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As Gamers we know how important a good mouse Is.

 

...so here's a shitty one! 

Corps aren't your friends. "Bottleneck calculators" are BS. Only suckers buy based on brand. It's your PC, do what makes you happy.  If your build meets your needs, you don't need anyone else to "rate" it for you. And talking about being part of a "master race" is cringe. Watch this space for further truths people need to hear.

 

 

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Shipping would probably be expensive enough to cover that mouse cost.

 

And I had a similar mouse, and can tell you that it's awful. Doesn't register any fast movements and left button broke off in a few days. This is how bad it is (compared to a G703)

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14 minutes ago, 8tg said:
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Even further, here’s another seller with the same mouse, but wired, without a box, for 7$

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and again these are individual sales, these are always more expensive than bulk sales 

 

wow, $7 and free shipping from china, thats crazy. It costs me $13.50 just to ship something the size and weight of a mouse overseas.

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Someone made a custom mouse order and bought 10k units or something like that for 3$ a piece, and now they're selling with 12$ shipping

 

Just go on alibaba and look for "gaming mouse" and you'll find gaming mice at 3-4$ each at 5k pieces or more.

example : https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/ONIKUMA-CW902-Pro-Wired-High-Sensitivity_62424771010.html

 

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Never heard of this website.

But it has been in existence for 1201 days.

It's a US domain, yet it was registered by someone located in Belgium.

 

Registrant Name: Antonio Neus
Registrant Organization: GamingNeeds
Registrant Street: Ferdinandusdijkstraat, 43
Registrant City: Merksem
Registrant Postal Code: 2170
Registrant Country: BE
Registrant Phone: +32.0489376511

 

They use Shopify, so at least the chances of them stealing your credit card number is slightly lower than it could've been.

From what I can tell, they are basically just a middleman selling you cheap products from China that you can get for cheaper on AliExpress or Alibaba

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8 minutes ago, TetraSky said:

Never heard of this website.

But it has been in existence for 1201 days.

It's a US domain, yet it was registered by someone located in Belgium.

 

Registrant Name: Antonio Neus
Registrant Organization: GamingNeeds
Registrant Street: Ferdinandusdijkstraat, 43
Registrant City: Merksem
Registrant Postal Code: 2170
Registrant Country: BE
Registrant Phone: +32.0489376511

where did you find this out?

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1 minute ago, adarw said:

where did you find this out?

domain lookup, all domains have to be registered.

 

you can also pay a service to have most of this obfuscated, but it seems like this guy didn't.

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3 minutes ago, adarw said:

where did you find this out?

Just search up WHOIS domain lookup tools.

Very useful to know if a website is likely a scam or not based on how long it has been in existence and what not.

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Our Canadian dollar store chain has wired "gaming" mouse for $4 ... that's 4 Canadian dollars (so around 3USD), so it's probably something similar, except they're making more profit than Dollarama apparently ! lol

 

EDIT ; pic of the 4 CAD gaming mouse ;

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16 minutes ago, WkdPaul said:

Our Canadian dollar store chain has wired "gaming" mouse for $4 ... that's 4 Canadian dollars (so around 3USD), so it's probably something similar, except they're making more profit than Dollarama apparently ! lol

is dollarama a dollar store anymore? 

 

 

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37 minutes ago, TetraSky said:

yet it was registered by someone located in Belgium.

 

25 minutes ago, TetraSky said:

Just search up WHOIS domain lookup tools.

ok so I just did that for my store and it says Registrant Contact is from Canada, but i'm from the US. And I checked another site in which I know the person who set it up is from Germany, but it says Great Britain.

So is this totally useless or am I doing something wrong?

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51 minutes ago, poochyena said:

and it says Registrant Contact is from Canada

I believe it could be because your registrar is from Canada and they are either obfuscating everything on you or they just don't provide that info, so it defaults to their location.

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https://tucows.com/contact/

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In the case of the website linked by OP, it says more than just Registrant Country.  There's a phone number, city, email and what not. That person obviously didn't hide their info.

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2 hours ago, 8tg said:

Even further, here’s another seller with the same mouse, but wired, without a box, for 7$

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and again these are individual sales, these are always more expensive than bulk sales 

Oh wow, "Sound without box"!

I'd love to buy some soundwaves!

What the horse considers play, the monkey considers business...

But to Tom, it's all foolery. 

 

 

 

 

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