View Full Version : Deals at COMPUSA Friday 6PM-12 AM
johnnymk
03-20-2003, 12:32 PM
These are the better ones at the B&M stores:
175 GB Hard Drive 7200 RPM Brand? $199.99 minus 2 Rebates= $99.99
17" LCD $429.97 minus 2 Rebates= $299.97
Screenblast Movie Studio program $39.99 minus $40 Rebate= Free
60 GB USB 2.0 Hard Drive $129.99 minus $50 Rebate= $79.99
I/O Magic PC Personal Recorder PCI Card $24.99 minus $20 Rebate
= $4.99
HP Photosmart 1115 Refurbished Printer $29.99
USB Notebook Mouse $9.99 minus $10 Rebate= Free
aggieSlaughter
03-20-2003, 01:36 PM
Sweet deals.
hey, what kind of hard drive is that 175 gig drive? at 133?
Just wonderin, thx for the deals yo.:D
Smeghead
03-20-2003, 05:36 PM
It probably has to be an ATA133 drive, as ATA100 doesn't support the addressing needed for drives bigger than 137GB.
Cantacuzene
03-20-2003, 05:45 PM
They are open to midnight? Or did you reverse the AM and PM? If they are open till midnight that strikes me as weird.
johnnymk
03-20-2003, 07:35 PM
It's a special 19th Anniversary event, They will close at 5 PM and reopen at 6 PM.
Originally posted by Smeghead
It probably has to be an ATA133 drive, as ATA100 doesn't support the addressing needed for drives bigger than 137GB.
so then that hd is a maxtor?
does anyone know if its a 8mb cache? <----i really hope so
and is there anywhere i can see these deals online
Western Digital WD1750BBRTL Drive (http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?product%5Fcode=301996)
bachviet
03-20-2003, 10:04 PM
Nice hard drive for data backup!
NuTs62
03-20-2003, 10:40 PM
guess the HD aint just a B&M deal. :cheers: only today though!
its weird! on the rebates, its a little misleading. the model number is the 2MB version, but the first page of the rebate says that its the 8MB version. :hmm:
BazzX
03-20-2003, 11:05 PM
Great deal on the hard drive. Just don't buy it before midnight. :)
Don't procrastinate on the sending in the rebates. They must be postmarked no later than 4/4/03. That's a very short turnaround.
BazzX
kellybrf
03-21-2003, 05:50 AM
nuts62, whos that hottie in your avatar?
BazzX
03-21-2003, 07:26 AM
FYI - 175GB sold out online.
BazzX
mcs328
03-21-2003, 08:35 AM
I'm gonna walk in at 5:30 then hoard it until 6pm for the hard drive. They have a 200 cd holder for 10 bucks with instant rebate plus a smaller 24 or 48 holder free.
Realrammstein
03-21-2003, 09:09 AM
They say that they will be closing at 5 and reopening at 6.
call-in
03-21-2003, 09:10 AM
I bought the 120GB for $79 and change, filled-in the rebate and sent it in with the upc. Shoud've held back to get this deal! grumble, grumble, grumble:mad4:
Originally posted by mcs328
I'm gonna walk in at 5:30 then hoard it until 6pm for the hard drive.
I thought they would close at 5 and reopen at 6, will they allow people to enter between 5 and 6?
call-in
mcs328
03-21-2003, 09:16 AM
*shrug* I was just throwing out a what if I did that...and I was actually going to do that. I can see it now...every computer geek and techy in my high density tech area will be at the door and I'll be the last one in :(
Realrammstein
03-21-2003, 01:40 PM
Go to a low tech one :D
bachviet
03-21-2003, 03:00 PM
I will stop by @ 5:30 and see how long the line is!
i just got back and my god that line was long. it reminded of the labor day sales that start at 6:00
the line was all the way around the store and a whole assload of people. you were lucky if you got to get some of those items online...
pd123
03-21-2003, 09:11 PM
I took a ride there tonight around 9:30 and I picked up the APC backup. I was surprised they had any left, everything else was gone.
NuTs62
03-22-2003, 12:41 AM
I got as far as the parking lot.. went to the one in Tanforan, in San Bruno, CA. The line stretched fairly far, at least several stores down. Since there was no parking, and it'd take a while to get in there, I gave up. Though the APC backup, and the HD would have been nice :shrug: oh well
brainsmile
03-22-2003, 12:51 AM
Originally posted by kellybrf
nuts62, whos that hottie in your avatar?
not a fan of smallville I take it
bachviet
03-22-2003, 06:08 AM
I didn't make it @ 5:30 but I came by around 6:30 or so and everything is gone except the free PDA case and the wireless keyboard/mouse combo (1)! The lines @ the registers are so long so I didn't even buy the wireless keyboard/mouse combo!
netlan
03-22-2003, 12:07 PM
Nuts62, yeah i was there. The San Bruno one is wacked. I was in there at 6:10 and they sold OUT of hard drives. that long line you saw, only like the first 30 people got vouchers for the hard drives because san bruno only stocks 30. So the people in back of the line who waited since 5:45 didn't even get any. The San Bruno is a total rip anyhow, they always understock sale items and use these events to push for sales for all the open items crap that they cant sell. After that i got mad but went to the san francisco superstore just to see. I didnt expect to find any in stock but when I got there at 7 AFTER the mad rush they still had about 40 left!!! The sf store manager says he stocked up 150+ in anticipation. Ironically, there was more parking downtown sf than there were in san bruno. People were off work and I think everyone steared away from union square because the day before 1000 people were arrested in an antiwar riot. Anywhoo i bought 2, using one now and still have one sealed. Damnit what am i gunna do with the extra one...Dont need it too.
NuTs62
03-22-2003, 05:57 PM
Originally posted by netlan
Nuts62, yeah i was there. The San Bruno one is wacked. I was in there at 6:10 and they sold OUT of hard drives. that long line you saw, only like the first 30 people got vouchers for the hard drives because san bruno only stocks 30. So the people in back of the line who waited since 5:45 didn't even get any. The San Bruno is a total rip anyhow, they always understock sale items and use these events to push for sales for all the open items crap that they cant sell. After that i got mad but went to the san francisco superstore just to see. I didnt expect to find any in stock but when I got there at 7 AFTER the mad rush they still had about 40 left!!! The sf store manager says he stocked up 150+ in anticipation. Ironically, there was more parking downtown sf than there were in san bruno. People were off work and I think everyone steared away from union square because the day before 1000 people were arrested in an antiwar riot. Anywhoo i bought 2, using one now and still have one sealed. Damnit what am i gunna do with the extra one...Dont need it too.
err.. you may want to double check the rebate to make sure you can send both in. that is of course if you purchased it all with one receipt. i didn't pay too close attention to it..
And as for the downtown store, eh, parking? I hate paying so much for parking down there..
And as for stocking items... They tend to stock only a little of the sale items, because those are doorbusters. Just to get you in the door.
Nottoman
03-23-2003, 02:00 AM
I couldn't believe that at about 1am Friday morning basically most of the stuff was available online! I got the 175Gig HD, the Tuner card, the Backup, but the HP printer was already gone, which I really wanted. Why go stand in line? Weird that they would advertise like it was an instore deal grab and then make it available on their website. The line must have been insane. Black Monday was the first and last time I ever did the stand in line thing for an hour just to watch a hardware feeding frenzy.
bachviet
03-23-2003, 10:06 AM
Originally posted by Nottoman
I couldn't believe that at about 1am Friday morning basically most of the stuff was available online! I got the 175Gig HD, the Tuner card, the Backup, but the HP printer was already gone, which I really wanted. Why go stand in line? Weird that they would advertise like it was an instore deal grab and then make it available on their website. The line must have been insane. Black Monday was the first and last time I ever did the stand in line thing for an hour just to watch a hardware feeding frenzy.
Pple like me don't like shipping charge.
netlan
03-23-2003, 08:54 PM
Originally posted by NuTs62
err.. you may want to double check the rebate to make sure you can send both in. that is of course if you purchased it all with one receipt. i didn't pay too close attention to it..
And as for the downtown store, eh, parking? I hate paying so much for parking down there..
And as for stocking items... They tend to stock only a little of the sale items, because those are doorbusters. Just to get you in the door.
Kinda patronizing post and inaccurate post too. First of all everyone knows most rebates from compusa are per household/name/address anyhow. Most people there bought 2 of the same items on seperate receipts just as i did and will fill each one with a diff address.
As for parking, have you been to the downtown compusa? Its surrounded by metered parking (which is free after 6pm - when the sale started)where most spots were untaken because most people left work at that time already but are not back out to dine yet.
Not all compusa's tend to stock only a little of the sales items, which is why i pointed out the downtown store that extra stocked over 150+ hard drives in anticipation whereas the san bruno one stocked around 35. The hard drives and most of the other items were still available late in the night.
Ya gotta check your facts and read posts more carefully before you post random assumptions. :dodgy:
kcrilly
03-24-2003, 07:25 AM
I bought the 175 gig drive, and to my dismay it was a 180 gig drive in the box. There was alittle slip inside and said basically, surprize you received a bigger better drive for FREE!!!!
I like it when that happens.......!
scottatl
03-26-2003, 07:49 AM
Anyone else try to fill out the MicroSoft Flight Simulator Rebate.
Smallest form I have ever used and they made it glossy so it was almost impossible for the pen to stick.
I did my best, and put the info on a piece of paper taped to it. We will see if it works.
It was real BS
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