Describe the 'Hot Deal Center" that you've been to in person

[DealyDo]

I bet this will be locked but I give it a shot in the spirit that it will enhance the "Hot Deal" brothers out there. I saw this in another post and was enlightened and can use this type of info on future hot deal purchases. I bought some items from Compgeeks and have returned some stuff. Please post a short description of the deal site/sites that you've inspected on a visit.

Axiontech, Houston, Texas:

Last year it was a small corner warehouse witha walkin room (12x12) with a window and a bunch of items stuck on the shelves and a xerox copy of the website so you could order at the window. They now have moved three buildings over, bigger warehouse and larger sales room (12x30). More out to see, more people there in the warehouse. Nice glass case where they mount motherboards and processors in the sales lobby.



Here's the description from the other post on Compgeeks:



<< It's in a nice industrial park, they moved there last year I think. It's not really a store - for a &quot;will call&quot; pickup, you go in a little office at the end. They have 4 or 5 chairs in a waiting area, and 2 computers, each next to a window like at a doctor's office. To order, you use the computers and go to the compgeek.com's web site! Just select &quot;will call&quot; shipping for pick-up, turn and pay the nice lady at the window, then wait 10 or 15 minutes. >>

 

[gsaldivar]

WTF is this???

 

[badluck]

heh

 

[pen^2]

I believe a post of this nature would belong to Moan &amp; Brag thread which is just two slots up ahead

 

[Mangos]

maybe i'm just too tired or something...i don't get it.

 

[hardwarejunkee]

??? Is this an Ad for Them? Perhaps we should get paid for reading it?

 

[icup]

I think this is a good thread. It is for people who live by online retail places. They will descibe what kind of place it is and what it looks like. I guess it doesnt belong here but you can get an idea of what kind of places we are dealing with.

 

[dOrKuS]

?

 

[soupwizard]

I get it - I wrote the part about compgeeks.com mentioned above. We know of these hot deal places as some web site, but they are all located *somewhere* in physical space. I happen to live 5 or so miles from both compgeeks.com's place of business and pc power &amp; cooling's place (www.pcpowercooling.com).

I also live about 6 miles from one of supergo's stores (www.supergo.com) - a big mail order bicycle place. I'd bought stuff from the web site before, but when I moved out to San Diego I was just driving around and was suprised to see a SuperGo sign at a local strip mall - it was weird to see a physical place, when I was used to thinking of Supergo as this great web site.

It's like when I was living in North Virginia near DC - I'd see the US Capitol or the White House on the TV news, and in the back of my mind I'd think &quot;far away place where laws are made&quot;, when in reality that live report was taking place 11 miles away from where I was sitting.

 

[perfectlysane]

ummm, yeah. how about that off topic thread.

 

[soupwizard]

Ummm, yeaaah.... I'd like you to come in on Saturday... and move this topic to the Off Topic Forum. Yeaaah.

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