HOT 24x10x40 EXT USB 2.0 Drive 19.99 NO REBATES

[ynotravid]

They just sent me this:

Dear Anthony,

Thank you for placing your order (#XXXXXXXX) with CompUSA.com. Your
order
will begin processing as soon as the information you have provided has
been
verified. You will be notified via e-mail when your order has been
approved.

Thank you for shopping with CompUSA!

The CompUSA Staff

 

[razor2025]

hehe that's their usual auto-confirmation letters, you'll probably get the "Sorry can't sell at $19.99, but would you like to buy it at super-inflated retail price?" letter soon.

 

[MrCodeDude]

I printed out the online page, begged and pleaded for a parent to drive me there, got there, they were on the shelf for $119.99, showed them the ad and they said that I CHANGED THE PRICE!!. Those asses. They also said they couldn't pricematch their own website's prices and if I wanted the Website price I should have done a pickup in-store.
-- mrcodedude

 

[Aagiants]

Originally posted by: MrCodeDude
I printed out the online page, begged and pleaded for a parent to drive me there, got there, they were on the shelf for $119.99, showed them the ad and they said that I CHANGED THE PRICE!!. Those asses. They also said they couldn't pricematch their own website's prices and if I wanted the Website price I should have done a pickup in-store.
-- mrcodedude

call up their asses and complain that they called u a lyet..

 

[TheDon]

Looks like someone cleaned them out. This would have been a smokin' deal

 

[TheDon]

I got in on this same deal. I'm pretty happy with the drive. One thing that I don't like is that it has an external power supply, but the drive works just fine. I've only burned at 12X, but I didn't have any problems burning about 8 discs so far. Not bad for less than $40 AR.

Originally posted by: Hook
Office Max has a Polaroid BurnMax 24x10x40 USB 2.0 CDRW drive in this week's ad for $129.99-$40 IR-$30 MIR=$59.99
(SKU#2014-9910)

Add the Hi-Val 50 CDR spindle ($15-$5 MIR-$10 MIR=free) (SKU#2006-8819) and you can use a $25 off 100 coupon bringing your total down to $34.99 plus tax.

You also get a free audio CD player with purchase of any CD-RW drive this week.

It's a few more $$$ but the deal is for real plus you get an audio CD player and 50 pack of CDRs...

PS. If you don't have a USB 2 port, it'll still work at 6x speed.

 

[ironring]

Don't they have a problem here if they knew the price was wrong on Friday night and did nothing about it? I would hope that anyone that bought one after they knew about the error on the web site and when they finally changed the web site should get one for $19.99. I think once they new about the error on the web site they made a conscious decision to not change it and therefore it was no longer an error. I think we will be having fun with this one.

Originally posted by: normajean
I ordered one too, right before I went to the store, They will definately cancel this one, the clerk at the store said they knew since yesterday about the price mistake, it is supposed to be $119.99.

He said they took them off the shelf because of the mistake and this is 10:15 am. Obviously corp informed them so no go at the store and definately cancelled online orders. Just like the books.oh well, I was going a little crazy with all these cdrw burner deals anyways.

 

[WoofyJr]

For those guys who went to the compusa to try buy cd burner priced (error) at $19.99. You guys shouldn't give up... If it shows the price sign or shelf tag $19.99 as error, they still are requried to sell ya at $19.99 by the law, even though, they said it's error. By the law, they have to sell it and fix the error, they can't agrue with customers. If they pull them out before people sees the price tag, they have the right to say it's error and not sell. If they don't realize that the price is error, they must sell at what the price tag shows or you can file lawsuit for fraud.. Next time, good luck.. ( I m not a lawyer but i can be wrong. corect me if u wish)

 

[seribellum]

Argh! Went in-store to pick up one of these puppies, and actually found one. It wasn't on the shelf but on one of the put-back stock carts. Brought it up to the register and let the nice register girl a printout of the website. She said "no problem" just had to verify that the website actually had that price. Well, the drive was pulled off of the site already (this would be around noon). So, I walked out with nothing. Only if I had gone to the store earlier!! :|

 

[normajean]

Originally posted by: WoofyJr
For those guys who went to the compusa to try buy cd burner priced (error) at $19.99. You guys shouldn't give up... If it shows the price sign or shelf tag $19.99 as error, they still are requried to sell ya at $19.99 by the law, even though, they said it's error. By the law, they have to sell it and fix the error, they can't agrue with customers. If they pull them out before people sees the price tag, they have the right to say it's error and not sell. If they don't realize that the price is error, they must sell at what the price tag shows or you can file lawsuit for fraud.. Next time, good luck.. ( I m not a lawyer but i can be wrong. corect me if u wish)

you're wrong

 

[normajean]

Originally posted by: seribellum
Argh! Went in-store to pick up one of these puppies, and actually found one. It wasn't on the shelf but on one of the put-back stock carts. Brought it up to the register and let the nice register girl a printout of the website. She said "no problem" just had to verify that the website actually had that price. Well, the drive was pulled off of the site already (this would be around noon). So, I walked out with nothing. Only if I had gone to the store earlier!! :|

even though she would have looked on the internet earlier, she still would have to have management key the register, who would have told you it was an error, so don't get to worked up.

 

[CoolTech]

hhahaaaaa

 

[SilentRunning]

Originally posted by: normajean

Originally posted by: WoofyJr
For those guys who went to the compusa to try buy cd burner priced (error) at $19.99. You guys shouldn't give up... If it shows the price sign or shelf tag $19.99 as error, they still are requried to sell ya at $19.99 by the law, even though, they said it's error. By the law, they have to sell it and fix the error, they can't agrue with customers. If they pull them out before people sees the price tag, they have the right to say it's error and not sell. If they don't realize that the price is error, they must sell at what the price tag shows or you can file lawsuit for fraud.. Next time, good luck.. ( I m not a lawyer but i can be wrong. corect me if u wish)

you're wrong

NO, actually he got it pretty much right at least under Kansas law:

83-219 Chapter 83.--WEIGHTS AND MEASURES Article 2.--STANDARDS AND ENFORCEMENT

83-219. Unlawful acts. (a) It shall be unlawful for any owner of a commercial weighing or measuring device:

(16) to charge or attempt to charge, at the time of the sale of an item or commodity, a value which is more than the price which is advertised, posted or quoted;



83-201 Chapter 83.--WEIGHTS AND MEASURES Article 2.--STANDARDS ANDENFORCEMENT

83-201. Definitions. As used in article 2 of chapter 83 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated and K.S.A. 83-502, and amendments thereto:

(a) "Weights and measures" means all commercial weights or measures of every kind, instruments and devices for weighing and measuring, and any appliance and accessories associated with any or all such instruments and devices and any point-of-sale system.

(l) "Point-of-sale system" means any combination of a cash register or other devices, or system, such as a scanner, capable of recovering stored information related to the price or computing the price of any individual item which is sold or offered for sale at retail. A point-of-sale system may also include or be attached or connected to a weighing or measuring device.

(m) "Scanner" means any electronic system that employs a laser-bar code reader to retrieve product identity, price or other information stored in a computer memory.

 

[Atrac]

Now if only we all lived in Kansas.

 

[junthin]

Dang, too bad I missed this deal. Was out shopping during Tax Free weekend.

 

[ynotravid]

Man, I didn't get around to this deal for days. And they still had it posted on their websit. In fact I didn't buy it untill about 1pm today (Sat).

Also my boss new about this and tried to order some yesterday.

My question is, if they new then why didn't they fix the problem? Good advertising?

 

[aphex]

Originally posted by: ynotravid
Man, I didn't get around to this deal for days. And they still had it posted on their websit. In fact I didn't buy it untill about 1pm today (Sat).

Also my boss new about this and tried to order some yesterday.

My question is, if they new then why didn't they fix the problem? Good advertising?

Im sure they dont mind the extra traffic to their site....

 

[funnyusa]

I did jumped in this deal, got one, hopefully they will ship

 

[playa4life]

Went to the store yesterday at around 10:30, had them bring up the price on the AOL computer in there, and he matched it! I showed him the page that says check if it's in stock in your local store, and I showed him the price it says on it, so he said, "I'll let you have it." Now I just go to get a External DVD Burner for this price...

 

[DaFanMan]

too bad they are listed at $119.99 on their website now. I guess all we can do is hope they ship.

-Matt

 

[BossDog]

Originally posted by: SilentRunning

Originally posted by: normajean

Originally posted by: WoofyJr For those guys who went to the compusa to try buy cd burner priced (error) at $19.99. You guys shouldn't give up... If it shows the price sign or shelf tag $19.99 as error, they still are requried to sell ya at $19.99 by the law, even though, they said it's error. By the law, they have to sell it and fix the error, they can't agrue with customers. If they pull them out before people sees the price tag, they have the right to say it's error and not sell. If they don't realize that the price is error, they must sell at what the price tag shows or you can file lawsuit for fraud.. Next time, good luck.. ( I m not a lawyer but i can be wrong. corect me if u wish)

you're wrong

NO, actually he got it pretty much right at least under Kansas law: 83-219 Chapter 83.--WEIGHTS AND MEASURES Article 2.--STANDARDS AND ENFORCEMENT 83-219. Unlawful acts. (a) It shall be unlawful for any owner of a commercial weighing or measuring device: (16) to charge or attempt to charge, at the time of the sale of an item or commodity, a value which is more than the price which is advertised, posted or quoted; 83-201 Chapter 83.--WEIGHTS AND MEASURES Article 2.--STANDARDS ANDENFORCEMENT 83-201. Definitions. As used in article 2 of chapter 83 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated and K.S.A. 83-502, and amendments thereto: (a) "Weights and measures" means all commercial weights or measures of every kind, instruments and devices for weighing and measuring, and any appliance and accessories associated with any or all such instruments and devices and any point-of-sale system. (l) "Point-of-sale system" means any combination of a cash register or other devices, or system, such as a scanner, capable of recovering stored information related to the price or computing the price of any individual item which is sold or offered for sale at retail. A point-of-sale system may also include or be attached or connected to a weighing or measuring device. (m) "Scanner" means any electronic system that employs a laser-bar code reader to retrieve product identity, price or other information stored in a computer memory.

Well, that's all well and good. But the store is not required to complete the ransaction. Just because you bring the item up to the register doesn't mean that they have to sell it to you. They could ring up the price, see the $19.99, and refuse to sell at that price. The law is not going to make a party have to sell an item at less than they want to, just because they put up a sign with an error in it.

 

[dew042]

Originally posted by: BossDog

Originally posted by: SilentRunning

Originally posted by: normajean

Originally posted by: WoofyJr For those guys who went to the compusa to try buy cd burner priced (error) at $19.99. You guys shouldn't give up... If it shows the price sign or shelf tag $19.99 as error, they still are requried to sell ya at $19.99 by the law, even though, they said it's error. By the law, they have to sell it and fix the error, they can't agrue with customers. If they pull them out before people sees the price tag, they have the right to say it's error and not sell. If they don't realize that the price is error, they must sell at what the price tag shows or you can file lawsuit for fraud.. Next time, good luck.. ( I m not a lawyer but i can be wrong. corect me if u wish)

you're wrong

NO, actually he got it pretty much right at least under Kansas law: 83-219 Chapter 83.--WEIGHTS AND MEASURES Article 2.--STANDARDS AND ENFORCEMENT 83-219. Unlawful acts. (a) It shall be unlawful for any owner of a commercial weighing or measuring device: (16) to charge or attempt to charge, at the time of the sale of an item or commodity, a value which is more than the price which is advertised, posted or quoted; 83-201 Chapter 83.--WEIGHTS AND MEASURES Article 2.--STANDARDS ANDENFORCEMENT 83-201. Definitions. As used in article 2 of chapter 83 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated and K.S.A. 83-502, and amendments thereto: (a) "Weights and measures" means all commercial weights or measures of every kind, instruments and devices for weighing and measuring, and any appliance and accessories associated with any or all such instruments and devices and any point-of-sale system. (l) "Point-of-sale system" means any combination of a cash register or other devices, or system, such as a scanner, capable of recovering stored information related to the price or computing the price of any individual item which is sold or offered for sale at retail. A point-of-sale system may also include or be attached or connected to a weighing or measuring device. (m) "Scanner" means any electronic system that employs a laser-bar code reader to retrieve product identity, price or other information stored in a computer memory.

Well, that's all well and good. But the store is not required to complete the ransaction. Just because you bring the item up to the register doesn't mean that they have to sell it to you. They could ring up the price, see the $19.99, and refuse to sell at that price. The law is not going to make a party have to sell an item at less than they want to, just because they put up a sign with an error in it.

you are wrong.
sorry.

dew.

 

[JameyF]

"(a) It shall be unlawful for any owner of a commercial weighing or measuring device: (16) to charge or attempt to charge, at the time of the sale of an item or commodity, a value which is more than the price which is advertised, posted or quoted; 83-201 Chapter 83."

As I read it, I would agree as long as they said we can't sell it for that, we made a mistake, and almost nothing more. That's not going to happen. With all the scanners out there, I'm sure it would be scanned and a higher price would ring up. The clerk would unknowingly say what the higher price is. Once they offer it at the higher price it's an attempt to sell. THAT would (according to this law) be the illegal act. This is alluded to in the last part of the quote. What happens next is a class action suit that is settled out of court months or years later for gobs of money for the lawyers' fees and a small gift check for the customer.

EDIT: Of course this law doesn't even apply to most of us (we don't live in Kansas, and it doesn't have jurisdiction over the internet because it is Kansas law. If this were posted in a store in Kansas, you might have a case.

 

[ander]

damn the AT effect, sold out.

 

[doodoodoo]

Originally posted by: ander
damn the AT effect, sold out.

This is a good sign.
Is anyone willing to buy it at $119.99?
They were sold out at $19.99.