A couple of Fry's Black Friday Deals

[PandaBear]

Man, my HD order from outpost got cancelled too. Damn, it makes me feel like I just lost the lottery by 1 number.

 

[audscott]

ilsonville, OR Fry's was a living nightmare.....the line snaked through the entire store.

Good patr: The Maxtor 80 Gig *MB cache drives, which I was told were OOS, but rebates available, were plentiful.

I took two and "slithered" to the registers, where I was informed "one drive per person...." I guess I looked pretty pitiful, as the young girl quickly recanted and rang both drives up, but at separate registers and under separate names, so memory, rebates and all are intact.

All in all, it wasn't all that bad.

 

[geckojohn]

Hey Dan, did you go today?

 

[El Norm]

hehe i feel you guys who stood in that line today, it was horrible. I actually work as a HP rep so I had to be there, but i managed to pick up on the lcd monitor deal. I really don't know too much about it but it seemed to be a good deal so i jumped on it.

It was pretty funny tho, a fight almost broke out because one person supposedly cut in line (which i don't know the details off), but it was funny and all i could think of in my head was "holiday spirit" while a guy was yelling "no way your getting in front of me!!" just really funny how people can be such asses right after thanksgiving.

anyways, is this monitor worth keeping at all, or maybe even selling? Its the GEM flatpanel 15.1 inch, I already have a SONY E200 17 inch at home but i thought this would make having network games a lot easier. If anyone has any feedback or anything about this monitor i'd really appreciate it.


BTW, in the middle of this post i increased the refresh rate to 75 hertz and big diffrence!!

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: taoofbean
Fry's is the brothel of the electronics universe, and I feel oh so dirty.

I went there to the Oregon store at about 5pm and the place was a freaking zoo just like everywhere else. Jesus christ, is everyone in America fat? I wandered around and found that they sold 650 of those FAR cases today in about one hour. There was also two fights in the store, not sure if they were fist fights or yelling matches between dorks. Nothing that seemed of any value to me was left in stock, although they did have killer deals on 120 gig WDSE drives ($90) and lots of drives. I thought I would stroll through the Aisles and pick through the detritus that people cast aside on their waiy to the registers, and I found a 64 meg FAR pocket drive. Sh!t, after an hour and a half in line listening to dorks argue about how this was or wasn't the biggest line at Fry's ever, I am home again.


Ishmael

hehe fat? i guess just in oregon, i mostly saw skinny nerds in california



is it me or are the cig@r 64mb flash mem usb things kinda brittle feeling? feels likei could shatter it easily sorta, so no keychain for it!

 

[oLLie]

Could someone please PM or email me the link to the Soyo Case rebate? All I got was some that is for $15... THAT BETTER NOT BE IT :|!

Thanks in advance, buds!

 

[vladgur]

Well, I got pretty lucky. Frys Palo Alto was much better in terms of crowding than Fremont from what I hear. In any case, I planed my purchases very well and so As soon as I got in(was in line at 6:45am, got in at 7:00am) I grabbed FREE computer case, 6-in-1 reader, CDRW, modem, surge protector, and $49.99 hard drive and free ram and $19.99 CompactFlash and headed back for the checkout line, the whole shopping before checkout was no more than $15 minutes.... I saw people grabbing 2-3 hard drives and cdrws even though rebates were one per household....not nice.....

In any case, my wait to get to the checkout was like 10 minutes, then at the checkout it was like 30-40 minutes. THe cashier lady spoke very little english. She took a while to bring me the rebates and fortunately I decided to go through the rebates and see if she picked the right ones and naturally she brought a couple of wrong ones and forgot a couple of others, so I had to stand there and have her run back and forth to bring me the right rebates.... I was out of there by 8:00, went to Officemax in Redwood city where I scored a $19.99 printer and some more FAR stuff.

All in all, I spend about $400 and have about $300 in rebates coming....

 

[oLLie]

Originally posted by: oLLie
Could someone please PM or email me the link to the Soyo Case rebate? All I got was some that is for $15... THAT BETTER NOT BE IT :|!

Thanks in advance, buds!

Anybody have it or have a link to it online?

 

[spinn]

Fry's handed out rainchecks for the Maxtor HD and memory, and now they're sayin' they can't honor the $80 rebate. Gotta wait for another rebate to come along before using the raincheck.

 

[nerdherd]

To the poeple that got in on the Maxtor HD deal, did you guys send in both rebate forms to one address? the lady at Fry's told me to just send them in in one envelope. After looking at my copies, I notice that they go to different po boxes. Damn, I hope they don't deny the rebastes.

da nerdster

 

[0roo0roo]

yes i mustknow too.. gotta send mine soon i bet

 

[spinn]

I just noticed, while filling out rebate forms today, that the 64MB CigarPro USB Drives rebate needed to be postmarked yesterday...Dec. 5! DAMN THEM! Looks like I'll be returning a few more items.

 

[SuperTool]

Question about Norcent CDRW rebate.
I got the $39.99 rebate from black friday.
There is also another $30 rebate on rebateshq.com
Are those rebates stackable?

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: spinn
I just noticed, while filling out rebate forms today, that the 64MB CigarPro USB Drives rebate needed to be postmarked yesterday...Dec. 5! DAMN THEM! Looks like I'll be returning a few more items.

are you sure? damn!!!!!

would they really nitpick over 1 -2 days?

its not like the reciept has the wrong date