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Lovely stuff Dan...
Myself I am usually up till 3 and then wake up at 10(ish) in morning!
Myself I am usually up till 3 and then wake up at 10(ish) in morning!
Dan paintballing was my idea you evil devil!
**er-no relizes he sounds like Brian and heads for the bridge with a cement shoes**
**er-no relizes he sounds like Brian and heads for the bridge with a cement shoes**
*Holds hand on heart... looks to sky... sheds a tear... makes pancakes...*
Ha! There’s no way I’m going to leave it like that, as a member here for 260days+ the inevitable has happened, and I am now sitting down about to tell you what you all know, but this time it’s through my eyes, my fingers, and oh, I feel like John Malkovich. Hmmm, you see Special Reserve is different. It’s not your standard A**zon.co.uk – it’s more of a community, and that is what the internet has become, it’s no longer a tool, or something that you ‘surf’, it’s about meeting new people, discussing – having your say and basically porn, porn and more porn. Only kidding guys! One of my brother’s is a member of Special Reserve, we did have two memberships for some reason, running at the same time, but we’ve been signed up for ages now – 5 years maybe? Anyway, Tony, Ali won’t care about this review, and I don’t care about them not caring about the review, I care about you responding, and me getting to the point of it!
Right, as far as online stores go, I look for a few major factors – customer service, safety and pricing. No backside licking here, but SR has all three, and they’re all up there with the very top. Customer service, ok, aside for a few miss-orders, i.e. I got the wrong GBA pack, had to pay an extra £10, and some 10plug tower stand things getting destroyed in the post – Special reserve take every care to get what you ordered to you on time in the condition that it’s supposed to be in, and if it’s not there’s none of this waiting around – phone them up, tell them the problem and it’ll be sorted within a few days – brilliant customer service, staff that actually know what they’re talking about as well as understanding what I’m on about (that is a very scarce skill, not one that I possess yet!), and generally we have never had any problems from them. Good telephone manners & clear voices – all you need to make a phone order! Oh and the staff have that too. Except for Ali, he’s a ware wolf and can only snarl or growl.
Safety? Well, it’s probably safer buying online – that little padlock symbol is present, email confirmations are minimal, but that’s the beauty of it – Special Reserve is simple – it’s not over complicated, everything works, aside from the competition selections (Sorry!), although the competitions are not important for Special reserve, they are for us – and we make the forums what they are. Anyway, safety – yep, games delivered – in suitable packaging, if it isn’t complain they’ll change it for you (you’re using boxes for GBA games now right?) and in general the service is fast, reliable and comes with that peel off shiny strip thing, in packets, not boxes, so that makes everything worth while! Oh and with every order, even Game a day and film a day wins, you get a “reddy”, specially from the bank of special reserve – useless on it’s own, although could be used to wipe your face, when you accumulate 5 such tokens, you can send off for a free gift – I have done this many times, thanks a lot – makes winning 5 times that much better than winning 4! Very safe!
Prices? Well, they have a superb PC fixing, constructing facility – the PCs have won many awards, always critically acclaimed, and I’m going to do so too. Our main computer is from SR, no problems with it at all we’ve only been back to Sawbridgeworth for upgrading purposes. Brilliant PCs, puts Dell’s to shame, which I have – hard drive failed in a month, yummy! Anyway, Special reserve sell a wide range of products, excluding Virtua Tennis – oh well, and the prices are competitive. Sales drive the site – my “Buy a game this week” topic, hopefully got people buying a bit more – I got some ram and some Star Wars game, so did my bit. No P&P charges, no hidden fees – what you see is what you pay. And if you’re not a member - why not! £6.99 for 11 magazines (or 12/13), and you can claim a free gift too? Brilliant if you ask me.
The forums are the place that I’ve been ranting on for the better part of the last 30days of being online – 50000 words about in 30days, the more I write the less I win, but that’s fine by me because I’ve ‘met’ new people – “we all play games, do you have MSN?” Excellent. I’ve been talking to Dringo at 11pm till 1am each night, talking to M16 (BFG), TW, Meka, Grix, Dan UK (Strafex), Sniper, Sheepy, Rakuga, Ant, Bandy, jd99, and more – and because of my strange sleeping habits – I go to bed at 6:30am now, all night between weightlifting (honest!) I talk to Game, about nothing in particular keeping him from being asleep – today I ran, just for five minutes, in the freezing cold outside, would have helped to have worn more than a pair of shorts, but everything is changing – everyone is different and I’ve made some real, what I would classify as ‘friends’. We drive the site – we make the sales, we discuss the games, play the games and then go to bed at obscene hours. And it’s all good – thanks Special Reserve. One point I’d like to make, the people here may get on your nerves – try not to take everything to heart – I really thought Meka_Dragon was an idiot, then I spoke to him – not at him – and he’s a great person, not hostile at all, and he may have helped me win a PS2 – big it up to Ben.
So many new faces – all from the forums, a place to chat discuss, review and cheat (enter cheats) and nowhere else is as good, in my belief. I was on the Gameplay forums, got abused by some know it all who went by the name of Otaku2000 – what an idiot, didn’t like the atmosphere, came back to SR, and hopefully have helped people out, provided many, many words in the right order for the Goat like one, and have raised a few interesting discussions. SR members should, must and will meet up to do something – Paint balling or whatever, great idea WE had Joby! (Joby is er-no, er-yes er-maybe and er-shut up with these names).
Yeah, we can all take a break from here, we can stop buying altogether – but I’ve won 9 games from Special reserve, not four! Which is something that I wouldn’t have done if I’d not signed up. As a business, it’s good – Big Tony is chief, NEVER email him with suggestions - just start up your own business! We are R&D we’re the best at R&D, and who really cares if GAD is basically bribery, ahem, let’s make SR even better!!!
Thanks for reading, Credit to everyone, be your posts awful, lame, long, twisted or humorous – you make the place what it is, we are Special Reserve.
Dan2K1
Right, as far as online stores go, I look for a few major factors – customer service, safety and pricing. No backside licking here, but SR has all three, and they’re all up there with the very top. Customer service, ok, aside for a few miss-orders, i.e. I got the wrong GBA pack, had to pay an extra £10, and some 10plug tower stand things getting destroyed in the post – Special reserve take every care to get what you ordered to you on time in the condition that it’s supposed to be in, and if it’s not there’s none of this waiting around – phone them up, tell them the problem and it’ll be sorted within a few days – brilliant customer service, staff that actually know what they’re talking about as well as understanding what I’m on about (that is a very scarce skill, not one that I possess yet!), and generally we have never had any problems from them. Good telephone manners & clear voices – all you need to make a phone order! Oh and the staff have that too. Except for Ali, he’s a ware wolf and can only snarl or growl.
Safety? Well, it’s probably safer buying online – that little padlock symbol is present, email confirmations are minimal, but that’s the beauty of it – Special Reserve is simple – it’s not over complicated, everything works, aside from the competition selections (Sorry!), although the competitions are not important for Special reserve, they are for us – and we make the forums what they are. Anyway, safety – yep, games delivered – in suitable packaging, if it isn’t complain they’ll change it for you (you’re using boxes for GBA games now right?) and in general the service is fast, reliable and comes with that peel off shiny strip thing, in packets, not boxes, so that makes everything worth while! Oh and with every order, even Game a day and film a day wins, you get a “reddy”, specially from the bank of special reserve – useless on it’s own, although could be used to wipe your face, when you accumulate 5 such tokens, you can send off for a free gift – I have done this many times, thanks a lot – makes winning 5 times that much better than winning 4! Very safe!
Prices? Well, they have a superb PC fixing, constructing facility – the PCs have won many awards, always critically acclaimed, and I’m going to do so too. Our main computer is from SR, no problems with it at all we’ve only been back to Sawbridgeworth for upgrading purposes. Brilliant PCs, puts Dell’s to shame, which I have – hard drive failed in a month, yummy! Anyway, Special reserve sell a wide range of products, excluding Virtua Tennis – oh well, and the prices are competitive. Sales drive the site – my “Buy a game this week” topic, hopefully got people buying a bit more – I got some ram and some Star Wars game, so did my bit. No P&P charges, no hidden fees – what you see is what you pay. And if you’re not a member - why not! £6.99 for 11 magazines (or 12/13), and you can claim a free gift too? Brilliant if you ask me.
The forums are the place that I’ve been ranting on for the better part of the last 30days of being online – 50000 words about in 30days, the more I write the less I win, but that’s fine by me because I’ve ‘met’ new people – “we all play games, do you have MSN?” Excellent. I’ve been talking to Dringo at 11pm till 1am each night, talking to M16 (BFG), TW, Meka, Grix, Dan UK (Strafex), Sniper, Sheepy, Rakuga, Ant, Bandy, jd99, and more – and because of my strange sleeping habits – I go to bed at 6:30am now, all night between weightlifting (honest!) I talk to Game, about nothing in particular keeping him from being asleep – today I ran, just for five minutes, in the freezing cold outside, would have helped to have worn more than a pair of shorts, but everything is changing – everyone is different and I’ve made some real, what I would classify as ‘friends’. We drive the site – we make the sales, we discuss the games, play the games and then go to bed at obscene hours. And it’s all good – thanks Special Reserve. One point I’d like to make, the people here may get on your nerves – try not to take everything to heart – I really thought Meka_Dragon was an idiot, then I spoke to him – not at him – and he’s a great person, not hostile at all, and he may have helped me win a PS2 – big it up to Ben.
So many new faces – all from the forums, a place to chat discuss, review and cheat (enter cheats) and nowhere else is as good, in my belief. I was on the Gameplay forums, got abused by some know it all who went by the name of Otaku2000 – what an idiot, didn’t like the atmosphere, came back to SR, and hopefully have helped people out, provided many, many words in the right order for the Goat like one, and have raised a few interesting discussions. SR members should, must and will meet up to do something – Paint balling or whatever, great idea WE had Joby! (Joby is er-no, er-yes er-maybe and er-shut up with these names).
Yeah, we can all take a break from here, we can stop buying altogether – but I’ve won 9 games from Special reserve, not four! Which is something that I wouldn’t have done if I’d not signed up. As a business, it’s good – Big Tony is chief, NEVER email him with suggestions - just start up your own business! We are R&D we’re the best at R&D, and who really cares if GAD is basically bribery, ahem, let’s make SR even better!!!
Thanks for reading, Credit to everyone, be your posts awful, lame, long, twisted or humorous – you make the place what it is, we are Special Reserve.
Dan2K1
Grix`s Brain wrote:
> Good review Dan! I read it all!
Yup so did I. That's the first DAn2k1 Topic/review that I've ever read fully :-D
> Good review Dan! I read it all!
Yup so did I. That's the first DAn2k1 Topic/review that I've ever read fully :-D
er-yes wrote:
> I was sweating before I clicked on this link... I read the name,
> then the topic title said it was a review.. so I closed down every
> application and programme.. and slowly clicked on the
> link...
...phew
Lol@Joby and dan :-DDD
> I was sweating before I clicked on this link... I read the name,
> then the topic title said it was a review.. so I closed down every
> application and programme.. and slowly clicked on the
> link...
...phew
Lol@Joby and dan :-DDD
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