Guys, How hard is it to pull the backtag off the shelf and bring it to a cashier for them to do a price check? Worse that can happen is that the price is not marked down. I have also found that if you call the stores and ask them to do a price check, they will just look at the shelf to see the price....of course, most of the time they are wrong. Also, if you don't see the item on display, ASK FOR IT by sku number if you have it. I scored about 8 of the various Oregon Scientific stuff at one store who had none of them on display. Just asked. Not difficult. I believe someone posted earlier that because of the .88 at the end of the price, that these were indeed already marked down. If you look at the web the original list price for the 1GH Compaq was 1699.99. Maybe the store that allisolm got her deal, marked down theirs first. I have seen many posts here that said a item was marked down, and I checked it out locally and no deal. Then a few days later I would check back again and sure enough the price was marked down. Or the item was on the shelf still marked regularly. Maybe they stagger the mark downs or across the country? Who knows. I keep a list of the deals that I find here and just check back everyday, usually the deal pans out. I pass by 2 OD's on the way home so it is not too hard for me. I also found out yesterday after talking with a manager that they try to hold clearance items until Saturday morning and put them on a table at the front of the store to maximize sales. I am getting to know the manager and told him to call me and let me know what was going to marked down before he puts them out. He said "cool". Anyway this is a long post, but it pays to be nice and get to know the people in your local OD. I hope this deal does go thru.....good find allisolm!