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Last time it happened to me I just e-mailed customer services and they refunded the difference. It's cheaper for them than you returning and re-ordering.
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Ah! That's a solution that fits my moral compass a little better... 
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Understand exactly what you feel. I had a somewhat similar and really annoying experience just the other day: I normally prebook new DVD releases from one of the biggest online suppliers here in Sweden.
There was a TV series box I prebooked 3½ months ago, when they first announced that it COULD be prebooked.
It's still not released, but the release is imminent, and the other day, I got a customer mail from them: "If you prebook this box now, you get £5 off the price"
I sent them a REALLY pissed off mail: "I spend a lot of money on your site, both for DVD's and books, and I prebooked this box 3½ months ago, but I have to pay full price, while people who are booking it NOW gets a discount? I expect you to deduct the £5 from my price anyway, or I'm booking my DVDs somewhere else in the future"
Sent 2 mails so far, haven't received any reply. I have already started using another supplier.
It's quite obvious what happened, though: They've ordered a certain amount of the box and not gotten the number of prebookings they had expected. Thus they're trying to get rid of the possible overstocking by lowering the price... But I'll be damned if I'll be treated like that! 
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
modified 11-Oct-16 4:10am.
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I ordered some school books for the girls the other day and Amazon said it would be 3-4 weeks delivery to the UK. They arrived yesterday at Mrs Wife's London office and should be with is next week. 
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Can you not get them delivered direct? Or does that cost silly money?
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It's too complinated. I'm paying with a UK card and they keep blocking transactions because I want them here. Amazon won't deliver some things across borders, so inside Europe is fine but not here in the Sunny Southern Med.
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You're going to be there for a while, so open a local bank account. It's got to make quite a few things a lot easier, even if it isn't your main one.
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OriginalGriff wrote: open a local bank account. It's got to make quite a few things a lot easier
No, no it won't. Outside of online everything, and I mean everything, is cash. Mrs Wife's work has an account and card if we absobalylutely have to make a payment but it in't worth the hassle. We tried to book flights on BA.com back to UK for Christmas, but the card blocked it; this time as it was too much - 4 flights @ ~£250 each. I went to the BA office in town and the tickets were cheaper as I paid with good old fashioned folding. Even the school fees of £5k had to paid cash.
The only draw back is we're back to the old days of trying to make sure we have enough beer tokens when we go out so you end up taking more than you'll ever need.
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: you end up taking more than you'll ever need
... and spending it all ...
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Yup. Away this weekend for some rest. Only problem is there's a great diving beach nearby and it may be a tad colder than I can go in with just trunks so I'll need a 3/4 wetsuit. I'm also sure that all the fun will be below 5m and so THEN I won't just snorkel but I'll have to go back to rent a tank and find someone to buddy on the dive.
No doubt they'll know another place...
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Doesn't Amazon usually refund you the difference if it becomes cheaper within X amount of time after buying it? I'm pretty sure I once got a refund like that.
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Serves you right for buying Christmas presents in October. What do you think Christmas Eve is for?
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Pom Pey3 wrote: What do you think Christmas Eve is for?
... laughing at people rushing around to get something - anything, for gawd sakes, gotta get her something or she'll kill me - and paying through the nose for tat.
If it helps, I ordered my present from her three weeks ago, and it's due to be delivered tomorrow... 
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OriginalGriff wrote: If it helps, I ordered my present from her three weeks ago
I hope it wasn't a pair of trousers - because you obviously don't wear them in that house. 
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It means I don't get trousers.
Or socks.
Or a "christmas jumper".
Or anything else I don't actually want.
OK, there is no surprise, but I know I'm going to like what I get!
(And don't forget, it means I know what my budget is, and she doesn't...  )
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That doesn't happen to me often.
... Because I don't order stuff often. I think the ratio is about 1:3.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Silly and expensive things, like RC submarines. When they do what they are supposed to, you don't see very much. As a bonus you get a free round of diving anytime that thing does not come up again.
Flying models also cost a few bucks, but at least they don't stay up in the air when something goes wrong. Instead, they usually are smashed to stamp sized fragments.
How about something that can't sink or crash. Something that is not so fast and even survives falling off a cliff. Something like a model tank, like this one?[^]
Edit: Come on, take a look at that picture of a German Tiger 
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This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
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If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
modified 10-Oct-16 18:01pm.
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You can put a camera in an RC submarine. In the right waters it could be very interesting. Maybe even torpedoes as well, and a periscope.
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There are a few NSFW things that can be remotely controlled via phone app as well.
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I don't know if these are remote controlled but I do know they take a lot of time and effort to build...
Tramway Information - Trams, Tramways & Model Trams[^]
Forgive the web site - it's been like that for a looooong time. Nothing to do with me, before you ask/flame, etc.
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All forms of modelling overlap in some areas. From the railroad modellers you can learn a lot about scratch building, detailing and how to model rivets. A single rivet may not be so much work, but usually you need hundreds, even thousands of them.
I'm now working on the body of a Bell UH-1E[^], a Vietnam Huey. I'm almost done placing the many service panels and covers, now I must make the rivets.
And yes, it's going to fly.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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CDP1802 wrote: From the railroad modellers you can learn a lot about scratch building
I spent a lot of time, when much younger, building stuff. Lego is great.
CDP1802 wrote: I'm now working on the body of a Bell UH-1E[^], a Vietnam Huey.
That looks very realistic.
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