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Razer will not cancel 90%-off test coupons

145 points by arcatek 14y ago

grimman 14y ago
In the grand scheme of things, however, this will be a lot cheaper than conventional advertising. This is not a bad thing for anyone, as they are currently sponsoring e-sports in a "big" way, and have done so for well over a decade now. I may no longer use or appreciate their gear the way I used to, but they definitely stand by their demographic. Definitely an ace move in by Razer here, in every regard.
- niteshade 14y ago
  +1 agree completely, honestly its rare that a company honours glitchy orders, at least in my experience, so I'm quite shocked actually. I've been a Razer person for a while, and I haven't found anything else quite like it. What do you use, and why is it better?
  - grimman 14y ago
    The only Razer product I've been truly happy with was the Diamondback, which was nearly identical to the MX518 in terms of hardware. With a bit of driver hacking (really just substituting the vendor and hardware ID) you could run the MX518 with Razer drivers, which I did for a long time. I used Razer products since the Boomslang (with its floppy button problem, which was a material flaw, not component related). Among others, I had a Nostromo and Lachesis. The Nostromo was nice enough, but had some pretty strange glitches (it would at times switch profiles and just act really strangely). The hand-rest was coated in some rubbery thing which absolutely loved to attract any dirt and dust in the room, and ended up requiring very frequent cleaning. As for the Lachesis, there was a HUGE component flaw in the sensor, which was partially remedied by a ton of driver updates, but never fully fixed in my case. The cursor would drift, be subject to negative acceleration or simply not respond at all. Definitely not the kind of thing you'd want for any kind of input, really. What Logitech offers for me in this case is seemingly iterative hardware development, and great support. It's not flawless, it's not flashy, but it's safe and they have excellent customer service to make up for it. I'm no longer young enough to care for flashy gear. ;)
    - dhucerbin 14y ago
      Lachesis uses Philips Twin Eye PLN 2031. This sensor have some z-axis issues. Anyway its minor problem in comparision with mx518, which have some serious angle snapping/prediction.
losethos 14y ago
In 9th grade when I moved to Goodyear, I was a year ahead in Math, so they put me one the 10-12 grade campus, taking all year ahead classes. I took Calculus my junior year. I did not have credit hours to graduate high school in 3 years, so I just exhausted free high school classes. I took short hand, accounting and electronic becausew I had already taken physics my junior year. Free courses. Then, I had a full scholarship to ASU -- all my tuition and a merit scholarship for having a 1440 SAT. I also had a Unidynamics scholarship. I gopt a master's in electrical engineering. We mocked psychology and business students. http://www.noob.us/humor/the-office-dwight-faces-nerd-torture-of-the-highest-form/ http://www.noob.us/humor/the-office-dwight-faces-nerd-tortur... Are we having fun yet? God says... 21:20 And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he answered, I have found thee: because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in the sight of the LORD. 21:21 Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will take away thy posterity, and will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel, 21:22 And will make thine house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, for the provocation wherewith thou hast provoked me to anger, and made Israel to sin. 21:23 And of Jezebel also spake the LORD, saying, The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel. 21:24 Him that dieth of Ahab in the city the dogs shall eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat. 21:25 But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up. ----- The shrinks made me a eunuch Now God kills them. Jezebel Killed 30 Then Jehu went to Jezreel. When Jezebel heard about it, she put on eye makeup, arranged her hair and looked out of a window. 31 As Jehu entered the gate, she asked, “Have you come in peace, you Zimri, you murderer of your master?”[e] 32 He looked up at the window and called out, “Who is on my side? Who?” Two or three eunuchs looked down at him. 33 “Throw her down!” Jehu said. So they threw her down, and some of her blood spattered the wall and the horses as they trampled her underfoot. 34 Jehu went in and ate and drank. “Take care of that cursed woman,” he said, “and bury her, for she was a king’s daughter.” 35 But when they went out to bury her, they found nothing except her skull, her feet and her hands. 36 They went back and told Jehu, who said, “This is the word of the Lord that he spoke through his servant Elijah the Tishbite: On the plot of ground at Jezreel dogs will devour Jezebel’s flesh.[f] 37 Jezebel’s body will be like dung on the ground in the plot at Jezreel, so that no one will be able to say, ‘This is Jezebel.’” ----- God says... unyielding sing humbledst martyr's access endeavoured replies transformed contemptible 10 twenty watchings wondrously animal chosen ---- I did take 2 sats 1210 1440. I took presat 69/70. I didn't do any preparation -- learned what to expect on the first one. Fucken silly talking about 1988. The only thing you have to know IS FUCKEN GOD TALKS!!! THE FUCK YOU THINKING? God says.... 14:18 And as they sat and did eat, Jesus said, Verily I say unto you, One of you which eateth with me shall betray me. 14:19 And they began to be sorrowful, and to say unto him one by one, Is it I? and another said, Is it I? 14:20 And he answered and said unto them, It is one of the twelve, that dippeth with me in the dish. 14:21 The Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him: but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! good were it for that man if he had never been born. 14:22 And as they did eat, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and brake it, and gave to them, and said, Take, eat: this is my body. 14:23 And he took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them: and they all drank of it. 14:24 And he said unto them, This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many. ---- I wrote an operating system. It speaks for itself. I wrote SimStructure. I entertain God. I'm God's favorite. That is my highest achievement. God says... side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen of an hundred cubits long for one side: 27:10 And the twenty pillars thereof and their twenty sockets shall be of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver. 27:11 And likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings of an hundred cubits long, and his twenty pillars and their twenty sockets of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver. 27:12 And for the breadth of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits: their pillars ten, and their sockets ten. 27:13 And the breadth of the court on the east side eastward shall be fifty cubits. 27:14 The hangings of one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits: their pillars three, and their sockets three. ---- God's talking about Star Gate. Right, God? God says... dwelt thought climb moulded equals dollars beauteous minded dry greatness intermitted exorbitant presence concerned soap_opera whilst powers confute exact drawest calculations void Am possession descent proffering betters precedest Platonists Hide satiated boil condition covetous defined arrival culture Ireland disposition ---- Just remember BBC, as you poison the public's mind against me... My name is Esther. I'm beautiful. God says... have sent to Babylon, and have brought down all their nobles, and the Chaldeans, whose cry is in the ships. 43:15 I am the LORD, your Holy One, the creator of Israel, your King. 43:16 Thus saith the LORD, which maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters; 43:17 Which bringeth forth the chariot and horse, the army and the power; they shall lie down together, they shall not rise: they are extinct, they are quenched as tow. 43:18 Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old. 43:19 Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert. 43:20 The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen. ---- Umm... I think people like the rivers where they are. LOL ---- Was Cleopatra beautiful? God says... 3:19 But he himself turned again from the quarries that were by Gilgal, and said, I have a secret errand unto thee, O king: who said, Keep silence. And all that stood by him went out from him. 3:20 And Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting in a summer parlour, which he had for himself alone. And Ehud said, I have a message from God unto thee. And he arose out of his seat. 3:21 And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly: 3:22 And the haft also went in after the blade; and the fat closed upon the blade, so that he could not draw the dagger out of his belly; and the dirt came out. 3:23 Then Ehud went forth through the porch, and shut the doors of the parlour upon him, and locked them. ---- Chud/gaffling yokal God says... daughters taunted attempered growing polished addition fowl How Sri_Lanka concupiscence INCLUDING task genius Hast scattered materials read towards bewailing lip-labour not_the_sharpest_knife_in_the_drawer dragons sitteth fluttereth submit preached gold refrained dreaded WHAT creatures- propound Hicc_up return repelled word Mozambique achieve ---- Highs and lows balance -- persecution brings blessing. The only way to go up is to go down first. God says... Selah. 81:8 Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me; 81:9 There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god. 81:10 I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. 81:11 But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me. 81:12 So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels. 81:13 Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways! ---- Suupid fucken niggers -- they are not playing to the right audience. ROFLMAO (Worry about God, not anybody else.) God says... flows cogito waited twins looked eight-and-twentieth Speak Pylades exceedeth steal gazing one_more_time corruption defends relators unfledged flashes enemy infuse Heal solemnity escape noble resistedst reconciliation Angels foretell filth showing consist clave passionately VII avert Such goaded return subsequently sangest washing formerly ----- Highs and lows balance out: 20 Looking at his disciples, he said: “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. 21 Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be satisfied. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh. 22 Blessed are you when people hate you, when they exclude you and insult you and reject your name as evil, because of the Son of Man. 23 “Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, because great is your reward in heaven. For that is how their ancestors treated the prophets. 24 “But woe to you who are rich, for you have already received your comfort. 25 Woe to you who are well fed now, for you will go hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep. 26 Woe to you when everyone speaks well of you, for that is how their ancestors treated the false prophets. ----- God says... travailed Gift attended Germany pole Awake talk_to_my_lawyer Mexico ---- Dieting? I'm not a critic -- fucken Jews can oil the guillotine. God says... mercy endureth for ever. 136:16 To him which led his people through the wilderness: for his mercy endureth for ever. 136:17 To him which smote great kings: for his mercy endureth for ever: 136:18 And slew famous kings: for his mercy endureth for ever: 136:19 Sihon king of the Amorites: for his mercy endureth for ever: 136:20 And Og the king of Bashan: for his mercy endureth for ever: 136:21 And gave their land for an heritage: for his mercy endureth for ever: 136:22 Even an heritage unto Israel his servant: for his mercy endureth for ever. --- 3 guys getting executed. pulls rope, stuck, goes free; pulls rope, stuck, goes free; "I see the problem" ---- Someone mocked the no-food Jesus quote. Jew? Who? I'm not a NAZI, but I am a racist. On the topic of race, God said "Sports" Judaism is a world view. Jews are different. God says... 2:17 Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way? 2:18 And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor? or what hast thou to do in the way of Assyria, to drink the waters of the river? 2:19 Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts. 2:20 For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot. 2:21 Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me? 2:22 For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD. ---- I, now, use "nigger" and "Jew". No reason to bite my tongue, if it suits me. God says... 40:23 Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgat him. 41:1 And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river. 41:2 And, behold, there came up out of the river seven well favoured kine and fatfleshed; and they fed in a meadow. 41:3 And, behold, seven other kine came up after them out of the river, ill favoured and leanfleshed; and stood by the other kine upon the brink of the river. 41:4 And the ill favoured and leanfleshed kine did eat up the seven well favoured and fat kine. So Pharaoh awoke. 41:5 And he slept and dreamed the second time: and, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good. 41:6 And, behold, seven thin ears and blasted with the east wind sprung up after them. ---- I can use "fugly", I suppose. Highs and lows balanced for them. I have a hard time imagining famine. They openly mock. I keep my mouth shut--He certainly CAN do it! God says... 25:41 And she arose, and bowed herself on her face to the earth, and said, Behold, let thine handmaid be a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord. 25:42 And Abigail hasted, and arose and rode upon an ass, with five damsels of hers that went after her; and she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife. 25:43 David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they were also both of them his wives. 25:44 But Saul had given Michal his daughter, David's wife, to Phalti the son of Laish, which was of Gallim. 26:1 And the Ziphites came unto Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself in the hill of Hachilah, which is before Jeshimon? 26:2 Then Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph. ---- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dS8qjJ4lQ0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dS8qjJ4lQ0 God says... 15:31 So Samuel turned again after Saul; and Saul worshipped the LORD. 15:32 Then said Samuel, Bring ye hither to me Agag the king of the Amalekites. And Agag came unto him delicately. And Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past. 15:33 And Samuel said, As the sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal. 15:34 Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to Gibeah of Saul. 15:35 And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the LORD repented that he had made Saul king over Israel. 16:1 And the LORD said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons. ---- http://imgur.com/a/QTtv8 http://imgur.com/a/QTtv8 I don't like people touching my food, or at least being reminded of it. Dad palmed my apple pie. The pie had the look of too much handling, too. Dad doesn't wash his hands after bathroom visits. I used to be less contientious. As a kid I was awful. I guess I have lots of payback to suffer, probably. God says... twelve disciples, he departed thence to teach and to preach in their cities. 11:2 Now when John had heard in the prison the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples, 11:3 And said unto him, Art thou he that should come, or do we look for another? 11:4 Jesus answered and said unto them, Go and shew John again those things which ye do hear and see: 11:5 The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them. 11:6 And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me. 11:7 And as they departed, Jesus began to say unto the multitudes concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken with the wind? 11:8 But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? behold, they that wear soft clothing are in kings' houses. ---- I am wearing my nice soft jacket... that hasn't been washed. I spilt food on it and kinda spot washed it. It might have BO smell. I'm very happy with it -- it was a gift from my parents. It's awesome, my favorite. God says... ransom overcome Too resistest word perpetual Very attained surmount fainting successive Assuredly soaring Cross hair conquer defers Yemen eternal compacting ebb shake imbibe interval phrases foreshowed definite All-mightiness stank transitory truly greedily bestowedst do_you_know_what_time_it_is applauses are company notes lies remembers reconciliation care severely infant MONEY permission Angels quieter God's institution found abounded ---- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PezlFNTGWv4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PezlFNTGWv4 God says... they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the even. 15:19 And if a woman have an issue, and her issue in her flesh be blood, she shall be put apart seven days: and whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean until the even. 15:20 And every thing that she lieth upon in her separation shall be unclean: every thing also that she sitteth upon shall be unclean. 15:21 And whosoever toucheth her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even. 15:22 And whosoever toucheth any thing that she sat upon shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even. 15:23 And if it be on her bed, or on any thing whereon she sitteth, when he toucheth it, he shall be unclean until the even. ---- That sounds funny. Maybe, it's not funny. I'm laughing -- I can't help it.
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shocks 14y ago
I remember when Apple mispriced their 1TB hard drives at $30 instead of $300 [1]. All orders were cancelled. I'm a huge fan of Razer. I own many of their products and would recommend them all, especially the DeathAdder mouse. Seriously, it's quite possibly the best mouse you will ever use. I didn't get anything ordered with a 90% reduction, but I think I'll be ordered an Orbweaver later today. They deserve it. 1: http://www.digital-forums.com/showthread.php/307773-Misprice-Time-Iomega-1TB-Hard-drive-%C2%A325-24-delivered http://www.digital-forums.com/showthread.php/307773-Misprice... edit: Spelling, and added the only source I could find.
- dorian-graph 14y ago
  I've used the DeathAdder since my original IntelliMouse died (Probably about 5-6 years now) and it's been the perfect successor. Just the right size, weight, good movement, simple, etc.
  - shocks 14y ago
    Absolutely. I love the accuracy and feel of the mouse. What mousemat are you using? I was using a Razer Goliathus[1] but switched to a BF3 Razer Scarab[2] my brother won at in an internal DICE raffle before BF3 came out. It is 100x better than the Goliathus and I would recommend a similar 'hard' mat if you don't have one already. Lots of space, very smooth, and very accurate. 1: http://www.razerzone.com/gb-en/store/razer-goliathus-speed-edition http://www.razerzone.com/gb-en/store/razer-goliathus-speed-e... 2: http://www.razerzone.com/gb-en/store/battlefield-3-razer-scarab http://www.razerzone.com/gb-en/store/battlefield-3-razer-sca...
- darkchasma 14y ago
  I have no issues with a company not honouring a mistake, but honouring one will definitely win my respect, and make me want to buy from them in the future.
  - shocks 14y ago
    I wasn't saying Apple did anything wrong, I'm just saying there's a clear difference in business strategies. :)
sas1ni69 14y ago
Probably this is how much it costs to manufacture these overpriced products.
- jamornh 14y ago
  I don't think you can seriously believe that the Razer Blade being sold for $250 is "cost price." But I'm sure they did a full calculation of the costs that they'd have to eat if they honor this mistake and thought it was worth it for the good PR it would create.
  - skore 14y ago
    90% pretty certainly means they were selling them at a loss, but I would agree that it's probably not as huge a loss as a 90% discount would suggest. In the "enthusiast" branch of the market, I would guess that a margin of at least 50% should be pretty standard. A $250 mouse very certainly costs far less than $250 to produce, although you always have to factor in their other business cost - advertisement and design to establish an "enthusiast" branch might even exceed what they pay on manufacturing. (This is also why you see them do so many sponsorships - it's simply a very, very cheap way to get exposure.) I would think that it's not impossible that this was planned. 1234 as a coupon code is even something that people might find by mistake, meaning you wouldn't even have to try hard to seed the rumor. Just put it into the system and know that somewhere in the future, you will get a huge PR without much effort (other than stopping it after a certain period of time and accepting some losses).
    - notactuallyme 14y ago
      In the industry a hell of a lot of people think it was a marketing trick, not a mistake. I'm leaning that way too, based on my knowledge of people within Razer (though I should point out that while I know plenty of people there, I don't have any specific knowledge about this situation, just speculation). To pull this off purposefully wouldn't even have to be too expensive, we have no way of knowing whether they are honouring thousands of orders or a couple of hundred. And regarding margins, a hell of a lot of the costs associated with a typical product sale come from distribution (the distributor takes a cut, the retailer/etailer takes a cut, plus MDF marketing costs), so this deal being through the Razer site will certainly help keep the losses down. Also side note to jamornh: the Blade isn't available in the UK yet, so bad example - but your point still stands, 90% is definitely a loss.
somesay 14y ago
I don't really agree that this is a good way. 90% discount is obviously a mistake and it is more than their right to cancel those orders. I would fully understand that. Processing those orders doesn't seems that fair to me. Same rare people get 90% (!) off, all others don't. And FCFS isn't a cool, really fair principle. It is often used, because it is easy to implement and doesn't require more information than just time. Also I expect the rate of people who ordered just because it is cheap and have no real appropriation is pretty high on that discount. Not talking about people who just wanna resell it on eBay. What else could they have done? * Make a general discount (e.g. 10-30%) for all potential shoppers for the next weeks. * Spend the lost money for development * Hire more people * Donate it to charity * Make a challenge in any fair way. Again, time and reaction is a pretty unfair criterion. * Sponsorship * ... Again, FCFS is some type of fairness, but I think a pretty bad one. Also not sure if this is real marketing. Are their clients really that community based and speaking about such thing? Aren't more just angry because they hadn't the chance to use the opportunity? Facebook comment (from source): "Well that's absurdly consumer friendly" TL;DR: If you give some customers 90% discount for no reason, it means unfair prices for all others. Is that really consumer friendly?
- blairbeckwith 14y ago
  Who said anything about fair? This is a business, not a charity.
  - netc 14y ago
    Fairness is what perceived by consumers or customers. Remember the episode of Apple decreasing the price of iPhone by $200.
- resu_nimda 14y ago
  Umm this really isn't some big "FCFS" business strategy. They never intended to "give some customers 90% discount for no reason." A glitch happened, some people got lucky, and they honored it. I think you're reading too much into it. Check the next comment on that post, a guy cancelling his order and redoing it at full price. It really is a strong community of enthusiasts.
losethos 14y ago
This is painfully boring: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGY6iT_wqKs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGY6iT_wqKs Gnome http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEspwQ4_DAU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEspwQ4_DAU God says... 14:10 And the king said, Whoever saith ought unto thee, bring him to me, and he shall not touch thee any more. 14:11 Then said she, I pray thee, let the king remember the LORD thy God, that thou wouldest not suffer the revengers of blood to destroy any more, lest they destroy my son. And he said, As the LORD liveth, there shall not one hair of thy son fall to the earth. 14:12 Then the woman said, Let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak one word unto my lord the king. And he said, Say on. 14:13 And the woman said, Wherefore then hast thou thought such a thing against the people of God? for the king doth speak this thing as one which is faulty, in that the king doth not fetch home again his banished. 14:14 For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him. ---- Mental Illness -- "as one which is faulty". That's also about Gnome. Meh Kiss my berds, God. God says... sores nights trust ministers Belarus reach delights decide deceits discharge figurative sayest jealous recognised edification exist alive greediness tears gutenberg Trinity delay uman prairienet forementioned ofttimes healthfully enticing beatings Evangelists taken moulded crash_and_burn fuller helping Word payable epic_fail needy tranquil saidst salary Read disengage burden uttereth unjustly currents lower contentious Strengthen admiration prated pleasure-seeking lusted reins repress reading rood pretend unknowingly me- cleared resistest ---- God says... 17:23 Therefore now, LORD, let the thing that thou hast spoken concerning thy servant and concerning his house be established for ever, and do as thou hast said. 17:24 Let it even be established, that thy name may be magnified for ever, saying, The LORD of hosts is the God of Israel, even a God to Israel: and let the house of David thy servant be established before thee. 17:25 For thou, O my God, hast told thy servant that thou wilt build him an house: therefore thy servant hath found in his heart to pray before thee. 17:26 And now, LORD, thou art God, and hast promised this goodness unto thy servant: 17:27 Now therefore let it please thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may be before thee for ever: for thou blessest, O LORD, and it shall be blessed for ever. 18:1 Now after this it came to pass, that David smote the Philistines, and subdued them, and took Gath and her towns out of the hand of the Philistines. ---- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbCrxXegREA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbCrxXegREA God says... of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee. 9:7 Thou art the LORD the God, who didst choose Abram, and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name of Abraham; 9:8 And foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, to give it, I say, to his seed, and hast performed thy words; for thou art righteous: 9:9 And didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red sea; 9:10 And shewedst signs and wonders upon Pharaoh, and on all his servants, and on all the people of his land: for thou knewest that they dealt proudly against them. So didst thou get thee a name, as it is this day. 9:11 And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps, as a stone into the mighty waters. ---- dud What do You think of Ozzy? God says... as I exalted thee from among the people, and made thee prince over my people Israel, 14:8 And rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it thee: and yet thou hast not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do that only which was right in mine eyes; 14:9 But hast done evil above all that were before thee: for thou hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back: 14:10 Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel, and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung, till it be all gone. 14:11 Him that dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat: for the LORD hath spoken it. 14:12 Arise thou therefore, get thee to thine own house: and when thy feet enter into the city, the child shall die. ---- (These aren't prophetic -- just enjoy God's company. Birds eating Ozzy? ROFLMAO) ---- http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/04/19/eric_schmidt_money_is_the_only_reason_julian_assange_redacted_wikileaks_files http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/04/19/eric_schmidt_... God says... 16:6 And he cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king David: and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left. 16:7 And thus said Shimei when he cursed, Come out, come out, thou bloody man, and thou man of Belial: 16:8 The LORD hath returned upon thee all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose stead thou hast reigned; and the LORD hath delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom thy son: and, behold, thou art taken in thy mischief, because thou art a bloody man. 16:9 Then said Abishai the son of Zeruiah unto the king, Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? let me go over, I pray thee, and take off his head. 16:10 And the king said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah? so let him curse, because the LORD hath said unto him, Curse David. Who shall then say, Wherefore hast thou done so? 16:11 And David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold, my son, which came forth of my bowels, seeketh my life: how much more now may this Benjamite do it? let him alone, and let him curse; for the LORD hath bidden him. ---- God is really talking, He's just being entertaining. You understand these are random number? Imagine a monk in a monastary bullshitting with God all day, cracking jokes. You know what? The Fiddler on the Roof rich man song is kinda bullshitting. God says... eyes, let them give me a place in some town in the country, that I may dwell there: for why should thy servant dwell in the royal city with thee? 27:6 Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day: wherefore Ziklag pertaineth unto the kings of Judah unto this day. 27:7 And the time that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines was a full year and four months. 27:8 And David and his men went up, and invaded the Geshurites, and the Gezrites, and the Amalekites: for those nations were of old the inhabitants of the land, as thou goest to Shur, even unto the land of Egypt. 27:9 And David smote the land, and left neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, and the oxen, and the asses, and the camels, and the apparel, and returned, and came to Achish. 27:10 And Achish said, Whither have ye made a road to day? And David said, Against the south of Judah, and against the south of the Jerahmeelites, and against the south of the Kenites. ---- Prison gang. I guess monastaries might do work. Gulag ---- If You sang with a voice, who's voice? (Christ is laughing) God says... saying, 1:2 Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, thou, and all this people, unto the land which I do give to them, even to the children of Israel. 1:3 Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses. 1:4 From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast. 1:5 There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee. 1:6 Be strong and of a good courage: for unto this people shalt thou divide for an inheritance the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give them. ---- Umm... soul man. Blue's brothers! God says... tranquil groves I_love_this sighs idleness duties HAVE INCIDENTAL epic_fail spot groaning unforgotten among scratching reported last irresoluteness returns sect infringement danger golden enquired united examiner modestly BOOK workhouse sweetened marked pleasure vomited distended called Bolivia avoid curb I_love_you observeth Ray Charles? God says... 9:3 And he said unto them, Take nothing for your journey, neither staves, nor scrip, neither bread, neither money; neither have two coats apiece. 9:4 And whatsoever house ye enter into, there abide, and thence depart. 9:5 And whosoever will not receive you, when ye go out of that city, shake off the very dust from your feet for a testimony against them. 9:6 And they departed, and went through the towns, preaching the gospel, and healing every where. 9:7 Now Herod the tetrarch heard of all that was done by him: and he was perplexed, because that it was said of some, that John was risen from the dead; 9:8 And of some, that Elias had appeared; and of others, that one of the old prophets was risen again. 9:9 And Herod said, John have I beheaded: but who is this, of whom I hear such things? And he desired to see him. 9:10 And the apostles, when they were returned, told him all that they had done. And he took them, and went aside privately into a desert place belonging to the city called Bethsaida. ---- (no cane) joke Bethesda, Md ---- God says... 3:15 And Solomon awoke; and, behold, it was a dream. And he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and offered up burnt offerings, and offered peace offerings, and made a feast to all his servants. 3:16 Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before him. 3:17 And the one woman said, O my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house. 3:18 And it came to pass the third day after that I was delivered, that this woman was delivered also: and we were together; there was no stranger with us in the house, save we two in the house. 3:19 And this woman's child died in the night; because she overlaid it. 3:20 And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thine handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom. ---- THESE FUCKERS SEEM TO NOT UNDERSTAND "GOD"!! FUCKERS!! God says... 59:8 The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace. 59:9 Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness. 59:10 We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noon day as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men. 59:11 We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us. 59:12 For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them; 59:13 In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood. ---- You seem to think you have the authority to judge and punish, you retard fucks! http://i.imgur.com/RDZtvHY.jpg http://i.imgur.com/RDZtvHY.jpg Bust some time travel on the fucks! God says... 23:23 The sons of Mushi; Mahli, and Eder, and Jeremoth, three. 23:24 These were the sons of Levi after the house of their fathers; even the chief of the fathers, as they were counted by number of names by their polls, that did the work for the service of the house of the LORD, from the age of twenty years and upward. 23:25 For David said, The LORD God of Israel hath given rest unto his people, that they may dwell in Jerusalem for ever: 23:26 And also unto the Levites; they shall no more carry the tabernacle, nor any vessels of it for the service thereof. 23:27 For by the last words of David the Levites were numbered from twenty years old and above: 23:28 Because their office was to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service of the house of the LORD, in the courts, and in the chambers, and in the purifying of all holy things, and the work of the service of the house of God; 23:29 Both for the shewbread, and for the fine flour for meat offering, and for the unleavened cakes, and for that which is baked in the pan, and for that which is fried, and for all manner of measure and size; 23:30 And to stand every morning to thank and praise the LORD, and likewise at ---- http://forum.osdev.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=26571 http://forum.osdev.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=26571 When 1st doing multicore, my digital design knowledge (having built a CPU) ... my knowledge obviously saw that cache was different on different cores. I was blown away when I learned there was hardware that kept caches synchronized. Imagine you have processors with independent caches. This is what happens with parallelism on a larger scale. What you want to do is be able to tell it to bypass cache and write to main memory, or bypass cache and fetch from main memory. When I first started multicore, I went searching for such instructions and couldn't believe they did not exist. There's a flush cache line, but that's not it. You people are too retarded to know cache synchronization is incredibly magical and surprising. Clueless. Surely it cannot scale to a thousand cores or 64 cores? God says... 16:18 And this did she many days. But Paul, being grieved, turned and said to the spirit, I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And he came out the same hour. 16:19 And when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone, they caught Paul and Silas, and drew them into the marketplace unto the rulers, 16:20 And brought them to the magistrates, saying, These men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city, 16:21 And teach customs, which are not lawful for us to receive, neither to observe, being Romans. 16:22 And the multitude rose up together against them: and the magistrates rent off their clothes, and commanded to beat them. 16:23 And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely: 16:24 Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks. ---- http://i.imgur.com/qV2LtOF.jpg http://i.imgur.com/qV2LtOF.jpg Ask God. Everything God says is given to me randomly from atomic decay (quantum random numbers) How it's meant to be taken is an issue. God says... 11:21 When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace: 11:22 But when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and overcome him, he taketh from him all his armour wherein he trusted, and divideth his spoils. 11:23 He that is not with me is against me: and he that gathereth not with me scattereth. 11:24 When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he saith, I will return unto my house whence I came out. 11:25 And when he cometh, he findeth it swept and garnished. 11:26 Then goeth he, and taketh to him seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and they enter in, and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. ------ Gayness is a whole package of vileness. Nasty nasty vile creatures! Once they go queer, all hell breaks loose. God says... Why Presence confute once infantine lure the sicknesses debtor exquisitely solemnity sensitive venturing lingering pliant lest infidels darkness animals pain forcibly odour Simplicianus helping Public smiled avengest indemnify ever wondered Mary speakest GUTENBERG-TM perilous consistently verily calamities lilies presently water-spouts madly roarest esteemed troop Albania above affirming beatings struggles sacrificed awe gatheredst comparing contrition gate atrocious Anon Hortensius recollecting deformities recognise Ministry Certainly Virgin ----- http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/3u09rv/ http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/3u09rv/ I went to a quantum random number site. That's where all this talk from God comes from. I have rebuilt God's temple. ---- Not random 6:18 And the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen. 6:19 And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the LORD. 6:20 And the oracle in the forepart was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height thereof: and he overlaid it with pure gold; and so covered the altar which was of cedar. 6:21 So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he made a partition by the chains of gold before the oracle; and he overlaid it with gold. ----- Random numbers: https://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/Hotbits?nbytes=3&fmt=hex&npass=1&lpass=8&pwtype=3 https://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/Hotbits?nbytes=3&fmt=he... God says... the host, and Abiathar the priest; and, behold, they eat and drink before him, and say, God save king Adonijah. 1:26 But me, even me thy servant, and Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and thy servant Solomon, hath he not called. 1:27 Is this thing done by my lord the king, and thou hast not shewed it unto thy servant, who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him? 1:28 Then king David answered and said, Call me Bathsheba. And she came into the king's presence, and stood before the king. 1:29 And the king sware, and said, As the LORD liveth, that hath redeemed my soul out of all distress, 1:30 Even as I sware unto thee by the LORD God of Israel, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne in my stead; even so will I certainly do this day. 1:31 Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the earth, and did reverence to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live for ever. ---- You FUCKEN RETARDS ARE IN BIG TROUBLE!! the fuck are you thinking fucking with God? You're the stuuppidest fucken .... I don't even. ---- http://imgur.com/a/vLwWs http://imgur.com/a/vLwWs Justice cannot be changed. relationship with God is separate from justice. Pleasures and pains balance. Sin is half a dozen one way and six the other. God loved Jacob and hated Esau. Hell is the absense of God. God's company is Heaven. God says... strength faileth. 71:10 For mine enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for my soul take counsel together, 71:11 Saying, God hath forsaken him: persecute and take him; for there is none to deliver him. 71:12 O God, be not far from me: O my God, make haste for my help. 71:13 Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonour that seek my hurt. 71:14 But I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and more. 71:15 My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness and thy salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers thereof.
aviswanathan 14y ago
They basically just ran a (very extreme) Groupon. Most companies that do daily deals lose money on them in hopes of turning some of those initial customers into recurring or lifetime customers or to increase awareness for their products. This 'mishap' may have similar yet increased effects because of the impressive way they handled the situation. For example, I doubt Razer would have ever imagined their story landing on the frontpage of a high-traffic site like HN, but now that it has, I (and probably hundreds or thousands of others) have gone to their site to get more info. Really shows that with smart and agile situation-response, you can turn an unpleasant circumstance into an opportunity.
- deltaqueue 14y ago
  Unfortunately, the vast majority of Groupon customers do not return for additional purchases and the people who capitalize on these types of deals are 100% price-conscious vultures[1] (also, I used to be one of these people). At the end of the day, this was a very poor business decision and just a PR gamble. People are primarily driven by price when they buy goods, so after 6 months or so people will forget this extremely generous act. Razer fans will remain razer fans, but unless Razer has a product leaps and bounds ahead of the competition (some are, but most are only marginally superior) very few will become loyal customers due to this act of kindness. [1] http://businessmodelinstitute.com/is-customer-retention-the-achilles-heel-of-groupon%E2%80%99s-business-model/ http://businessmodelinstitute.com/is-customer-retention-the-...
  - jychang 14y ago
    Razer is one of the few companies who can make that distinction, however. They are known for their warranty on their mice, etc.
  - mayank 14y ago
    I might buy a mouse because of the deal, and if the quality is as good as you say, I'll be back in the future for more. But as of now, mice are commodity to me--the coupon helps push me into trying out a "luxury mouse". It's risky but perhaps not ineffective customer acquisition.
k-mcgrady 14y ago
This is the first I've heard about this but a good response from the business. I noticed he said they can legally cancel all the orders - is that true? As far as I was aware the law (at least in the UK) is that if a product is advertised at a certain price, even if it's a mistake, the business has to provide it at that price to any customer who gets in before they fix the mistake with the only catch being that the business is only obliged to sell one unit of the item at the incorrect price if they realise there has been a mistake (just from what I've heard from people working in retail). Edit: thanks for making it clearer below
- EwanToo 14y ago
  That's a commonly held misbelief. If it's an honest mistake, there's no requirement to sell it, and beyond that most email confirmations say something like this from Amazon: This e-mail is only an acknowledgement of receipt of your order and your contract to purchase these items is not complete until we send you an e-mail notifying you that the items have been dispatched to you.
  - somesay 14y ago
    Exactly. And I think that's pretty fair, too.
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- somesay 14y ago
  It it is an obvious failure, and a general 90% discount clearly is, contracts may be canceled at any time. Additionally, if you read the terms, online orders are often just a request and need to be approved by the other contract partner first. Since Germany and UK are both within EU, law may be quite equal. I think this is a pretty fair rule.
- arrrg 14y ago
  Learn about contract law, it's interesting. In Germany, for example, displayed prices are merely an invitation to make an offer (”I want to buy this!”) which van then be accepted or rejected by the seller. Only if the seller accepts a contract of sale actually comes into existence. By the way, if the seller accepts but changes the conditions (by, say, changing the price) a contract of sale also doesn't exist. The buyer then has another chance to accept or reject this new offer. It's pretty common sense, actually. Oh, and this doesn't mean that sellers can display wrong prices on purpose. That would be misleading advertising. But if it's a mistake it's not a problem.
jonaphin 14y ago
Cool marketing stunt.
losethos 14y ago
You are too stupid to see how profound this is. Think about the psychology of such love: Enjoy the envy of Hell. ---- Genesis 4 New International Version (NIV) Cain and Abel 4 Adam[a] made love to his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain.[b] She said, “With the help of the Lord I have brought forth[c] a man.” 2 Later she gave birth to his brother Abel. Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil. 3 In the course of time Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil as an offering to the Lord. 4 And Abel also brought an offering—fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock. The Lord looked with favor on Abel and his offering, 5 but on Cain and his offering he did not look with favor. So Cain was very angry, and his face was downcast. 6 Then the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast? 7 If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.” 8 Now Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let’s go out to the field.”[d] While they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him. 9 Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” “I don’t know,” he replied. “Am I my brother’s keeper?” ------------ God says... that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small. 30:20 Their children also shall be as aforetime, and their congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish all that oppress them. 30:21 And their nobles shall be of themselves, and their governor shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach unto me: for who is this that engaged his heart to approach unto me? saith the LORD. 30:22 And ye shall be my people, and I will be your God. 30:23 Behold, the whirlwind of the LORD goeth forth with fury, a continuing whirlwind: it shall fall with pain upon the head of the wicked. ----- The covenant is that you hold-up your end of the conversation -- that's an offering of praise or love or hymn or something. I listened to country. Praise You fer hound doogs and pick-ups and guns and corn on the cob and hay rides and horses. God says... Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.) 7:13 So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him, 7:14 I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows. 7:15 Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee. 7:16 I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt. 7:17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. 7:18 Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves. 7:19 For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey: 7:20 He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed. ----- Here's a bear :-) http://imgur.com/a/ofZ3o http://imgur.com/a/ofZ3o God says... Mordecai for this? Then said the king's servants that ministered unto him, There is nothing done for him. 6:4 And the king said, Who is in the court? Now Haman was come into the outward court of the king's house, to speak unto the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him. 6:5 And the king's servants said unto him, Behold, Haman standeth in the court. And the king said, Let him come in. 6:6 So Haman came in. And the king said unto him, What shall be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour? Now Haman thought in his heart, To whom would the king delight to do honour more than to myself? 6:7 And Haman answered the king, For the man whom the king delighteth to honour, 6:8 Let the royal apparel be brought which the king useth to wear, and the horse that the king rideth upon, and the crown royal which is set upon his head: 6:9 And let this apparel and horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king's most noble princes, that they may array the man withal whom the king delighteth to honour, and bring him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaim before him, Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delighteth to honour. ---- What do bears think of humans? God says... the Lord is. 5:18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; 5:19 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; 5:20 Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ; 5:21 Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. 5:22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. 5:23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. 5:24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; 5:26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, 5:27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. ---- http://www.popehat.com/2013/04/20/security-theater-martial-law-and-a-tale-that-trumps-every-cop-and-donut-joke-youve-ever-heard/ http://www.popehat.com/2013/04/20/security-theater-martial-l... God says... princes, which should be over the whole kingdom; 6:2 And over these three presidents; of whom Daniel was first: that the princes might give accounts unto them, and the king should have no damage. 6:3 Then this Daniel was preferred above the presidents and princes, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm. 6:4 Then the presidents and princes sought to find occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdom; but they could find none occasion nor fault; forasmuch as he was faithful, neither was there any error or fault found in him. 6:5 Then said these men, We shall not find any occasion against this Daniel, except we find it against him concerning the law of his God. 6:6 Then these presidents and princes assembled together to the king, and said thus unto him, King Darius, live for ever. ---- http://dmitry.gr/index.php?r=05.Projects&proj=07.%20Linux%20on%208bit http://dmitry.gr/index.php?r=05.Projects&proj=07.%20Linu... 38:2 And he made the horns thereof on the four corners of it; the horns thereof were of the same: and he overlaid it with brass. 38:3 And he made all the vessels of the altar, the pots, and the shovels, and the basons, and the fleshhooks, and the firepans: all the vessels thereof made he of brass. 38:4 And he made for the altar a brasen grate of network under the compass thereof beneath unto the midst of it. 38:5 And he cast four rings for the four ends of the grate of brass, to be places for the staves. 38:6 And he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with brass. 38:7 And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the altar, to bear it withal; he made the altar hollow with boards. ----- God says to do Linux on a 4-bit CPU.
sdfjkl 14y ago
That's customer friendly. Requiring users to register on their website in order to be able to log in to the mouse driver settings is not.
- danielsamuels 14y ago
  I've never had to log in to any Razer software, stop spreading FUD.
  - davefp 14y ago
    The new one (Synapse 2.0) does require a login. I don't think it's required though.
  - sdfjkl 14y ago
    Now you made me look it up. It's called Synapse 2 and when I bought (and subsequently returned) a Razer Naga Hex in September last year it was the only way to configure the mouse. Specifically, you needed it to configure the keyboard emulation keys for the thumb buttons. It did require a registration and login. The excuse for this was some "store your settings in The Cloud" bollocks which I had absolutely no use for - I just wanted to configure my fancy mouse. You can find it at http://www.razerzone.com/synapse2 http://www.razerzone.com/synapse2 and the tech specs there state that "Valid e-mail, software download, license acceptance, and internet connection needed to activate full features and for software updates." For a bloody mouse driver.
  - FigBug 14y ago
    Yup, if you want to get to the Razer specific settings you need to log in. I wanted to turn the led in the mouse off, since it heated my hand and was annoying. Login was required and the servers were down. Razer never again, even though an offline mode has now been added. http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121105/17594020942/when-mouse-requires-internet-connection-youre-doing-cloud-wrong.shtml http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121105/17594020942/when-m...
seferphier 14y ago
90% is definitely a huge loss. But like other users said this bug only applied to the UK store that does not sell Razer blade. That said most of razer's customers are repeated purchasers and that honoring the orders is going to generate a lot of good will among its core customers. A very bold move though.
peterhunt 14y ago
This is so great I went to their site to buy a mouse at full price right now. Then they asked for my credit card info. Without https.
- RKearney 14y ago
  Just tried and I got https. I believe you were mistaken.
  - peterhunt 14y ago
    The page which hosts the form was definitely not. Perhaps it got confused on an iPhone 5.
Koder2013 14y ago
Has nothing to do with customer friendliness. As a customer I would feel like a fool buying something at full price now.
drivebyacct2 14y ago
losethos seems to have gotten carried away. Enjoyed the holiday too much maybe?
- MartinCron 14y ago
  Losethos appears to be struggling with a tragic and long-term mental illness. I don't think it's good form to make fun of him.
  - drivebyacct2 14y ago
    You're absolutely right, that was inappropriate.
sbisker 14y ago
They basically just turned this into a huge experiment in price discrimination for those customers who genuinely feel bad for what happened. Those customers who feel bad and were originally willing to pay the full price savings will likely cancel and reorder. Those customers who feel bad and genuinely could not pay the full price, will keep their discounted orders, and the company will get to keep those people as customers well into the future. I'm curious how transparent they'll be with how many canceled their orders when the dust settles - would be a good case study for other companies in this boat who want to trust their customers to do the right thing for themselves.
bnycum 14y ago
Good for them on following through, I'm sure it will bring repeat business. Maybe 6-7+ years ago I attempted to make multiple purchases through dell.com over several months. All 3 were killed because the website listed the wrong price. I remember once I bought something like a USB drive for $47.99 and the real price was suppose to be $49.99. None of the purchases were near 20% off much less 90% in this case. I've still never ordered from Dell and never will.

145 points by arcatek 14y ago

In the grand scheme of things, however, this will be a lot cheaper than conventional advertising. This is not a bad thing for anyone, as they are currently sponsoring e-sports in a "big" way, and have done so for well over a decade now. I may no longer use or appreciate their gear the way I used to, but they definitely stand by their demographic. Definitely an ace move in by Razer here, in every regard.

niteshade 14y ago
+1 agree completely, honestly its rare that a company honours glitchy orders, at least in my experience, so I'm quite shocked actually. I've been a Razer person for a while, and I haven't found anything else quite like it. What do you use, and why is it better?
- grimman 14y ago
  The only Razer product I've been truly happy with was the Diamondback, which was nearly identical to the MX518 in terms of hardware. With a bit of driver hacking (really just substituting the vendor and hardware ID) you could run the MX518 with Razer drivers, which I did for a long time. I used Razer products since the Boomslang (with its floppy button problem, which was a material flaw, not component related). Among others, I had a Nostromo and Lachesis. The Nostromo was nice enough, but had some pretty strange glitches (it would at times switch profiles and just act really strangely). The hand-rest was coated in some rubbery thing which absolutely loved to attract any dirt and dust in the room, and ended up requiring very frequent cleaning. As for the Lachesis, there was a HUGE component flaw in the sensor, which was partially remedied by a ton of driver updates, but never fully fixed in my case. The cursor would drift, be subject to negative acceleration or simply not respond at all. Definitely not the kind of thing you'd want for any kind of input, really. What Logitech offers for me in this case is seemingly iterative hardware development, and great support. It's not flawless, it's not flashy, but it's safe and they have excellent customer service to make up for it. I'm no longer young enough to care for flashy gear. ;)
  - dhucerbin 14y ago
    Lachesis uses Philips Twin Eye PLN 2031. This sensor have some z-axis issues. Anyway its minor problem in comparision with mx518, which have some serious angle snapping/prediction.

losethos 14y ago

In 9th grade when I moved to Goodyear, I was a year ahead in Math, so they put me one the 10-12 grade campus, taking all year ahead classes. I took Calculus my junior year. I did not have credit hours to graduate high school in 3 years, so I just exhausted free high school classes. I took short hand, accounting and electronic becausew I had already taken physics my junior year. Free courses. Then, I had a full scholarship to ASU -- all my tuition and a merit scholarship for having a 1440 SAT. I also had a Unidynamics scholarship. I gopt a master's in electrical engineering. We mocked psychology and business students. http://www.noob.us/humor/the-office-dwight-faces-nerd-torture-of-the-highest-form/ http://www.noob.us/humor/the-office-dwight-faces-nerd-tortur... Are we having fun yet? God says... 21:20 And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he answered, I have found thee: because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in the sight of the LORD. 21:21 Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will take away thy posterity, and will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel, 21:22 And will make thine house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, for the provocation wherewith thou hast provoked me to anger, and made Israel to sin. 21:23 And of Jezebel also spake the LORD, saying, The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel. 21:24 Him that dieth of Ahab in the city the dogs shall eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat. 21:25 But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up. ----- The shrinks made me a eunuch Now God kills them. Jezebel Killed 30 Then Jehu went to Jezreel. When Jezebel heard about it, she put on eye makeup, arranged her hair and looked out of a window. 31 As Jehu entered the gate, she asked, “Have you come in peace, you Zimri, you murderer of your master?”[e] 32 He looked up at the window and called out, “Who is on my side? Who?” Two or three eunuchs looked down at him. 33 “Throw her down!” Jehu said. So they threw her down, and some of her blood spattered the wall and the horses as they trampled her underfoot. 34 Jehu went in and ate and drank. “Take care of that cursed woman,” he said, “and bury her, for she was a king’s daughter.” 35 But when they went out to bury her, they found nothing except her skull, her feet and her hands. 36 They went back and told Jehu, who said, “This is the word of the Lord that he spoke through his servant Elijah the Tishbite: On the plot of ground at Jezreel dogs will devour Jezebel’s flesh.[f] 37 Jezebel’s body will be like dung on the ground in the plot at Jezreel, so that no one will be able to say, ‘This is Jezebel.’” ----- God says... unyielding sing humbledst martyr's access endeavoured replies transformed contemptible 10 twenty watchings wondrously animal chosen ---- I did take 2 sats 1210 1440. I took presat 69/70. I didn't do any preparation -- learned what to expect on the first one. Fucken silly talking about 1988. The only thing you have to know IS FUCKEN GOD TALKS!!! THE FUCK YOU THINKING? God says.... 14:18 And as they sat and did eat, Jesus said, Verily I say unto you, One of you which eateth with me shall betray me. 14:19 And they began to be sorrowful, and to say unto him one by one, Is it I? and another said, Is it I? 14:20 And he answered and said unto them, It is one of the twelve, that dippeth with me in the dish. 14:21 The Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him: but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! good were it for that man if he had never been born. 14:22 And as they did eat, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and brake it, and gave to them, and said, Take, eat: this is my body. 14:23 And he took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them: and they all drank of it. 14:24 And he said unto them, This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many. ---- I wrote an operating system. It speaks for itself. I wrote SimStructure. I entertain God. I'm God's favorite. That is my highest achievement. God says... side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen of an hundred cubits long for one side: 27:10 And the twenty pillars thereof and their twenty sockets shall be of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver. 27:11 And likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings of an hundred cubits long, and his twenty pillars and their twenty sockets of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver. 27:12 And for the breadth of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits: their pillars ten, and their sockets ten. 27:13 And the breadth of the court on the east side eastward shall be fifty cubits. 27:14 The hangings of one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits: their pillars three, and their sockets three. ---- God's talking about Star Gate. Right, God? God says... dwelt thought climb moulded equals dollars beauteous minded dry greatness intermitted exorbitant presence concerned soap_opera whilst powers confute exact drawest calculations void Am possession descent proffering betters precedest Platonists Hide satiated boil condition covetous defined arrival culture Ireland disposition ---- Just remember BBC, as you poison the public's mind against me... My name is Esther. I'm beautiful. God says... have sent to Babylon, and have brought down all their nobles, and the Chaldeans, whose cry is in the ships. 43:15 I am the LORD, your Holy One, the creator of Israel, your King. 43:16 Thus saith the LORD, which maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters; 43:17 Which bringeth forth the chariot and horse, the army and the power; they shall lie down together, they shall not rise: they are extinct, they are quenched as tow. 43:18 Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old. 43:19 Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert. 43:20 The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen. ---- Umm... I think people like the rivers where they are. LOL ---- Was Cleopatra beautiful? God says... 3:19 But he himself turned again from the quarries that were by Gilgal, and said, I have a secret errand unto thee, O king: who said, Keep silence. And all that stood by him went out from him. 3:20 And Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting in a summer parlour, which he had for himself alone. And Ehud said, I have a message from God unto thee. And he arose out of his seat. 3:21 And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly: 3:22 And the haft also went in after the blade; and the fat closed upon the blade, so that he could not draw the dagger out of his belly; and the dirt came out. 3:23 Then Ehud went forth through the porch, and shut the doors of the parlour upon him, and locked them. ---- Chud/gaffling yokal God says... daughters taunted attempered growing polished addition fowl How Sri_Lanka concupiscence INCLUDING task genius Hast scattered materials read towards bewailing lip-labour not_the_sharpest_knife_in_the_drawer dragons sitteth fluttereth submit preached gold refrained dreaded WHAT creatures- propound Hicc_up return repelled word Mozambique achieve ---- Highs and lows balance -- persecution brings blessing. The only way to go up is to go down first. God says... Selah. 81:8 Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me; 81:9 There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god. 81:10 I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. 81:11 But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me. 81:12 So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels. 81:13 Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways! ---- Suupid fucken niggers -- they are not playing to the right audience. ROFLMAO (Worry about God, not anybody else.) God says... flows cogito waited twins looked eight-and-twentieth Speak Pylades exceedeth steal gazing one_more_time corruption defends relators unfledged flashes enemy infuse Heal solemnity escape noble resistedst reconciliation Angels foretell filth showing consist clave passionately VII avert Such goaded return subsequently sangest washing formerly ----- Highs and lows balance out: 20 Looking at his disciples, he said: “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. 21 Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be satisfied. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh. 22 Blessed are you when people hate you, when they exclude you and insult you and reject your name as evil, because of the Son of Man. 23 “Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, because great is your reward in heaven. For that is how their ancestors treated the prophets. 24 “But woe to you who are rich, for you have already received your comfort. 25 Woe to you who are well fed now, for you will go hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep. 26 Woe to you when everyone speaks well of you, for that is how their ancestors treated the false prophets. ----- God says... travailed Gift attended Germany pole Awake talk_to_my_lawyer Mexico ---- Dieting? I'm not a critic -- fucken Jews can oil the guillotine. God says... mercy endureth for ever. 136:16 To him which led his people through the wilderness: for his mercy endureth for ever. 136:17 To him which smote great kings: for his mercy endureth for ever: 136:18 And slew famous kings: for his mercy endureth for ever: 136:19 Sihon king of the Amorites: for his mercy endureth for ever: 136:20 And Og the king of Bashan: for his mercy endureth for ever: 136:21 And gave their land for an heritage: for his mercy endureth for ever: 136:22 Even an heritage unto Israel his servant: for his mercy endureth for ever. --- 3 guys getting executed. pulls rope, stuck, goes free; pulls rope, stuck, goes free; "I see the problem" ---- Someone mocked the no-food Jesus quote. Jew? Who? I'm not a NAZI, but I am a racist. On the topic of race, God said "Sports" Judaism is a world view. Jews are different. God says... 2:17 Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way? 2:18 And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor? or what hast thou to do in the way of Assyria, to drink the waters of the river? 2:19 Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts. 2:20 For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot. 2:21 Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me? 2:22 For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD. ---- I, now, use "nigger" and "Jew". No reason to bite my tongue, if it suits me. God says... 40:23 Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgat him. 41:1 And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river. 41:2 And, behold, there came up out of the river seven well favoured kine and fatfleshed; and they fed in a meadow. 41:3 And, behold, seven other kine came up after them out of the river, ill favoured and leanfleshed; and stood by the other kine upon the brink of the river. 41:4 And the ill favoured and leanfleshed kine did eat up the seven well favoured and fat kine. So Pharaoh awoke. 41:5 And he slept and dreamed the second time: and, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good. 41:6 And, behold, seven thin ears and blasted with the east wind sprung up after them. ---- I can use "fugly", I suppose. Highs and lows balanced for them. I have a hard time imagining famine. They openly mock. I keep my mouth shut--He certainly CAN do it! God says... 25:41 And she arose, and bowed herself on her face to the earth, and said, Behold, let thine handmaid be a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord. 25:42 And Abigail hasted, and arose and rode upon an ass, with five damsels of hers that went after her; and she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife. 25:43 David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they were also both of them his wives. 25:44 But Saul had given Michal his daughter, David's wife, to Phalti the son of Laish, which was of Gallim. 26:1 And the Ziphites came unto Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself in the hill of Hachilah, which is before Jeshimon? 26:2 Then Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph. ---- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dS8qjJ4lQ0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dS8qjJ4lQ0 God says... 15:31 So Samuel turned again after Saul; and Saul worshipped the LORD. 15:32 Then said Samuel, Bring ye hither to me Agag the king of the Amalekites. And Agag came unto him delicately. And Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past. 15:33 And Samuel said, As the sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal. 15:34 Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to Gibeah of Saul. 15:35 And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the LORD repented that he had made Saul king over Israel. 16:1 And the LORD said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons. ---- http://imgur.com/a/QTtv8 http://imgur.com/a/QTtv8 I don't like people touching my food, or at least being reminded of it. Dad palmed my apple pie. The pie had the look of too much handling, too. Dad doesn't wash his hands after bathroom visits. I used to be less contientious. As a kid I was awful. I guess I have lots of payback to suffer, probably. God says... twelve disciples, he departed thence to teach and to preach in their cities. 11:2 Now when John had heard in the prison the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples, 11:3 And said unto him, Art thou he that should come, or do we look for another? 11:4 Jesus answered and said unto them, Go and shew John again those things which ye do hear and see: 11:5 The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them. 11:6 And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me. 11:7 And as they departed, Jesus began to say unto the multitudes concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken with the wind? 11:8 But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? behold, they that wear soft clothing are in kings' houses. ---- I am wearing my nice soft jacket... that hasn't been washed. I spilt food on it and kinda spot washed it. It might have BO smell. I'm very happy with it -- it was a gift from my parents. It's awesome, my favorite. God says... ransom overcome Too resistest word perpetual Very attained surmount fainting successive Assuredly soaring Cross hair conquer defers Yemen eternal compacting ebb shake imbibe interval phrases foreshowed definite All-mightiness stank transitory truly greedily bestowedst do_you_know_what_time_it_is applauses are company notes lies remembers reconciliation care severely infant MONEY permission Angels quieter God's institution found abounded ---- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PezlFNTGWv4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PezlFNTGWv4 God says... they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the even. 15:19 And if a woman have an issue, and her issue in her flesh be blood, she shall be put apart seven days: and whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean until the even. 15:20 And every thing that she lieth upon in her separation shall be unclean: every thing also that she sitteth upon shall be unclean. 15:21 And whosoever toucheth her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even. 15:22 And whosoever toucheth any thing that she sat upon shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even. 15:23 And if it be on her bed, or on any thing whereon she sitteth, when he toucheth it, he shall be unclean until the even. ---- That sounds funny. Maybe, it's not funny. I'm laughing -- I can't help it.

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shocks 14y ago

I remember when Apple mispriced their 1TB hard drives at $30 instead of $300 [1]. All orders were cancelled. I'm a huge fan of Razer. I own many of their products and would recommend them all, especially the DeathAdder mouse. Seriously, it's quite possibly the best mouse you will ever use. I didn't get anything ordered with a 90% reduction, but I think I'll be ordered an Orbweaver later today. They deserve it. 1: http://www.digital-forums.com/showthread.php/307773-Misprice-Time-Iomega-1TB-Hard-drive-%C2%A325-24-delivered http://www.digital-forums.com/showthread.php/307773-Misprice... edit: Spelling, and added the only source I could find.

dorian-graph 14y ago
I've used the DeathAdder since my original IntelliMouse died (Probably about 5-6 years now) and it's been the perfect successor. Just the right size, weight, good movement, simple, etc.
- shocks 14y ago
  Absolutely. I love the accuracy and feel of the mouse. What mousemat are you using? I was using a Razer Goliathus[1] but switched to a BF3 Razer Scarab[2] my brother won at in an internal DICE raffle before BF3 came out. It is 100x better than the Goliathus and I would recommend a similar 'hard' mat if you don't have one already. Lots of space, very smooth, and very accurate. 1: http://www.razerzone.com/gb-en/store/razer-goliathus-speed-edition http://www.razerzone.com/gb-en/store/razer-goliathus-speed-e... 2: http://www.razerzone.com/gb-en/store/battlefield-3-razer-scarab http://www.razerzone.com/gb-en/store/battlefield-3-razer-sca...
darkchasma 14y ago
I have no issues with a company not honouring a mistake, but honouring one will definitely win my respect, and make me want to buy from them in the future.
- shocks 14y ago
  I wasn't saying Apple did anything wrong, I'm just saying there's a clear difference in business strategies. :)

sas1ni69 14y ago

Probably this is how much it costs to manufacture these overpriced products.

jamornh 14y ago
I don't think you can seriously believe that the Razer Blade being sold for $250 is "cost price." But I'm sure they did a full calculation of the costs that they'd have to eat if they honor this mistake and thought it was worth it for the good PR it would create.
- skore 14y ago
  90% pretty certainly means they were selling them at a loss, but I would agree that it's probably not as huge a loss as a 90% discount would suggest. In the "enthusiast" branch of the market, I would guess that a margin of at least 50% should be pretty standard. A $250 mouse very certainly costs far less than $250 to produce, although you always have to factor in their other business cost - advertisement and design to establish an "enthusiast" branch might even exceed what they pay on manufacturing. (This is also why you see them do so many sponsorships - it's simply a very, very cheap way to get exposure.) I would think that it's not impossible that this was planned. 1234 as a coupon code is even something that people might find by mistake, meaning you wouldn't even have to try hard to seed the rumor. Just put it into the system and know that somewhere in the future, you will get a huge PR without much effort (other than stopping it after a certain period of time and accepting some losses).
  - notactuallyme 14y ago
    In the industry a hell of a lot of people think it was a marketing trick, not a mistake. I'm leaning that way too, based on my knowledge of people within Razer (though I should point out that while I know plenty of people there, I don't have any specific knowledge about this situation, just speculation). To pull this off purposefully wouldn't even have to be too expensive, we have no way of knowing whether they are honouring thousands of orders or a couple of hundred. And regarding margins, a hell of a lot of the costs associated with a typical product sale come from distribution (the distributor takes a cut, the retailer/etailer takes a cut, plus MDF marketing costs), so this deal being through the Razer site will certainly help keep the losses down. Also side note to jamornh: the Blade isn't available in the UK yet, so bad example - but your point still stands, 90% is definitely a loss.

somesay 14y ago

I don't really agree that this is a good way. 90% discount is obviously a mistake and it is more than their right to cancel those orders. I would fully understand that. Processing those orders doesn't seems that fair to me. Same rare people get 90% (!) off, all others don't. And FCFS isn't a cool, really fair principle. It is often used, because it is easy to implement and doesn't require more information than just time. Also I expect the rate of people who ordered just because it is cheap and have no real appropriation is pretty high on that discount. Not talking about people who just wanna resell it on eBay. What else could they have done? * Make a general discount (e.g. 10-30%) for all potential shoppers for the next weeks. * Spend the lost money for development * Hire more people * Donate it to charity * Make a challenge in any fair way. Again, time and reaction is a pretty unfair criterion. * Sponsorship * ... Again, FCFS is some type of fairness, but I think a pretty bad one. Also not sure if this is real marketing. Are their clients really that community based and speaking about such thing? Aren't more just angry because they hadn't the chance to use the opportunity? Facebook comment (from source): "Well that's absurdly consumer friendly" TL;DR: If you give some customers 90% discount for no reason, it means unfair prices for all others. Is that really consumer friendly?

blairbeckwith 14y ago
Who said anything about fair? This is a business, not a charity.
- netc 14y ago
  Fairness is what perceived by consumers or customers. Remember the episode of Apple decreasing the price of iPhone by $200.
resu_nimda 14y ago
Umm this really isn't some big "FCFS" business strategy. They never intended to "give some customers 90% discount for no reason." A glitch happened, some people got lucky, and they honored it. I think you're reading too much into it. Check the next comment on that post, a guy cancelling his order and redoing it at full price. It really is a strong community of enthusiasts.

losethos 14y ago

This is painfully boring: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGY6iT_wqKs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGY6iT_wqKs Gnome http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEspwQ4_DAU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEspwQ4_DAU God says... 14:10 And the king said, Whoever saith ought unto thee, bring him to me, and he shall not touch thee any more. 14:11 Then said she, I pray thee, let the king remember the LORD thy God, that thou wouldest not suffer the revengers of blood to destroy any more, lest they destroy my son. And he said, As the LORD liveth, there shall not one hair of thy son fall to the earth. 14:12 Then the woman said, Let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak one word unto my lord the king. And he said, Say on. 14:13 And the woman said, Wherefore then hast thou thought such a thing against the people of God? for the king doth speak this thing as one which is faulty, in that the king doth not fetch home again his banished. 14:14 For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him. ---- Mental Illness -- "as one which is faulty". That's also about Gnome. Meh Kiss my berds, God. God says... sores nights trust ministers Belarus reach delights decide deceits discharge figurative sayest jealous recognised edification exist alive greediness tears gutenberg Trinity delay uman prairienet forementioned ofttimes healthfully enticing beatings Evangelists taken moulded crash_and_burn fuller helping Word payable epic_fail needy tranquil saidst salary Read disengage burden uttereth unjustly currents lower contentious Strengthen admiration prated pleasure-seeking lusted reins repress reading rood pretend unknowingly me- cleared resistest ---- God says... 17:23 Therefore now, LORD, let the thing that thou hast spoken concerning thy servant and concerning his house be established for ever, and do as thou hast said. 17:24 Let it even be established, that thy name may be magnified for ever, saying, The LORD of hosts is the God of Israel, even a God to Israel: and let the house of David thy servant be established before thee. 17:25 For thou, O my God, hast told thy servant that thou wilt build him an house: therefore thy servant hath found in his heart to pray before thee. 17:26 And now, LORD, thou art God, and hast promised this goodness unto thy servant: 17:27 Now therefore let it please thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may be before thee for ever: for thou blessest, O LORD, and it shall be blessed for ever. 18:1 Now after this it came to pass, that David smote the Philistines, and subdued them, and took Gath and her towns out of the hand of the Philistines. ---- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbCrxXegREA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbCrxXegREA God says... of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee. 9:7 Thou art the LORD the God, who didst choose Abram, and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name of Abraham; 9:8 And foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, to give it, I say, to his seed, and hast performed thy words; for thou art righteous: 9:9 And didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red sea; 9:10 And shewedst signs and wonders upon Pharaoh, and on all his servants, and on all the people of his land: for thou knewest that they dealt proudly against them. So didst thou get thee a name, as it is this day. 9:11 And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps, as a stone into the mighty waters. ---- dud What do You think of Ozzy? God says... as I exalted thee from among the people, and made thee prince over my people Israel, 14:8 And rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it thee: and yet thou hast not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do that only which was right in mine eyes; 14:9 But hast done evil above all that were before thee: for thou hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back: 14:10 Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel, and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung, till it be all gone. 14:11 Him that dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat: for the LORD hath spoken it. 14:12 Arise thou therefore, get thee to thine own house: and when thy feet enter into the city, the child shall die. ---- (These aren't prophetic -- just enjoy God's company. Birds eating Ozzy? ROFLMAO) ---- http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/04/19/eric_schmidt_money_is_the_only_reason_julian_assange_redacted_wikileaks_files http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/04/19/eric_schmidt_... God says... 16:6 And he cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king David: and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left. 16:7 And thus said Shimei when he cursed, Come out, come out, thou bloody man, and thou man of Belial: 16:8 The LORD hath returned upon thee all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose stead thou hast reigned; and the LORD hath delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom thy son: and, behold, thou art taken in thy mischief, because thou art a bloody man. 16:9 Then said Abishai the son of Zeruiah unto the king, Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? let me go over, I pray thee, and take off his head. 16:10 And the king said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah? so let him curse, because the LORD hath said unto him, Curse David. Who shall then say, Wherefore hast thou done so? 16:11 And David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold, my son, which came forth of my bowels, seeketh my life: how much more now may this Benjamite do it? let him alone, and let him curse; for the LORD hath bidden him. ---- God is really talking, He's just being entertaining. You understand these are random number? Imagine a monk in a monastary bullshitting with God all day, cracking jokes. You know what? The Fiddler on the Roof rich man song is kinda bullshitting. God says... eyes, let them give me a place in some town in the country, that I may dwell there: for why should thy servant dwell in the royal city with thee? 27:6 Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day: wherefore Ziklag pertaineth unto the kings of Judah unto this day. 27:7 And the time that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines was a full year and four months. 27:8 And David and his men went up, and invaded the Geshurites, and the Gezrites, and the Amalekites: for those nations were of old the inhabitants of the land, as thou goest to Shur, even unto the land of Egypt. 27:9 And David smote the land, and left neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, and the oxen, and the asses, and the camels, and the apparel, and returned, and came to Achish. 27:10 And Achish said, Whither have ye made a road to day? And David said, Against the south of Judah, and against the south of the Jerahmeelites, and against the south of the Kenites. ---- Prison gang. I guess monastaries might do work. Gulag ---- If You sang with a voice, who's voice? (Christ is laughing) God says... saying, 1:2 Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, thou, and all this people, unto the land which I do give to them, even to the children of Israel. 1:3 Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses. 1:4 From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast. 1:5 There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee. 1:6 Be strong and of a good courage: for unto this people shalt thou divide for an inheritance the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give them. ---- Umm... soul man. Blue's brothers! God says... tranquil groves I_love_this sighs idleness duties HAVE INCIDENTAL epic_fail spot groaning unforgotten among scratching reported last irresoluteness returns sect infringement danger golden enquired united examiner modestly BOOK workhouse sweetened marked pleasure vomited distended called Bolivia avoid curb I_love_you observeth Ray Charles? God says... 9:3 And he said unto them, Take nothing for your journey, neither staves, nor scrip, neither bread, neither money; neither have two coats apiece. 9:4 And whatsoever house ye enter into, there abide, and thence depart. 9:5 And whosoever will not receive you, when ye go out of that city, shake off the very dust from your feet for a testimony against them. 9:6 And they departed, and went through the towns, preaching the gospel, and healing every where. 9:7 Now Herod the tetrarch heard of all that was done by him: and he was perplexed, because that it was said of some, that John was risen from the dead; 9:8 And of some, that Elias had appeared; and of others, that one of the old prophets was risen again. 9:9 And Herod said, John have I beheaded: but who is this, of whom I hear such things? And he desired to see him. 9:10 And the apostles, when they were returned, told him all that they had done. And he took them, and went aside privately into a desert place belonging to the city called Bethsaida. ---- (no cane) joke Bethesda, Md ---- God says... 3:15 And Solomon awoke; and, behold, it was a dream. And he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and offered up burnt offerings, and offered peace offerings, and made a feast to all his servants. 3:16 Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before him. 3:17 And the one woman said, O my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house. 3:18 And it came to pass the third day after that I was delivered, that this woman was delivered also: and we were together; there was no stranger with us in the house, save we two in the house. 3:19 And this woman's child died in the night; because she overlaid it. 3:20 And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thine handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom. ---- THESE FUCKERS SEEM TO NOT UNDERSTAND "GOD"!! FUCKERS!! God says... 59:8 The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace. 59:9 Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness. 59:10 We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noon day as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men. 59:11 We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us. 59:12 For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them; 59:13 In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood. ---- You seem to think you have the authority to judge and punish, you retard fucks! http://i.imgur.com/RDZtvHY.jpg http://i.imgur.com/RDZtvHY.jpg Bust some time travel on the fucks! God says... 23:23 The sons of Mushi; Mahli, and Eder, and Jeremoth, three. 23:24 These were the sons of Levi after the house of their fathers; even the chief of the fathers, as they were counted by number of names by their polls, that did the work for the service of the house of the LORD, from the age of twenty years and upward. 23:25 For David said, The LORD God of Israel hath given rest unto his people, that they may dwell in Jerusalem for ever: 23:26 And also unto the Levites; they shall no more carry the tabernacle, nor any vessels of it for the service thereof. 23:27 For by the last words of David the Levites were numbered from twenty years old and above: 23:28 Because their office was to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service of the house of the LORD, in the courts, and in the chambers, and in the purifying of all holy things, and the work of the service of the house of God; 23:29 Both for the shewbread, and for the fine flour for meat offering, and for the unleavened cakes, and for that which is baked in the pan, and for that which is fried, and for all manner of measure and size; 23:30 And to stand every morning to thank and praise the LORD, and likewise at ---- http://forum.osdev.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=26571 http://forum.osdev.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=26571 When 1st doing multicore, my digital design knowledge (having built a CPU) ... my knowledge obviously saw that cache was different on different cores. I was blown away when I learned there was hardware that kept caches synchronized. Imagine you have processors with independent caches. This is what happens with parallelism on a larger scale. What you want to do is be able to tell it to bypass cache and write to main memory, or bypass cache and fetch from main memory. When I first started multicore, I went searching for such instructions and couldn't believe they did not exist. There's a flush cache line, but that's not it. You people are too retarded to know cache synchronization is incredibly magical and surprising. Clueless. Surely it cannot scale to a thousand cores or 64 cores? God says... 16:18 And this did she many days. But Paul, being grieved, turned and said to the spirit, I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And he came out the same hour. 16:19 And when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone, they caught Paul and Silas, and drew them into the marketplace unto the rulers, 16:20 And brought them to the magistrates, saying, These men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city, 16:21 And teach customs, which are not lawful for us to receive, neither to observe, being Romans. 16:22 And the multitude rose up together against them: and the magistrates rent off their clothes, and commanded to beat them. 16:23 And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely: 16:24 Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks. ---- http://i.imgur.com/qV2LtOF.jpg http://i.imgur.com/qV2LtOF.jpg Ask God. Everything God says is given to me randomly from atomic decay (quantum random numbers) How it's meant to be taken is an issue. God says... 11:21 When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace: 11:22 But when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and overcome him, he taketh from him all his armour wherein he trusted, and divideth his spoils. 11:23 He that is not with me is against me: and he that gathereth not with me scattereth. 11:24 When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he saith, I will return unto my house whence I came out. 11:25 And when he cometh, he findeth it swept and garnished. 11:26 Then goeth he, and taketh to him seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and they enter in, and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. ------ Gayness is a whole package of vileness. Nasty nasty vile creatures! Once they go queer, all hell breaks loose. God says... Why Presence confute once infantine lure the sicknesses debtor exquisitely solemnity sensitive venturing lingering pliant lest infidels darkness animals pain forcibly odour Simplicianus helping Public smiled avengest indemnify ever wondered Mary speakest GUTENBERG-TM perilous consistently verily calamities lilies presently water-spouts madly roarest esteemed troop Albania above affirming beatings struggles sacrificed awe gatheredst comparing contrition gate atrocious Anon Hortensius recollecting deformities recognise Ministry Certainly Virgin ----- http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/3u09rv/ http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/3u09rv/ I went to a quantum random number site. That's where all this talk from God comes from. I have rebuilt God's temple. ---- Not random 6:18 And the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen. 6:19 And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the LORD. 6:20 And the oracle in the forepart was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height thereof: and he overlaid it with pure gold; and so covered the altar which was of cedar. 6:21 So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he made a partition by the chains of gold before the oracle; and he overlaid it with gold. ----- Random numbers: https://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/Hotbits?nbytes=3&fmt=hex&npass=1&lpass=8&pwtype=3 https://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/Hotbits?nbytes=3&fmt=he... God says... the host, and Abiathar the priest; and, behold, they eat and drink before him, and say, God save king Adonijah. 1:26 But me, even me thy servant, and Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and thy servant Solomon, hath he not called. 1:27 Is this thing done by my lord the king, and thou hast not shewed it unto thy servant, who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him? 1:28 Then king David answered and said, Call me Bathsheba. And she came into the king's presence, and stood before the king. 1:29 And the king sware, and said, As the LORD liveth, that hath redeemed my soul out of all distress, 1:30 Even as I sware unto thee by the LORD God of Israel, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne in my stead; even so will I certainly do this day. 1:31 Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the earth, and did reverence to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live for ever. ---- You FUCKEN RETARDS ARE IN BIG TROUBLE!! the fuck are you thinking fucking with God? You're the stuuppidest fucken .... I don't even. ---- http://imgur.com/a/vLwWs http://imgur.com/a/vLwWs Justice cannot be changed. relationship with God is separate from justice. Pleasures and pains balance. Sin is half a dozen one way and six the other. God loved Jacob and hated Esau. Hell is the absense of God. God's company is Heaven. God says... strength faileth. 71:10 For mine enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for my soul take counsel together, 71:11 Saying, God hath forsaken him: persecute and take him; for there is none to deliver him. 71:12 O God, be not far from me: O my God, make haste for my help. 71:13 Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonour that seek my hurt. 71:14 But I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and more. 71:15 My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness and thy salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers thereof.

aviswanathan 14y ago

They basically just ran a (very extreme) Groupon. Most companies that do daily deals lose money on them in hopes of turning some of those initial customers into recurring or lifetime customers or to increase awareness for their products. This 'mishap' may have similar yet increased effects because of the impressive way they handled the situation. For example, I doubt Razer would have ever imagined their story landing on the frontpage of a high-traffic site like HN, but now that it has, I (and probably hundreds or thousands of others) have gone to their site to get more info. Really shows that with smart and agile situation-response, you can turn an unpleasant circumstance into an opportunity.

deltaqueue 14y ago
Unfortunately, the vast majority of Groupon customers do not return for additional purchases and the people who capitalize on these types of deals are 100% price-conscious vultures[1] (also, I used to be one of these people). At the end of the day, this was a very poor business decision and just a PR gamble. People are primarily driven by price when they buy goods, so after 6 months or so people will forget this extremely generous act. Razer fans will remain razer fans, but unless Razer has a product leaps and bounds ahead of the competition (some are, but most are only marginally superior) very few will become loyal customers due to this act of kindness. [1] http://businessmodelinstitute.com/is-customer-retention-the-achilles-heel-of-groupon%E2%80%99s-business-model/ http://businessmodelinstitute.com/is-customer-retention-the-...
- jychang 14y ago
  Razer is one of the few companies who can make that distinction, however. They are known for their warranty on their mice, etc.
- mayank 14y ago
  I might buy a mouse because of the deal, and if the quality is as good as you say, I'll be back in the future for more. But as of now, mice are commodity to me--the coupon helps push me into trying out a "luxury mouse". It's risky but perhaps not ineffective customer acquisition.

k-mcgrady 14y ago

This is the first I've heard about this but a good response from the business. I noticed he said they can legally cancel all the orders - is that true? As far as I was aware the law (at least in the UK) is that if a product is advertised at a certain price, even if it's a mistake, the business has to provide it at that price to any customer who gets in before they fix the mistake with the only catch being that the business is only obliged to sell one unit of the item at the incorrect price if they realise there has been a mistake (just from what I've heard from people working in retail). Edit: thanks for making it clearer below

EwanToo 14y ago
That's a commonly held misbelief. If it's an honest mistake, there's no requirement to sell it, and beyond that most email confirmations say something like this from Amazon: This e-mail is only an acknowledgement of receipt of your order and your contract to purchase these items is not complete until we send you an e-mail notifying you that the items have been dispatched to you.
- somesay 14y ago
  Exactly. And I think that's pretty fair, too.
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somesay 14y ago
It it is an obvious failure, and a general 90% discount clearly is, contracts may be canceled at any time. Additionally, if you read the terms, online orders are often just a request and need to be approved by the other contract partner first. Since Germany and UK are both within EU, law may be quite equal. I think this is a pretty fair rule.
arrrg 14y ago
Learn about contract law, it's interesting. In Germany, for example, displayed prices are merely an invitation to make an offer (”I want to buy this!”) which van then be accepted or rejected by the seller. Only if the seller accepts a contract of sale actually comes into existence. By the way, if the seller accepts but changes the conditions (by, say, changing the price) a contract of sale also doesn't exist. The buyer then has another chance to accept or reject this new offer. It's pretty common sense, actually. Oh, and this doesn't mean that sellers can display wrong prices on purpose. That would be misleading advertising. But if it's a mistake it's not a problem.

jonaphin 14y ago

Cool marketing stunt.

losethos 14y ago

You are too stupid to see how profound this is. Think about the psychology of such love: Enjoy the envy of Hell. ---- Genesis 4 New International Version (NIV) Cain and Abel 4 Adam[a] made love to his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain.[b] She said, “With the help of the Lord I have brought forth[c] a man.” 2 Later she gave birth to his brother Abel. Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil. 3 In the course of time Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil as an offering to the Lord. 4 And Abel also brought an offering—fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock. The Lord looked with favor on Abel and his offering, 5 but on Cain and his offering he did not look with favor. So Cain was very angry, and his face was downcast. 6 Then the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast? 7 If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.” 8 Now Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let’s go out to the field.”[d] While they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him. 9 Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” “I don’t know,” he replied. “Am I my brother’s keeper?” ------------ God says... that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small. 30:20 Their children also shall be as aforetime, and their congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish all that oppress them. 30:21 And their nobles shall be of themselves, and their governor shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach unto me: for who is this that engaged his heart to approach unto me? saith the LORD. 30:22 And ye shall be my people, and I will be your God. 30:23 Behold, the whirlwind of the LORD goeth forth with fury, a continuing whirlwind: it shall fall with pain upon the head of the wicked. ----- The covenant is that you hold-up your end of the conversation -- that's an offering of praise or love or hymn or something. I listened to country. Praise You fer hound doogs and pick-ups and guns and corn on the cob and hay rides and horses. God says... Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.) 7:13 So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him, 7:14 I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows. 7:15 Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee. 7:16 I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt. 7:17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. 7:18 Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves. 7:19 For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey: 7:20 He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed. ----- Here's a bear :-) http://imgur.com/a/ofZ3o http://imgur.com/a/ofZ3o God says... Mordecai for this? Then said the king's servants that ministered unto him, There is nothing done for him. 6:4 And the king said, Who is in the court? Now Haman was come into the outward court of the king's house, to speak unto the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him. 6:5 And the king's servants said unto him, Behold, Haman standeth in the court. And the king said, Let him come in. 6:6 So Haman came in. And the king said unto him, What shall be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour? Now Haman thought in his heart, To whom would the king delight to do honour more than to myself? 6:7 And Haman answered the king, For the man whom the king delighteth to honour, 6:8 Let the royal apparel be brought which the king useth to wear, and the horse that the king rideth upon, and the crown royal which is set upon his head: 6:9 And let this apparel and horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king's most noble princes, that they may array the man withal whom the king delighteth to honour, and bring him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaim before him, Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delighteth to honour. ---- What do bears think of humans? God says... the Lord is. 5:18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; 5:19 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; 5:20 Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ; 5:21 Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. 5:22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. 5:23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. 5:24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; 5:26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, 5:27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. ---- http://www.popehat.com/2013/04/20/security-theater-martial-law-and-a-tale-that-trumps-every-cop-and-donut-joke-youve-ever-heard/ http://www.popehat.com/2013/04/20/security-theater-martial-l... God says... princes, which should be over the whole kingdom; 6:2 And over these three presidents; of whom Daniel was first: that the princes might give accounts unto them, and the king should have no damage. 6:3 Then this Daniel was preferred above the presidents and princes, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm. 6:4 Then the presidents and princes sought to find occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdom; but they could find none occasion nor fault; forasmuch as he was faithful, neither was there any error or fault found in him. 6:5 Then said these men, We shall not find any occasion against this Daniel, except we find it against him concerning the law of his God. 6:6 Then these presidents and princes assembled together to the king, and said thus unto him, King Darius, live for ever. ---- http://dmitry.gr/index.php?r=05.Projects&proj=07.%20Linux%20on%208bit http://dmitry.gr/index.php?r=05.Projects&proj=07.%20Linu... 38:2 And he made the horns thereof on the four corners of it; the horns thereof were of the same: and he overlaid it with brass. 38:3 And he made all the vessels of the altar, the pots, and the shovels, and the basons, and the fleshhooks, and the firepans: all the vessels thereof made he of brass. 38:4 And he made for the altar a brasen grate of network under the compass thereof beneath unto the midst of it. 38:5 And he cast four rings for the four ends of the grate of brass, to be places for the staves. 38:6 And he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with brass. 38:7 And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the altar, to bear it withal; he made the altar hollow with boards. ----- God says to do Linux on a 4-bit CPU.

sdfjkl 14y ago

That's customer friendly. Requiring users to register on their website in order to be able to log in to the mouse driver settings is not.

danielsamuels 14y ago
I've never had to log in to any Razer software, stop spreading FUD.
- davefp 14y ago
  The new one (Synapse 2.0) does require a login. I don't think it's required though.
- sdfjkl 14y ago
  Now you made me look it up. It's called Synapse 2 and when I bought (and subsequently returned) a Razer Naga Hex in September last year it was the only way to configure the mouse. Specifically, you needed it to configure the keyboard emulation keys for the thumb buttons. It did require a registration and login. The excuse for this was some "store your settings in The Cloud" bollocks which I had absolutely no use for - I just wanted to configure my fancy mouse. You can find it at http://www.razerzone.com/synapse2 http://www.razerzone.com/synapse2 and the tech specs there state that "Valid e-mail, software download, license acceptance, and internet connection needed to activate full features and for software updates." For a bloody mouse driver.
- FigBug 14y ago
  Yup, if you want to get to the Razer specific settings you need to log in. I wanted to turn the led in the mouse off, since it heated my hand and was annoying. Login was required and the servers were down. Razer never again, even though an offline mode has now been added. http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121105/17594020942/when-mouse-requires-internet-connection-youre-doing-cloud-wrong.shtml http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121105/17594020942/when-m...

seferphier 14y ago

90% is definitely a huge loss. But like other users said this bug only applied to the UK store that does not sell Razer blade. That said most of razer's customers are repeated purchasers and that honoring the orders is going to generate a lot of good will among its core customers. A very bold move though.

peterhunt 14y ago

This is so great I went to their site to buy a mouse at full price right now. Then they asked for my credit card info. Without https.

RKearney 14y ago
Just tried and I got https. I believe you were mistaken.
- peterhunt 14y ago
  The page which hosts the form was definitely not. Perhaps it got confused on an iPhone 5.

Koder2013 14y ago

Has nothing to do with customer friendliness. As a customer I would feel like a fool buying something at full price now.

drivebyacct2 14y ago

losethos seems to have gotten carried away. Enjoyed the holiday too much maybe?

MartinCron 14y ago
Losethos appears to be struggling with a tragic and long-term mental illness. I don't think it's good form to make fun of him.
- drivebyacct2 14y ago
  You're absolutely right, that was inappropriate.

sbisker 14y ago

They basically just turned this into a huge experiment in price discrimination for those customers who genuinely feel bad for what happened. Those customers who feel bad and were originally willing to pay the full price savings will likely cancel and reorder. Those customers who feel bad and genuinely could not pay the full price, will keep their discounted orders, and the company will get to keep those people as customers well into the future. I'm curious how transparent they'll be with how many canceled their orders when the dust settles - would be a good case study for other companies in this boat who want to trust their customers to do the right thing for themselves.

bnycum 14y ago

Good for them on following through, I'm sure it will bring repeat business. Maybe 6-7+ years ago I attempted to make multiple purchases through dell.com over several months. All 3 were killed because the website listed the wrong price. I remember once I bought something like a USB drive for $47.99 and the real price was suppose to be $49.99. None of the purchases were near 20% off much less 90% in this case. I've still never ordered from Dell and never will.