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Nintendo’s Tech Support Forums: How do I get what I pay you for? [UPDATE]

[UPDATE]The “November Update” of 2011 has rectified this situation. You can now add only the amount necessary to make a single purchase. Way to go Nintendo. Very happy to be able to use it again. My wallet not so much.
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Nintendo’s Tech Support Forums: How do I get what I pay you for?.

Me bitching about the way the 3DS eShop works.
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Put a fork in the old site…

While I sob quietly to myself. 🙁

I’ve run into a deadly (to Apache2) bug in my code that I cannot figure out without significant time and effort, with no guarantees and little hope for success. FML.

But I hate to let the old girl go… I *could* work around it, but I know I’d never stop being bothered by having to. Security worries, here I come. *frets*

Hosed by MacMall

In late march this year we bought an iMac from MacMall to replace a dead PowerMac G5. Called bank to clear the purchase amount. They didn’t have the exact model, but could ship immediately one with a larger HDD. Fine, let’s giterdun.

Turns out they forgot to charge the difference till the other day. Turns out they send you notice of this from the same domain they send their junk e-mail from. Dummies.

We’ll definitely think twice before going through them again.