Clinton Portis drops 10,000 at best buy in 30 minutes

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Nick5324

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Why did he get the 2gig Nano instead of the 4gb.... unless it had to be under 10k and that would have put him over.
 

roguerower

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What a retard. Who spends 2k on PSP and then buys a ****** ass laptop. This goes to prove that best buy people have no idea wtf they are talking about when it comes to pc's. And whats w/ the 200 bucks on robots?

I'd go for tv, pc, games, home appliances. Hell, I could spend 1500 in 30 seconds. 512mb GTX ftw.
 

RaynorWolfcastle

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I'd head straight to the AV dept. and drop 10k on a home theater in about 5 minutes flat. I'd probably feel pretty limited by the $10k budget.

Scratch, that. I'd just pick up the Pioneer Elite Plasma... yum!
 

gabemcg

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One of Every CD/DVD

Every HD they have over 160GB

ALOT of ide/sata cables

All of their decent PSU's

All of their decent Memory

All of their high speed optical drives (CD/DVD)

ALL of their computer cases

All of their Raid controller cards

A copy of Windows Server 2003

Their Biggest/Best TV 1080p (x2)

Their best reciever (still not very good)

Their best speakers (also not that great)

A Bunch of A/V cables, all sorts of 'em


I'd back up all of the media to my newly created server farm, and be happy as a clam...



 

gabemcg

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Originally posted by: Nick5324
Why did he get the 2gig Nano instead of the 4gb.... unless it had to be under 10k and that would have put him over.

he bought 2x 2gig nanos diddn't he???

that would be really dumb
 

BriGy86

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Originally posted by: roguerower
What a retard. Who spends 2k on PSP and then buys a ****** ass laptop. This goes to prove that best buy people have no idea wtf they are talking about when it comes to pc's. And whats w/ the 200 bucks on robots?

I'd go for tv, pc, games, home appliances. Hell, I could spend 1500 in 30 seconds. 512mb GTX ftw.

to be fair you have to admit that most of those sales guys know more than the average retail customer about computers

and if some one knows SOOOO much about them, what are they doing asking a sales guy for help anyway?

ill i would ask is the specs print out they can give me and let them know when/if they can get one out of lock up
 

YOyoYOhowsDAjello

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Originally posted by: gabemcg
One of Every CD/DVD

Every HD they have over 160GB

ALOT of ide/sata cables

All of their decent PSU's

All of their decent Memory

All of their high speed optical drives (CD/DVD)

ALL of their computer cases

All of their Raid controller cards

A copy of Windows Server 2003

Their Biggest/Best TV 1080p (x2)

Their best reciever (still not very good)

Their best speakers (also not that great)

A Bunch of A/V cables, all sorts of 'em


I'd back up all of the media to my newly created server farm, and be happy as a clam...

Why not just get 1 or everything in the store?
 

YOyoYOhowsDAjello

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Originally posted by: gabemcg
Originally posted by: Nick5324
Why did he get the 2gig Nano instead of the 4gb.... unless it had to be under 10k and that would have put him over.

he bought 2x 2gig nanos diddn't he???

that would be really dumb

I think he was getting gifts for some of this stuff.
 

thelanx

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So he gets 10,000 worth of stuff and Best Buy donates 10,000 to his fund. So he comes out even and Best Buy takes a loss on the cost of the items they just sold, which is less than 10,000.
 

ThePresence

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Originally posted by: thelanx
So he gets 10,000 worth of stuff and Best Buy donates 10,000 to his fund. So he comes out even and Best Buy takes a loss on the cost of the items they just sold, which is less than 10,000.

Not a loss, a donation and an advertisement.
 

YOyoYOhowsDAjello

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Originally posted by: thelanx
So he gets 10,000 worth of stuff and Best Buy donates 10,000 to his fund. So he comes out even and Best Buy takes a loss on the cost of the items they just sold, which is less than 10,000.

How does he only come out even?
 

cruiser1338

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Blow it all in BestBuy? He kinda cheated with a 3k refridgerator. That's just dumb.

10k TV, 5k Computer, 3k laptop, 2k on PSP, 10k on a massive set of LCD comp displays to make like a wall thing, 5k sound system/DVD/TiVo..., $500 Razr and accessories, $750 iPod nano and video, and then I run out of things to buy.$36500 total. Anyone wanna donate me that?