The Buy Stuff Thread

Got in recent weeks:
Star Trek
Superman/Batman: Public Enemies
Re release of G1 Inseticons
Star Wars Two Pack with characters from SW Legacy Comic
TF Universe Inferno and Leo Prime
Bunch of wrestling figures got cheap at Ringside for 2.99 to 7.99.
3 ROH Wrestling dvds and 2 PWG DVDs
GI Joe
Forget to mention i ordered some Carlton Cards Ornaments including G1 Bumblebee and Airplane one from the movie Airplane

Went to Borders and got:
Bloodsucking Fiends: Christopher Moore
Enderā€™s Shadow: Orson Scott Card
Anansi Boys: Niel Gaiman (Holy Hell they got more than their usual NG stock in finally!)
Jurassic Park: Michael Crichton
Children of Dune: Frank Herbert

And just bought off of Amazon:
Battlestar Galactica Season 4.0

shankajew wrote:

[quote]Went to Borders and got:
Bloodsucking Fiends: Christopher Moore
Enderā€™s Shadow: Orson Scott Card
Anansi Boys: Niel Gaiman (Holy Hell they got more than their usual NG stock in finally!)
Jurassic Park: Michael Crichton
Children of Dune: Frank Herbert

And just bought off of Amazon:
Battlestar Galactica Season 4.0[/quote]

Yeah! BSF! And Anansi Boys eh? It was okay.

And how odd I am presently reading ā€œDuneā€.

Lol, BSF was good. Kinda weird with the way I read the sequel first, so there were times when I was like ā€œOH NO! Donā€™t give the bronzers the turtles!ā€

The Borders I go to only has the same Niel Gaiman books in stock, so when I saw Anansi Boys I jumped on it since it was more than just American Gods, Good Omens, Smoke and Mirrors, and a few others they always have.

Dune is an amazing book, have you read it before?

The most recent buy for me (a weeks ago) was an Xbox console and 6 games from Amazon in new condition.

Shenmue 2
Destroy All Humans 2
Oddworld Strangers Wrath
Oddworld Munches Oddysee
Ultimate Spiderman
Psychonauts

shankajew wrote:

Did the Atreides stay on Caladan and not go to Arrakis? Yeah, no I havenā€™t read the book before. >.>

W.A.S.P. - The Best of the Best
Virus - The Black Flux
ChthoniC - Mirror of Retribution

shankajew wrote:

I read them all one summerā€¦ I was rather bored. But I donā€™t really remember the plots that well anymore, I suppose I should brush up on them again. They are sitting rightā€¦ over there.

Over the past week I have bought:

  • G.Skill Trident DDR3 1600 4GB RAM
  • EVGA P55 FTW motherboard
  • Noctua NH-U12P SE2 CPU heatsink
  • TP Link Wireless G/N router

Oh, and a new black ink cartridge for my printer.

What CPU are you planning on getting? Also sounds like your transferring your GPU over, what one are you using right now?

shankajew wrote:

Intel Core i5 750. By far the best bang-for-buck processor right now, especially at $150. Outperforms AMDā€™s top offering. Also performs mostly about as well as the Core i7 920, except for applications that take advantage of multithreading or higher memory bandwidth. Plus, with the Noctua heatsink Iā€™m getting (which is one of the three ā€œbestā€ heatsinks) I should easily be able to hit about 4.0 GHz overclock.

Yeah, like I said in the technology thread, Iā€™m transferring over my PowerColor 4870 1GB (seeing as I just got it a couple months ago, rofl). Iā€™d like to crossfire it with another soon as well.
Iā€™ll also be using the same PSU (Antec Earthwatts 500W), disc drive, case and hard drives. This is why building a computer is win in terms of money saving.

Well, apparently UPS requires you to sign for a season set of DVDs nowadays. Nevermind all the expensive computer equipment that they just leave on my porch all the time, and the dvds theyā€™ve just shoved in my mail box disregarding any care for the package. No, a $30 set of DVDs requires a signature when Iā€™m not even home. >.> At least tomorrow is my day off, otherwise Iā€™d be pissed as hell.

Yeah, I found that out the hard way myself.

It makes absolutely no sense to me. Theyā€™ve delivered much higher priced items, dvds, and dvd sets of similar value to me before without requiring a signature. Itā€™s cold, dvds obviously canā€™t withstand 20 degree weather.

shankajew wrote:

UPS= Unintelligent, Please Sign (Here)

:smiley:

Actually, I wonder if it is the people shipping it requiring it. Where did you order from?

Maybe Iā€™m just pissed because Iā€™ve otherwise had great service from them. Packages from them always come in good shape from my experience, they always deliver at the lower end of my expected shipping time, and theyā€™ve never required me to sign except when I ordered something that was around $800 which is reasonableā€¦ not $30.

shankajew wrote:

I never had to sign for anything. Even consoles thatā€™ve been shipped, I never did.
Somebody has a bug up their hole if they need a damn sig for $30.

At least they gave me an estimated time for tomorrow, which is thankfully a time Iā€™ll be awake by. So Iā€™m going to ask whoever comes by wtf happened.

As I said, I wonder if it is the place you purchased from that now require it.