Recent content by NorCalSci

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    HOT!! HDTV Receiver $199 at WalMart

    LOL! This kind of ignorance should be illegal...and wannabee moderators attempting to quell legitimate discussions should be a NO NO here!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FTA stands for FREE TO AIR. Free means free. Just like standard analog television, AM and FM radio, and even GPS. Of course it is not...
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    HOT!! Viewsonic VP171b 17" LCD@ Dell $408+tax(free shipping)

    This is an amazing monitor. (I'm looking at mine as I type.) Excellent performance, rotating screen, thin bezel and elegant styling. These moitors don't go on sale much. I would highly recommend it!
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    Microsoft Action Pack Subscription: destroy what I just bought?

    Uh, yeah. But what di YOU get? My MCE came with one number. I don't know if it's good for ten activations. Did you get one, or two, or five numbers for MCE?
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    Microsoft Action Pack Subscription: destroy what I just bought?

    Is it two copies or ten copies of MCE? There is one serial on the back of the disc sleeve. Usually they give ten licenses, but that wasn't clear for MCE. By the way for all you October Action Packers (that doesn't sound right...), they failed to include the Windows XP (the gold disc copy...
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    Hot? Best Buy eMachines notebook m6805 $1249.99 ARs 5/9-5/15

    Remember, folks. Print out the eMachines Extended Warranty page and take it in when you buy your laptop. BestBuy will most likely match the price on the Extended Warranty, or more likely reduce the price of your laptop. (They took $110 off for me and for others) The BestBuy warranty is...
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    Hot? Best Buy eMachines notebook m6805 $1249.99 ARs 5/9-5/15

    Re: Extended Warranty Print out the eMachines warranty and take it into Best Buy where they will pricematch it if you ask nicely. Actually they may reduce the price of the computer, which is even better (although it would be unethical if you did it intentionally, extended warrantys are 100%...
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    Fat Wreck Chords presents "Rock Against Bush Vol. 1" CD/DVD $6

    Any group or individual that has such obvious contempt for the Office of the President of the United States of America has no place in Presidential politics in the first place. You really want these guys to influence the selection of the next President? Pathetic. Don't you guys have any respect...
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    Satellite TV Equipment Free or $50 w/TIVO DirecTV

    Cornivore, you would think that would be true but when you sign up you agree that they can change programming without notice. That never was much of a factor before but now you can see how it can play out. You sign up for a year contract (or two years) with big termination fees, two weeks...
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    NOT HOT FRAUD: Target Changes Return Policy on Software, Music, DVD

    Mr. Coyote, I think you're missing the point. This is a bad policy. If they want to avoid having open CDs on the shelf they shouldn't put them there. It doesn't encourage less copying, it just screws people who accidentally buy the returned garbage Target has put back on the shelf. I did call...
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    NOT HOT FRAUD: Target Changes Return Policy on Software, Music, DVD

    Ahhh...yeah, okay. 1) LOL! Well I sure as he|| am pleased that Target will be incrementally improving the integrity of their inventory! Great way to go about it... 2) LOL Part Deux! Listen, I am not trying to make anything sound like anything! I am relating a first hand personal...
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    NOT HOT FRAUD: Target Changes Return Policy on Software, Music, DVD

    Thanks for your insight and personal experience. I'm glad you haven't had a problem like this. However, in the few hours this has been posted members have shared other examples of the same thing happening to them. Others have observed tampered boxes on the shelves at Target. I am just telling...
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    NOT HOT FRAUD: Target Changes Return Policy on Software, Music, DVD

    That is exactly what I mean by FRAUD. Either people are returning incomplete/defective products (in the case of one product actually shrinkwrapping a partially empty box), stealing things in the store, or employees are stealing stuff and leaving the boxes on the shelf. That is the fraud...
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    NOT HOT FRAUD: Target Changes Return Policy on Software, Music, DVD

    The "Return for same item only" has always been the policy at my Targets for music/DVD/Software. The "you can't return it" policy is new as of yesterday according to the store manager I spoke with. An edict handed down from corporate on high...
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    NOT HOT FRAUD: Target Changes Return Policy on Software, Music, DVD

    Thanks for your comments. Yeah, the big point for me was that they DID change the policy in between when I bought, and when I went in to exchange the defective product. The policy at the time I purchased was: "If opened, this item can only be exchanged for same item." If the policy was: "We...
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    NOT HOT FRAUD: Target Changes Return Policy on Software, Music, DVD

    I just learned the unhappy news that TARGET JUST CHANGED ITS RETURN POLICY (corporate memo)! You can no longer return open software/music/dvd in store if the package is open and something is damaged or missing. Seriously, either do not buy music/software/dvd there or open it at the cash register...