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Title: so im leaving at 3am to go to circuit city..
Post by: Sephroth57 on November 24, 2005, 06:23:34 pm
going to be buying this:   Link (http://www.circuitcity.com/ccd/productDetail.do?oid=136449&catOid=-12963&com.broadvision.session.new=Yes&BV_SessionID=@@@@1700646499.1132872545@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccchaddgfljmdfkcfngcfkmdffhdfii.0)
Title: Re: so im leaving at 3am to go to circuit city..
Post by: mr.Curmudgeon on November 24, 2005, 07:05:53 pm


Could that freaking URL be any looooooonger?

Anyhow, be sure to keep body fluids under control when using it, as they may cause permanent damage to the machine.


mrC
Title: Re: so im leaving at 3am to go to circuit city..
Post by: mr.Curmudgeon on November 24, 2005, 07:07:13 pm
"Celeron
Title: Re: so im leaving at 3am to go to circuit city..
Post by: Jabba on November 24, 2005, 07:25:52 pm
Holy Crap!

Quote
Price was: $9999.99
You save: -$9550.00
You pay: $449.99
 

(Click on the Sale in Cart button)

Never knew a Toshiba notebook was $9999.

And man, thats one help of a discount...  ;)
Title: Re: so im leaving at 3am to go to circuit city..
Post by: Sephroth57 on November 24, 2005, 11:08:52 pm
"Celeron
Title: Re: so im leaving at 3am to go to circuit city..
Post by: SOAPboy on November 24, 2005, 11:44:03 pm
Walmart
399.99
2800 Sempron HP laptop

Way better deal
Title: Re: so im leaving at 3am to go to circuit city..
Post by: AtomSmasher on November 25, 2005, 01:40:36 am
you could also just buy off dell.com and get basically the same notebook for the same price without waiting in a long line.
Title: Re: so im leaving at 3am to go to circuit city..
Post by: SOAPboy on November 25, 2005, 04:10:54 am
you could also just buy off dell.com and get basically the same notebook for the same price without waiting in a long line.

Cheapest at dell is 399 and its nowhere near as nice..
Title: Re: so im leaving at 3am to go to circuit city..
Post by: Sephroth57 on November 25, 2005, 06:11:39 am
yeah so im back, i got there at 330 and there were already people around the building in a line. they handed out vouchers and only like the first 100 people got laptop vouchers it was BS. it was going to be my christmas present from my mom/grandpa but theyre pissed that happened so im probably going to get a better one now on the bright side...
Title: Re: so im leaving at 3am to go to circuit city..
Post by: Bones on November 25, 2005, 07:11:38 am
You should have got there heaps early. You could have scalped some tickets.
Title: Re: so im leaving at 3am to go to circuit city..
Post by: missioncontrol on November 25, 2005, 10:14:25 am
side scrolling threads makes baby jesus cry  :'(
Title: Re: so im leaving at 3am to go to circuit city..
Post by: Sephroth57 on November 25, 2005, 11:20:07 am
doesnt scoll on my comp, up your resolution =p
Title: Re: so im leaving at 3am to go to circuit city..
Post by: grueinthebox on November 25, 2005, 11:42:53 am
doesnt scoll on my comp, up your resolution =p

I still get a scrollbar (albeit a small one) at 1600x1200 with the browser maximized...  Of course, running a browser maximized at that resolution impacts readability (too few line breaks), so it's not something that I could understand wanting to do.

Bummer on the notebook.  I was considering going up to Best Buy to get the $379 Toshiba there, but knew I'd need to get there around 10-11pm to have a chance at getting one.  Talked myself out of spending the money, which had the side benefit of allowing me to get a good night's sleep in my nice warm bed.
Title: Re: so im leaving at 3am to go to circuit city..
Post by: mr.Curmudgeon on November 25, 2005, 12:17:17 pm


Best Buy is getting so screwed right now...their website hasn't been able to take orders for over a week now (you can't even browse the inventory), and it's still down TODAY, on Black Friday!

I can't imagine the millions in online sales they're missing. Read an article somewhere stating they were having server issues. Damn, what kind of server issues keep a huge retailer like Best Buy offline during the busiest sales season of the year?


mrC
Title: Re: so im leaving at 3am to go to circuit city..
Post by: saint on November 25, 2005, 03:21:54 pm
Got in line at our Best Buy at 2 AM. Got 3 of the $150 computers for various people. We were like 45th in line at that time...
Title: Re: so im leaving at 3am to go to circuit city..
Post by: missioncontrol on November 25, 2005, 04:09:37 pm
doesnt scoll on my comp, up your resolution =p

well up yours too then
Title: Re: so im leaving at 3am to go to circuit city..
Post by: forbiddenlyrics on November 25, 2005, 11:22:05 pm
I went to my circuit city at 8:30 thursday and there were already people waiting. When voucher time came we were 2nd in line and got a laptop but it took 3 hours in the store just to buy the thing. Overall it was very frustrating due to their poor checkout system.
Title: Re: so im leaving at 3am to go to circuit city..
Post by: shmokes on November 28, 2005, 05:03:04 am
I shop at Dell's website A LOT.  I buy maybe a dozen computers from them a year, as well as various other things like PDAs, projectors, cameras, printers, etc.  Their site is down or having serious problems a good 10% of the time and this is something that has been going on for at least a year or two.  I swear to god their website is being run by the same people running MySpace.  I always wonder, when I visit their website and get a 404 page, or when I'm already at their website and click a link and get a 404 page and suddenly can't view anything on the Dell.com domain for the next twenty minutes, how many people go to Dell's website intending to buy a computer only to end up with a Gateway because Dell's site wouldn't pull up.  You'd think that a company with no B&M presence whatsoever would have a more reliable site.

Sorry.  I don't know WTF this has to do with anything.
Title: Re: so im leaving at 3am to go to circuit city..
Post by: ChadTower on November 28, 2005, 11:40:20 am

Nyeh, I just don't see the point in waiting 5 hours, on a sidewalk, in 20 degree weather to get a laptop cheaply. 

I don't need the top of the line model that badly.
Title: Re: so im leaving at 3am to go to circuit city..
Post by: Sephroth57 on November 28, 2005, 12:11:34 pm
well chad we all know your stance on technology, your version of a laptop is a pen and paper =p
Title: Re: so im leaving at 3am to go to circuit city..
Post by: ChadTower on November 28, 2005, 12:21:41 pm

Actually, I have a laptop, probably about 18-24 months old.

The trick is to stay far enough beind the cost curve but close enough that you can use technology for things that are actually necessary.
Title: Re: so im leaving at 3am to go to circuit city..
Post by: Scott84 on November 28, 2005, 12:48:46 pm

Actually, I have a laptop, probably about 18-24 months old.

The trick is to stay far enough beind the cost curve but close enough that you can use technology for things that are actually necessary.

So very true.
Title: Re: so im leaving at 3am to go to circuit city..
Post by: ChadTower on November 28, 2005, 01:23:59 pm

I think the disparity is age based, and based on a differing perception of what is really necessary.

A 20 year old considers a cell phone an absolute necessity.

A 30 year old may still think "I lived for 25 years without a cell phone just fine."

Title: Re: so im leaving at 3am to go to circuit city..
Post by: allroy1975 on November 28, 2005, 03:14:32 pm
A 30 year old may still think "I lived for 25 years without a cell phone just fine."

But I don't think that.

I got my laptop for about 1000 in july.  HD display, card readers, gig of memory, dvd burner, 80211g.  all kinds of stuff.  I love it.  it weighs about 50 lbs. but it does all kindsa stuff so I like it.

Allroy
Title: Re: so im leaving at 3am to go to circuit city..
Post by: Sephroth57 on November 28, 2005, 03:16:55 pm
nope its just you chad, now go play virtual boy and dream about bangin my mom
Title: Re: so im leaving at 3am to go to circuit city..
Post by: ChadTower on November 28, 2005, 03:35:36 pm
dream about bangin my mom

Hell no, I hate bringing my work home with me.
Title: Re: so im leaving at 3am to go to circuit city..
Post by: knuttz on November 28, 2005, 07:22:42 pm
My Girlfriend, her mom, and I got to wal-mart at 2:45 on Black Friday.  We were sixth, seventh, and eighth in line for the laptops.  We each got a laptop for $404 after tax.    We plan to sell two of them on ebay for hopefully $560 plus shipping and have a nearly free laptop.