Ration Reality

Like many of you reading this, I use a mouse to interact with my computer. In fact, I’m pretty sure that all of you use some sort of pointing device, be it mouse, touchpad, or that little rubbery clit-thingy. Well, that is, unless you’re using LYNX or your name is Scotty. (If you’re using LYNX, I’m just going to go ahead and call you a poor Luddite bastard and leave it at that.)

Anyway. I’ve got a Logitech Cordless Click Plus. It’s about two and a half years old, and it’s provided me with quiet a lot of good service. I bought it as part of a combination pack with some slightly less durable keyboard. (That piece of shit broke about a year ago, and I’ve replaced it with a Logitech G15. Yeah, yeah, call me a gamer fag and … well, I probably won’t do much about it, actually.) Over the past couple months though, the mouse has been degrading significantly. First it was the scroll wheel. Not the rolly bit, though – that still works. It was the button part. Then the browser forward and back buttons stopped working. Now, finally, the left mouse button is starting to not work out so well anymore.

It was time for a replacement mouse.

Well, first off, I wanted to get a very similar mouse. I wanted one that has the browser buttons on the left side, and one that is cordless, but uses a charging cradle rather than replacing batteries. Would you believe that, going to Best Buy and the other places, I could find exactly one mouse that met those criteria and was not part of a keyboard / mouse package?

It was this bad boy right here – the Logitech MX Revolution. Best Buy wanted $104.99 for it. (Note: the price may have gone down in the past couple weeks – it’s been a little while since I checked on the price.)

Geeks.com had the same mouse, factory refurbished, for $49.99. Now, sure, it doesn’t come with Logitech’s stunningly beautiful green box, but quite honestly, those things are more of a pain in the ass to open than anything else.

I put in my order yesterday at 1231 Pacific time. I received an email three hours later informing me that my order had shipped. And it had shipped. When Amazon sends one of those emails, usually it means that they’ve … hell, I dunno what it actually means, but it’s generally another twenty-four hours or so before FedEx or UPS shows that they’ve picked the order up. I received my shipment notification at about 1530 Pacific time, and when I checked the tracking number, sure e-fucking-nough, FedEx had picked my mouse up about a half hour earlier. None of this ’shipping information received’ bullshit!

So yeah. If you want good quality electronics shit at a (relatively) affordable price, fucking check out Geeks.com. I’m not getting paid for this or anything like that. I’ve just had a couple of really good purchasing experiences with them, and I will recommend these fuckers to just about anyone.