It's a B&M only deal, so no coupons (unless you get one of those emails from Staples that has in-store coupons).
Personally, I'd love to be able to thank the greedy SOB who took my monitor that had been reserved for me at the Columbus, OH, Lennox Center store.
I have a little charitable project I'm doing, a system for someone who is nearly a shut-in and needs something to do to pass the time, and perhaps get some outside communication. I have all the pieces I need except for a monitor, and this was perfect for the job. Earlier today the nice lady at 1-800-Staples helped me locate a store which had some of these in stock (not an easy task, almost all stores have none). We then transfered our call over to the store, the asst. mgr. took my name and info, and I was assured that one of the four they still had in stock would be held until this afternoon when I got off work. So I go there after work to find that a person had been in only about two hours ago and took all four units. The "somewhat" alert asst. mgr. stopped him, saying that someone had called earlier in the day and reserved one of the four, and that he could only buy the remaining three monitors. This POS low-life told the mgr. "it was me who called earlier", so the mgr. let him have all four. Now the mgr. obviously should have checked his name, but why does one person have to be so greedy to lie in able to get all four, wasn't three units enough?
The moral of the story - you reap what you sew. The advent of "deals sites" on the Internet has largely contributed to this greed phenomena getting worse. Sure, there will always be greedy types, but with the 'Net they can be more well-informed and thus better able to propagate their greed further. For example, I remember the Staples 13.6GB Maxtor for $99 from way back, there was some serious fighting and greed over them. The big President's Day sale at CompUSA a few weeks ago I encountered something even worse. In the line at the desk for memory and the TEAC CD burner, there's about 20 of us. I'm number two, and a lady is in front of me. The line is not moving and she needs to find her son in the store, thus asks if I will hold her place. No problem, I say. She comes back a few minutes later, and line is still at a standstill. I let her back in line, and this guy 5 or 6 places back starts giving me grief. I told him (and he already well knew) the lady had been first and was only resuming her rightful position. This guy would not let it go, and keeps on, eventually starts making some baited threats in a half-voice sort of way (he musta thought I did not hear him). Finally, the CompUSA peeps get their act together and start distributing the coveted items. After I got mine, I hung around until the jerk in line who was complaining got his precious parts, and then invited him to join me out in the parking lot since he had such a big problem with me. Suddenly, he doesn't have a problem anymore. I played it up good, and insisted, "even if you don't have a problem with me, I've got one with you now." The guy quickly made his way out of the area. Thought all was well and done and maybe he had learned his lesson, when while standing in the checkout lane, an asst. mgr. comes over to me and asks me to step in to their little office at the end of the lanes. ??? So I go in there with him and he proceeds to tell me that a customer had reported that "a guy in a black North Face parka and Corvette logo hat had threatened him over his place in line", and asks me to leave the store. After 15 minutes of explaining the truth yet not being believed, the CompUSA peep who had been handing out the memory and drives comes walking buy and I said to the mgr., "just ask him what happened, he saw it all". He backed me up and I was given the "priviledge" of finally being able to buy my parts and leave. Didn't get an apology though.
The world truly is going to he][ in a hanging basket ...