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good electronics retail store

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ShadowBlade

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does anyone know of a good electronic retail store (is there such a thing?) with about the selection of newegg and within $100 of prices?

im wanting to buy a projector, but i cant spend that much on a credit card, so i need a retail store

preferably an hours drive or less from where i am, (zip 49009-7413), but not a requirement
 
Originally posted by: ShadowBlade
does anyone know of a good electronic retail store (is there such a thing?) with about the selection of newegg and within $100 of prices?

im wanting to buy a projector, but i cant spend that much on a credit card, so i need a retail store

preferably an hours drive or less from where i am, (zip 49009-7413), but not a requirement
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I personally like MicroCenter. But I usually buy online because I usually can find much better deals.
Not sure if there is a MicroCenter in your area though.
 
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.
 
Echo Fry's out West. Also - check Costco. They usually have a stock of good value projectors. So does Office Depot, Staples, and Office Max. Likewise, BestBuy!, CompUSA and CircuitCity.
 
Don't buy from circuit city or best buy. I went to circuit city a few days ago and they tried to sell me a laptop with no battery, after I had called them and asked them about it. They had said on the phone that it was just a floor model, but it was actually a return. Never said anything about the lack of a battery on the phone.
 
What does that have to do with shopping for a projector? Actually, I got a good one brom BuyComp.com last fall. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: corkyg
What does that have to do with shopping for a projector? Actually, I got a good one brom BuyComp.com last fall. 🙂
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read the OP
i cant buy online b/c projectors are too expensive
 
Hey SB,
I don't know if you are reading my messages or not, but ALL online vendors worth a darn accept electronic funds transfers in payment - can be done right from your bank with just a couple of items of info from the reseller (bank name, account to credit and their bank's routing number), which the reseller will gladly provide. If you have an account with a credit union, the cost for an EFT can be minimal to none. And there is no cost for the recipient so that may qualify you for a "cash discount"...
. And it isn't hard to get a PayPal account w/o spending limits - I know. At worst you can transfer funds from your bank account into your paypal account until you have enough in there to cover whatever it is you want to buy. There is no way they can keep you from spending your own balance.

There is always a way!

.bh.
 
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