Toshiba laptop for $599 at bestbuy starting 8/1

[Corporate Thug]

Originally posted by: RaistlinZ
Yay, another fun-filled week of selling $599 laptops. :roll:

I hope to god that the BB store I work at sells through all of these damn things before I go back to work on Tuesday. Selling cheap laptops below cost with absolutely no attachments makes me sick to my stomach.

Originally posted by: jolycu

Does anyone know if they'll be offering no interest financing on this?

Yes, this week there is 12-month no-interest financing w/ Best Buy card.

also, if you ask at the register, there is a coupon that they can scan making it 24month interest free

 

[RossMAN]

BB employees,

I think I might return my Toshiba laptop (1.5 hours battery life sucks).

What can I do/say to avoid paying the restocking fee?

 

[nj873]

Originally posted by: rickon66
...
I almost felt sorry for the Best Buy sales guy, he was like a whipped dog when I told him I wanted the laptop only and did not want warranty, virus protection, software, cables, blank cd-r, etc. They have these poor sales people seriously brainwashed about overly pushing this stuff. How many times do you need to say no? The makers of the Manchurian Candidate could take a lesson from BB supervisors.

And I did not feel sorry for him - I felt sorry for myself !!

Guy who was my "assistant" in BB was over-pushy and annoying trying to sell me warranties, bags, accessories - everything! Asked me a lot of personal questions. And when I stopped him, he behaved like I had to listen all this useless info.
Only when I promised to complain his manager (after 20 min or so), he brought the laptop.

Great store - and not so good experience this time.
The lesson - never be polite with salespeople! They don't see difference between polite and weak.

BTW, I needed to use 100$ Gift card, otherwise I would buy it online...

 

[tcsenter]

Originally posted by: RossMAN
BB employees,

I think I might return my Toshiba laptop (1.5 hours battery life sucks).

What can I do/say to avoid paying the restocking fee?

Did you use a credit card with any kind of rewards program to purchase the notebook (e.g. cash back)? If so, don't lose your purchase reward by returning it - Fleabay it!

But I would advise that you wait a few weeks until the insuing glut of them being listed on Ebay begins to wane.

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: tcsenter

Originally posted by: RossMAN
BB employees,

I think I might return my Toshiba laptop (1.5 hours battery life sucks).

What can I do/say to avoid paying the restocking fee?

Did you use a credit card with any kind of rewards program to purchase the notebook (e.g. cash back)? If so, don't lose your purchase reward by returning it - Fleabay it!

But I would advise that you wait a few weeks until the insuing glut of them being listed on Ebay begins to wane.

Yeah I got $40 BB GC's through RewardZone. I might keep the laptop because I keep it plugged in 99% of the time. So the suck ass battery life doesn't really affect me.

If this had SXGA, it wouldn't be that bad of a laptop.

How difficult is it to get a refund on a 2 year service plan ($99) within the first 3 or 14 days?

 

[tcsenter]

How difficult is it to get a refund on a 2 year service plan ($99) within the first 3 or 14 days?

I couldn't say, but I do believe its transferrable one time. This could be something you advertise as a selling point on Ebay (e.g. "Two Year Extended Warranty Protection - $99 value!")

 

[fooshkee]

How difficult is it to get a refund on a 2 year service plan ($99) within the first 3 or 14 days?

it shouldn't be difficult to return the PSP... just bring in your receipt and brouchure and your credit card and they should be able to take it right off your cc.

 

[Corporate Thug]

Originally posted by: RossMAN

Originally posted by: tcsenter

Originally posted by: RossMAN
BB employees,

I think I might return my Toshiba laptop (1.5 hours battery life sucks).

What can I do/say to avoid paying the restocking fee?

Did you use a credit card with any kind of rewards program to purchase the notebook (e.g. cash back)? If so, don't lose your purchase reward by returning it - Fleabay it!

But I would advise that you wait a few weeks until the insuing glut of them being listed on Ebay begins to wane.

Yeah I got $40 BB GC's through RewardZone. I might keep the laptop because I keep it plugged in 99% of the time. So the suck ass battery life doesn't really affect me.

If this had SXGA, it wouldn't be that bad of a laptop.

How difficult is it to get a refund on a 2 year service plan ($99) within the first 3 or 14 days?

the PSP can be returned just as easy as any other product

 

[RossMAN]

If I decide to keep the laptop - I'll probably keep the PSP.

If I decide to sell it, this could be a selling point -or- I could get a $99 refund.

What would you do?

 

[fooshkee]

Best buy has a thing called devo... where if an item is still during the manufactor warrenty and it's a "devo item" we can send it back to the manufactor and get credited for it.... so a lot of times if a laptop has PSP and its in the first year and devo - we don't even repair it... we just send it back and you get a new one... after year one though they can't do that

 

[DragonKnight]

Originally posted by: RossMAN
If I decide to keep the laptop - I'll probably keep the PSP.

If I decide to sell it, this could be a selling point -or- I could get a $99 refund.

What would you do?

Get the extended warranty and accidental coverage on Toshiba's website. That's what I did.

Rich

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: DragonKnight

Originally posted by: RossMAN
If I decide to keep the laptop - I'll probably keep the PSP.

If I decide to sell it, this could be a selling point -or- I could get a $99 refund.

What would you do?

Get the extended warranty and accidental coverage on Toshiba's website. That's what I did.

Rich

D'oh!

Link?

Price?

 

[DragonKnight]

http://tinyurl.com/4fmcr

$199 for 3 yrs extended warranty/accidental coverage.

 

[tcsenter]

Originally posted by: DragonKnight
http://tinyurl.com/4fmcr

You mean, this link??

 

[DragonKnight]

Originally posted by: tcsenter

Originally posted by: DragonKnight
http://tinyurl.com/4fmcr

You mean, this link??

I used tinyurl to make things a lot smaller and convenient. :roll:

 

[tcsenter]

I used tinyurl to make things a lot smaller and convenient.

Small and convenient like this??

Sorry, I couldn't help myself.

</smartass>

 

[woodscomp]

Originally posted by: Dnana
I decided to go have a look at this laptop but walked away rather than buy at this point.

First, I played around with the display model and tried the sound - I thought the built-in speakers were very weak. I know laptop sound is not that good anyway but I can't imagine how I'd enjoy listening to music or a DVD with this thing. I would be interested if anyone has a contrary opinion.

Second, I clicked on Quicken to look at it and I noticed it took awhile to load. Maybe it is the 256MB of ram but should a 2.7 Celeron have noticeable lag when switching between programs?

I keep waiting for some featherweight laptop with a Mobile Pentium chip to come down under $1,000 but I guess I have a long wait on that.

I would probably buy this if I really needed a laptop for just the basics like browse, email and type up letters.

-Tom

People with laptops use headphones to listen to there DVD's music etc... All laptops suffer from tiny crippled sounding speakers.

 

[Winchester]

I am pissed off. It is only a $150 MIR, the other $150 is a Gift Card, so actually the laptop is $749. The rest is guaranteed money for BB, which I do not consider a rebate, plus you have to mail off for it.

 

[allisolm]

I am pissed off. It is only a $150 MIR, the other $150 is a Gift Card, so actually the laptop is $749. The rest is guaranteed money for BB, which I do not consider a rebate, plus you have to mail off for it.

Where did you see that one is for a gift card? The online rebate forms both show as $150 mail-in-rebates, not gift cards. Do the in-store ones say something different?

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: Winchester
I am pissed off. It is only a $150 MIR, the other $150 is a Gift Card, so actually the laptop is $749. The rest is guaranteed money for BB, which I do not consider a rebate, plus you have to mail off for it.

You'd better be wrong because I have a copy of the BB ad which shows $599 after two $150 MIR's.

Unless you're referring to a CURRENT deal (after the two $150 MIR's expired)?

 

[Winchester]

No, read the label at the store, one is a Mail in rebate (check) the other is a Mail in rebate (gift card).

My rebate receipt even says

REBATE: $150.00
REBATE GIFT CARD

They are considering the $150 gift card as "cash back" so that makes it $599.

The label at the store went like this.

$899.99
-$150 (check)
-$150 (gift card)
=_______
$599.99

 

[allisolm]

How odd, yet how very like Best Buy.

 

[gujuguy007]

good deal..i went and saw it but didn't come back with it...was a bit too heavy for me and some other features i didn't like...but great for an average user who wants portability every now and then.

i don't like rebates though...especially ones that are greater than $100. btw, BB has said that you can exchange the gift card for cash at a local BB once you get it in the mail so technically you are getting cash back but only if you follow the rules and wait 6 to 8 weeks without any lost mail.

 

[Vengence]

Can you swapp the CPU for a centrino one off of ebay?

 

[Gord]

I'm also curious about this, is the mobo socket 370 or socket 478? If I can replace the Celeron with a P4 I'm gonna be all over this.

Great price even if it is socket 370...