Very, very hot....PC for $69.99

[Howlin]

Check this out from Best Buy....
Intel® Celeron? processor 600MHz
66MHz frontside bus for a powerful CPU-to-memory connection
32MB SDRAM for multitasking power
10.0GB hard drive
40x maximum CD-ROM drive
Intel® Direct AGP 3D (810 shared) video card for crisp graphics
V.90 high-speed fax modem
EZ Internet keyboard with 19 hot keys
2 USB, 1 serial and 1 parallel port, and 1 gameport
Stereo speakers
Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition included
Intel, the Intel Inside logo, Pentium are registered trademarks and Pentium III Xeon, Pentium II Xeon, Celeron, MMX are trademarks of Intel Corporation.

Here's the deal. Originally $714.99 -$100 Best Buy instant savings - $75 emachines mail-in rebate - $20 monitor mail in rebate - $40 Printer Bundle Mail-in rebate - $10 package savings = $469.99 - $400 MSN Instant rebate (if you sign with them for 3 years) = $69.99
There were some other really great deals too. You can also up the ram with a 64 meg stick for $69.99 - $30 instant memory rebate - $39.99 mail in rebate = FREE.

Sorry, the lousy newbie here doesn't have a good link for it yet. Found it in the flyer....I'll post one later when I find it.

 

[XzeroR3]

eww msn rebate!

 

[syber321]

In the desc, you should mention the deal is with 3 years of MSN Internet Service.... Personally, I wouldn't touch MSN's Internet Service w/ a really long stick.

 

[Ranger X]

Wow, as a power user, I cringe when I hear the word "e-Machine" and after reading those specs. Sorry, that's just me.

 

[Maverick319]

Do the math, $21.95 a month for 36 months = $790.20. Plus your $69.99 Equals $860.19. If you cancel within the three year period you have to pay the 400 bucks back. Get yourself a $799.99 Dell or Gateway deal and get a BROADBAND connection. I just moved from a small town in Nebraska and they had ADSL available last summer. I now live in NC and have a cable modem. Miss my Modem much, F--k NO.

 

[MontyBurns]

When you factor in the Internet access, your total cost is $860.19 ($790.20 for MSN, and $69.99 for the computer). Get a Dell or Gateway $799 system; you'll be far better off.

This has got to be one of the worst ways to buy a new computer.


EDIT: Wow, spooky maverick....

 

[Milkyman]

<< 32MB SDRAM for multitasking power >>


that is just soooo funny

 

[wjones]

When i saw the title, i thought another misprice again. Until the last part....MSN rebate
I was looking for a CHEAP pc system for my friend. I checked out the www.myfavoritepc.com $299 deal but they looks like closing the store.

 

[db]

Friends don't let friends buy a computer with a MSN rebate--
that's why when my boss said he was doing this, I said *nothing*...

 

[GetInMyFatBelly]

Think about it, you sign up for 3 years of MSN and in a year or so a majority will be getting cable or DSL, you get to pay $400 or pay for your DSL/Cable line and your MSN line. This is not a deal!!!

 

[IronTek]

Alright...I too have my flame thrower ready:

MSN 3 year deals aren't deals AT ALL!!!

 

[Maverick319]

Great minds think alike Monty Burns!

 

[noxipoo]

yeah the MSN deal sucks, they push it for everything you buy. I bought 2 cell phones from best buy and the sales guy tried to push MSN on me. I said i have dsl and don't want MSN, he actually told me to get it and wait for MSN's dsl service to become availble. He said hes waiting now and will have it in 6 months. With my previous dealing with dsl i wouldn't cancel my owkring dsl to wait for MSN's if you held a gun up to my head. I laughed in his face and told him to give me the phones.

humm cancel dsl, sign up on a 3 year contract on dialup with msn with possibility to get dsl later for more.
or
get the stuff i went there for and get out and keep my dsl. tough choice my sales man

 

[jblondi]

brrrrrrrr.....its cold in this thread. Not hot at all.

 

[SuperRob]

You guys make me laugh.

You don't have to use MSN dialup ... they have ASDL also. (Or at least, they claim to.) Check into it.

Oh, and you don't have to pay the $400 back no matter when you cancel. It's prorated based on how long you kept it.

 

[Chatterjee]

retarded deal

 

[randomlinh]

computers still come w/ 32MB of RAM!?!?!?!

BTW, broadband still not available to me.. and i live in the DC metro area!!!!

Well, lemme rephrase that, cable is one way gay (and i don't know for if it reaches.. waiting for comcast to finish &quot;upgrading&quot; after they bought local cable co).

and DSL is only 144/144 IDSL for $70/mon.... uhhhhh.. YEAH......

 

[GMaximus]

I cant get broadband either and im in the middle of Silicon Valley!

 

[Gosseyn]

On the other hand, if one were to get MSN DSL service (or MSN 2-Way Satellite service through StarBand/Gilat2Home), apparently MSN *does* consider either of those to be valid fulfillment of the n-year commitment for the MSN Instant Rebate...

Considering that right now I'm paying zero -- zippo -- nada -- for my Telocity DSL connection, thanks to my employer... if I were, God forbid, to make use of the MSN Instant Rebate and sign up for their DSL service (which around these parts is provided by Ameritech), I'd get my employer to subsidize it fully, and end up walking away with $400 for free.

...nah, too much trouble.

 

[Unclemo]

Hey morons... it does have broadband.. see...
&quot;V.90 high-speed fax modem&quot;

 

[Seizure]

MSN rebate = Suck.

If you do the math, it's 400 Rebate. but you have to sign up with them for 3 years. I think it's like 19.99 a month. So 36 months * 19.99 = 719.64. That's not a very good tradeoff. At the end they still make $300 off of you. So the PC will actually be $369.99 for an Obsolete system.

 

[sweetca]

he gets it

 

[FatDragonn]

>>BTW, broadband still not available to me.. and i live in the DC metro >>area!!!!

lnguyen,

i'm surprised, dsl is not available in DC yet. i'm in northern VA, and i've had dsl from bellatlantic, i guess verizon now, for little over a year now. i had to wait 3 months for it, but it's been pretty good most of the time when they're not doing maintenance and shut you out.

======
MSN supposedly will have broadband access soon. when that happens it'll be worth it cause dsl or cable modem access will be provided to MSN subscribers through local lines (pacbell, verizon, comcast, etc) anyhow.

you don't have to look at MSN's crap in which they call contents.

 

[Colrenea]

One thing to keep in mind on these MSN deals, most of the people taking advantage of it are the AOL users and others who are already paying 21.95 or more for their internet connection. So to these people, paying 21.95 for MSN to save $400 isn't that big of a deal. I don't think too many people looking for broadband or getting free internet connections are using this deal, as it's really not geared for them.

 

[stonythug]

can you please edit the title from &quot;Very, very hot...&quot; to &quot;Ice cold crappy deal w/ripoff MSN rebate&quot;. That rebate has no business being any where near a thread with the title hot in it.