't notice it over a nVME and it does not use 4x PCI-E Lane.
 
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snoopy7548

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Which store did you order from? Of course, everyone knows about StoneAgeGamer as the US distributor, but Krikzz has always shipped directly to the USA and costs less. Unfortunately, most people don't know that you can still order directly from Krikzz because Krikzz.com now links you to his Amazon store, but he also set up Everdrive.me and ships straight out of Ukraine. A friend in Japan who is getting an Nt Mini Noir just ordered three Everdrive N8s from The Everdrive Store (Pro, non-Pro, and a Famicom Pro) and seemingly thinks that's the main place for the discount. Well, I needed a bunch of classic Famicom Everdrive N8 carts to bundle with Hi-Def NES-modded AV Famicoms so I checked and ED Store has them for $119 while Everdrive.me has them for $79. Last year I ordered two Turbo Everdrives for $47 each...



Already had one, so that makes three.

I should probably go ahead and upgrade my SD2SNES to FXPAK Pro... which reminds me:


I still need to send one of these to my nephew. One is Rev H and the other is Rev E1b that I did the internal mods to upgrade to Rev H (installed Borti's MSU-1 Audio fix board with the caps/inductors to fix operation with 1-chip consoles and I even did the jumper straight to the FPGA pin to change the hardware ID to Rev H. Fun stuff!

I think I'll keep the ol' upgraded E1b revision for myself since it's more personal to me after the work I put into it... especially the clean cuts I did on the Super Famicom shell to make it a universal fit and cleaning up the previous owner's hack job at the top. I still intend to make a 3D printed insert around the mini-USB port and SD card slot.

Love that they added Super Game Boy 2 support, which is essentially a flash cart and a clone Game Boy running on the FPGA! Guess there was a reason they made the FPGA so overpowered. Kinda crazy that the Pro is even more capable... not that they needed to do that (they only made it because parts for the older model were reaching EOL and would not be available in useful quantities).

Got it from Everdrive.me. Had the lowest prices at the expense of shipping speed, but I can wait. No reason for you to not upgrade to the FXPAK Pro!

Last night I bought the XStation ODE. The only systems I'll need an ODE for are the Dreamcast and Saturn - looking at Fenrir for the Saturn, but not sure on Dreamcast. The MODE is way too much money.
 
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thestrangebrew1

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Bit and bought a canon eos r refurbished from canon for $1200. Got a cheap mount for my rf/efs lenses because the oem is back ordered. Can’t wait to play with it. My first taste of mirrorless and full frame. Glass is expensive for this lineup though!
 

BarkingGhostar

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I bought a toilet seat on Amazon. I'll let you know what my arse thinks of it when I get it installed. $39 plus free two-day shipping. American Standard, "wood and elongated." LOL
 

CZroe

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Got it from Everdrive.me. Had the lowest prices at the expense of shipping speed, but I can wait. No reason for you to not upgrade to the FXPAK Pro!

Last night I bought the XStation ODE. The only systems I'll need an ODE for are the Dreamcast and Saturn - looking at Fenrir for the Saturn, but not sure on Dreamcast. The MODE is way too much money.

Done and done. Upgrades, all around.

Ordered Famicom N8 Pro to upgrade the Famicom N8 and NES N8, FXPak Pro to upgrade the two SD2SNES carts, Mega Everdrive Pro to upgrade the Mega Everdrive X5.

Now to figure out what I'm going to do with the old stuff!

Haven't seen the NES N8 since I loaned it years ago but the guy wants to buy it off me. Since I only upgraded the FC N8 maybe I'll sell him the old FC N8 with an FC-to-NES adapter... get my NES N8 back.
 
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UsandThem

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I wish it was a little larger (it's around 9.5" tall), but I love this classic look and styling. The quality is really solid. It was #244 out of #1500.


 

Banana

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OMG FREE TV
Bought a TV online from major national retailer and picked it up at the store. After a few days, got an email saying order was canceled due to nonpickup and they refunded credit card! Called their customer service and they said our mistake, you can keep TV and mooney! It was a no-name brand BF special, but still...
 
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sdifox

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OMG FREE TV
Bought a TV online from major national retailer and picked it up at the store. After a few days, got an email saying order was canceled due to nonpickup and they refunded credit card! Called their customer service and they said our mistake, you can keep TV and mooney! It was a no-name brand BF special, but still...

Hey gifted horse and all that.
 

snoopy7548

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Ordered an Atari 2600 Harmony Encore cart, and I picked all this up from some guy on Craigslist. The Atari above the bag/cover is in perfect condition, so I'll probably mod that one for different video and audio outputs. Now I gotta start cleaning everything...





 
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sdifox

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wife wanted me to drive her and the kids to the mall so they can buy toys. I just laughed. Of course I had to drive them to the mall, show them the line up outside the mall, and drive to the toy store, show them the lineup. Then come home and order on amazon...

 
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