I'm curious why do you keep buying from them if they literally smash your stuff to bits?I get the "it's cheaper" angle but it seems to come with a poor shipping service. I mean even if you complain do you expect the employees in the warehouse to give your orders special treatment because you complained? If they give special care to many orders it will simply slow out shipping to a crawl and people will complain more. They've been using cheaper and cheaper couriers to ship out stuff lately so I guess they are slowly starting cutting corners after getting rid of the competition. Free shipping purchase limit seems to be increasing too.
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Canadian Gaming Deals and Discussion Thread 7: More Shipping Talk than Anime & TV GAF
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I'm curious why do you keep buying from them if they literally smash your stuff to bits?I get the "it's cheaper" angle but it seems to come with a poor shipping service. I mean even if you complain do you expect the employees in the warehouse to give your orders special treatment because you complained? If they give special care to many orders it will simply slow out shipping to a crawl and people will complain more. They've been using cheaper and cheaper couriers to ship out stuff lately so I guess they are slowly starting cutting corners after getting rid of the competition. Free shipping purchase limit seems to be increasing too.
I cancelled my Netflix sub this morning and I was looking at Crave... Do they get all the HBO stuff? I noticed that there's no GoT, Veep or Silicon Valley right now. Also, how quickly are they getting new episodes? Is it a Hulu kind of thing with next day episodes or it's more Netflix a year later?
CraveTV, in terms of HBO and for the most part Showtime, doesn't have any of the newer stuff. That all goes to TMN/HBO Go, which only works if you have a TV subscription. Checking on there, it says a lot of the expiring dates are in 2017, so potentially a lot of the newer HBO stuff will pop over onto CraveTV next year. They do seem to get the Showtime seasons a little faster though, they expire faster on the TMN side and hop over there.
But beware, reading up on Twitter, they have a lot of buffering and sign in issues. It might be worth trying the free month and then deciding from there!
I wouldn't say things are smashed to bits, but they are definitely unacceptable new condition upon arrival. At first, I thought it was all UPS shipping (which I still believe is a major factor), but I order similar items from other locations, which use UPS, and they come with better packaging and padding and arrive undamaged. For games, it is simply choose Amazon because because of price, availability, and convenience. With E3 sales, at 30% off, this makes gaming far more affordable. I am hoping that my shipping-based complaints will lead to better packaging practices for everybody's orders, not only my own. When there is a game available at a local store, like WalMart, I will usually just buy it there if the price is similar or can be PM'd. We're all in this thread for the deals, and that is what Amazon offers. A large majority of my games come in perfect condition. I just wanted to share my recent negative experiences.
OK thanks for the info!
chrominance
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That's the one I know, I used them a few years ago with no issues.
Bell owns both TMN GO and CraveTV and has the streaming rights to both HBO and Showtime locked up significantly longer than 2017
It's basically their choice to put current stuff on TMN Go and older stuff on CraveTV. They could just as easily put all series on both.
If something is or will be cancelled/ending before it's end date on TMN Go, I wouldn't be shocked to see it show up on CraveTV before then. There is already some content that fits that category. They just added the cancelled HBO comedy Looking to CraveTV despite it still being on TMN Go until 2017.
That game isn't even 'bad', in fact, I had some fun with the 12, or so hours I had with it. It's just very, very uninspired and frankly, bland. Some of the platforming challenges are interesting, but it never really progresses as you go through. After you've seen a couple of the worlds, you've mostly got an idea about what you're in for. When they throw new stuff at you, it's usually not much of a change.
justinluey
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I really enjoyed it. I think the game is misunderstood. It's similar to Yoshi's Island, it's all about exploring the levels and collecting everything. It's also much more fun and rewarding if you use your plug as a grappling hook and move through the levels that way, as opposed to slowly walking and jumping. It has some really good boss fights and there is a lot to collect if you enjoy that part of games.
The amiibo is also used more than most games. You can level up the amiibo by progressing through the game, the amiibo unlocks collectibles in the Chibi House, and it unlocks some post game content.
doctorcdcs
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yeah i noticed that. steam links too.
KingdomHeartsFan
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Was there a pre-order bonus of Bravely Second on Best Buy? I coulda sworn I saw something, but there's nothing there now and I didn't get any codes emailed to me.
User 479360
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It's been quite some time since I've ordered anything from Amazon. I forget how they ship, as in which courier they use. Can someone enlighten me?
I used a friend's card to order three adult colouring books. They qualified for free shipping, and I told them to group the orders (figuring two would ship together before the end of this month and the last one, a pre-order, would come separately at the end of June), but they shipped one by itself.
I used a friend's card to order three adult colouring books. They qualified for free shipping, and I told them to group the orders (figuring two would ship together before the end of this month and the last one, a pre-order, would come separately at the end of June), but they shipped one by itself.
Lately, the majority of my orders have been coming by UPS or Canada Post.
They use different courier depending on where the item is (and where you are), what the item is I guess, and the type of shipping speed.
If an item will be release in like less than 2 weeks they usually group it and send it when the last item becomes available or ready to be dispatched. That was one of the headache some people had in the previous thread (we/they got it 2 weeks after release / 13 days after the game was released before amazon actually dispatched the E3 preorder)
catpurrcat
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Mostly CP for me. Books are always in perfect condition.
crimzonflame
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So the 'lost' copy of Dark Souls 3 from Amazon showed up today. What's the best way to sell this?
I got a download code from Best Buy.
Haven't received a code from Amazon.ca for my order, though the website says it could be up to five business days after shipping; my copy shipped on Monday.
Also, EBGames totally got the best preorder: I need that Onion Knight costume!
All Prime members get the Release-Date Delivery when they select Two Day shipping on eligible items.
I'm still waiting on my pre-order code from Best Buy. A friend is still waiting on their code from EB Games as well.
Hopefully they are sent out today sometime.
ReddishGUI
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I don't think that I got my code from eb games :-(
Man, Walmart doesn't sell Gold either. With the exchange, CDKeys Gold is like the same price as straight from Microsoft. Are they getting rid of Gold or something?
Edit: I can't find a price for it on EB's website either. wtf.
Bluh. I was fine with my Dark Souls 3 not shipping from Amazon on Tuesday last week, because it's Amazon and they're known for slow shipping now, though I still contacted a CSR to ask about it and the CSR said it would ship Friday April 15 (as did my order page at the time).
Well it's Monday the 18th now and it still hasn't. Contacted another CSR today asking about why it hasn't shipped, and essentially just got "your order is advance stage of shipping process and we're planning to ship the Item from the nearest fulfillment center" and that they ship on a first come first serve basis (this order is from November..), side-stepping why it didn't ship on April 15th. So... meh.
At least my VG+ Infinite Space is up to processing.
Well it's Monday the 18th now and it still hasn't. Contacted another CSR today asking about why it hasn't shipped, and essentially just got "your order is advance stage of shipping process and we're planning to ship the Item from the nearest fulfillment center" and that they ship on a first come first serve basis (this order is from November..), side-stepping why it didn't ship on April 15th. So... meh.
At least my VG+ Infinite Space is up to processing.
ReddishGUI
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Yet it's only coming out next month...
I was in downtown Vancouver Costco yesterday and they were selling PS+ and Xbox Live subs
They didn't stock any games, though
catpurrcat
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Check again in the section where they sell boxed controllers, you may see a stack of Xbox cards there.
You contact Amazon and return it. If they tell you to keep it then you sell it on Kijiji.
ReddishGUI
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Based amazon, they just want the franchise to survive.
chrominance
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Try doing it through the mobile site, that seems to work better for people. Maybe the Amazon app too, not sure.
Lone_Prodigy
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if you have AC wireless , its godly.
Or of course wired.
If you are planning on using N or something , its not gonna work too well.
moyashimon
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I cancelled an old Futureshop order just now and was asked for the customer service number for my credit card's bank. This is the first time I've had to do that and when I brought this up to the rep, they told me this was a new policy.
Has this ever happened to you guys and should I be concerned?
Has this ever happened to you guys and should I be concerned?
Current setup has a wired connection going to where the TV is and then a wired + wireless range extender (D-Link DAP 1650). It's not often the TV isn't in use but it seems fun to play with
Same thing just happened to me for StarFox and I have the same question...
Later Alligator
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it was garbage up until the latest updates. bad colors and streaming quality
now it is amazing, not sure what they changed but it is day and night
The Elite
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Yeah, sometimes this works for me over doing it on desktop.
I did live chat to cancel Ratchet since they didn't ship it out.
App didn't work for that one.
What a pointless question. You could probably Google the first 4 numbers of the card and get the bank.
Edit: lol:
https://www.bindb.com/bin-list.html
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