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You're right, they do provide alot of utility for random stuff, but no, I haven't received anything other than what I've than what I've ordered from them in the past (just some items are open or broken). It was the buyer protection that was the most valuable to me. But factoring in the prime membership and now this 280 ish dollar charge, I'm definitely in the red over all. We'll see how it goes. I still haven't heard anything back and they still haven't charged me, so I don't really know what's going on at this point. So currently in limbo. I'll keep asking them to reconsider until they decide to end the conversation.

Yeah I'm aware. But, other than my girlfriend using my account to buy bird toys, I don't find myself using Amazon much these days. In the area of Canada I live in, prime is kind of garbage. Anything I'm buying seems to be the same price from other stores once you factor in shipping and such. That or I can find something semi locally. And the "2 day shipping" usually takes closer to 2 weeks. I have tried everything I can think of to escalate this. On the bright side, they still haven't billed me yet, probably because we're still emailing back and forth. Almost all the replies are "until you return the correct item, we cannot issue a refund" (the last reply I received was the one from Monika above). I'll keep trying until they bill me I guess.

No I didn't look at the SN. I just saw that the Samsung box had been opened with a box cutter, but the sticker on the drive inside matched the description on the box. Figured a replacement was my best option : /

Hi guys, mostly just posting here for visibility and a searchable record if someone else has this issue. Preface: So my story starts October last year, was finally upgrading my computer and purchased a new Motherboard, CPU, and RAM from Amazon. Stuff arrived, motherboard had been previously opened, thermal goop on the socket, bent pins. So I went ahead and returned it, no problems. While I was waiting for a replacement I complained to my friends on discord and they made a joke about me receiving the Newegg treatment, it was a good laugh. January comes, I order a new SSD, it arrives previously opened but is otherwise intact. I contact customer service, say that I don't trust a drive that has potentially been tampered with, request a replacement. Replacement isn't possible, customer service opens a refund for me. While I'm chatting with customer service I'm hanging out on discord and my friend mentions that this is becoming a common problem. I receive my refund. Everything seems good. The true story begins: Last week I receive an email saying that the SSD I returned did not have a matching serial number to the one that was sent and that unless I "send the correct item" they will recharge me for the device. Also they disposed of the item that I had returned. I reply, letting them know that seeing as the item had been opened before I received it, this isn't all that surprising, and that I returned the exact item I received in the condition I received it in. Clearly this drive had been opened once, returned and now re-sent to. I had some back and forth and received a few of these: Most replies got me back either an identical to the email above or extremely similar. I wasn't sure if I was talking to a bot an employee who was copy pasting the same script, so I tried emailing Jeff@amazon.com with a description of my problem and got back one of these: I re-stated my case to Monika, asked that they address the open box issue. Again, mentioned that I returned the item that I received and that this is all out of my control. So I'm basically stuck. I'm just waiting for the charge to appear on my credit card statement so I can dispute it and get my amazon account closed. The End: Again, I don't think that whining about my issue here will get anything done. But figured it would be helpful to have another case to look up for if this happens to someone else. Apparently Amazon's refund policy doesn't always work out... Thanks for reading, I'll update this post of there's a happy ending.

I think pre-rendered cut scenes aren't so much jerky as they are jarring suddenly dropping from whatever you were playing at to 30 fps. I'm not a fan.

If you're in the states I think it's worth it. I'm in Canada and the extra shipping costs make me consider canceling my subscription some days (extra 20~30$+ tax some months). My only negative experience thus far has been a pair of jeans that continues to bleed dye even after I washed it 3 times.

I've had a Razer Deathadder's left mouse button fail after about 14 months of use and a HyperX 3k 120gb ssd fail after 8 months.

Yes, even if the fast boot times aren't your thing, the responsiveness is incredible. Once you own a computer with an SSD you probably wont ever want to use one without.

I have a Galaxy S4 and I can usually go two and a half days on a single charge. Longer if I remember to turn off wifi when I'm out and about. I do make many phone calls though the day.

I found out about Linus Tech tips when I was trying to pick out a case for my first desktop PC. R4 all the way .

I plastidipped my black widow ultimate. It did some weird things on the inner edges but for the most part it worked. Just disassembled it 4 screws and 6 or 8 plastic clips. Forgot to leave the top right unpainted for caps/number lock. Mine's a 2012 edition (blue backlights). The i just put some masking tape over the blue logo at the bottom and voila. Something unique.

I found that the noise dampening wasn't everything I dreamed of. Basically if you want a silent computer you have to put silent components in it. I found the fans at 12V were the loudest thing in my system but at 7V they were basically silent, but then again I'm not in a silent room. As of now the loudest thing in my room is my girlfriends 12mm laptop stand thing that I have to put up with.

Define R4 white window. I'll probably be doing an FT03 mini or Phenom M build this summer.

He's likely not lying. I have an fx-8120 and it idles at 10C on coretemp or whatever and don't break 40~55C when pushing it (23C+ ambient temp). No it's not possible, yes that's what the probes read. The temperature probes are horribly wrong with that series; Tiny Tom Logan from overclock3d mentions this in his fx-8150 review. So no, I don't think he's lying, but his temperature probe is.