Best Buy clearing out their stock of old computers still!

[geoffkin]

Went with my GF and she bought this one on Sunday, open box at Best Buy. Not a scratch on it. Was $599 with a $50 GC thrown in for open box status.

We bought the $250 3-year warranty which we plan to return tomorrow, so they took another $100 off the computer.

So she should get it for $499, with $50 GC + Tax + Reward Points. Good deal??

She'll just be using it for WORD, surf the NET and watch movies, take on trips.

BestBuy.com offers the Gateway MX3417 Turion 64 2GHz 14" Widescreen Notebook It features a Mobile AMD Turion 64 MK-36 2GHz processor, 14.1" 1280x800 widescreen LCD, 1GB RAM, 80GB hard drive, dual-layer DVD/CD burner, 802.11g wireless, memory card reader, and Windows XP Media Center Edition. (They'll mail her a free Vista upgrade) Weighs only 5.25 lbs with battery installed!

 

[EKKC]

in for 5!

 

[geoffkin]

HAHA. They really are in a hurry to get rid of all current computers, as Vista computers go on sale later this week. Go in store, you never know what deal you can find/make!

She has 2 weeks to decide on this deal, can return with no problem.

 

[aimanzym]

yeah, all vista computers are coming out, they need to clear it. intereting to take a look at those. thx

 

[coolzero16]

yeh i work at best buy. going to work every day ive almost bought a laptop. They have 12inch sony/toshiba laptops with core 2 duos and 1gb of memory with all the standard bells and whistles for 700ish

lots of single core or core duo centinros for 600 too.

 

[pandaman1784]

What are the going prices for desktops?

 

[bhyma]

in for 6

 

[geoffkin]

So for her, the one she got for $450 is probably a better deal, than spending more on one of the duo machines, right?

 

[thegimp03]

$450 for that laptop is probably a great deal for her.

 

[intogamer]

came back from BB saw some open box items.... didn't check out pcs.... tempted for a lappy

 

[herkulease]

best buy at blossom hill and mccarthy ranch was either cleaned out or bb took everything away with one a few things. they have the signs replaces with vista stuff.

 

[geoffkin]

Funny, my company is right off Blossom Hill! We bought her laptop at closing time last night, at the 237/880 Best Buy. She lives near the EL Camino store, so we are going to check there tonight and return the extended warranty at least, if we don't find an even better deal!

For $40 they offered to 'speed up' the computer by taking all the excess programs off of it for us. Said it would boot up a lot faster that way and showed us 2 computers boot up as examples of before and after. You'd think they'd do this for you for FREE and want to win customers... No Worst Buy wants to take all the bucks from you! I don't feel bad at all returning their bogus '3-year' warranty.

 

[Bobartig]

Its good to hear you were able to return the 3 year warranty, Geoffkin. I know that some stores sell their warranties as a service, which is a contract and cannot be returned.

 

[LukeMan]

I stopped at BB after work and there was only 2 open item laptops left, gateways, for $800+ each.

 

[Teyanhung]

Originally posted by: geoffkin
Funny, my company is right off Blossom Hill! We bought her laptop at closing time last night, at the 237/880 Best Buy. She lives near the EL Camino store, so we are going to check there tonight and return the extended warranty at least, if we don't find an even better deal!

For $40 they offered to 'speed up' the computer by taking all the excess programs off of it for us. Said it would boot up a lot faster that way and showed us 2 computers boot up as examples of before and after. You'd think they'd do this for you for FREE and want to win customers... No Worst Buy wants to take all the bucks from you! I don't feel bad at all returning their bogus '3-year' warranty.

"bogus"? Are they forcing you to buy it? They should do it for free to win customers? Tell me this, how long did the initial boot up take on your gf's new notebook? Add on top of that the time it takes to get all the windows updates you're missing. And then multiply that by every single pc/notebook purchased at BestBuy. How mch labor do you think would go into that? It'd be stupid on BestBuy's part to not charge for that kind of service.

FYI a pc optimization from BestBuy includes the removal of any/all trial software on pc, all windows updates/patches, registry tweaks, and removing unnecessary programs from startup.

 

[bingsoo]

Originally posted by: Teyanhung

Originally posted by: geoffkin
Funny, my company is right off Blossom Hill! We bought her laptop at closing time last night, at the 237/880 Best Buy. She lives near the EL Camino store, so we are going to check there tonight and return the extended warranty at least, if we don't find an even better deal!

For $40 they offered to 'speed up' the computer by taking all the excess programs off of it for us. Said it would boot up a lot faster that way and showed us 2 computers boot up as examples of before and after. You'd think they'd do this for you for FREE and want to win customers... No Worst Buy wants to take all the bucks from you! I don't feel bad at all returning their bogus '3-year' warranty.

"bogus"? Are they forcing you to buy it? They should do it for free to win customers? Tell me this, how long did the initial boot up take on your gf's new notebook? Add on top of that the time it takes to get all the windows updates you're missing. And then multiply that by every single pc/notebook purchased at BestBuy. How mch labor do you think would go into that? It'd be stupid on BestBuy's part to not charge for that kind of service.

FYI a pc optimization from BestBuy includes the removal of any/all trial software on pc, all windows updates/patches, registry tweaks, and removing unnecessary programs from startup.

Sounds like a big waste of money to pay for that service... :shrug:

 

[ImDonly1]

I hear FireDog (Circuit City) is 1/2 as expensive as Best Buy, at least for dianosing/fixing. Best Buy does it for like $120. FireDog does it for $60.

 

[mztykal]

Circuit City techs suck.

 

[Linflas]

Originally posted by: bingsoo

Originally posted by: Teyanhung

Originally posted by: geoffkin
Funny, my company is right off Blossom Hill! We bought her laptop at closing time last night, at the 237/880 Best Buy. She lives near the EL Camino store, so we are going to check there tonight and return the extended warranty at least, if we don't find an even better deal!

For $40 they offered to 'speed up' the computer by taking all the excess programs off of it for us. Said it would boot up a lot faster that way and showed us 2 computers boot up as examples of before and after. You'd think they'd do this for you for FREE and want to win customers... No Worst Buy wants to take all the bucks from you! I don't feel bad at all returning their bogus '3-year' warranty.

"bogus"? Are they forcing you to buy it? They should do it for free to win customers? Tell me this, how long did the initial boot up take on your gf's new notebook? Add on top of that the time it takes to get all the windows updates you're missing. And then multiply that by every single pc/notebook purchased at BestBuy. How mch labor do you think would go into that? It'd be stupid on BestBuy's part to not charge for that kind of service.

FYI a pc optimization from BestBuy includes the removal of any/all trial software on pc, all windows updates/patches, registry tweaks, and removing unnecessary programs from startup.

Sounds like a big waste of money to pay for that service... :shrug:

I never heard of this until yesterday when I was showing some guy laptop prices on the Dell website and found that they now charge $10.00 to not install the junk trial software. What a joke.

 

[BadThad]

Originally posted by: Linflas

Originally posted by: bingsoo

Originally posted by: Teyanhung

Originally posted by: geoffkin
Funny, my company is right off Blossom Hill! We bought her laptop at closing time last night, at the 237/880 Best Buy. She lives near the EL Camino store, so we are going to check there tonight and return the extended warranty at least, if we don't find an even better deal!

For $40 they offered to 'speed up' the computer by taking all the excess programs off of it for us. Said it would boot up a lot faster that way and showed us 2 computers boot up as examples of before and after. You'd think they'd do this for you for FREE and want to win customers... No Worst Buy wants to take all the bucks from you! I don't feel bad at all returning their bogus '3-year' warranty.

"bogus"? Are they forcing you to buy it? They should do it for free to win customers? Tell me this, how long did the initial boot up take on your gf's new notebook? Add on top of that the time it takes to get all the windows updates you're missing. And then multiply that by every single pc/notebook purchased at BestBuy. How mch labor do you think would go into that? It'd be stupid on BestBuy's part to not charge for that kind of service.

FYI a pc optimization from BestBuy includes the removal of any/all trial software on pc, all windows updates/patches, registry tweaks, and removing unnecessary programs from startup.

Sounds like a big waste of money to pay for that service... :shrug:

I never heard of this until yesterday when I was showing some guy laptop prices on the Dell website and found that they now charge $10.00 to not install the junk trial software. What a joke.

LOL, indeed. I spend about 2 hours getting rid of the garbage that ships with any commercial PC/laptop. Dell is about the worst one out there, they have more garbage loading at startup than any other.

 

[texasfury]

radio edit

 

[oogabooga]

went to a bestbuy in socal, their notebook section was empty save three laptops that had vista loaded on them already... the store was the Irvine store on Jamboree, might try going to a different BB later on the way home, but at the moment i doubt there will be any.

 

[tealk]

Im in for 7!

 

[shoRunner]

Originally posted by: Bobartig
Its good to hear you were able to return the 3 year warranty, Geoffkin. I know that some stores sell their warranties as a service, which is a contract and cannot be returned.

You can always return the warranty, at any time, if after the 30 days it is prorated.

Originally posted by: ImDonly1
I hear FireDog (Circuit City) is 1/2 as expensive as Best Buy, at least for dianosing/fixing. Best Buy does it for like $120. FireDog does it for $60.

Geek Squad's instore diagnostic is $69

 

[kakarotxiv]

something most of us can do ourselves.




does it include laptops?