Glorious Model D Gaming Mouse White

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. I'll admit it, I'm the fool in this story. I've owned three Glorious mouses - one I bought through here, one I bought through their company website and one they shipped to me as a replacement. You see, when I saw how pretty the Glorious O mice were, I thought to myself, "I NEED THAT!". I was putting together a white-out build and finding an attractive, well-performing gaming mouse that looks good in white is like finding an actual white mouse - sure, you can do it, but your friends will make fun of you if you try. I bought it immediately. At first, I was in love...light-weight, fit so well in my hand, even had a white cable (that almost immediately turned blackish from dirt, of course). And it seemed to work like a charm too, helping me win match after match in CoD, a game I've been playing for a little more than twenty one years. It also worked great when editing photos from my photoshoots, which is what I do to earn money to buy fancy white mouses. Alas, my joy over having found a new tool to help me win in games and in life was not to last. Not long after buying it, I started noticing that not every mouse click would register. The mouse wasn't dirty, there was nothing blocking the left button from full contact, I had even purchased an extra large desk mat from Glorious, so it couldn't have been that the mouse wasn't interacting with the surface properly, right? But occasionally I'd have to click more than once, sometimes multiple times, to open a file, or drag something into a new window. It was getting worse, happening more consistently, and I even started noticing it in-game. I'm a left button masher, but after 20+ years of FPS gaming, I know when I miss shots because I missed and when I missed them because mouse clicks weren't registering. And here's the oddest part: sometimes, the mouse would scroll or click without me actually touching a button or wheel. Like, oooOoOooh, ghosts! My finger would be hovering above the mouse button, no contact, and a file the mouse pointer was above would magically open. Or, I'd use the mouse wheel to scroll down a web page and then I'd stop and lift my finger completely off the mouse wheel, and while I'm sitting there minding my own business reading a passage on the website about polar bears and how they love to play with things just for fun, the page will scroll down again, as if I had rolled the mouse wheel...but I definitely hadn't. I sent it in to Glorious, and they sent a replacement, and it did the same thing. I stuck it out with that one for awhile, but eventually, I got tired of it again. I thought, "OK, maybe it's just a batch of them are bad, I bet if I buy the latest version, it will be all good!". I was smitten with the look and feel of the mouse, and I desperately wanted one that worked, because then I could be a life-long Glorious customer and always have pretty mice. So what did I do? I bought the latest version, the model O2 wired. Yay! Everything was better! It worked perfectly! Forever! Sigh. No, it didn't. It does the exact same things. I even gave it to a friend for a week to use on his PC to make sure it wasn't just my set up, and he called me the first night and told me it was happening to him, too. I reaaaally wanted to be in love with these mice. So pretty. So well-designed...OUTSIDE. Inside? I guess not so much. Time to move on to another less *glorious* and more *functional* company.