First, be aware that the bulbs for projectors are very expensive, short-lived and often hard to find when you need one (buy and keep a spare on-hand). So one needs to make a good economic case for buying a projector before doing it. Unless one is rolling in dough or spending OPM...
. Newegg and many others accept PayPal as a method of payment - you can link your PP acct to your savings and/or checking accts (as well as CC or DebC) for making payments - don't have to use your CC. Just be sure you are dealing with a reputable reseller as you won't necessarily have CC type protections. PP does provide some type of buyer protection so be sure to check their policies. It will take a few days to verify the attachment of savings/checking accounts to your PP acct. as they make small deposits to your acct and you have to report the amounts back before you can use those accts as the "source of funds". I have both my Visa debit card and my checking account connected and it has worked fine for me for quite a few years.
. That can pretty much eliminate any need to deal with the big box stores - unless you want to. Places like Best Buy, CompUSA, Circuit City, Staples, Office Depot/Max, etc. etc. all carry projectors and you can have just as good or bad an experience at any of them. You should have most of them near you. But few if any have the selection of Newegg.
. No B&M store has the selection of Newegg. Office Depot either bought or is connected with in some way what used to be called First Source which was a Newegg style internet reseller. It's called Tech Depot now so you should be able to get anything there delivered to or ordered thru your local store if that's the way you want to go. Fry's with Outpost.com have a newegg style selection too. Almost all of them have more stuff online than in the stores, and vice versa, they occasionally have some stuff in the stores that isn't on line - e.g. the nice Microtek auto form feed scanner that Staples had in their stores but not online.
.bh.
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