Random Chit Chat

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I do it all the time, depending on the product.

 

[dude_56013]

Alright, thanks J. It's really cheap stuff anyways, so I'm not too worried about returns or anything like that.

 

[~NeonFire372~]

I've never used Amazon before...

It's okay to NOT buy from the featured merchant, right? I mean, there are other sellers that are cheaper and still have a positive rating, so I figured I might as well save a few bucks.

Sure, I buy stuff (mostly cheaper stuff - DVDs, games, books) from merchants on the Marketplace all the time. I just avoid the "just launched", low feedback or massive US ones as much as possible.

I ordered a $40 DVD box set once from an Amazon merchant in Kansas... that was quite the experience. It took them two weeks to mail it, then it got stuck in customs and I ended up paying duty/taxes and customs fees on it and it took about 3 months to get here.

I tend to deal with domestic sellers now as much as possible (if only for the quicker shipping) but I was looking at a book tonight, it's not available directly from Amazon.ca, the cheapest US seller was $8 and the cheapest Canadian was $26 (both plus $6.80 or something for the flat-rate shipping, that's the worst thing about ordering books from the marketplace).

I obviously went for the $8 US seller, with any luck USPS and Canada Post will actually deliver it to me sometime in the next 2 years without adding on any surcharges...

 

[dude_56013]

Yeah, I bet that can be kind of a hassle for you living in Canada, eh?

Haha. Pun or no pun intended, that still sucks!

But yes, I will definitely stray from sellers with few ratings or negative feedback.

 

[Trivium Nate]

okay i figured out how to get hdmi i have 1080p on everything looks amazing except movies which in windows media player i have to set the picture to small for it to be HD if i full screen it it looks like crap are their any free ware or trial software thats plays dvd's in hd?

 

[mikee]

give VLC or media player classic a try. Also dvds aren't hd I think they are just 640x420 or something.

 

[Grantofhell]

Yeah, I use VLC and MPC. Both are excellent. MPC can even play SWF's. :O

 

[Trivium Nate]

ok thanks sorry for all the questions

 

[Whyfly??]

I got COD today, and all I can say is...... WOW!!! JUST WOW!! I don't get why people are complaining about the performance. I'm running it all maxed out 2x anti-aliasing... 1600x1050 resolution and I'm getting 60 FPS.
AMD Phenom ii 940 Stock
4 gigs DDR2 Ram 1066
Xfx Geforce 260 core 216 stock
WD 7200 RPM 640 gig hard drive.
Gigabyte 790x-UD4P board
What settings are you guys running the game at? And what's the performance? I wanna know

 

[Trivium Nate]

modern warfare 2? yeah the games amazing