So, I needed a new mouse since the scroll wheel died on my 6€ made in China, 50% off special (so it was 3€); to be honest the wheel died long ago, it’s just that I’m in the mood to play with 3D modelling again and having no scroll wheel is shitty.
Anyway…
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Since:
- I’m a cheap bastard
- Mice are a disposable item (at least for me, it would take a special mouse for me to try to fix it.)
I needed the cheapest mouse I could find. (no need for more since nowadays even a basic office style mouse has 800dpi, more than enough)
So I started roaming the websites of local big stores in search of some sale.
And I found it.
5.5€ for a basic made in China mouse (claimed 1000dpi, I don’t care, my last mouse was 400dpi and it worked well enough); the same store had another five or six different models from 5.5€ up to 10€. (1 model at 5.5€, 2 at 6.95€ and other 2 at 7.95€ and one or two more at 9.95€)
“Great!” I thought, cheap and good enough, I won’t grow attached to it (and get kinda sad when it starts misclicking by itself).
Off to the place!
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Not only did they lack any of the <10€ models, they also didn’t have any of the discounts they claimed on the other models.
This kind of stuff should be forbidden. I go there with my cheapskate hard-on only to be sorely disappointed.
Off to Staples, who, like the previous one, lacked most of the cheap mice.
7.95€ for a “Staples” brand mice. It’s not even the ambidextrous one. And there were only two of them.
It was the only fucking (full sized) mouse under 10€ that I could find in a darn town of 45000 people.
In one of the poorest countries in the E.U.
It’s the little things in life…
…that make you want to see the world burn. 