Half.com

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Have any of you bought from half.com? Would you recommend doing it?

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I’ve bought a couple things off half.com; its rare they have good deals, but it is worth checking out every now and then, esp if ebay is being mean. What I like about it is that its harder to get ripped off by unfair shipping on half.com. Btw, it IS owned by ebay, so its not all that unsafe

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My dad told me about Half.com. Since I don’t buy CD’s, I’ve never gone there.:mwahaha:

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It’s not unsafe, but their quality control is godawful. The Cowboy Bebop boxed set I got from them included a nicely scratched up first disk so that the first episode skips some. My friend ordered a few movies from them, and each movie was messed up in some way and were completely unplayable. They didn’t even have replacements so he had to get different movies- ones he didn’t even really want. Fun stuff. I don’t recommend them because even if you can get it cheaper from them, I’d rather pay a bit more and have a higher chance of having stuff in good condition.

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I picked up a brand new copy of Breath of Fire 3 & 4 from half. I got a good price and fast shipping. But it’s just like ebay; check out the particular vendor first.

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Thanks for the feedback - it’s too bad I didn’t read most of it before I bought today. (Hey, I was at work, the power went out, my computer was the only one running thanks to its predecessor, a backed-up data acquisition computer… I had to do something after I couldn’t do work!)

I ordered a sealed copy of Dragon Warrior 3 for GameBoy, and it should arrive before I leave next week. I wasn’t finding what I really wanted on ebay, and the stores around here were sort of lacking in complete packages. The seller had hundreds of positive feedback messages with only one negative. I hope this will go well, and I’m pretty sure it will.

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This may sound odd, but I’ve found that Blockbuster is a great place to look for PS1 games.

They cost just as much as buying off of ebay (once shipping is factored in) and a lot of times they offer a 2 for 1 deal. I got Megaman 8 and a bunch of X titles for under 40 bucks :slight_smile:

Of course if the game doesn’t work, they’re fairly lenient with exchanges.