COMPUSA Family and Friends on 6/25/05 until 1p.m

[Noghri2112]

I just received this from a friend who has a family member that works at Compusa. Looks like CompUSA is have a Family/Friends deal on Saturday June 25th until 1p.m. You can get an item for Cost+5% or Cost+10% depending on the item.

Here is link on CompUSA's own website for PDF:
http://image.compusa.com/retail/collateral/34001_625National.pdf (taken from FW poster)

This is cut/paste from the PDF file he sent me:

The prices on our hottest products will be only 5% more than our cost?!
Qualifying products include: desktops, notebooks, Apple® desktops & notebooks, digital cameras, digital camcorders, printers & PDAs.
Cost?+5%


The prices on our hottest TVs and Home Audio products will be only 10% more than our cost?!
Cost?+10%

All you have to do is print out this flyer and bring it in!
Saturday, June 25. Offers good ?til 1pm!

Plus, the first 100 purchases will receive
$100 in FREE Dining Coupons INSTANTLY!
Dining Coupons Are Good for Dinner Out, Flowers, Candy & More!
Dining coupon offer not valid in Puerto Rico. Certain restrictions apply.
See store, compusa.com/friendsandfamily or goodguys.com/friendsandfamily for details.

DISCLAIMER: ?This flyer must be presented at the time of purchase to receive discount. Item will be priced at the register based on company cost. If our retail price is already lower than cost +5% on desktops, notebooks, Apple® desktops and notebooks, digital cameras, digital camcorders, printers or PDAs, customer gets the lower price. If our retail price is already lower than cost + 10% on TVs or home audio products, customer gets the lower price. Offers not valid towards the purchase of TAP, ESP, custom installation, training, technical services and Gift Cards. Offers may not be combined with any other offer. Offer excludes all accessories and all Bose, Alpine, Mitsubishi and Velodyne products. Home audio products include audio components, home theater systems and home DVD recorders. Retail customers only. Not available via mail order or online. Quantities limited to stock on hand. Offer good Saturday, June 25, from store opening until 1pm at all CompUSA, Good Guys and CompUSA Good Guys Megastore locations. No special orders. No rain checks except in Connecticut, Michigan and Ohio. See store for details. NOTE: We reserve the right to limit quantities. Any typographical, photographic or other errors are subject to correction. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

 

[loup garou]

hmm...wonder what cost on a Olevia LCD TV is...

 

[pkananen]

Just remember that on many items, margin is like 7% anyway.

 

[fbrdphreak]

If they ACTUALLY offer cost+5/10% (and it will most likely be highest cost over past 6-12 months), it will be good for accessories only. retailers make jack on the hardware itself (towers, laptops, etc)
Not too hot IMO, but if they offer real cost you can get USB & network cables for a couple bucks

 

[Atomics]

Ah, I remember my days at CompUSSR (back before someone made up that name). A $29.99 printer cable had a cost of $1.67. What a margin.

 

[bjc112]

Originally posted by: Atomics
Ah, I remember my days at CompUSSR (back before someone made up that name). A $29.99 printer cable had a cost of $1.67. What a margin.

They still do.

I believe a 6FT cable @ 21.99 is like $1.50 @ cost..

Ethernet is the same.

 

[PaidLess]

do you guys know if videocards work!?

 

[PING]

Do we really have to know someone that works at CompUSA or as long we have the flyer we'll get the discount? Very much like Friends and Family weekend of OfficeMax.

Thanks

 

[BBock7271]

anyone can do this? whats the markup on tvs?

 

[Traire]

Originally posted by: Noghri2112
DISCLAIMER: ?This flyer must be presented at the time of purchase to receive discount. Item will be priced at the register based on company cost. If our retail price is already lower than cost +5% on desktops, notebooks, Apple® desktops and notebooks, digital cameras, digital camcorders, printers or PDAs, customer gets the lower price. If our retail price is already lower than cost + 10% on TVs or home audio products, customer gets the lower price. Offers not valid towards the purchase of TAP, ESP, custom installation, training, technical services and Gift Cards. Offers may not be combined with any other offer. Offer excludes all accessories and all Bose, Alpine, Mitsubishi and Velodyne products. Home audio products include audio components, home theater systems and home DVD recorders. Retail customers only. Not available via mail order or online. Quantities limited to stock on hand. Offer good Saturday, June 25, from store opening until 1pm at all CompUSA, Good Guys and CompUSA Good Guys Megastore locations. No special orders. No rain checks except in Connecticut, Michigan and Ohio. See store for details. NOTE: We reserve the right to limit quantities. Any typographical, photographic or other errors are subject to correction. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

 

[cyrax78]

Well then, that's that lol. The cable thing is definitely true though. Microcenter used to always have 86%-95% off sales on cables (don't know what happened with that). I got all of my USB2 and ethernet cables there. I guess now that it's becoming more popular than Best Buy and CompUSA, they don't need to give the discounts anymore. But they could definitely sell that low without losing money since they offered them for like at least two years if I remember correctly.

 

[Kipper]

Well, crap. I just bought my Apple laptop.

 

[pkananen]

Originally posted by: Kipper
Well, crap. I just bought my Apple laptop.

don't worry, margin is like 5% on them anyway, so it would be pretty much the same price.

 

[Davinci]

does anybody knows what's the typical margins on the laptops ? I wonder if I will be able to find good deals there.

 

[Glendor]

Originally posted by: Kipper
Well, crap. I just bought my Apple laptop.

My condolenses.

Oh, I get it! You mean that you bought it BEFORE the discount...

 

[RossMAN]

ttt

 

[MazerRackham]

What do you guys think the margin is on things like speakers? I'd like to get a 7.1 set or a nice 5.1 (energy or polk or something). What is the markup over cost to begin with on items like that? Are speakers considered accessories?

 

[Gigantopithecus]

Bose & Alpine products don't qualify; I don't know if that leaves other speakers that qualify. I'm betting they'll tell you computer speakers are accessories.

 

[michec]

You should be able to get a decent deal on digital cameras. If Dell can have 20% or more discount coupons for digital cameras and add in a stackable coupon on top of that, the margins for digital cameras have to be pretty good.

 

[Spacecomber]

Hmmm, I wonder about PC games. Anyone have any ideas on those?

Edit: As i reread the flyer, I'm guessing these aren't covered. So, never mind.

Space

 

[AlWella]

I doubt their margin is so low. I saw the BFG 6600GT OC at my local CompUSA and it was retailing for $250 two days ago when I picked up BF2. I know that card is only $170~$185 their cost as of MAY 05 (my best friend works at a large computer hardware distribution company) and told me about their cost as of MAY, a month before the launch of the 7800GTX so I doubt that their actual "COSTs" are still that high. I will be at thier store tomorrow morning and see if they really do indeed offer "COST" + 5/10% on the Video Card I want and other parts. We'll see how it goes.

 

[imported_Mike]

Originally posted by: AlWella
I doubt their margin is so low. I saw the BFG 6600GT OC at my local CompUSA and it was retailing for $250 two days ago when I picked up BF2. I know that card is only $170~$185 their cost as of MAY 05 (my best friend works at a large computer hardware distribution company) and told me about their cost as of MAY, a month before the launch of the 7800GTX so I doubt that their actual "COSTs" are still that high. I will be at thier store tomorrow morning and see if they really do indeed offer "COST" + 5/10% on the Video Card I want and other parts. We'll see how it goes.

You're forgetting that their "cost" is not actually "cost"

 

[MrChipMuthabored]

Anyone have an idea of the type of markup on Monster Cables? I'm looking to pick up some component cables but they seem really expensive. Thanks.

Edit - Nevermind, only TVs and Home Audio items.

 

[AlWella]

Originally posted by: CheapArse

Originally posted by: AlWella
I doubt their margin is so low. I saw the BFG 6600GT OC at my local CompUSA and it was retailing for $250 two days ago when I picked up BF2. I know that card is only $170~$185 their cost as of MAY 05 (my best friend works at a large computer hardware distribution company) and told me about their cost as of MAY, a month before the launch of the 7800GTX so I doubt that their actual "COSTs" are still that high. I will be at thier store tomorrow morning and see if they really do indeed offer "COST" + 5/10% on the Video Card I want and other parts. We'll see how it goes.

You're forgetting that their "cost" is not actually "cost"

99% of me believes you, 1% of me would like to believes their cost will be an "Actual Product COST from Manufacturer + Their Processing Cost + Operations Cost + Marketing Cost + other BS Cost you can possibly think of = a Price lower than their Full Retail but still far from the "ACTUAL COST"

If that so called "COST" is in my ball park, I just might act on it.

But woulnd't this be considered "False Advertisement?" I guess they can get away with it since they did not specify what cost....

Let's see how it goes...

 

[AlWella]

BFG 6600GT OC PCI-E at CompuUSA "COST" $203 + 5% = $213.15 + 8.25% Tax = $230.73

Hot? NOT!

Can get it at Monarch for $223 + Free Game and NO CA SALES TAX!