Are steam downloads safe?

by kevindooley

I want to buy mount & blade on steam. I dont know if they give you the full game or not so i need some expirienced help. The game ten dollars more than the best buy warehouse. Persons are the only two places i can find it additional than ebay. :p. I sorta want to have a disc though just incase i need to reinstal it or instal it on a new computer.

Answer by Antari
Steam is very safe, but if you can get a hard copy for ten dollars less by all earnings do.
BTW, you can download as many times as you like after hold from Steam. Its very much like Xbox Live (technically Live is like Steam). You are buying the Digital Rights to the game not a one time download. So if you get a new PC or have multiple PCs all you have to do to play is log into steam and all your games are available to play.

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While on Hold… (#5 of 5) Linksys Tale


Image by cobalt123
Here we are at the last of these five images in the series. And I promised "the tale" behind them. Here ya go:

#1. Don’t let your babies grow up to buy Linksys harvest

#2. If you are stuck with one, read the cautionary tale below in case you reckon "Customer Service" and a warranty are really honored by an American company.

Bought a top-of-the-line wireless router (Linksys) about 10 months ago. Yeah, I installed it with no conundrum and it made brilliant relations through the whole house even though it has 16" adobe walls…

Periodically over the last year, my high-speed Internet was a conundrum and every call I made to the ISP had a "customer service" rep or tech inform me that it might not be them, because I had a wireless router. The goal is to find any reason possible NOT to come out to troubleshoot the connectivity problems from the main computer wired to their modem.

Of course, when I informed these folks that THEIR employee personally handed me this router to hold, they backed down and sent techs out. About 9 times in this last year.

After 5 tech visits to my house, the entire wiring house to pole was replaced, all outlets replaced, the "maintenance crew" replace the "node" to the locality and the problems continued. Then on the 6th tech call to my home in 7 weeks, the "NIU" box to the house was replaced. Now I was "ok" but had intermittent "drops". I was then informed that the company was concerned over area routes and told to be aware that there was going to be much more work in the area.

All the while, I am now enjoying the best connectivity and speed in a year, finally, after 6 weeks of taking off work at times to meet the techs from the ISP.

THEN, suddenly my connectivity when kaflooey and it was now time to call Linksys to troubleshoot online. After first downloading the "Firmware upgrade", a week later the next "Customer Service" troubleshoot call with Linksys resulted in my having to file an online request for an "RMA" (restore merchandise authorization) that was approved as the latest call 3 weeks ago certified that I had a "defective unit".

Ok, follow directions as I am on hold with Linksys Customer Service and complete the registration to get the replacement wireless router. Now I am told it will be 3 to 4 business days for delivery. AND my credit card has a hold on it until the delivery and then I restore the defective unit.

THREE WEEKS LATER, no replacement arrives and I have been calling Linksys for two weeks with small luck in getting the calls to get past "hold to wait for the next available representative". I learn that the Customer Service is in the Phillipines. Also that my unit "has been in queue ready to ship from the warehouse in Texas" since January 7. Informed that "UPS does our shipments and they only pick up so many parcels a day" and that there is no way to find out when it will really be shipped out.

I have now been making a series of calls to follow up, 7 in one week, each call averaging 1/2 hour. Finally on the third call I am informed that the Customer Service reps are "not allowed" to transfer a call to a Superintendent. The only way I can contact a Superintendent is through email to a special addess. 4 emails later over 2 weeks, and all I receive are auto-responses "Your email is vital to us and a Superintendent will contact you within 72 hours". Never happened.

Friday this last week I was really boiling and got through to a "Customer Service" rep who transferred me to a (get this) Superintendent in Technical Support" who is in India. He cannot map out what to do for me as he is not allowed to contact a Superintendent in Customer Service directly. After 45 minutes on the phone with him desparately trying to get me to a Superintendent in the Phillipines, he finally got me back to a…. (ready?) …Customer Service rep in the Phillipines. Finally this person was able to get a Superintendent on the phone. After 1 1/2 hours of life on the phone with Linksys, I now learn that 1. My order online was not completely submitted (even though I had copied and saved the transaction report). 2. The Linksys warehouse in Georgia is still in process of moving to Texas. 3. The new warehouse in Texas is using a whole new database and all previous orders now have to have a new number and be entered into the new system. 4. The company is still trying to ship out replacement for defective units back to November 2006 and 5. It will be at least two weeks more before my replacement MIGHT be shipped.

So, why these photos in this series of 5? Well, I get pretty bored while on hold, so voila! Speakerphone to the rescue and I take out my camera and start shooting at anything I can see from my back door towards the side yard. I was most intrigued to see that I may maybe see a perfect suggestion of me in the ancient screened window nearest me. And another suggestion farther on. Turns out my roommate has a mirror on the far end of her bedroom and now I may maybe get double self-portraits for the heck of it. This image and the others look far better in the large view. At least for my pain, I got some play time in with my camera. And I feel better now that I have something, anything to show for the hassles. After I got off the phone Friday I went out and bought a groundbreaking new wireless router and installed it. I wonder if I will ever receive that replacement unit?

Utility Warehouse are really eerie because you can’t really buy from their actual website, you need to go through one of their distributors. Does anyone know which distributors are best, and why?

Answer by Sean N
Pun, you should question. I am in fact a distributor of the Utility Warehouse Money off Club.

Before continuing, I want to draw your attention to my blog: www.hardnosedandlazy.co.uk, which discusses the advantages of joining the club.

Result the right distributor is very vital in getting a excellent service from the Utility Warehouse Money off Club. The way the company works earnings, that the distributor who convinced you join the club is equally responsible in helping you sort out any problems you may encounter. The company is generally leagues above additional utility providers in looking after their customers, with 90% of calls life answered within 15 seconds.
Common reasons for public (there are 230,00 customers in the UK) joining the club are because of their ability to provide excellent value utilities (their average energy prices are the lowest over the last 5 years), and because it can help public manage their household bills a lot simpler. The club can do this by allowing you to get all of your household bills sent to you in one envelope each month, rather than 4 or 5.

So, how can you join? Just go to www.tinyurl.com/smartchoice, and you can start reduction money today.

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