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Microsoft opens online store, unsurprisingly fails at it photo

Hear ye, hear ye! Let is be known throughout  the kingdom that Microsoft has caught up with the modern era and opened its very own online store! This store will be selling a wide selection of robust and highly dependable Microsoft products, including the critically acclaimed, incredibly popular Windows Vista.

The store is also selling a wide variety of games and Xbox 360 accessories. Well that's just plain convenient, isn't it? Nothing like drinking water from the source, right? Well, no. Not when you consider the fact that Microsoft, in all its wisdom, is charging $6.99 shipping on top. 

Yeah ... I think I'll be sticking to Amazon for my online shopping needs, thank you very much. 

God damn it, Microsoft ... you fail all the time.


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Rational Animal's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/17/2008 08:52
Rational Animal
Nothing like shooting yourself in the foot, right as you leave the starting gate.
Xhumation's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/17/2008 08:59
Xhumation
Maybe they should replace the frontpage of the store with a giant red ring of death!
CelicaCrazed's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/17/2008 09:01
CelicaCrazed
Why aren't those downloadable?? Well, the 360 games at least.
BlindsideDork's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/17/2008 09:26
BlindsideDork
ha ha!

Why would you buy a 360 game in the first place? ZING!

Besides L4D that is ;)
DV2FOX's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/17/2008 09:30
DV2FOX
*Does the Team Fortress 2's Engineer Dance*
DV2FOX's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/17/2008 09:30
DV2FOX
forgot to mention...FAIL
Josh Tolentino's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/17/2008 09:34
Josh Tolentino
And to think I was considering getting a copy of office home/student for it. Jesus christ, Newegg and Amazon charge around $80 plus free shipping, and MS Marketplace charges retail price ($149) with $8 on top? Such failure.
atastysammich's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/17/2008 09:38
atastysammich
It's still a step above Nintendo's own online store. Barely. You can get anything you want directly from them, as long as it's Nintendo Power, a Player's Guide, or a part for a system (not a "I'm going to go inside this thing and fix a problem myself" part, mind you--more along the lines of battery covers).
deanhatescoffee's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/17/2008 09:54
deanhatescoffee
I like Vista... :\
klubjunkee's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/17/2008 10:04
klubjunkee
Shipping is the least of my concern - Cutting out the middleman and still ripping people off for retail msrp + shipping is. They'll prob charge extra $20 shipping for release date delivery. It's a sad day if people support this. No thanks! I rather travel 2km to my local Walmart and buy it for $59.97 (2 cents savings) and support the student paying for school.
Necros's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/17/2008 10:14
Necros
At least you have the option of buying games from them, even is the shipping sucks. It always baffled me why Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo wouldn't give you the option to buy straight from their stores if you're browsing for something else at the same time. Now they just have to make the shipping reasonable...
xenon's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/17/2008 10:24
xenon
Probably avoiding real competition is part of their deals with retail. Not really uncommon, is it?
king3vbo's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/17/2008 10:28
king3vbo
Free shipping from Amazon FTW
Dan CiTi's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/17/2008 10:37
Dan CiTi
Ugh.
Timmeh's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/17/2008 10:54
Timmeh
I love how these publishers are trying to offer more direct routes to buy from them but utterly refuse to offer competitive prices.
cartman08's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/17/2008 11:19
cartman08
yes lets all goto the Microsoft store and get ripped off!

MicroSoft = Massive failure
Crumpet Lips's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/17/2008 11:23
Crumpet Lips
Nintendo fails more Jim. Much more. Microsoft still fails at this though
aaronf's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/17/2008 12:06
aaronf
Come on everyone, it's M$ we're talking about here. Failure is their middle name. Why so surprised?
mix's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/17/2008 13:39
mix
I wish companies would be a little better over all this online purchase stuff, MS dropped the ball here.

I pre-ordered L4D on STEAM for $45, awesome right!? No, not really....

It was in US funds and after the conversion into Canadian on my CC I paid a bit more than what I could have picked it up in town for. I had no idea that it was charging me US through the entire purchase process untill I looked at my CC bill.
sirinth's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/17/2008 17:53
sirinth
At least Microsoft's ExpertZone still has free shipping...
But they took Gears off the list just before Gears 2 came out. >.> Probably afraid the hype for 2 would actually encourage people to finally pick up their cheap copy of Gears.

*Grumble*
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