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

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

Besides L4D that is ;)
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DV2FOX at 11/17/2008 09:30
*Does the Team Fortress 2's Engineer Dance*
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DV2FOX at 11/17/2008 09:30
forgot to mention...FAIL
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Josh Tolentino at 11/17/2008 09:34
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.
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atastysammich at 11/17/2008 09:38
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).
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deanhatescoffee at 11/17/2008 09:54
I like Vista... :\
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klubjunkee at 11/17/2008 10:04
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.
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Necros at 11/17/2008 10:14
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...
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xenon at 11/17/2008 10:24
Probably avoiding real competition is part of their deals with retail. Not really uncommon, is it?
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king3vbo at 11/17/2008 10:28
Free shipping from Amazon FTW
Dan CiTi's Avatar
Dan CiTi at 11/17/2008 10:37
Ugh.
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Timmeh at 11/17/2008 10:54
I love how these publishers are trying to offer more direct routes to buy from them but utterly refuse to offer competitive prices.
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cartman08 at 11/17/2008 11:19
yes lets all goto the Microsoft store and get ripped off!

MicroSoft = Massive failure
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Crumpet Lips at 11/17/2008 11:23
Nintendo fails more Jim. Much more. Microsoft still fails at this though
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aaronf at 11/17/2008 12:06
Come on everyone, it's M$ we're talking about here. Failure is their middle name. Why so surprised?
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mix at 11/17/2008 13:39
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.
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sirinth at 11/17/2008 17:53
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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