The Sims 3
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The Sims 3 gives you the freedom to create unique Sims and immerse them in your own living neighborhood of endless possibility!
- New Seamless, Living Neighborhood Your Sims explore the neighborhood freely.
- New Create A Sim Create any Sim you can imagine.
- New Personality Traits Every Sim is now a truly unique person, with a distinct personality.
- New Unlimited Customization Everyone can customize everything.
- New Gameplay That's Rewarding & Quick There's more to life for your Sims in The Sims 3.
What if you had to live your whole life in one location and then one day, suddenly, you could step outside and go anywhere in the whole neighborhood?
The Sims 3 lets you immerse truly unique Sims in an open, living neighborhood just outside their door! The freedom of The Sims 3 will inspire you with endless possibilities and amuse you with unexpected moments of surprise and mischief.
New - Explore a Seamless, Living Neighborhood
Your Sims can roam throughout their neighborhood, visit neighbors homes, and explore the surroundings. They can stroll downtown to hang out with friends, meet someone new at the park, or run into colleagues on the street. If your Sims are in the right place at the right time, who knows what might happen?
New Create a Sim
New easy-to-use design tools allow for unlimited customization to make truly individual Sims. Determine your Sims shape and size, from thin to full-figured to muscular and everything in between! Choose your Sims facial features, their skin tone, hair color and style, eye shape and color, and select their clothing and accessories.
New Personality Traits System
Create realistic Sims with distinctive personalities. Select from dozens of personality traits and combine them in fun ways. The combination of traits you choose brave, artistic, loner, perfectionist, klepto, romantic, clumsy, paranoid, and much, much more help shape the behavior of your Sims and how they interact with other Sims. They are complex individuals with unique personalities who can now rise above their basic set of everyday needs.
New Customize Everything
Build your dream house and design the ultimate home. Customize everything from floors to decor, shirts to sofas, wallpaper to window shades. It's fun and easy to change colors and patterns, giving you endless personalization options. Or you can choose to easily populate your Sims neighborhood with pre-designed buildings and furnishings. Which of your Sims will live in high-end mansions, cool bachelor pads, ultimate dream homes, or cozy cottages?
New Gameplay
The Sims 3 features new gameplay that's rewarding and quick to play. There's more to your Sims lives in The Sims 3. Enjoy the challenge of short-term and long-term goals and then reap the rewards!
Why buying from PowerMax is risk-free
If there's one thing you should know - it's PowerMax wants you to be 100% satisfied with your product. Because we sell so many different products from a variety of sources, our return policies are specific to the kind of product you ordered. Take a look:
| Product Type | Return Window | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Third Party Products | 30 Day Full Refund | You can return your item for a full refund within 30 days of purchase with the exception of Apple CTO products, opened memory or opened software. Returns on all new 3rd party products must be in complete, undamaged and unmarked condition. |
| New or Factory Refurbished Apple Products | 10 Business Days | If you are not satisfied with your purchase, contact your PowerMax customer service representative within 10 business days of the receipt of the product. Provided you return an item unopened in the original box, we will exchange it or offer you a refund based on your original method of payment. A 10% open box fee will be assessed in any opened hardware or accessory. |
| Pre-Owned Macs | 90 Day Full Refund & DOA Protection | In addition to a 90-day warranty, we will guarantee any pre-owned Mac to be in good operating condition upon its arrival or we'll pick it up and send you a new one if returned within 72 hours of receipt. |
For full details please take a look at our Returns & Errors page.
We warranty our work
In addition to the below warranties on Apple products, we're happy to facilitate communication with manufacturers of non-Apple products at any time (some of them are notoriously hard to communicate with) and do everything we can to make sure manufacturers honor that commitment.
| 1 Year AppleCare | 3 Year AppleCare Available? | 90 Day PowerMax Warranty | 6 Month Powermax Warranty Available? | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Apple Computers | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Apple Refurbished | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| PowerMax Pre-Owned |
Nope | Nope | Yes | Yes* |
For more info please check out our warranty page.
Pricing Protection
We've all been there: you pick up the latest gadget only to see it advertised by that same retailer one week later at a 25% discount. Well, with PowerMax you don't have to worry about feeling duped.
If you see a reduced price on an item you've purchased within the last 10 days just let us know and refund or credit the difference back to you.
For full details please take a look at our Returns & Errors page.
What the pundits say about PowerMax
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Sustainable Business Innovator
Founder GreenSmith Consulting
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Your electronics always have value with our trade-in programs! We are one of the only places to trade-in your old Mac or iPod. Save on your new stuff by trading in those old electronics.

Mac & iPod Trade-In Program
All Mac trade-ins are handled directly through PowerMax.com. Fill out our online trade-in form and we will issue a quote for the trade-in value of your Mac (typically within 24-48 hours).
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