I'm on this like white on rice. But I have 100 bucks in store credit/giftcards, so it's going to be 189 + tax for me.
"110% Pricematching" is a crappy term. It SHOULD be "100% + 10% of the 100%." 110% sounds like the bullsh*t phrase "we're working for YOU." Stupid retailspeak.
THUS, since the difference is roughly 100 bucks, you get an additional 10 bucks off for a total cost of 289.99 before tax. Sufficed to say, BB isn't going to be convinced this is for a school system. This baby's going in my main system. 128MB of frame buffer will be fine until next March.
I'm also probably going to buy tonight and PM tomorrow.
I figure a Radeon 9700 Pro (especially one for so cheap in my case) will do me for AT LEAST the next year and a half (until the first DX9 games are scheduled to hit), and for 189 (for me and my XMas credit) it's a good deal - hell, I might just buy one of those silent ZM-80A Zalman coolers from SVC. I *WAS* saving the credit up for a GF FX (before I realized how much they sucked/*blew*), or a Radeon 9900 Pro - just a reminder for those NOT "in the know": the next graphics card from ATI will be the Radeon 9800 Pro/non-Pro, and it'll be announced mid-March. The Radeon 9900 Pro will follow somewhat thereafter, still having the R350 chip, only packing 256MB of DDR-1. There is no DDR-2 on the horizon for ATI until the R400 chipset sometime near the end of the year/early 2004.
Anyone know if there are any valid 10% off PC peripheral coupons out? There is ONE "$10 giftcard for a 50 dollar purchase" coupon out, but BB has always been stingy with the "PM + Coupon" thing. Never hurts to try, though.
If worse comes to worse, Circuit City has REALLY cleaned up their act from a few years ago. If you guys don't mind paying 289.99, I'm sure they'd knock an extra 10 bucks off the price if you made a fuss you could pricematch elsewhere. 289 in their pockets is better than 289 in a competitor's pocket, speaking corporatively.