I need to set a mental reminder not to order from BB during the holidays.
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I need to set a mental reminder not to order from BB during the holidays.
So I didn't experience the same thing exactly as I didn't order Smash from Walmart but my PS Classic just finally arrived today from Walmart via UPS. It sat at Walmart's warehouse for a week before they picked it up. Not sure what is going on with them lately.
Mine is same thing. Just a long list of midnight "labour dispute delays" every night. Canada Post tracking.
Yeah, I'm the same. To be fair, everyone who has received it from Wal-Mart had the same thing. Seems like CP tracking is just a write off at the moment, it will likely just randomly show up one day.
So let's say I procrastinated a bit and have to ship Christmas gifts from Halifax to Edmonton this weekend. Odds of the stuff not showing before the 25th if I use CP?
I shipped from Edmonton TO Halifax with regular old ass parcel mail and it took 2 weeks.
I wouldnt risk it at this point. Go with UPS or Purolator or something.
Oh. I don't even have a tracking number or anything with that kind of update, just an order sitting unprocessed.
Bummer. Maybe I'll give them a call tomorrow and see what's up. Thanks
Edit: Disregard, I just woke up from a nap and am tripping out. It was smash bros...
I think you just go for whatever's on sale. The Seagate and WD ones go on sale fairly often and I assume they're practically the same nowadays (outside of whatever anecdotal evidence people have against either company).
I no longer know how to search a thread on this forum, so sorry if this is redundant, but can I change my currency to CAD on the Epic Games Store? It recognizes I'm in Canada but I don't see any option to change from USD to CAD.
Sucks to see people still waiting for Smash to arrive. Mine was delivered Monday. I would be really annoyed if I was still waiting for delivery.
yeah I feel bad it been a while since i've gotten a game Day 0 from
WM/AMZN
i kinda gave up on the world of light stuff and the character unlocking BS
Deal
12% eBates cashback on everything* on Amazon.ca, today only.
*except gift cards and other stuff
12% eBates cashback on everything* on Amazon.ca, today only.
*except gift cards and other stuff
People on RFD were saying Amazon raised prices on a lot of stuff today
WD My Passport's Seagates might be cheaper but also shittier quality.
Welp back to physical for those Day 1 AAA games. Which will be very rare now.
Might as well get some fucking plastic since I am paying more.
Fucks sake.
I don't think anybody has posted this yet, its been on for while already today.
Deal.
15% off videogames and toys on eBay. Coupon code: PLAYTIME15
Terms:
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Deal.
15% off videogames and toys on eBay. Coupon code: PLAYTIME15
Terms:
https://www.ebay.ca/rpp/coupon-playtime?_trkparms=&clkid=8834144221621874300
Ugh, weak. I was going digital because physical rarely arrives day 1 anymore. Getting sick of living in Canada all over again.
Ah, dammit. May as well go physical now and at least have the option to sell a game after.
And it ends tomorrow. Gonna have to take a look at some of the games I have in my watch list
Yeah, how did they get away with this for so long? lol
I wonder how many people will "move" to Alberta...
No tax started at least a month before the hack and had nothing to do with it.
Praying for more good holiday sales before the end of the year to pick up the last few PSN games on my wishlist without paying taxes. Then I probably won't buy any new games anymore unless they're $50 pre-orders or below $40 after a few months. Backlog is too big anyways.
Well, damn. I'll clean my wishlist before that date then... Buying now means we're technically saving 15% here in Québec. I'll also pre-order CTR remake and Vane. -_-
Any of you guys that can recommend me the vest pc monitor I can get for 250$ that's with taxes included. My monitor is at least 12 years old and I need a new one
HITMAN 2 for $40 at EB on PS4 and XB1. GOld Edition for $90.
https://www.ebgames.ca/SearchResult...39549,+739697,+739699,+738036,+738042,+736117
https://www.ebgames.ca/SearchResult...39549,+739697,+739699,+738036,+738042,+736117
So he can just use any random external hard drive? There aren't any specific ones that will work best for PS4?
Also, my town doesn't have a Best Buy, so hopefully The Source or Walmart will have one of these.
Someone recommended the WD Passport versions (admittedly, I use those too, but I haven't really had problems with Seagate myself either).
As long as they're USB3, they should be fine.
What does that mean? Will it be laggy when he plays games?
Good to know! I'll drop by The Source after work today.
Sucks, I'll be buying a lot less digital next year, save for huge discounts.
I ended up contacting Walmart about my Smash order that never received a tracking number. "Due to high volume of orders" yadda yadda yadda "you should receive your order on January 3rd". Great. It also turns out that I was charged for the game back in November with my Spyro order.
Amazon is consistently a week late on my orders, but at least they're consistent. Walmart was great up until this Smash order.
100% agree. Had an issue where something I bought dropped like $250 and they refused to just refund the difference. Customer service eventually said they'd give me a $10 credit to my account, but that's the most they could do, and they didn't even end up doing that.
The worst part is that I've had a CS rep refund me the difference before, so I guess it's either new policy or I got lucky the first time. Most other stores I've been to will do it without an issue.
Whelp, there goes my choose for digital. I guess I'm back for physical. *sigh*
Not laggy but they have a higher chance of failing compared to wd drives.
External hard drives are basically an enclosure over a regular hard drive (the ones you find in PC's). They come in 2 "sizes":
1. Portable ones, which require no external power source (plug it into a USB port and go).
2. External ones which require an external power source (need to plug it into a power outlet and a USB port). These are usually cheaper than a portable drive but have a higher capacity.
Like all storage media, they can eventually fail. If you're using it with a game console, it's not a big deal as you can just re-download any lost data. If you're backing up photos/files from your PC, definitely keep a redundant second copy somewhere (a second external drive, cloud, etc.)
Some external hard drives are "bad" because the USB port is soldered directly to the drive. If the port/cable fails, you can't take off the enclosure to access the hard drive and the data.
With Boxing Day coming up, you should be able to get a good HDD for under $100.
No. Claims that conventional Seagate or WD drives are better than each other nowadays are anecdotal. They both read/write about the same. Buy whichever happens to be cheapest.
The Source used to be an excellent place to grab the 2TB Seagate external drive, it was $99.99 all the time and you could sign up to their spam and get a $25 off $100 coupon, but I don't think they have those coupons anymore. Can't hurt to signup for spam to check though.
No, they do not. That's old anecdotal information.
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/most-reliable-hard-drives/
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I mean thats not entirely accurate. Those are all enterprise grade hard drives in that article of a much greater cost than the budget portable external laptop sized drives that WD and Seagate sell. Realistically you get what you pay for with hard drives. same goes for warranty length being longer in the more expensive enterprise series which is why WD Black is 5 years and their others are 2.
The article linked is also for specific hard drives for servers or a NAS not the brand in general. The seagate drive linked in the article is $471 on amazon and is a far cry away from their budget barracuda series.
However I would agree that at the price point between WD and Seagate in the small external drive market the failure rate would be about the same and the differences would be negligible. Get what is affordable and is the size for what you need.
EDIT: The general failure point of the WD passport series in my experience is the usb connector that is soldered directly on to the drive itsself. I see frequent I/O errors when they fail. They arent very serviceable if they fail as the drive cannot just be removed from its enclosure and placed into a SATA dock or PC because the sata connection is not present. Unsure if seagate follows this manufacturing practice on their series.
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