Expired: WD SE 80GB $79.99 after $20IR, $40MR @Compusa B&M only*Now hotter*price match w/CC $73.99, possible $39.99

[sPaZzomatic]

finally got my Hd for 73.99 here in indianapolis im one happy sob... the salesman was like holy F(*( thats a great deal and ended up buyin 3 for himself LOL!


thanks for the great deal!


Circuit City has felt the wrath of Anandtech!

 

[toezar]

muffstah
The drive in the link you posted is the 2mb cache drive. The 8mb has JB on the end of it's model number (or JBRTL - for retail)

 

[MuffD]

Circuit City

Alright, check this out guy, Circuit city is not offering a 40 dollar MIR for this drive. I just checked the website and also their ad in the sunday paper. I"ve done this before so I'm sure you guys can too. They offer a 30 day LPG and if you go there with your receipts and tell them you would like to pricematch their price with the rebate because you don't have your box any more and are unable to send in for the rebate, they should give you back 40 bucks each making this drive 40 dollars or so after tax!!!!!

I'm gonna go their around 10 so I'll keep you guys posted.

 

[roncarter]

Thanks for posting that!!!!

Ima check out and see if it will work also


HEre is the exact link to the rebate

HERE!!!!!!

 

[MuffD]

I have had pretty good luck so far doing that so hopefully everyone can do the same and not have to deal with MIR's. CC is good about for me, they just take like 8-10 weeks.

 

[roncarter]

Originally posted by: muffstah
I have had pretty good luck so far doing that so hopefully everyone can do the same and not have to deal with MIR's. CC is good about for me, they just take like 8-10 weeks.

So what exactly did you do again?

 

[MuffD]

Okay, here it goes guys:

I went to Circuit City and talked to a CSR about how I bought these drives 2 weeks ago and that I would like to pricematch their sunday ad because I saw they are now offering a rebate. The chick kept arguing and telling me that she could not give me a rebate because the price I had (79.99) was already lower than what they are offering even after rebate. She even said that the rebate wouldn't print out if it didn't sell at the 139.99 which is what it was advertised at. I told her that I've done this before with pricematched items and that they should be consistent with their practices. I had to even show her the low price guarantee above her head. She finally got her manager who I had to explain the same thing...He just ended up giving me cash back instead saying that he couldn't get the rebate to print out (which is way fine with me). Then this guy gives me back 100.00 cash back!!!! I was like, "cool" and just left.

Here is my breakdown.

86
86 =
172-
100 =
72 bucks for 2-80gb 8mb cache hard drives!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My wife was like "whoah"! I can't believe they just gave you 100 dollars!!!

 

[MuffD]

Anyone try to get a PM yet?

 

[Imported]

I'll try tomorrow at a local CC..

 

[MuffD]

If anyone get's hassled, I can scan my receipts tomorrow or Tuesday at work.

 

[JaybirdMD]

muffstah, I picked up my second HD from Circuit City today, I brought in my first receipt and had them price match the second to the first. So I got both at 73.99, now I've got to go in and see if I can get Instant/Mail-in rebates for both of the hard drives to knock it down to 33.99. I didn't want to push my luck with the manager today about price matching and getting a rebate for the previous one.

There should be no problem getting at least a MIR for the second, but I need to either convince the manager to give me an instant rebate on the first, or possibly engineer some sort of receipt switch so I can qualify for the MIR. If anyone has any suggestions or arguments I could use I'd gladly appreciate the help. They never printed out the MIR for the second so hopefully I'll be able to complain and get that one instantly as well, it's no big deal but it would be nice to not have to wait.

 

[orion7144]

I bought 2 at CC last week for the $73. I will try the rebate thing tomorrow.

 

[Imported]

Originally posted by: JaybirdMD
muffstah, I picked up my second HD from Circuit City today, I brought in my first receipt and had them price match the second to the first. So I got both at 73.99, now I've got to go in and see if I can get Instant/Mail-in rebates for both of the hard drives to knock it down to 33.99. I didn't want to push my luck with the manager today about price matching and getting a rebate for the previous one.

There should be no problem getting at least a MIR for the second, but I need to either convince the manager to give me an instant rebate on the first, or possibly engineer some sort of receipt switch so I can qualify for the MIR. If anyone has any suggestions or arguments I could use I'd gladly appreciate the help. They never printed out the MIR for the second so hopefully I'll be able to complain and get that one instantly as well, it's no big deal but it would be nice to not have to wait.

I've had Staples print up new receipts for items I bought a week or two before the rebate was issued.. I don't see why CC can't do the same..

 

[MuffD]

That is very weird that happened to you. I did this with the PNY DDR a few weeks ago and earlier this year with those TDK burners that had 70 dollar rebates and we were getting them for 60 bucks. I'm tempted now to maybe get another 80 gigger

 

[T2T III]

Using some scans of receipts that were provided for me, I tried to get 2 local Circuit City stores to match the drive price. However, I heard 2 different excuses from each of the stores. One wouldn't offer the price match because the date of the receipt was about 2 weeks old. The other store wouldn't perform the price match because the store listed on the receipt was out of the "local" area. The life of a Ferengi goes on ... or, rather, onto the next deal

 

[MuffD]

If you guys need the receips I scanned to get this done, you can email me and I'll send you the scans.

Email is in my profile.

 

[MuffD]

Anyone want to host the scans? I hear some people are not having great luck pricematching back to circuit city. I guess YMMV on this. I don't see why though since they offer that 30 day LPG.

 

[K-squared]

muffstah - probably because [their] cost on this drive [was] $91.56 - that's what their screen showed while I was watching the manager "research" the pricematch through Circuit City database, before his approving the pricematch.

At one store, I was told the following when I showed a few printouts of a Circuit City and CompUSA receipts that had been posted online:

"You know you can get in trouble for editing and posting bogus receipts online, don't you?"

Implying that "someone" had edited the Circuit City receipts to make it look like other Circuit City stores were actually honoring their pricematch policy!

The department manager when on to state that he had been working at Sears when "someone" "supposedly" edited a receipt to take advantage of Sear's pricematching policy, changing the $300+ price of a Palm Pilot to $129 with a photo-editor. I take it by his comments, that Sears took it in the a-s due to the "supposed" bogus Palm Pilot receipt.

I had been extremely patient up to this point - simply giving him the paperwork at checkout and requesting the pricematch - then patiently waiting more than 30 minutes while they had their little pow-wow trying to figure how to squirm out of the pricematch, while I continued to walk through the store shopping.

I responded "really? I guess then you better figure out who's hacking into Circuit City's database, as I'm sure if you pull-up the ticket number, you will find this is the actual price, the individual was actually charged, at the actual store shown on the Circuit City sales ticket."

I then tacked-on, "Oh,.... You know you can get in trouble for falsely accusing someone of attempting fraud, don't you?"

His jaw hit the floor. He walked over to the main desk and instructed the other manager behind the desk to pricematch CompUSA's $79.99 price....

And out the door I went with two drives for $160 and change....

Originally posted by: muffstah
Anyone want to host the scans? I hear some people are not having great luck pricematching back to circuit city. I guess YMMV on this. I don't see why though since they offer that 30 day LPG.

So, they really pricematched the $40 rebate even after the 110-percent pricematch to CompUSA's $79.99 price?

 

[MuffD]

Sorry to hear that...I just hope that others can get in on this as well. I don't think we are doing anything wrong. I went in just lookin to get in on the MIR and they are the ones that said they had to give me the IR instead.

 

[JDAustin]

I got 3 drives for $80 each from CC when CUSA had there special. Any recommendations on getting the rebate PM?

 

[hevnsnt]

muffstah: You are one lucky guy, because I went to CC today to get the rebate $$ back, and they were like..

"Well we would have to do a return/resell, and at that point, you would be better off before"
So I said, well I want the rebate after the pm price, and they laughed and gave me back my reciept and told me "Yeah, I bet you would"

 

[Imported]

Went into the Circuit City in Newport, with my Huntington Beach receipt in hand..

I printed out the old rebate (9/22-9/28) by mistake.. went in and asked him if I could get a new receipt printed up. He said, "I would make the receipt if the rebate applied now." I didn't know what he was talking about uintil he showed me the dates on the rebate. I told him to wait, took the CC ad they have in front and showed him the ad stating the $40MIR. He told me to wait, printed out the rebate, and gave me a new receipt with the date I needed.

$0.50/GB is awesome

 

[K-squared]

muffstah - did [they] even realize that you had paid only $73.99 and tax before due to a previous pricematch? Considering that with the "instant" $40 rebate that the drive would end-up being more than $50 below their store cost, I'm surprised they didn't tell you to take a flying-leap....

P.S. to my previous post above. I did end-up getting the two drives for $73.99 and tax. It wasn't until I was headed to Office Depot, that I realized the second manager behind the main counter had done a 110-percent pricematch, when I was given the impression [they] would only match it at 100-percent. All-in-all, I picked-up three (3) of the drives for a net of roughly $222 ($241 after tax)!

Originally posted by: muffstah
Sorry to hear that...I just hope that others can get in on this as well. I don't think we are doing anything wrong. I went in just lookin to get in on the MIR and they are the ones that said they had to give me the IR instead.

 

[MuffD]

muffstah - did [they] even realize that you had paid only $73.99 and tax before due to a previous pricematch? Considering that with the "instant" $40 rebate that the drive would end-up being more than $50 below their store cost, I'm surprised they didn't tell you to take a flying-leap....

K-squared- Yeah, when I was talking to the CSR chick she was telling me that I would have to be wrung up the new price and I was better off with my pricematch from before. I told her that I got that 79.99 price from pricematching COMPUSA 1-2 weeks ago. Then I explained to her that I wasn't even trying to get cash back but I just wanted to get a new receipt so I could mail out the rebate forms. Then she kept trying to sound smart while she was talking to me. I then asked to speak to her manager who then finally just gave me the instant rebate. I was very shocked like I said just because I had no intention of getting 100 dollars back instantly.

 

[cobo]

Has any one else tried to get their Circuit City reciept reissued for the MIR - successfully or not, I'm looking for tips.