This started about a week back. I was browsing GBAtemp, saw the Osu thread bumped and thought "you know, I should try it out". I download and install the game and am all prepped to play it, but then I check my mouse. I shake it around a bit, flip the switch on and off, no response. It's dead. I reasonably think it's just the batteries, but this little bastard ran on AAA batteries which I had none of laying around. I ended up walking to the dollar store in the rain to buy a cheap pack of batteries, and lost about an hour of my night to going back and forth as well as hunting around the store. Upon returning, I pull open the pack, pull out two batteries, put them in my mouse, ANNNNNDDDDD
Nothing.
My mouse was apparently completely dead. The hardware just hit the end of its life and called it quits apparently. Being pissed at having wasted my night, I beat the mouse up a bit and tossed it in the trash. I decide I should go ahead and buy a new one. Now, I had two options:
1) Go to an actual store and purchase the mouse right then. This would be fastest, but more expensive, as no store nears me carries mice that retail for less than $30.
2) Hunt for a deal online, and buy that.
I opted for choice number two even though it was Wednesday evening at this point. I decided to buy a full sized mouse this time instead of one of those travel sized laptop mice like I had before, and I bought a Logitech M310 instead of the no name Radio Shack store brand mouse I bought previously. I picked up the mouse for only about $19 from a seller on Amazon after shipping, so I figured it was a pretty good deal. Plus, it was shipping from California, and since I'm in Oregon, it should have only taken a couple days to arrive via USPS. I needed it to arrive fairly quickly too, as that very night, the left side of my trackpad's left click button started making a sound like cracking plastic when I pressed it. If only this was the end of my bad luck, a dead mouse and apparently a slowly breaking trackpad.
Now, the seller prints the label on Thursday morning, but apparently didn't get the package out late in the day meaning my first tracking update wasn't until Friday at 1am when my package departed from LA. Annoying, but a forgivable offense. In the mean time, I decide to try out my roommate's mouse, also a Logitech, but the next model up as far as full sized mice go. For some odd reason though, the mouse was very sluggish on my mouse pad that never gave my other mouse issues. When swiping on my leg, it worked just fine, but on the mouse pad where I needed it to work, barely responsive. At this point I figure the universe was just fucking with me because no way could a human have luck this monumentally bad with something as frivolous as computer mice.
I concede at this point and decide to wait it out for my mouse. Friday finishes up. No tracking updates. Saturday goes by. No tracking updates. Sunday goes by. No tracking updates. Monday goes by. No tracking updates. At this point I'm wondering what's taking so long. LA to NW Oregon should have been a one day trip, not a three day trip. I've even gotten packages from the east coast in only two days via USPS, so this isn't making much sense to me. Then this morning, I check and see this:
To give some context, the town I live in also has "Grove" in the name, but that's where similarities end. They managed to ship my package to the middle of the country when it was only going one state north. That is one stellar fuck up on part of whoever sorted my package into the wrong bin. Now I'll be surprised if I actually get my package before this week is up since apparently nobody is even trying to accurately scan or read my package label. Knowing my luck, the mouse will be crushed into pieces by the time it finally arrives too, or will simply be DOA, as that would certainly be par for the course.
To add to this all, I just checked my tracking for my package out of Canada, and my tracking hasn't updated at all, which according to the Canada Postal Service website means they haven't received the item yet, which means I get to deal with the stupid seller's customer service. Seriously, fuck the mail. I have $100 in items just in limbo apparently as nothing is operating even remotely correctly.
Nothing.
My mouse was apparently completely dead. The hardware just hit the end of its life and called it quits apparently. Being pissed at having wasted my night, I beat the mouse up a bit and tossed it in the trash. I decide I should go ahead and buy a new one. Now, I had two options:
1) Go to an actual store and purchase the mouse right then. This would be fastest, but more expensive, as no store nears me carries mice that retail for less than $30.
2) Hunt for a deal online, and buy that.
I opted for choice number two even though it was Wednesday evening at this point. I decided to buy a full sized mouse this time instead of one of those travel sized laptop mice like I had before, and I bought a Logitech M310 instead of the no name Radio Shack store brand mouse I bought previously. I picked up the mouse for only about $19 from a seller on Amazon after shipping, so I figured it was a pretty good deal. Plus, it was shipping from California, and since I'm in Oregon, it should have only taken a couple days to arrive via USPS. I needed it to arrive fairly quickly too, as that very night, the left side of my trackpad's left click button started making a sound like cracking plastic when I pressed it. If only this was the end of my bad luck, a dead mouse and apparently a slowly breaking trackpad.
Now, the seller prints the label on Thursday morning, but apparently didn't get the package out late in the day meaning my first tracking update wasn't until Friday at 1am when my package departed from LA. Annoying, but a forgivable offense. In the mean time, I decide to try out my roommate's mouse, also a Logitech, but the next model up as far as full sized mice go. For some odd reason though, the mouse was very sluggish on my mouse pad that never gave my other mouse issues. When swiping on my leg, it worked just fine, but on the mouse pad where I needed it to work, barely responsive. At this point I figure the universe was just fucking with me because no way could a human have luck this monumentally bad with something as frivolous as computer mice.
I concede at this point and decide to wait it out for my mouse. Friday finishes up. No tracking updates. Saturday goes by. No tracking updates. Sunday goes by. No tracking updates. Monday goes by. No tracking updates. At this point I'm wondering what's taking so long. LA to NW Oregon should have been a one day trip, not a three day trip. I've even gotten packages from the east coast in only two days via USPS, so this isn't making much sense to me. Then this morning, I check and see this:
To give some context, the town I live in also has "Grove" in the name, but that's where similarities end. They managed to ship my package to the middle of the country when it was only going one state north. That is one stellar fuck up on part of whoever sorted my package into the wrong bin. Now I'll be surprised if I actually get my package before this week is up since apparently nobody is even trying to accurately scan or read my package label. Knowing my luck, the mouse will be crushed into pieces by the time it finally arrives too, or will simply be DOA, as that would certainly be par for the course.
To add to this all, I just checked my tracking for my package out of Canada, and my tracking hasn't updated at all, which according to the Canada Postal Service website means they haven't received the item yet, which means I get to deal with the stupid seller's customer service. Seriously, fuck the mail. I have $100 in items just in limbo apparently as nothing is operating even remotely correctly.
