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Anyone have any experience ordering stuff from the Microsoft Store online?

Just thinking about picking up that 128GB Surface 3 for school, and online there's a 10% discount for students which makes it look like a better purchase. I added it to my cart to calculate shipping and such and I noticed they didn't even add GST to the total price unless it's already included in the price.
 
KnightHart said:
Anyone have any experience ordering stuff from the Microsoft Store online?

Just thinking about picking up that 128GB Surface 3 for school, and online there's a 10% discount for students which makes it look like a better purchase. I added it to my cart to calculate shipping and such and I noticed they didn't even add GST to the total price unless it's already included in the price.
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It gets added. When you go to Review and Check Out, there's a little asterisk beside your Subtotal that says *before applicable taxes. When you go to the following step, taxes should appear.

Also worth noting that the $150 store voucher they're supposed to send you may take a while to show up. I only know my experiences, but I ordered on the 5th, my surface was shipped on the 6th, and when on the 7th my voucher still hadn't shown up, they said to allow 10 days after shipping. It's been 9 and I'm getting tired of sitting around waiting to order my type cover.
 
Why are we still here, just to suffer? Every night I can feel my Target... And my Futureshop. You feel it too don't you? I'm gonna make them give back our deals!
 
BadWolf said:
It will be mostly, yeah.



Thanks, the higher resolution screen would be nice. Are Lenovo laptops reliable? Remember hearing negative things about them.
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The negative stuff was the $150 laptop gate :lol

They are fine as far as I know. Another thing to consider is windows 8 hates you if you don't have a touch screen. All the laptops I looked at under $800 with touch screen were 1366x768 yuch.
 
krae_man said:
The negative stuff was the $150 laptop gate :lol

They are fine as far as I know. Another thing to consider is windows 8 hates you if you don't have a touch screen. All the laptops I looked at under $800 with touch screen were 1366x768 yuch.
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I'll show it to her, thank you :)
 
YMMV, Superstore has finally put all ps3 and 360 games on clearance. Everything is $5

Picked up ni no kuni. Saw lots of other good stuff.
 
kaiyo said:
Lenovo is the better brand. I would rate Acer near the bottom of the list.
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Are you thinking recent?

Lenovo has been in a steady decline, and there is a lot of controversy lately with malware installation.

Acer has taken a note from KIA and really stepped up their game in the last few years. Their stuff is pretty quality now.
 
kennah said:
Are you thinking recent?

Lenovo has been in a steady decline, and there is a lot of controversy lately with malware installation.

Acer has taken a note from KIA and really stepped up their game in the last few years. Their stuff is pretty quality now.
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It wasn't a malware, more of a spyware, because of a vulnerability with the software (Superfish) which was included in some of their models(none of the Thinkpads included it). Which they stopped including since March and made a removal tool in mid Feb. There was a vulnerability to the software where hackers would be able to sniff your web browsing.

You're not confusing it with Asus are you?
 
truestatic said:
It gets added. When you go to Review and Check Out, there's a little asterisk beside your Subtotal that says *before applicable taxes. When you go to the following step, taxes should appear.

Also worth noting that the $150 store voucher they're supposed to send you may take a while to show up. I only know my experiences, but I ordered on the 5th, my surface was shipped on the 6th, and when on the 7th my voucher still hadn't shown up, they said to allow 10 days after shipping. It's been 9 and I'm getting tired of sitting around waiting to order my type cover.
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Yeah it came to around $769 or something after taxes. Still gonna have to think about it. But j didnt know it came with a $150 store voucher. I want a tablet but not an iPad and the Surface seems perfect for what I want. Makes sense since the normal Surface is more of an iPad competitor, if anything.

When it comes to the Surface Pro 3 at its price point I feel like I'd be better served by getting the Dell XPS and just changing out the RAM and HDD for more RAM and 500GB SSD.

The Microsoft Store has a lot of good laptop choices and they're all in the price range I want (700-900), but a lot of them are out of stock. I wonder if I could still get the student discount in store.
 
KnightHart said:
Yeah it came to around $769 or something after taxes. Still gonna have to think about it. But j didnt know it came with a $150 store voucher. I want a tablet but not an iPad and the Surface seems perfect for what I want. Makes sense since the normal Surface is more of an iPad competitor, if anything.

When it comes to the Surface Pro 3 at its price point I feel like I'd be better served by getting the Dell XPS and just changing out the RAM and HDD for more RAM and 500GB SSD.

The Microsoft Store has a lot of good laptop choices and they're all in the price range I want (700-900), but a lot of them are out of stock. I wonder if I could still get the student discount in store.
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GreatCanadianRebate has 2.5% cashback on Surface SKUs @ Microsoft store
http://www.greatcanadianrebates.ca/details/MicrosoftCanada/

If you don't already have an account with them PM me =)
 
kennah said:
YMMV, Superstore has finally put all ps3 and 360 games on clearance. Everything is $5

Picked up ni no kuni. Saw lots of other good stuff.
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If I have time I'm gonna stop by the Kitchener store and see if they're clearing everything out there. I could go for a stack of $5 games.
 
KnightHart said:
Yeah it came to around $769 or something after taxes. Still gonna have to think about it. But j didnt know it came with a $150 store voucher. I want a tablet but not an iPad and the Surface seems perfect for what I want. Makes sense since the normal Surface is more of an iPad competitor, if anything.

When it comes to the Surface Pro 3 at its price point I feel like I'd be better served by getting the Dell XPS and just changing out the RAM and HDD for more RAM and 500GB SSD.

The Microsoft Store has a lot of good laptop choices and they're all in the price range I want (700-900), but a lot of them are out of stock. I wonder if I could still get the student discount in store.
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Could be the $150 voucher deal ended, I can't remember how exactly it was advertised but I don't see it anymore.

Edit: apparently ended August 9. I'm a dummy. A very sorry dummy.
 
KnightHart said:
Yeah it came to around $769 or something after taxes. Still gonna have to think about it. But j didnt know it came with a $150 store voucher. I want a tablet but not an iPad and the Surface seems perfect for what I want. Makes sense since the normal Surface is more of an iPad competitor, if anything.
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before you discount an ipad, go feel the ipad air2, it is soooo nice to hold. the surface felt like heavy brick in comparison, and the surface pro has fans, lol.
 
Untalkative_Bunny said:
before you discount an ipad, go feel the ipad air2, it is soooo nice to hold. the surface felt like heavy brick in comparison, and the surface pro has fans, lol.
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I actually had an iPad 3 before. It was a Christmas gift from my aunt. But I gave it to my Mom cause I never really used it for much and I hated iTunes god I fucking hate iTunes so much I rockbox'd my iPod Classic so I didn't have to use it.

My friend owns I think an OG Surface and I really dig the form factor and the fact that it can do almost anything I would want it to do... Also he said he can play illicit Japanese VN's on it, and that's cool. The screen looks great as well, and I can just plop stuff onto a USB or Micro SD and watch stuff on the tablet.

I don't really have an interest in the Surface Pro models. At that high price point for even just an i5 and an acceptably large amount of memory I might as well spent the 1,200 on a better laptop that also has a touchscreen.
 
kennah said:
Nah, stop by the laptop thread. Acer comes pretty highly recommended now.
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I've had an Acer laptop for about 3.5 years now and it's been great. It's one notch above their budget line, however (TimelineX, which I don't think exists any more), as I remember reading bad things about their lower lineup at the time.

Would not hesitate to get another.
 
kennah said:
YMMV, Superstore has finally put all ps3 and 360 games on clearance. Everything is $5

Picked up ni no kuni. Saw lots of other good stuff.
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Gotta stop by a Super Store in Toronto soon then. Anyone see Armored Core 4 and vanilla Marvel 3?
 
Sora_N said:
I bought it a few weeks ago. Wonder if I can get price adjustment...

Edit: just gonna go there and buy a copy then take the game directly to refund with my old receipt lol. Don't even want to bother asking or anything.
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Smart.

in before "fraud but not fraud" police come.
 
Bronetta said:
Why are we still here, just to suffer? Every night I can feel my Target... And my Futureshop. You feel it too don't you? I'm gonna make them give back our deals!
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Guide me to the land of milk and honey, our one true savior, Bronetta the chosen one!
 
Meh, I don't see a huge deal with it. I've returned Walmart software to Best Buy when they've refused to price adjust ("Walmart's terrible website says it's not sold in stores, which -- though we've been in Walmart and know that's obviously not true, seems like a great excuse"). If you're going to throw up phoney roadblocks, I'm going to do what I can to get around them.

(I've since learned that apparently their web price matchers can be jerks and that it's better to do it in store.)

But even in store, price matching can sometimes be ridiculous. Maybe one day Best Buy's rivals will introduce tamper-proof flyers that also offer live updates on stock for every store in a 100 km radius. Then it might be a trouble-free process every time (though, to be fair, sometimes it is totally painless).
 
SickBoy said:
Meh, I don't see a huge deal with it. I've returned Walmart software to Best Buy when they've refused to price adjust ("Walmart's terrible website says it's not sold in stores, which -- though we've been in Walmart and know that's obviously not true, seems like a great excuse"). If you're going to throw up phoney roadblocks, I'm going to do what I can to get around them.

(I've since learned that apparently their web price matchers can be jerks and that it's better to do it in store.)

But even in store, price matching can sometimes be ridiculous. Maybe one day Best Buy's rivals will introduce tamper-proof flyers that also offer live updates on stock for every store in a 100 km radius. Then it might be a trouble-free process every time (though, to be fair, sometimes it is totally painless).
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That's why I try to minie problems cuz I don't want to argue. Worked at retail for a long time so I especially don't want to have a hassle.
 
truestatic said:
Could be the $150 voucher deal ended, I can't remember how exactly it was advertised but I don't see it anymore.

Edit: apparently ended August 9. I'm a dummy. A very sorry dummy.
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Pretty sure it was just for the Surface Pro models and not the Surface model.
 
I assume this is not possible, but has anyone tried changing one item in an E3 preorder from Amazon, in order to get the discount? I think I might want to drop my Star Wars Battlefront for Xbox One and pick up the PC version instead.
 
It's been 5 days and my copy of Xblaze Lost Memories still hasn't shipped from Amazon. They don't even have an estimated shipping date. :( They really suck for smaller/niche game releases.
 
Jotamide said:
It's been 5 days and my copy of Xblaze Lost Memories still hasn't shipped from Amazon. They don't even have an estimated shipping date. :( They really suck for smaller/niche game releases.
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Funny enough, Amazon ended up sending me Onechanbara a day early. It was quite shocking to get a smaller release on time for once.

I'm still waiting on Godzilla. Amazon says the estimated ship date is September :/. Game came out in July.
 
Jotamide said:
It's been 5 days and my copy of Xblaze Lost Memories still hasn't shipped from Amazon. They don't even have an estimated shipping date. :( They really suck for smaller/niche game releases.
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Tapejara said:
Funny enough, Amazon ended up sending me Onechanbara a day early. It was quite shocking to get a smaller release on time for once.

I'm still waiting on Godzilla. Amazon says the estimated ship date is September :/. Game came out in July.
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Did you guys email them to ask yet?
 
Roto13 said:
If Persona 5 gets the Atlus Tax treatment, I'm burning all of my Kanji body pillows.
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Oh you know they will. I wouldn't be surprised if they do $60/$70 USD for PS3/PS4. They know the thirst is real. Probably they'll disguise the hit under a "first print edition" with a 5-track OST sampler and a Morgana keychain. Please understand.
 
Jotamide said:
Oh you know they will. I wouldn't be surprised if they do $60/$70 USD for PS3/PS4. They know the thirst is real. Probably they'll disguise the hit under a "first print edition" with a 5-track OST sampler and a Morgana keychain. Please understand.
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$70 sounds like less of a tax and more of a NEW DEAL
 
Roto13 said:
If Persona 5 gets the Atlus Tax treatment, I'm burning all of my Kanji body pillows.
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KnightHart said:
At this rate we'll be paying $100 for standard P5, and an extra $200 for body pillow editions.
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Jotamide said:
Oh you know they will. I wouldn't be surprised if they do $60/$70 USD for PS3/PS4. They know the thirst is real. Probably they'll disguise the hit under a "first print edition" with a 5-track OST sampler and a Morgana keychain. Please understand.
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$35 P5 (PS3) E3 order still looking delicious.
 
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