Just received my BF ad from W-M and was somewhat disappointed. Polaroid 15" LCD TV for about $198 and HP notebook for $488 or so. Then checked another store about 30 miles away. Their price was $178 on the LCD and $378 on the notebook! From what I remember the specds were ther same. I think I could drive that far to save over $100.
Edited to brag:
I have my own bragging to do. I, thank goodness, missed the notebook. I say thank goodness because they had an Emachine desktop that was loaded with 512 meg ram, AMD 3000+ 64 bit or whatever processor (was not an AMD person so am not familiar with how they are named), dvd/rw, 80 gig drive, good video card, and 17" flat screen monitor that was priced at a markdowned price of $500. I asked if they would match the price of the one at Best Buy that had a lower speed processor, 256 meg ram, lower level video card, and only a cd/rw (as I recall) that Best Buy had priced at 149 with very few per store. The person I asked at 5 a.m. said no, so i went on my way. Later I went back through and the asst mgr was helping some guy who asked if they would pricematch. They had 2 in stock and I put my hand on one as he made up his mind. He said he would do it!!! Then the fart who asked said he would take both and I said the hell you will, so we about got into a fist fight. Turned out they had 3, so the greedy bastrd took two. But, what a machine for 149!
Moral: Do not assume prices are the same from store to store.
Now the ad includes a 42" plasma for $997.
Correction to post:
Talked to local Wal-Mart and they said there were many pricing mistakes made in the circulars. They have corrected prices in the computer and all stores will supposedly charge the same, so the notebook should be $378 everywhere it is available and so forth.
Edited to brag:
I have my own bragging to do. I, thank goodness, missed the notebook. I say thank goodness because they had an Emachine desktop that was loaded with 512 meg ram, AMD 3000+ 64 bit or whatever processor (was not an AMD person so am not familiar with how they are named), dvd/rw, 80 gig drive, good video card, and 17" flat screen monitor that was priced at a markdowned price of $500. I asked if they would match the price of the one at Best Buy that had a lower speed processor, 256 meg ram, lower level video card, and only a cd/rw (as I recall) that Best Buy had priced at 149 with very few per store. The person I asked at 5 a.m. said no, so i went on my way. Later I went back through and the asst mgr was helping some guy who asked if they would pricematch. They had 2 in stock and I put my hand on one as he made up his mind. He said he would do it!!! Then the fart who asked said he would take both and I said the hell you will, so we about got into a fist fight. Turned out they had 3, so the greedy bastrd took two. But, what a machine for 149!
Moral: Do not assume prices are the same from store to store.
Now the ad includes a 42" plasma for $997.
Correction to post:
Talked to local Wal-Mart and they said there were many pricing mistakes made in the circulars. They have corrected prices in the computer and all stores will supposedly charge the same, so the notebook should be $378 everywhere it is available and so forth.
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