taizou @lion@computerfairi.es

roar! How did you get into bootleg games/dumping, if it hasn't been asked yet? —

rawr!!! I became interested in the games from reading about them in magazines and on the late 90s internet, they were rarely seen in the UK so it was like this ... https://alterspring.org/@taizou/a/115924213905892837

One thing that's kind of unfortunate tbh is that Chinese business hours align almost perfectly with UK sleeping hours so if they contact me at the start of their work day I can only really reply at the end

The seller messaged me saying their store was temporarily unavailable due to reasons & could I please buy from this other one instead so I had to cancel the original order and get a refund
Apparently refunds were an issue with foreign CCs before but it seems to have been processed so... we go again

well I did it I placed the order
after all the pissing around setting up worldfirst it simply did not appear as an option at checkout and I have no idea why so i used credit card anyway 🤷
let's hope this all works...!!

today's stupid problem: wanted to install 1688 android app which is available in Eng but only on google play & it is region blocked in the UK. Versions from other sources are Chinese only. I tried installing the eng version through Aurora but it refuses to launch if not installed from the play store

i'm still on the verge of doing this... still kind of "aah what if things go wrong and my shit gets stuck in China and i can't do anything about it"
but then what's the worst case scenario I suppose. I might lose 50 quid. It still wouldn't be the stupidest way I've lost 50 quid

it still is btw. i'm pouring used brain oil down the sink and causing problems

Hey so whenever I've had stuff for sale, the fan-famiclone-handhelds have always been the most popular thing
SO I'm just wondering if I got a small batch of these "500 in 1" folding ones
a) would you want one (priced around £15 probably)? b) what colour?

still better them than the americans

apparently the CC option has issues so i have been setting up alipay and worldfirst instead. i still don't know if i'll actually go through with a purchase but i had to do a ton of verification to get this far. the alibaba group now has pretty much every piece of identifying information about me