Elitist1945
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So is Man in the High Castle not available for Amazon.ca?
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Canadian Gaming "Deals" and Discussion Thread 6: Sorry, We Can't Afford a New Thread
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Crazymoogle
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All Amazon shows were licensed out to CraveTV; .ca doesn't do Amazon video streaming :-(
knacklover
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Any retro gaming store should be interested, some PS2 games srill hold some value!
Elitist1945
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Wow thats stupid.
Rbk_3
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catpurrcat
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While not Vancouver, I can tell you here in the east some stores pay so little for retro despite their own markup. Not sure why.
Far better selling on eBay or GAF.
Buyers market and sellers market value them differently I guess. I saw this with A&C games when I traded in my PS2. This was a few years ago though.
Does anyone know when Nights of Azure went up for preorder on Amazon? I feel like I may have missed it during the last preorder frenzy. http://www.amazon.ca/Nights-of-Azure-PlayStation-4/dp/B017GY07L4/ref=sr_1_1?s=videogames&ie=UTF8&qid=1451537328&sr=1-1&keywords=nights+of+azure
It was after the pre-order promotion. I remember cause I was pissed about it lol.
If it's 35$ it seems reasonable. Only wondering cause I'm buying a phone outright from Telus but I'm not on Telus. Pretty sure they'd hike the price up in my case.
Lostconfused
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Bell is doing it for $50 lol.
KnightHart
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Yeah Rogers id doing it for $50 as well
Quick search suggests it's $50 across all 3 major providers.
Seems like something the Bell would do. Surprised Rogers didn't get in on it with shomi.
It's so stupid how the big companies license their stuff out to other streaming services. Maybe someday after all these deals expire Amazon will wake up and use Prime streaming for Canada.
It's $50 now. Price went up in July. If you're not with Telus you'd have to setup a prepaid account and put $50 on it which would require a sim to setup. Just easier to get a friend with an account to do it for you and save you the $15 for the SIM card.
DJ_Lae
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Are both still locked to their respective ISP? I currently have CraveTV because my wife and I are burning through some of the content (HBO mostly) and it's only $4 a month.
I don't know if we can get Shomi, though, or if I'd want to. I guess I'll have to more seriously consider something once Clarkson/Hammond/May's new show comes out.
DeathByBacklog
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Both are now available without a cable subscription. Though it looks like Crave has been delayed now until the end of January.
http://mobilesyrup.com/2015/12/30/cravetvs-january-1st-expansion-delayed-until-later-in-january/
And both played it off like they were opening it up on their own for the good of the customer when they were actually required to by the CRTC.
Wow. You got a shit customer service. It will usually take 10 minutes at most.
He probably traded in two games!
It's retail. They aren't trained and there's always new people.
The Elite
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It's crazy and it's every time. I may have to just not bother with that location.
As someone who worked nine years in retail at a place that took trade-ins this isn't the excuse most of the time. Best Buy has a really shitty trade system. They have to look most of the stuff up manually and then they have to print out paperwork that needs to be signed in double and their system is really slow.
DeathByBacklog
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So both headsets arrived today. Seems like they went the cheap route with the packaging for the SEs.
If the staff don't know how to do it then it's training too isn't it?. When I traded something in a year or two ago the guy knew how to do it so it was like 5 minutes.
shadow2810
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If it wasn't because of that text, I would have thought the one on the right was the SE lol
-Pyromaniac-
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mmm got my thing, so damn nice:
Are there restrictions on that unlocking stuff? I recall there was waiting times where you had to be with the service for a few months but I don't know if that's still around. What about if you're not even with the service? For example if I got a new phone on craigslist, and it was on Telus but I'm on Rogers, could I go to Telus and get them to unlock it or would they give me grief for not being a customer?
If you're not their customer, I think you have to resort to third company to do it. And like I mentioned previously, you have to read up on who you're dealing with, just in case they've had previous customers complain that their phones were locked again after xx months.
Which iphone are you looking for? I think my sister was selling a 5s? She got it unlocked because someone wanted to buy it, then the fucker backed out. So she's out the $50 fido asked for. Only reason why I recommended her to do it, was just in case she went to some store or online, got it unlocked, then the buyer complains later on that it stopped working for him. Didn't want her to deal with shit like that.
-Pyromaniac-
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I've unlocked phones without being customers of carriers. I unlocked a bell just a month or so ago and I'm not their customer. It was a phone I got off someone.
Yeah, I wasn't too sure about not being their customer. Or how much shit they give you about it lol.
-Pyromaniac-
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depends on other stuff too I guess. If the phone was purchased subsidized by the original owner and their balance is not in good standing they usually won't let the phone get unlocked.
DeathByBacklog
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I know. I had to double check just to make sure that the SEs were the SEs.
User 479360
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My Elite Controller wasn't supposed to be delivered until January 6th, but I just checked the tracking info and Canada Post has already delivered it to our community mailbox. They did so 4 hours ago, and I wish I would've known so that it wasn't sitting out in the cold.
Then again, it's 1 degree out there and the thing is wrapped in packing materials and in boxes. It should be okay.
Then again, it's 1 degree out there and the thing is wrapped in packing materials and in boxes. It should be okay.
TELUS does it over the phone as they charge the unlocking fee to an account. You have to have a prepaid account if you are not with TELUS and you can put $50 on it to pay for the unlocking fee. You'll need a TELUS sim to create the account and that's $15 now. That's the most trouble you'll have. You can also get a friend to do it for you who is with TELUS.
You only have to wait a time period when you're signing a new two year term and want to unlock that phone which is 90 days.
kitschykitty
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Man my closest Best Buy is the worst, it seems like half the time I use in-store reservation I get the confirmation email that it's on hold and then a call a few minutes later saying they don't actually have it...I think it hurts the store's numbers to not fulfill online reservations so they do this instead.
User 479360
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You'd think they'd deliver things to your door in the winter.
In terms of quality, CraveTV has the better content. It has all of the classic great HBO series, along with almost all of the Showtime shows and some other really classic stuff like Frasier, Cheers, Everybody Loves Raymond, etc.
In terms of quantity, Shomi has a boatload. They have been sniping up a lot of the movies and shows that Netflix licenses expire on, as well as making exclusivity deals with Amazon shows for here in Canada. They also have some CW shows streaming day-after-airing.
Shomi has opened up to everyone now, but they only have apps on Xbox 360 and Apple TV for the time being, and just keep saying to stay tuned for any more (though they work in your browser, too).
For CraveTV, they are opening up sometime in January, and they will supposedly have a good deal of apps ready to go (my guess on the January 1st to "just January" change is that they are getting more apps ready to go), but their $4/month plan for Bell customers might be more for non-Bell customers.
I currently have Shomi and I like it a lot, but they can be slow to add shows they mentioned they have the rights to, plus I wish it had an app for consoles rather than watching things through Rogers On Demand. I'm hoping to get CraveTV again (used to be with Bell) once it is open to all.
Too much information probably but yeah, I like TV, haha.
If you're feeling lonely during the new years, remember that Tim Horton's is standing there waiting for your embrace.
The price of Iced Capps went up from $1.80 to $2.20
iced coffee is better
AzureSkies
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Never has more truth been written in this thread.
Hero of Legend
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Anyone have an unused code for the Famicom theme that comes with Ultimate Remix on 3DS? The code expires in a few hours.
management trolling its staff hardIf you're feeling lonely during the new years, remember that Tim Horton's is standing there waiting for your embrace.
The price of Iced Capps went up from $1.80 to $2.20
Xenoflare
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There are quite a number of them actually doesn't serve iced coffee. Even the ones with the full menus
But yes their iced coffee is better ;p
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