BigJonsson
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I got the 3 dollar case logic DSLR bag from Dell, amazing
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Canadian Gaming "Deals" and Discussion Thread 6: Sorry, We Can't Afford a New Thread
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The Elite
BOSS
I want one.
BigJonsson
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Too late, it was on RFD the other night, I can't believe it actually shipped
LordOfChaos
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Did the RFD'ers ruin that one too?
LordOfChaos
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Haha, I love how RFD are considered villains for "ruining" peoples chances at exploiting price errors.
And they get mad when they can't exploit the said company
And they get mad when they can't exploit the said company
Pretty much. Greedy pricks at RFD are ruining my chance to be a greedy prick!
catpurrcat
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it's been going on for years. I'll never forget this guy driving a luxury car in an affluent area,
walks into a computer store while I'm in line and proceeds to argue with the manger about a price match - using a RFD message thread printout as his "proof" the store was offering the laptop at th price he was demanding.
"But but but this user got the laptop at $199 in Nova Scotia store! I demand that price too!"
Hope that little anecdote made you laugh today.
ReddishGUI
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I don't know how much you enjoy this kind of game(chore simulator) but I feel like you'll have enough with the base game.
Nah, you're fine.
Mass_Pincup
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If the story interest you then yes, otherwise not really.
Only worthwhile DLC is the last one, Tresspasser. It's the Epilogue for the game, and it was worth the $15 to me. I'd recommend it if you want more character moments with your party.
AzureSkies
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I'll never forget the RFD thread back in 2011 where users found a web store selling custom made gaming PCs for $20-$150, instead of in the thousands. It started out with people buying a lot of them, until someone highlighted that the terms of service allowed the store to charge full price on customers who take advantage of price errors.
The entire thread collapsed with panic of hoarders being charged $10,000+ for PCs before the store cancelled everyone's orders.
That sounds incredible. I wish that thread was around so I could read it.
enjoyed it!
Agreed, the other two DLCs are short and contain no story - they don't add anything important.
If you do get any DLC, get the last one.
DJ_Lae
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RFD is great for keeping up on deals and I'll occasionally bite on obvious price errors (like those encrypted 128GB usb drives the other day, which were predictably canceled).
I really hate the people who clear out stores of deals just to dump them back up on Kijiji. I hate it so much that I hated myself for putting my Majora's Mask New 3DS up shortly after it released, even though my listed price was lower than everyone else's by a large margin. I still felt like an asshole.
I even remember buying some of those daily $5 EB Games deal the other year, including picking up several copies of Sin & Punishment 2 for the Wii that I randomly sent out to people here on Gaf who might not have been able to get to a store or had theirs sold out.
I really hate the people who clear out stores of deals just to dump them back up on Kijiji. I hate it so much that I hated myself for putting my Majora's Mask New 3DS up shortly after it released, even though my listed price was lower than everyone else's by a large margin. I still felt like an asshole.
I even remember buying some of those daily $5 EB Games deal the other year, including picking up several copies of Sin & Punishment 2 for the Wii that I randomly sent out to people here on Gaf who might not have been able to get to a store or had theirs sold out.
BigJonsson
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I don't think it's villains. Just stupid if you call attention to it. If it's a big company with a pricing mistake, you put in your order and hope for the best. If you get it, great! If you don't, oh well.
The people who bitch and whine and scream about not getting a pricing error are awful.
They really are. It happens here, too. Why we have a sense of entitlement to something that is clearly a mistake is beyond me.
Considering trade in values haven't risen in correlation with our dollar, you're muuuuuch better off to just put it in Craigslist for $300. That's a great price (assuming it's in good condition), and you'll have money for a 3DS and a game.
Greg Miller doesn't have that much of an effect on me lol.
LordOfChaos
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The Elite one shows $269.99 there...Unless the prices are being wobbly like the Dell one today. Or were you maybe looking at the prices for the non-Elite models also listed there? You can choose standard, white, elite, etc from the thumbnails there.
On the Dell thing - still no cancellation by the end of today, looks like the ones that got the confirmation email are going through!
That's the 3rd party seller pricing. Amazon stock sold out. Amazon's price was 144.99.
opticalmace
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aka I should have preordered more games during E3 2013.
That's an accurate conversion too. Holy
You should have pre-ordered ALL the games.
That's seems too low? The dollar would be in the 60 cents ballpark if that is the price of oil. I just checked it now and it is $33/barrel.
chrominance
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It's not like there's much they can do about oil prices, unfortunately. We're not like OPEC, we don't have massive amounts of easy-to-extract crude oil to dump on the market. As a result, we don't have the power to control market prices like they do. Alberta tarsands oil is much more expensive to extract and is thus only viable when oil prices are high. The real mistake was allowing tarsands oil to become a primary driver of our economy, and regardless of whoever was responsible for that oversight, there's little that can be done quickly to change.
God knows I tried. E3 2016 will be a very interesting time of year.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/01/07/canadian-oil-price-19-barrel_n_8931874.html
It seems one of them is selling at $19, others at $33.
There are different benchmarks of oil prices, so that number probably comes from one of those. The main one that gets quoted all the time is at $32.88 right now. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/
To be honest, the fall of the CAD has certainly destroyed any notion of the idea of cash being a "safe" place to store value, in my mind.
Hell, my best investment ever might well be my E3 2013 pre-orders that I could probably now sell for WAY more CAD than I bought them for.
You're mistakenly thinking of the US oil price. Western Canadian oil is trading at under $20 usd a barrel, which is pathetically low for the industry.
Not much Canada can do either. For the past twenty years, it was changing to an essentially petro dollar economy. Loss of manufacturing to Mexico and Asia, the decline of other industries like tech.
To be fair back then people would have been against developing any other form of economy. Most people are afraid of change and never expect the worst. We lost manufactures, pharmaceutical companies, aeronautical companies and our economy is based around natural resources. Tarsand oil is now more or less useless and China doesn't seem to be in any conditions to buy minerals and other resources right now.
opticalmace
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The only one I have left is FFXV. The other two were MGSV and Infamous SS.
LordOfChaos
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You used the right word with correlated - oil has more of a direct hit on the CAD, but copper is seen as a barometer as investors see it as a first opportunity to sell so that they may buy more shares in other commodities with supply gluts in other commodities apart from oil
By the time FFVX comes out it might cost 94.99$
I think I only have 3 pre orders left from 2013... FFXV, KH3 and Division.
AzureSkies
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If you can't do anything about it, I'll actually buy the PS3 $40 version off you.
I'm probably gonna keep it and play it on PS3 first. Even though I want the PS4 version I'm not gonna pay the outrageous price until it goes on a deep discount.
Sakura
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I don't know how fair that is.
From the mid 70s until 2007 the CAD hadn't been par or higher with the USD once. It had always been below it.
We had a brief boom in the value of the dollar because of rising oil prices, but after that ended, things went back to the way they were before.
Saying there was some mistake by allowing us to receive a boom from oil doesn't make much sense to me. Without it we would've just been still below the USD the whole time, like we had been the last couple decades.
We just have to hope wages get better to compensate for rising prices, because I don't see Canadian games reaching parity again with American prices any time in the near future if ever.
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