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Steamflogger Boss wrote:When I am looking to buy something unless it's a really common search term I never select a category to search in, because I know I'll miss some listings.
Man that really sucks when you are searching for something with a name that could be a lot of non-video game things. I always select the Video Game category in this situation.
I'm not sure I understand why you wouldn't pick that category when selling a video game?
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Buying an expensive game for full price.

The very next day it goes on sale for 60% off.
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Sumez wrote:
Steamflogger Boss wrote:When I am looking to buy something unless it's a really common search term I never select a category to search in, because I know I'll miss some listings.
Man that really sucks when you are searching for something with a name that could be a lot of non-video game things. I always select the Video Game category in this situation.
I'm not sure I understand why you wouldn't pick that category when selling a video game?
I think the main reason is what I brought up, getting around category restrictions.
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That's really vague though :P
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People that want gifted paypal only for a multi hundred dollar forum transaction.

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Sumez wrote:That's really vague though :P
People will do w/e they think will help an item sell.

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Putting up stuff for sale on ebay and receiving a deluge of questions from some clueless newcomer to the RGB gaming hobby and having to explain him the basics twice and still suspecting he didn't undestand shit. Worse, having to actually conclude the sale with him, who now also appears to not know how to use paypal and - let's be honest - doesn't actually need your item at all because he's clearly a 14yo kid who's trying to look cool and alternative and is now also asking for your phone number to send even more stupid messages at a faster pace. :roll:
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The delay on the Switch Ages games coming out over here. Seriously, where's my Virtua Racing? I'd but the JPN version, but after conversion and sites adding on their bit it works out at nearly double price. Still reasonable for a port of this quality, but recent events have left me watching the pennies unfortunately.
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Marc wrote:The delay on the Switch Ages games coming out over here. Seriously, where's my Virtua Racing? I'd but the JPN version, but after conversion and sites adding on their bit it works out at nearly double price. Still reasonable for a port of this quality, but recent events have left me watching the pennies unfortunately.
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Xer Xian wrote:Putting up stuff for sale on ebay and receiving a deluge of questions from some clueless newcomer to the RGB gaming hobby and having to explain him the basics twice and still suspecting he didn't undestand shit. Worse, having to actually conclude the sale with him, who now also appears to not know how to use paypal and - let's be honest - doesn't actually need your item at all because he's clearly a 14yo kid who's trying to look cool and alternative and is now also asking for your phone number to send even more stupid messages at a faster pace. :roll:
i think you can just ban someone from buying stuff from you. that's generally what i do immediately if i get shitty questions because it's more than likely going to be even worse after a sale
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vol.2 wrote:
Xer Xian wrote:Putting up stuff for sale on ebay and receiving a deluge of questions from some clueless newcomer to the RGB gaming hobby and having to explain him the basics twice and still suspecting he didn't undestand shit. Worse, having to actually conclude the sale with him, who now also appears to not know how to use paypal and - let's be honest - doesn't actually need your item at all because he's clearly a 14yo kid who's trying to look cool and alternative and is now also asking for your phone number to send even more stupid messages at a faster pace. :roll:
i think you can just ban someone from buying stuff from you. that's generally what i do immediately if i get shitty questions because it's more than likely going to be even worse after a sale
You can, but eBay makes it kinda hard to navigate to. I have the page bookmarked for that reason. Just google block ebay bidder to get right to the page if you can't find it.

eBay is a huge site with so many users I do it at just about the drop of a hat. Too many people to deal with problematic and/or crazy buyers.
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People asking for additional pictures of an item for sale on Facebook, when the most important angles have been shown (Front, back of a PS4 system), or when there's not much else to see (a iron skillet).
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Touch controls on appliances. Samsung is really, really fucking bad about this. They've got some of the worst UI design I've seen for a physical object.
These aren't touch screens either, they're just touch-sensitive labels instead of nice, tactile buttons.
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Agree with the above.

Got one I just remembered about recently... People who blast music in their vehicle on their shitty speakers they think are good. Have fun going deaf. I even once had someone flip me off for doing nothing but roll up my window as they drove by blasting rap. :roll:
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Steamflogger Boss wrote:I even once had someone flip me off for doing nothing but roll up my window as they drove by blasting rap. :roll:
How dare you roll up your window as someone blares the musical equivalent of nails on a blackboard.
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BareKnuckleRoo wrote:
Steamflogger Boss wrote:I even once had someone flip me off for doing nothing but roll up my window as they drove by blasting rap. :roll:
How dare you roll up your window as someone blares the musical equivalent of nails on a blackboard.
Honestly any music as loud as it was and I would have done it. The crazy part is I didn't say anything, I didn't shoot them a nasty look, I literally just rolled up the windows to hear less of it.
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eBay trying suggest prices to me. I don't need help figuring out what my gear is worth.

If they want to save some bandwidth, maybe eBay should pull down the hundreds of worthless old (480i out) scan converters listed on the site for hundreds and thousands of euros/dollars.

Nobody is ever going to buy any of that useless shit.
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Walking through a crosswalk with the traffic, but some jerk decides to drive around me. Yeah, can't wait that couple of seconds to get that red light? Been happening more and more to me this year. Though the worst was going through a crosswalk years ago. Two cars turning to go down the same street, while I had the light in my favor. Didn't stop them from nearly running me over though. One step in either direction and I'd have had a hospital visit for sure.
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Steamflogger Boss wrote:Agree with the above.

Got one I just remembered about recently... People who blast music in their vehicle on their shitty speakers they think are good. Have fun going deaf. I even once had someone flip me off for doing nothing but roll up my window as they drove by blasting rap. :roll:
I still dunno how they can even sit in the car with how loud their shit gets. I've stepped out of the car with music playing to see how loud mine is, you usually can't really hear it once you step out.
and then you hear somebody absolutely BLASTING bass that you can feel and you're nearly three cars away from the guy and you're not even sure if that guy has ears anymore :lol:
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All the pcbs listed on ebay for 2 to 5 times their going rate from hoarder/resellers in Japan. Search "Cave pcb" or "Raizing pcb" for maximum annoyance.
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RARE! Unemulated! Not In MAME! So I want 900 euros for this cartridge actually worth 50!
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I forgot region locking was a thing.

Ordered Strange Journey Redux from US as it was a lot cheaper.
No work.

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I bought my 3DS when I was in the US for this reason, as almost every DS game I had at the moment was North American anyway, and a ton of them weren't even released in Europe. I figured importing from the US would continue to be cheaper, but right about then the outlet I'd imported through closed down, and 3DS games in general don't drop in price as fast over there as they do here in Europe. On top of that, pretty much every single physical release in NA also came out here.

Also both customs and shipping prices have gotten a lot harsher since then, so all in all it sucks that I'm stuck with a US 3DS.
Fortunately there's a region free softmod somewhere out there, that I might look into at some point.
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Yeah this guide suggests it's easy enough, will grow some balls and try it when i have the time.

https://3ds.hacks.guide/
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It irks me if a PC game doesn't pause when you press the Pause key.
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Everytime I let my son play Fortnite there's a 3 hour update he has to wait for. You have to wait if you play the paid version too, right?
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People that talk like this:

“With the digitization of the games industry, there’s so many more players in the digital ecosystem,” says Brenda Panagrossi, Ubisoft vice president of platform and product management. “We really do listen to player feedback, and we really want this to be an option for players. Whether this is how they want to engage with us or through the regular standard editions or premium editions, we’ll wait and see.”

Well... My team focused synergies experience a deficit of engagement momentum capital when the communication feedback dialogue ecosystem uses language that doesn't connect with my values.
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Blinge wrote:Yeah this guide suggests it's easy enough, will grow some balls and try it when i have the time.

https://3ds.hacks.guide/
More long winded than I thought it would be but the mod was successful.
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Using this site on my phone, lol.
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Steamflogger Boss wrote:Using this site on my phone, lol.
Using this site on my desktop. The default font size for most websites is too large for me, so I reduced it in my browsers config. Works well for modern websites, but the default size here is already smaller so my config change makes the text here ant sized.
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