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Ack! bought speakers by mistake!

  • 01-11-2001 01:39PM
    #1
    Fand
    Closed Accounts Posts: 258 ✭✭


    STUPID STUPID STUPID! I pressed the wrong "buy" button and bought some stupid stupid stupd thing called a "Surround Theatre" or something equally stu - well, you get the idea - instead of a soundcard.

    So what should I do? Sell the thing (it's a Creative yoke), or keep it and slot the speakers up somewhere? Ack! Stupid!


Comments

  • #2
    JustHalf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,525 ✭✭✭JustHalf


    Well, if I recall correctly their not bad... though you might want to try and cancel the order first. Ring them up.

    Was this from Dabs?


  • #3
    Fand
    Closed Accounts Posts: 258 ✭✭Fand


    I only discovered when I got the mysteriously huge package. No wonder the postage was 56 bleeding quid bloody sterling.

    <sigh>

    Why didn't God give me sense? Wouldn't you think that would have shown a little consideration? At least.


  • #4
    Xterminator
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,833 ✭✭✭Xterminator


    Ouch, thats an expensive mistake.

    even if you got your money back, i couldnt see you recouping the shipping, and youd probably have 2 ship 'em back!

    /Empathy/

    X


  • #5
    elexes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,471 ✭✭✭elexes


    how mutch u selling it for ?


  • #6
    Fand
    Closed Accounts Posts: 258 ✭✭Fand


    lexis, don't know if I'm going to sell it. I'm coming to the conclusion that I should trust the flow, man, and keep the thing, since the flow caused me to be very, very stupid. After all, I'm not going to get the cost plus the vast postage back, and if I wire it up to my living room I can play Sigur Rós *and* be reminded not to be so dim again.


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  • #7
    Lyconix
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 455 ✭✭Lyconix


    LOL :D

    Hey see the funny side, that IS pretty funny :) £56 sterling for shipping... ouch... if you put it that way, you might as well keep the speakers! How much were they apart from shipping?


  • #8
    Fand
    Closed Accounts Posts: 258 ✭✭Fand


    Around £86 in funny money, I think... I don't even want to think about what they are in our cash.

    No.... actually, this is a bit weird. Now that I think of it. I'm just looking at the "this is your receipt, print this out", and it mentions only the processor, the fan, the cooler... Oh, wait, maybe that's an earlier... hang on...

    Yeah, got it. 86 quid sterling all right - and that seems to include the speakers *and* the soundcard. Must have been on a special, because looking at overclockers' page now it's 179 sterling.

    Anyway, when I've got the rest of the parts for what's going to be a very overpriced but fun computer I'll hire a carpenter to put up some stands for the speakers and be able to play Beautiful Linda Gretchell in surroundsound.

    Here's the page for the "theatre" on overclockers:

    http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Online_Catalogue_Creative_Labs_Speaker_Systems_22.html


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