Hot Deals???

[GREG MILLER]

Rumor has it, that in tomorrow's (Thursday) paper, The Bestbuy flier with have the Visiontek Geforce3 Ti200 card included in the "After Thanksgiving" sale for $99.

That would be $199.99 - $50 Instant Rebate - $50 Mail-in Rebate = $99.99

Also the Western Digital 60gb 5400rpm HDD, Final price after rebates = $49.99

I have yet to confirm if this is actually true or not, and if it is, I don't know if it is a 2 day sale, or a 5 hour sale.

Hopefully this is a 2 day sale which means that after work on Friday, I am heading to Bestbuy.

If it is only a 5 hour sale, I just may have to come to work a little late on Friday.

So grab the paper tomorrow and check it out for yourself.

[LordDavid]

Yup, I looked in the paper and tomorrow they have a GF 3 Ti200 for $99 (after rebates).

They also have a 256 MB PC133 stick of ram for $9.99 after rebates.

And they have a Sega Dreamcast with a free racing game for only $49.99!

The flyer said the sale was from 7 a.m. to 12 noon.

[ 11-22-2001: Message edited by: LordDavid ]

[Akira]

mmmm.... 99 bucks... well worth the dough I'll not be sleeping in!

[GREG MILLER]

Cmdr Miller got a GF3!!!!

That is right folks. Stopped on my way to work today. Got to the North Hills Pittsburgh Best Buy around 6:40am, and the line was already several hundred people long.

After seeing all the people ahead of me, I really didn't think I would have a chance. When I got into the store at 7:05, I made a bee line to the Video Card shelf, as this was my only intended purchase. As I rounded the corner and started eyeing up the shelf, it was empty. But just then, somebody reached for the top self, and my eye followed his hand. Sitting on the top was 2 Visiontek boxes. He grabed the one on the left, glanced at it, and walked away without taking it. So as I was standing there, looking at the shelfs for a misplaced one, I looked up at the one on the right and wouldn't you know it. The LAST Geforce3 Ti200 was mine for the taking, and to the cash register I went. Left the store and made to work on time, with lots a minutes to spare.

The box on the left must have contained a GF2, I don't know, didn't care to know.

Akira, I hope you made out just as good as I did.

This purchase now qualifies my new rig as being "BCM Capable", one month ahead of schedule, and I couldn't be happier!

Now the icing on the cake would be if my copy of BCM would arrive in the mail today.

EDIT:

I just called my wife, (Who is home today) and asked her if a "package" came for me today. This is the response I got:

"Maybe it did, maybe it didn't. You will just have to find out when you get home."

Arrgghhh!!! How can that Sim loving woman be so damn cruel to me today????

Damn, I am now in agony. I got the Vidcard, and I am assuming I got the game; but I am stuck here at work till 4:30pm est. All I want to do is go home, do a little open box surgery on my machine, and enjoy the sites of BCM. Is that too much to ask???

[ 11-23-2001: Message edited by: GREG MILLER ]

[Akira]

Well, consider yourself VERY lucky. I got there at 7:15 (in my town) the line to the registers was all the way around the inside perimeter of the building.

Great, I thought, a two hour wait to get out... I hurried along to the v-crad shelf. Saw some v-tek boxes. Realized that NONE of them were gf3's and got pissed. I asked the stock guy, and he said they had 1 whole box on the shelves at opening.

Not only that, but they aren't running the 50 buck rebate from v-tek. So, seeing that I can get a full gf3 online from just a touch more, I didn't consider myself too unlucky. I was just out of the extra sleep and an all too good dream cycle

Oh well, I'll live and I hope others faired far better than I did

[Advil]

I got one! Rebate went out in the mail today.

Hell, I may own a comp store, but you can't buy those things wholesale for much less than $175. If they want to lose 40% selling vid cards, I'll take one.

And you don't want to know what the line was like. I got there just after 5am (opened at 7) and was about #20 for the door. By the time it opened there were at least a few hundred more behind me. It was nearly a literal brawl to get in, and there were only about 4 cards left when I grabbed one. (30 seconds after the door opened)

Now I get to see if they pay up on the rebate or not.