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I'm posting here instead of in [H]otDeals because the offer is dead now, and because I'm mostly lolling about how badly they shafted themselves by not voiding my purchase.
Last weekend I went to geeks.com to get a cheap laptop HD ($30ish vs $50ish anywhere else); they had a free shipping over $99 promotion going on and since they wanted almost $10 to ship the drive I started looking around to see if they had anything else of value. I found a few odds and ends, but most of what they carry is no-name hardware and closeouts so I wasn't close to what I needed. I was about to give up when I discovered that they had canned air at $6/2 cans; vs $13.50/2 cans at my local boxmart. Canned air keeps well and I can stash it on top of a bookcase out of the way so i said why not and larded my order with 16 cans.
They were delivered today. The box with my HD and misc was unremarkable; but my air came in a massive 24x20x19 box full of multiple layers of packaging. Each twopack of cans were wrapped in bubblewrap, put in a small box with airbags, then all 8 small boxes where put into the big box and more airbags were added on top. It's not the most outrageous overpackaging I've ever seen mocked online, but it's the worst I ever received by a large degree.
Non free shipping for that much air is $30, and since I was only charged $48 for the cans themselves I suspect they took a fairly large loss on my order.
Last weekend I went to geeks.com to get a cheap laptop HD ($30ish vs $50ish anywhere else); they had a free shipping over $99 promotion going on and since they wanted almost $10 to ship the drive I started looking around to see if they had anything else of value. I found a few odds and ends, but most of what they carry is no-name hardware and closeouts so I wasn't close to what I needed. I was about to give up when I discovered that they had canned air at $6/2 cans; vs $13.50/2 cans at my local boxmart. Canned air keeps well and I can stash it on top of a bookcase out of the way so i said why not and larded my order with 16 cans.
They were delivered today. The box with my HD and misc was unremarkable; but my air came in a massive 24x20x19 box full of multiple layers of packaging. Each twopack of cans were wrapped in bubblewrap, put in a small box with airbags, then all 8 small boxes where put into the big box and more airbags were added on top. It's not the most outrageous overpackaging I've ever seen mocked online, but it's the worst I ever received by a large degree.
Non free shipping for that much air is $30, and since I was only charged $48 for the cans themselves I suspect they took a fairly large loss on my order.