HOT!!!Rebadged Lite-On 24x10x40 $56.91 atSam's

[BradleyTCO]

So, can anyone describe the proper procedure for removing a Sam's Club manager's head from his or her own rectal sphincter?
At a Sam's Club near Atlanta, Georgia, I asked a manager about the $56.91 price on the Pacific 24x burner. I mentioned to him that the item was no longer being replenished at Sam's Club. He checked his computer and agreed with me. I told him that a "friend" of mine had purchased this item for $56.91 and asked if he would match that price if I brought in a copy of the receipt. Well, my "friend" apparently bought his in Naperville, IL!
At any rate, I stumbled across another manager who denied to sell the item to me for that price. His store had ten or so in stock, but he said that the .91 suffix on this price indicated it was the sale of a "last one." Does anyone know Sam's Club's official policy? I'm especially preturbed that I wasted half an hour going round-and-round with this redneck after another manager had already made a commitment to me to sell the item.

 

[icer]

<< His store had ten or so in stock, but he said that the .91 suffix on this price indicated it was the sale of a "last one." >>




Maybe you should buy all 10 ones then return first 9 to them, LOL!

BTW: I'm @ Duluth, GA and no go, too. What's the # of the store you mentioned?

 

[unclebud]

try this
and be polite and use proper spelling and grammar, etc.
hopefully you got their names...
and don't emphasize the fact that you were trying to get a discontinued item
good luck!

 

[BradleyTCO]

Icer, I'm speaking of the one in Duluth as well. I think that I may have seen you on Wednesday afternoon purchasing your burner. The manager I spoke to was "Chad," and he promised that he would sell it if I brought in a copy of a receipt with the $56.91 price. However, it was a different manager (whose name I can't recall, but whose business card I do have) refused to sell it because the .91 indicates "last one." If I bought 9 of the remaining ten, though, I'm sure the ever-so-helpful (and quite rotund and rude) Jamaican lady behind the counter would scarf up the last one for herself!
Now, unclebud, I certainly hope that you're not suggesting that my grammar or spelling are subpar. Your link is not working, so perhaps the humor was there, and I missed it.

 

[T2T III]

<< Now, unclebud, I certainly hope that you're not suggesting that my grammar or spelling are subpar. >>


I know unclebud isn't commenting on your writing style. I've re-read the post and don't find any issues with it. Unclebud, on the other hand, could use punctuation and capital letters where appropriate as I find his posts a bit hard to read.

 

[nightman]

Bradley- manager told you some BS.Sam's where I got mine had 3 of them in stock and all 3 were priced at $56.91 so price ending with .91 probably not indicates "last one"

 

[BradleyTCO]

Nightman, could you let us know which location it was that had all three burners priced at $56.91? Thank you.
Also, does anyone have a scanned receipt showing the purchase of more than one burner at this low price?

 

[nightman]

It was Northlake ,IL sam's.

 

[Tanner]

This is getting freadkin' old...every sam's I call says "it's a deleted item"

Although...the first one was rather intertaining...the guy said..."yeah, that's a deleted item...we...uh...we don't have those anymore...yeah....ummmmmmmm, uh... we sold the last three of those last month...sorry" So, yeah...I"m pretty sure that he had the "last three" in his arms! jerk

ahh well...the next one I could tell (w/ my telepathic abilities, that the lady checking was punching #'s in a computer and sayin' no...their discontinued...sorry...I'm POSITIVE that she didn't get off her butt! So I thinnk that I'll ck. this one.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!
God Bless

Tanner

 

[DaviDaVinci]

I just called my local Sam's and they didn't have any. He checked and said that one of the other Sam's has 12 of them. It's on the freaking South side. That's going to be a far drive. Oh well. What's the limit on these? Can i buy as many as i want? I can use 2 or 3 of them.
Thanks
Davi

EDIT: Just called the Southside store and lady said Item# 755374, 12 on hand and no purchasing limit. I'm getting all of them. It's about time i get a deal. Usually they are out before i even find out about a deal

 

[unclebud]

when dealing with someone i want something from, i use decent grammar and capital letters , among other tricks
but here i write like i think (yes, most people cannot follow that either sorry)
the link was to a sam's complaint page, maybe it timed out or something or other
but if you go in to "contact sam's" (i think it WAS), you should see a field where you can choose "store experience" or whatever and enter your comments there...
and i meant no offense whatsoever that mr. tco's grammar/punctuation was bad, just that a lot of people write complaints, and the ones that stand out (i.e. get a response) are usually the most articulate ones...

 

[DaviDaVinci]

hmm....called them again to make sure it's the same price before i head out there, she told me $99. How can i get them to go down? I'm not too sure about Sam's policies.

 

[UncleJohn]

What Sam`s... I,m on the south side, also local BB has them (Pacfic Digtal) for 99...so not a good deal unless you can talk them down..If I can talk them down and get a couple extra`s I,ll pick a couple up for you..

Update...No dice, hit Orland Park,then RT30 + Cicero and 95th + Western(Chicago) none at Rt30 Sam`s and Pine at the other 2...for the money if there was a Mistumi in the box, which is a pretty good CD/RW, I,d keep it, but the important thing to me, that made this a real good deal would be getting a Lite-on...Never again, not worth all the running around... Oh well picked up a few other things so it wasn,t a complete waste...

 

[Tanner]

Hey,

ck. the first page of this thread: there's a linky to the reciept on there...


g'l d00d!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

God Bless

Tanner

 

[Tanner]

I just got off the phone w/ the Sam's in Paducah, KY and they have just received shipment of these drives (they didn't have them this morning) anyway, they're $99 @ this Sam's and they said that they definately would NOT PM to the reciept that I had as that was a close out price...I think that this guy has already talked to a few Anandtechers in his time...he knew his stuff....enuf to NOT get me one of these BABIES FOR CHEAP! POOOOOOOOOOOP!

IF NEone gets and Xtra...PM me!

g'l ppl!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!
God Bless

Tanner

 

[DoobieOnline]

Went to Sam's after work last night and they had the price marked as $99 and change, so I went to customer service and asked them to check on the price and it came up as marked. I told them about some of the stores charging $56.91 and they checked their database and sure enough I saw several stores on there selling for that price. The manager was in the booth so I asked him if I could get it for $56.91 and after a friendly exchange he agreed. The software it comes with is pretty weak, but I've already got CloneCD, Nero, and Easy CD Platinum so no biggie. The fact that it's a Lite-On and $56.91 makes this one of the best deals I've seen in a while. Thanks Nightman!

 

[DaviDaVinci]

ok, they said they will not change the price cause they have 12 in hand. @#(@Y(# anyhow, he checked another local city that has 5 of them for 57 and another store that has one left for 50, i'm there. Laters.
Davi

 

[BobSnob]

A score! Got one today in Ann Arbor MI (the last one) after a lot of hassle. They originally quoted me $99.98 but after speaking to a manager he checked all clubs in the region and found only one (Madison Heights, MI) that's selling them at $56.71. Other clubs were selling them at $67.91 and $76.91. And yes, it is a liteon drive. Excellent!

Thanks to the nightman and the rest of you guys for all the info.

While I was in there I bought Microsoft Streets and Trips 2002 for $32.98 - $20 MIR = $12.98. Great for the laptop on long journeys. Also includes Pocket Streets and Trips 2002.

 

[BradleyTCO]

Well, I guess I can propose a corolary to another motto I've read on AT: "Sam's Club is suck."
I was graciously allowed to purchase one of the Pacific Digital burners at the $56.91 price today. It seems that some Sam's Club managers think that this price is dependent on the quantity they have on-hand. I was told that if they had only five of an item left, then clearance prices would apply. Until then, the regular price is in effect.
Is it an employment requirement for Sam's Club customer service that one must be a vacantly staring mouth-breather with an IQ around room temperature? Maybe Staples bought out Sam's Club, and it was never in the news!

 

[Shmuel]

does Sams club have a website-is there any in NYC?? Anyone??

 

[TDF]

There are none available at any Kansas City area Sam's Clubs.

 

[Tanner]

<< Well, I guess I can propose a corolary to another motto I've read on AT: "Sam's Club is suck."
I was graciously allowed to purchase one of the Pacific Digital burners at the $56.91 price today. It seems that some Sam's Club managers think that this price is dependent on the quantity they have on-hand. I was told that if they had only five of an item left, then clearance prices would apply. Until then, the regular price is in effect.
Is it an employment requirement for Sam's Club customer service that one must be a vacantly staring mouth-breather with an IQ around room temperature? Maybe Staples bought out Sam's Club, and it was never in the news! >>



I thot I was going to die laughint! hehehehe...

well...I sorta got good news...

After I called around all sorts of Sam's Clubs and all of them refused to sell me anything, I thought that it was all over. THAT WAS, until I was @ Staples in Mt. Vernon, IL and I asked to use the $10 off of $10 coupon...well...THAT didn't go over very well.

Apparently the $10 off of $10 coupon @ Staples is some sort of fraudlent copy that some

<< shareholder >>

gave out. So, you heard it here first...from Staples Corporate...that coupon will not work (I have an email that they printed out for me from Corporate...NEone got somewhere to post it? I can email it too I think)

SO, in lieu of taking $10 worth of stuff from Staples...I meandered on over to their Hardware case...staring @ all the outrageous prices...I noticed that THEY TOO have a Pacific Digital 24x10x40x drive! GOD's BLESSING HAS SHOWN DOWN UPON ME! yeah...so I think...I walk back to CSR...and ask if they'll PM that receipt I printed off of here well...since she felt bad (this is what i think) She said SURE we'll PM a SCAN of a receipt. So, since I HAD it w/ me...I brought it in and gave it to them. I don't think that she liked this part...the one where it was 56.71!!! MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! MY REVENGE WAS SOOOO SWEET! hehehehe...

So, Staples did NOT give me the $10 off of $10...but I got about $70 off of this CDROM! WAHOOOOOO!

btw...this one has the Buffer Under run Technology on the front and when I opened it up I found that it's a Mistumi...is this bad? If so...It's going BACK tomorrow! PLEASE someone tell me if this is a bad CDR to keep...I'm going to search now for reviews of the mitsumi model

L8rz

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

God Bless

Tanner

 

[chrisjor]

Tanner,

The additional $30 MIR that you are eligible should make you smile Link
The downside is that if you've been scanning you would have noted deals for Lite On at Staples!!! The fact that I did get one of these at Sam's caused me to search Circuit and Staples!!! They could be Lite-On, check!
Link Have Fun!!!

 

[nightman]

Tanner-are you sure you have mitsumi drive?I know manual shows drive with mitsumi sticker but sticker on drive shows it's Lite-On.I have checked Pacific Digital website and the only firmware upgrade for this drive is Lite-On firmware 5S0j.If they really using different brands they should post different firmwares,because someone could try to flash mitsumi drive with Lite-On firmware and possibly kill the drive.
For their 16x10x40 drive they offer 2 different firmwares-one is Lite-On and the other I think Mitsumi or Yamaha. Did you get 24x or 16x drive?

 

[Tanner]

"Unfortunately?" mine says MITSUMI on the yellow sticker on the top of the drive...I don't know if this is bad or not...review.

Nightman...U have PM


There is a [edit] new thread [/edit] out there w/ this dealio and the rebate and PM @ Staples for around $31 now...so, give it some help if ppl have Q's I know that I don't know enuf to answer all the Q's


L8rz d00d

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

God Bless


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