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AlanS17:

I did a lot of Christmas shopping at Staples. I picked up a 200GB drive which I'll probably keep for myself, too. I got 2 label printers, a 60GB external drive, a UPS, and a 1GB memory stick.

I also hit up Best Buy and Circuit City. We grabbed a ton of DVD's, an up-converting DVD player, rechargable walkie-talkies, a 1GB MP3 player, a bluetooth headset, and some othet stuff.

All in all, we cleaned out. And we didn't wake up til 6am.

mmmPeanutButter:

Hit Staples also...

I was happy about the change to the 20" widescreen monitor (the leaked ad showed a 19") so I got that.  Got the 200 GB internal, the DVD burner, the 1 GB flash drive, and the 400 GB external.

I am really happy with the external.  It's a great (physical) size and it just looks really sharp.  Get more than one and put them on your shelf and they kinda look like books (thus, they're called "My Book").

 

AlanS17:


--- Quote from: mmmPeanutButter on November 24, 2006, 11:22:02 pm ---I am really happy with the external.  It's a great (physical) size and it just looks really sharp.  Get more than one and put them on your shelf and they kinda look like books (thus, they're called "My Book").

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I almost got one of those for my brother, but the 60GB was cheaper and it uses a 2.5" drive so it ought to be completely powered through the USB port. The larger ones usually require a seperate power cable. The main reason was that it was cheaper, though.

my58vw:

Black friday was a total disaster... we got in line at 8pm and there was 90 people in front of us. At 3 am everyone rushed the door - 90 turned into 150 - and of the hard disks, computer, et al... enough tickets for the first 30 only... everything on the 7 hour sale was gone in 30 seconds!

The first people got there at 7am - 22 hours before the store opened - last year I got there at 10 pm - with only 15 people in line...

Reality is - you can get near all the deals online throughout the year - it is not worth it anymore  :soapbox:

saint:

So we got up at 1 AM and got to Best Buy at 2 AM. The last 5 years, that would have placed us roughly 50th in line, and would have given us an excellent shot at getting all the items we were after (never have missed before, in fact).

This year, at 2 AM, there were roughly 300 people already in line. No chance in Hades at getting what we were after there. Bummer. Don't know why the numbers jumped up like that.

So we headed across the street to Circuit City, and ended up 52nd in line. Not bad. Deals were almost as good as Best Buy, better in a few instances I think, though the computer deal at Best Buy was better.

Had my collapsable sports chairs, multiple layers of clothing on, and a good heavy blanket. Weather wasn't as cold as last year (bloody froze last year) and everyone was in pretty good spirits.  Sent my nephew in my car to McD's at 3:30 to buy us breakfast. Waited until 5 AM for store to open. Only hostile moment was when someone who got a voucher for one of the laptops came back in line to our area and started taking offers on it (in other words, they didn't want it, they just grabbed the voucher to sell it to make a profit). They got $40 for it (so the buyer ended up paying cost of computer + an additional $40). The tense bit was a guy a few spots back from us who pitched a fit about how that wasn't cool and how some people in line had wanted a fair chance at the laptop that this guy was scalping. Kid took his money and beat it quick :)

Here are the highlights on how we made out:

$3    - 160 DVD-R blanks
$0   - Kids calculator
$200   - Lexmark Printer, E-Machine PC, 17" Monitor, 160 Gig HD, 512 Mb RAM, Windows XP, Vista upgrade
$149   - GPS w/ MP3 playback ability
$2.97   - 1 Gig SD-RAM
$0   - D-Link wireless router
$29.99   - Phillips DVD player
$129   - 19" Flatpanel LCD monitor
$14.99   - 10-mile 2-way radios (2)
$19.98   - 16x Dual Layer, Dual format, internal DVD Drive
$0   - 6 outlet surge protector
$19.98   - 200 gig internal Maxtor HD
$39.99   - Office chair (leather, arm rests -- 4 total)
$115   - Clothes from JC-Pennies (Jeans *3, shirts*3)

All in all, picked up $2500 worth of stuff (retail price) for $850, saving $1700 or so. Of course, $700 of that is rebates I have to wait for now. Still, I have a success rate in the high 90% range of actually getting my rebates.

The monitor, computer, and GPS were for my in-laws and nephew and they paid me for them, so I'm personally only out of pocket some $400 or so for the items I bought.  That doesn't include non-door-buster miscellaneous deals like buy one get one free on deskjet photo paper packs, 10%-20% discounts on various piddly items, etc...

Not a bad day all in all I think, exhausted at the end of it of course. Spent a good chunk of today filling out all my rebates too.

--- saint


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