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General / Re: Have you ever overpaid or made a bad decision and lost money with buying games?

« on: December 24, 2017, 02:29:54 pm »

I had a near miss with an eBay auction once. A seller had a bunch of rare games for sale and I won 2 of them. They sent the invoice right away, but I insisted on the seller posting them via registered post and asked for a new quote for the postage. The seller kept ignoring me and resending the same basic postage cost, whilst I kept asking for a registered service or something secure - I've had a lot of things go missing in the post before and no way was I going to get something that cost that much sent through the standard mail!

After about a week or so, they stopped responding to me, but I still kept emailing for a while until I started to get errors saying the email was not in use. When I went back onto eBay to check I suddenly saw their feedback had tanked. It was a huge batch of negative feedback from all the other people who had won the other rare games and paid the seller, who then vanished! I managed to get in contact with a few of the other buyers (this was before eBay hid the names of the people leaving feedback) and all the ones I spoke to told me the same story - they sent the money right away and then when nothing turned up they emailed the seller only to find that the emails were now bouncing back.

I was lucky I didn't lose a crazy amount of money because of my huge, and justified, distrust of Royal Mail.

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Hardware and Tech / Re: Can someone suggest a pair of headphones for gaming and casual use?

« on: December 20, 2017, 03:08:51 pm »

I've mainly used Turtle Beach headphones and have been very happy with them. I never get the top of the range expensive ones and usually stick to the cheaper / mid-range ones, yet the sound is great for what I wan't and my friends say the sound quality from the mic is pretty good too.

The ones I have at the moment are the X12 which I picked up in a second hand shop for a tenner. I think a new pair aren't that much more though.

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Hardware and Tech / Re: Need help with a Japanese PC Engine in the UK

« on: December 17, 2017, 12:23:22 pm »

Hi,

Yeah, I've been through the ones I've found and hooked them back up to the consoles, but there's a load missing that I'm going to have to wind up re-buying.

The trouble is not so much the standard cables and AC adaptors (I should be able to get the UK equivalent ones fairly easily), but the ones I had specifically for the imported consoles. The PC Engine has the original Japanese plug on it and I did have an adaptor that the plug went into so I could then plug the adaptor into the UK socket without blowing up my console with the extra voltage.

I'm sure I got one specifically to use for long periods to convert the voltage, but have no idea what it was since it was quite a while ago.

Have you or anyone else got any recommendations for a Jap to UK adaptor to safely use an imported console in the UK?

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Hardware and Tech / Need help with a Japanese PC Engine in the UK

« on: December 16, 2017, 06:42:00 pm »

Hi,

I hope someone can help me!

My husband (who doesn't play any games) decided a while ago to sort out the living room and he moved half of my consoles to a weird set up around the TV, but didn't hook them back up. I'm now left with several consoles that are missing cables, plugs, or adaptors since he got in a muddle and had no idea what went with what, so instead just scattered the cables around the flat or threw them out thinking they weren't needed!

The PC Engine plug is still attached to the console and the cables are there, but the Japan to UK plug adaptor has gone and I can't remember what I was using as I originally had it permanently attached to the plug. I don't want to risk using a basic travel adaptor as our voltage is a lot higher.

Can anyone recommend a not-too-expensive replacement that would be safe to use with consoles?

Thank you!