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I didn't pay any extra toll for my Crossover in Denmark, I did have to pay 25% VAT and a flat handling charge by the Danish postal service. Toll here is based on the type of product, had it been an mp3 player I would not have gotten away with just VAT for example. They did withhold it until I sent them an "invoice" (screenshot of the ebay confirmation email), claiming there was no invoice - which there was, it was just declared unrealistically low at $100. I think there is a 'free ride' classification up to just over $200 too  .
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This such a terrible company. Now they are saying they can't cancel my order because it is in the delay system. They really want that restocking fee. I can't believe this is so difficult. I feel like I ordered from some Chinese company through eBay.
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Femur posted:This such a terrible company. Now they are saying they can't cancel my order because it is in the delay system. They really want that restocking fee. I can't believe this is so difficult. I feel like I ordered from some Chinese company through eBay. If its such a good deal can you not ebay it when it arrives?
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thegasman2000 posted:If its such a good deal can you not ebay it when it arrives? I really don't think that is the point. It was an ok deal, not mind blowing or anything. I was on some stuff when I ordered it, and sobering up, regretted my decision is all. I am just frustrated I am getting the runaround by Dell. This isn't some questionable ebay seller. I've honestly never had this much trouble an online purchase. I wouldn't be this incredulous if it was random ebay seller.
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Just got a 27" Yamakasi Catleap from here: http://www.ebay.com/itm/120911008070?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649 Ordered late Sunday night, arrived at my office (east coast) today! Awesome. It really does look incredible, no dead pixels and glossy. Plugged it into my Hackintosh and it worked perfectly. Hopefully will work similarly on my gaming PC at home. Only complaint so far is a bit of a wobbly base, but it'll be on a mount soon enough anyway.
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Pzykotic posted:Just got a 27" Yamakasi Catleap from here: http://www.ebay.com/itm/120911008070?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649 *and sorry for the whiny posting everyone, I am over it now, Just have to return it in 3 weeks or whenever the thing comes in stock again; or whatever is going on. I've wasted enough cell minutes on the phone with them. Femur fucked around with this message at 18:47 on Jun 1, 2012 |
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Honestly it was a bit more of an impulse buy, I had only been researching new monitors off and on for a little while. I found the Overclock.net thread and started browsing eBay auctions when they were about $350. I had a few bucks in my Paypal account and saw that seller had them for $309 so I jumped on it. I've been wanting a new monitor for a while, been using cheap and lovely 1080p Newegg specials for years. I recently got a Dell Ultrasharp at work at that's what pushed me over the edge. 27" 1440p for $300 is an incredible price point... now I just want more!
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Pzykotic posted:Honestly it was a bit more of an impulse buy, I had only been researching new monitors off and on for a little while. I found the Overclock.net thread and started browsing eBay auctions when they were about $350. I had a few bucks in my Paypal account and saw that seller had them for $309 so I jumped on it. Yeah, one of the reason I wanted to return this dell one is to get one of these. I was looking at the Pbank one mentioned earlier through, it's 299 so 10 bux cheaper than that catleap, and has perfect pixel or whatever. It was 299 last night, current prices seem to be 315 now..
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Along the same lines... what exactly is "Catleap"? A brand? The name of the technology? If it's a brand, what's Yamakasi? Does it mean "Cat leap" in Korean? I am now fascinated by my Korean monitor.
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Pzykotic posted:Along the same lines... what exactly is "Catleap"? A brand? The name of the technology? If it's a brand, what's Yamakasi? Does it mean "Cat leap" in Korean? I think it's a brand that gets seconds of panels originally intended for 27" iMacs and puts them in enclosures and sells 'em
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Yamakasi is the brand, Catleap Q270 is the model.
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Pzykotic posted:Just got a 27" Yamakasi Catleap from here: http://www.ebay.com/itm/120911008070?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649  No dead pixels from my initial test. This is the hottest thing I've seen since Britney Spears before she went crazy.
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Pzykotic posted:Along the same lines... what exactly is "Catleap"? A brand? The name of the technology? If it's a brand, what's Yamakasi? Does it mean "Cat leap" in Korean? At least that's my assumption.
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cstine posted:Anything under $500 just gets rubber stamped and through with no customs charges in the US. But they go off the declared values and so in practice that means basically everything gets a free ride. Not true, for many things the magic number is $250.01  . Most of those are fabrics and articles made from them.Edit: for the US that is. Backno fucked around with this message at 01:34 on Jun 2, 2012 |
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http://www.anandtech.com/show/5885/the-achieva-shimian-qh270-a-350-27inch-wqhd-sips-display Anandtech provides some formal numbers for those Korean wonderdisplays. Not too bad considering you're paying like 3-4 times less than a major name 27".
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What's the best approach to buying a secondary monitor? Ideally, it would match your primary, but that's not practical for many from a price standpoint. I use my current secondary for 1) video/PDF/internet/spreadsheet when doing work on my primary, and 2) helpful information when gaming on my primary. With that in mind, it seems like I should get the biggest monitor I can afford, even if it's a "cheap" option like a 27" TN at 1920x1080.
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Josh Lyman posted:What's the best approach to buying a secondary monitor? Ideally, it would match your primary, but that's not practical for many from a price standpoint. I use my current secondary for 1) video/PDF/internet/spreadsheet when doing work on my primary, and 2) helpful information when gaming on my primary. With that in mind, it seems like I should get the biggest monitor I can afford, even if it's a "cheap" option like a 27" TN at 1920x1080. What's your current monitor's size and resolution?
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If you can't get an exact match, you should try to get something similar in pixel density, color characteristics (e.g. both using same backlight type), and quality. I also think it's a lot more comfortable to use if the resolutions on the shared edge are within about 50 pixels of each other, although I know plenty of people like to do one landscape, one portrait with matching 16:9 monitors.
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fookolt posted:What's your current monitor's size and resolution? Zhentar posted:If you can't get an exact match, you should try to get something similar in pixel density, color characteristics (e.g. both using same backlight type), and quality. I also think it's a lot more comfortable to use if the resolutions on the shared edge are within about 50 pixels of each other, although I know plenty of people like to do one landscape, one portrait with matching 16:9 monitors. When I returned the Viewsonic today, they had a refurbed 27" Acer 1920x1080 TN, also for $180. I hadn't really budgeted for 2 monitors, and at $300, the Korean was more than I expected to spend, but it was a great long term value. Still, the 21.6" is just miserable, so the real question is whether to go with the Acer or another <$200 monitor. At that price, a 23" IPS is the best I can hope for; I didn't keep the Viewsonic because it had some purple fringing issues, and it looks like the LG 23" IPS is my only other option (other than a refurbed Dell 2312). edit: v For perfect matching, you could get a 1440x900 monitor for $100 and use it in portrait mode. 
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I just picked up a Korean monitor (Shimian, 0 dead pixels that I've found so far, amazing $290 purchase), and mounted both it and my previous 23" Asus IPS on Monoprice arms, with the 1080p as portrait. It's a little odd, but doesn't require nearly as much head turning as dual 16:9 landscape screens would, and let me reuse my existing screen. If I was starting from scratch, one of the off-lease HP 1600x1200 screens would be a better portrait secondary, but availability on those seems hit or miss.
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Which mono price arms? I'm looking at getting some for my 2xcrossovers. Anyone mount a crossover?
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I'm using the Monoprice 6421 arms. They pivot and tilt very easily, and sag a bit at full extension with the 27" display, but seem pretty secure once set to account for the sag. The bolts that came with the arm were a bit too long for my Shimian- apparently a ~8mm (M4) bolt is about right here, and the mount came with 10mm and 14mm bolts.
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Is calling monitors "1440p" and "1200p" etc. a thing now? I always thought 720p and and 1080p were marketing terms to sell HDTVs. Doesn't the p mean progressive? If that's the case, surely all computer monitors are "p"?
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The p is for pixel! 
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chippy posted:Is calling monitors "1440p" and "1200p" etc. a thing now? I always thought 720p and and 1080p were marketing terms to sell HDTVs. Doesn't the p mean progressive? If that's the case, surely all computer monitors are "p"? edit: v I've always assumed that 720p means 1280x720, 900p means 1600x900, 1080p means 1920x1080, and 1440p means 2560x1440. Any other resolution needs to be described specifically. Josh Lyman fucked around with this message at 10:39 on Jun 6, 2012 |
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Always means progressive, but yeah, it's pretty redundant now. It's a pretty stupid way of describing any resolution, because it doesn't tell you the other dimensions, but it's acceptable somewhat in terms of describing video and TV standards. But I wouldn't think of using it to describe other resolutions.
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My mate bought a 27" Korean special and wants to plug in his xbox 360... is that gonna happen? (he knows it only has dvi.... the adapter is the question)
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HDMI to DVI cables can be had for a pittance.. but that won't fix the problem. The 360 will output 1920x1080, tops, and the Korean specials lack scalers from what I've heard, so at best you'll get a little picture in the middle of the screen.
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thegasman2000 posted:My mate bought a 27" Korean special and wants to plug in his xbox 360... is that gonna happen? (he knows it only has dvi.... the adapter is the question) e: drat you HalloKitty
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I'm looking to get two of the Korean 27 inchers for work. Which ones do people recommend for price/lack of hassle/least likely to get dead pixels?
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HalloKitty posted:HDMI to DVI cables can be had for a pittance.. but that won't fix the problem. The 360 will output 1920x1080, tops, and the Korean specials lack scalers from what I've heard, so at best you'll get a little picture in the middle of the screen. I take it this is the same as a PS3?
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fookolt posted:I'm looking to get two of the Korean 27 inchers for work. Which ones do people recommend for price/lack of hassle/least likely to get dead pixels? thegasman2000 posted:I take it this is the same as a PS3?
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I can confirm that a PS3 using an HDMI to DVI cable will not work on my Korean Shimian monitor which only has DL-DVI input. The more expensive Korean monitors have the built in scaler which should be able to acommadate other resolutions.
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Will the PS3 output 1080p to a Dell UltraSharp U2312HM via an HDMI->DVI converter? I know that this would not work at any resolution with my old UltraSharp 2405FPW (I think that's what it was, anyways).
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Monopthalmus posted:Will the PS3 output 1080p to a Dell UltraSharp U2312HM via an HDMI->DVI converter? I know that this would now work at any resolution with my old UltraSharp 2405FPW (I think that's what it was, anyways). Yes, I have mine set up like this so I can switch between my PC on DP and the PS3 on DVI and it works.
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HalloKitty posted:HDMI to DVI cables can be had for a pittance.. but that won't fix the problem. The 360 will output 1920x1080, tops, and the Korean specials lack scalers from what I've heard, so at best you'll get a little picture in the middle of the screen. I'm pretty sure you can set the 360 to output in 16:10 and it will just add bars itself where necessary. edit: Just googling, you may have to use the VGA cable for this though. chippy fucked around with this message at 10:00 on Jun 7, 2012 |
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chippy posted:I'm pretty sure you can set the 360 to output in 16:10 and it will just add bars itself where necessary. It does, but I'm pretty sure it tops out at 1920x1200, I use the VGA cable myself.
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Ah, of course. I forgot the Korean monitor's were larger res than that.
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perhaps some through the PC wizardry is the only way.... nevermind lol edit: fat fingers... thegasman2000 fucked around with this message at 10:46 on Jun 7, 2012 |
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What will happen if I plug a laptop that can only do VGA out at 1600x1200 into a new Dell UltraSharp with a native res of 1920x1080? Will I get pillar boxing on the sides or some kind of awful aspect ratio scaling? It's a work laptop so I'm stuck with what I have but I'd like to connect it to an external monitor when I work from home.
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