You are solidly in the minority on this though. When polled, the vast majority of gamers say that they would rather download their games, and pay a little less, than get a boxed version, and pay a little more.
Citation please? And show me that it's a truly random sample?
Dammit, one april fools joke is funny. the concept is still amusing even after a few. But why is it this year everybody and their dog wants to do it? I had enough at about 9:30 this morning...
Which is why your store wouldn't get my business and somebody else's would. If that makes me an asshole customer, fine. It would hardly take an hour to pull the monitor out of a box, given that I know the exact model I want when I walk in, plug it in, and turn it on. I'd agree with you if you expect your salesmen to walk everybody through every major feature - something they seem to spend most of their time doing, and something that takes a hell of a lot longer than simply verifiying a monitor has no dead pixels. But I don't need salesmen for that, I wouldn't be performing due diligence if I didn't do it myself beforehand.
A single dead pixel on a 17" monitor is annoying to me. That annoyance would certainly be present on a smaller monitor, if not magnified. You continue accepting substandard electronics. I'll continue to get value for my money.
I received 0 dead pixels for the first time in my life when I purchased a 17" LCD
I don't see why you'd accept this - I've asked for every monitor I've bought to be removed from the box and demonstrated for me to ensure there are no dead pixels before I'd accept it. As somebody up above said, you're paying the full value for it, why would you accept anything less?
And I'd imagine even a single dead pixel on a screen that small would be incredibly annoying...
it definititely is sketchy for such individuals to take people's credit card numbers. but that makes me want to buy from you and send you my credit card number all the more...
I always try to put the oldest age that will be accepted on registering for anything, just to see what ridiculous numbers it can take. I suppose that means I'm in line for scads of denture and depends ads....
it would if *most* people did. And *most* people - at least me and everybody I know, do use p2p services largely or even strictly to trade in copyright materials. It's not jumping to a conclusion if the statistics seem to support it, it's calling a spade a spade.
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Citation please? And show me that it's a truly random sample?
Dammit, one april fools joke is funny. the concept is still amusing even after a few. But why is it this year everybody and their dog wants to do it? I had enough at about 9:30 this morning...
Which is why your store wouldn't get my business and somebody else's would. If that makes me an asshole customer, fine. It would hardly take an hour to pull the monitor out of a box, given that I know the exact model I want when I walk in, plug it in, and turn it on. I'd agree with you if you expect your salesmen to walk everybody through every major feature - something they seem to spend most of their time doing, and something that takes a hell of a lot longer than simply verifiying a monitor has no dead pixels. But I don't need salesmen for that, I wouldn't be performing due diligence if I didn't do it myself beforehand.
A single dead pixel on a 17" monitor is annoying to me. That annoyance would certainly be present on a smaller monitor, if not magnified. You continue accepting substandard electronics. I'll continue to get value for my money.
I received 0 dead pixels for the first time in my life when I purchased a 17" LCD I don't see why you'd accept this - I've asked for every monitor I've bought to be removed from the box and demonstrated for me to ensure there are no dead pixels before I'd accept it. As somebody up above said, you're paying the full value for it, why would you accept anything less? And I'd imagine even a single dead pixel on a screen that small would be incredibly annoying...
it definititely is sketchy for such individuals to take people's credit card numbers. but that makes me want to buy from you and send you my credit card number all the more...
oh god if this were only true...
I always try to put the oldest age that will be accepted on registering for anything, just to see what ridiculous numbers it can take. I suppose that means I'm in line for scads of denture and depends ads....
This will do wonders at shutting down all the filipino and chinese phishing sites I've seen.
it would if *most* people did. And *most* people - at least me and everybody I know, do use p2p services largely or even strictly to trade in copyright materials. It's not jumping to a conclusion if the statistics seem to support it, it's calling a spade a spade.