I've been salivating over the Epson Perfection 3170, but I'd be damned if I was gonna pay retail. Who the hell does that anymore?
So I waited, and waited, and nary a deal.
This week, it went on sale at Best Buy for full price ($199) plus a mail-in for a $40 gift card. Whooop-dee-doo.
But what be this? An open-box Perfection 3170? But it's only marked down $20!!!
I grab one of the employees I'm in good with. "What can you do for me on this?"
He checks his employee price. $173. This is all of $7 cheaper than I can get it online. "This won't do," he says with a twinkle in his eye.
"Oh?"
"No, no, no. This price is far too high."
He grabs a custom product order form, and writes it out. "I'm gonna take the $40 gift card that you can't get, since this is open box, right off the price."
$139. Out the door.
He rung me up, and as always happens when you ring up an item with a mail-in, the form printed out. We looked it over. "Required: Copy of reciept. This form. Copy of UPC."
COPY of UPC. He looks at it and snickers, hands me the form, and I hurry and run over to the scanner aisle. I grab one of the boxes, run over to the multi-function printers, and quickly copy its UPC.
Sooooo.....
Retail: $199
Open Box: $179
My price: $139 + a $40 gift card.
I rule.
</brag>
So I waited, and waited, and nary a deal.
This week, it went on sale at Best Buy for full price ($199) plus a mail-in for a $40 gift card. Whooop-dee-doo.
But what be this? An open-box Perfection 3170? But it's only marked down $20!!!
I grab one of the employees I'm in good with. "What can you do for me on this?"
He checks his employee price. $173. This is all of $7 cheaper than I can get it online. "This won't do," he says with a twinkle in his eye.
"Oh?"
"No, no, no. This price is far too high."
He grabs a custom product order form, and writes it out. "I'm gonna take the $40 gift card that you can't get, since this is open box, right off the price."
$139. Out the door.
He rung me up, and as always happens when you ring up an item with a mail-in, the form printed out. We looked it over. "Required: Copy of reciept. This form. Copy of UPC."
COPY of UPC. He looks at it and snickers, hands me the form, and I hurry and run over to the scanner aisle. I grab one of the boxes, run over to the multi-function printers, and quickly copy its UPC.
Sooooo.....
Retail: $199
Open Box: $179
My price: $139 + a $40 gift card.
I rule.
</brag>
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