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Whats the best deal you've ever gotten??
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When I was an intern for the town of framingham as a network administrator, they pretty much let me take what I wanted. I grabbed a Mac and a copy of OS8 (this was when it was first released) and some other crap.
Being a demo day representative for Nokia, free unlocked phones left and right
My current job, I got a free car except I got screwed during the drawing and ended up getting a vw beetle. oh well.
Being a demo day representative for Nokia, free unlocked phones left and right
My current job, I got a free car
except I got screwed during the drawing and ended up getting a vw beetle. oh well.![[Spectre]](https://cdn.hardforum.com/data/avatars/m/89/89728.jpg?1455675927){kind=avatar}
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seigejet said:My current job, I got a free car
At least it ain't a BB Geek Squad one....but still a beetle........dang....
Spectre said:
I try to think that every time I drive... that is until I look near the steering wheel and I'm reminded of the miniture plastic vase there that's supposed to hold flowers. Thankfully it is now a big gaping hole since I tore it off but it's scarred me for life
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sc0tty8 said:
yeah, dell messed up and sent me a 250gb WD for free
i would hesitate to call it a hot deal though
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x800XL PCI-E for $210, thanks to the best friend at BestBuy.
A long time ago...
I bought Microsoft Office 95 (diskette version) from Future Shop for -$17.00. Yes, they paid me $17.00 after price matching +10% a "Going out of Business" sale at Egg Head Software. I didn't really need it for anything, but I couldn't pass up the price.
The store manager instantly yanked the remaning copies and put them in the back.
I bought Microsoft Office 95 (diskette version) from Future Shop for -$17.00. Yes, they paid me $17.00 after price matching +10% a "Going out of Business" sale at Egg Head Software. I didn't really need it for anything, but I couldn't pass up the price.
The store manager instantly yanked the remaning copies and put them in the back.
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Won an
2000+ Athlon XP
with 512 megs of ram ect
decent everyday use PC
for $250 including shipping off ebay over 3 years ago
parted it out about a year later and sold it for almost double what I paid. bought new components kept them about 8 months then sold them again for much more than I had paid to finance my current rig. I have never had as much luck on ebay as I had back then. In fact with my last auctions I almost lost out of each item so I guess everything came around full circle in the end
2000+ Athlon XP
with 512 megs of ram ect
decent everyday use PC
for $250 including shipping off ebay over 3 years ago
parted it out about a year later and sold it for almost double what I paid. bought new components kept them about 8 months then sold them again for much more than I had paid to finance my current rig. I have never had as much luck on ebay as I had back then. In fact with my last auctions I almost lost out of each item so I guess everything came around full circle in the end
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i got my Treo 650 on the second day of release for free.
SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEETTTTTTTTT
SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEETTTTTTTTT
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not computer related, but I got a brand new Cannondale 900SL mountain bike for $600 it retails for about $2200
it retails for about $2200 AtomicFire
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eMule... Kidding kidding, don't hurt me.
Working IT at my high school, I would get loads of compters for free, The school threw out about 50 PIII-450 Compaq computers, I picked up 5 'cause my car wouldn't hold any more. About 20 3Com 905's, a case of 24x CD ROM drives, a case of keyboards, and 5 monitors (NEC multisyncs, 15 inch but integrated speakers and mic, great for lab test stations)
w00t. I even got paid to work there.
Kidding kidding, don't hurt me.Working IT at my high school, I would get loads of compters for free, The school threw out about 50 PIII-450 Compaq computers, I picked up 5 'cause my car wouldn't hold any more. About 20 3Com 905's, a case of 24x CD ROM drives, a case of keyboards, and 5 monitors (NEC multisyncs, 15 inch but integrated speakers and mic, great for lab test stations)
w00t. I even got paid to work there.
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free maps from AAA
2405fpw for 814 shipped
Second would be MS Visual Studio.net full version with EVERYTHING and 3 books on coding for free!(webcast thing)
Third would be WinXP Beta., I paid like 10 bucks, by the time it went retail MS sent me like 5 copies of WinXP Pro full
Fourth Burlington coat factory, Bought a jacket for 49.99
Came back a week later and saw it was $299.99
It was a heavy goose down jacket. Still have it to this day, its huge. It seems someone swapped the price tag and inteded to come back for it. I found it underneath a coat rack, buried and hidden
Second would be MS Visual Studio.net full version with EVERYTHING and 3 books on coding for free!(webcast thing)
Third would be WinXP Beta., I paid like 10 bucks, by the time it went retail MS sent me like 5 copies of WinXP Pro full
Fourth Burlington coat factory, Bought a jacket for 49.99
Came back a week later and saw it was $299.99
It was a heavy goose down jacket. Still have it to this day, its huge. It seems someone swapped the price tag and inteded to come back for it. I found it underneath a coat rack, buried and hidden
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before i was a member of this forum and e-commerce was still new, i'd take advantage of little software holes...
from more.com i used a 20 dollar coupon to buy a .89 cent bottle of shampoo (with free shipping!). received a check for 19.11 in the mail shortly thereafter. now THATS a deal.
from more.com i used a 20 dollar coupon to buy a .89 cent bottle of shampoo (with free shipping!). received a check for 19.11 in the mail shortly thereafter. now THATS a deal.
darktiger said:
I got the same one, not happy with the mobo at all but a good deal nevertheless. I work at circuit city, one of AMD's partners, so I got it 100% legit.
I've also gotten a mx510 for free from a display we had to take down, a sony all-in-one desktop computer (p4 2.8), a dell computer (p4 2.4) minus the mobo, and a couple harddrives from people who just bought computers and would otherwise through the old stuff out.
A lot of my "deals" happened via eBay, but I think that this past weekend was my biggest score yet...
... I mean, c'mon, Half-Life 2 for under $20? From a B&M?
... I mean, c'mon, Half-Life 2 for under $20? From a B&M?
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250gb Western Digital harddrive - $25 after rebate and price match.
An ESP EX-351 guitar - $250 shipped ($420 at musiciansfriend)
An ESP EX-351 guitar - $250 shipped ($420 at musiciansfriend)
AMD Tech Tour bundles were a good deal, got my Opterons on ebay right now, unfortunatly had to drive to NJ from DC.. still a good deal.
Once I found $500 in cash on the street.
Got the 2001FP & 2005FPW when they came out each for less than $500... planning on getting the 24" one for under $700 this Christmas, I'm pretty sure I can
Found an OC-48 card in a dumpster.
Found a full sized rack in a dumpster.
Once I found $500 in cash on the street.
Got the 2001FP & 2005FPW when they came out each for less than $500... planning on getting the 24" one for under $700 this Christmas, I'm pretty sure I can
Found an OC-48 card in a dumpster.
Found a full sized rack in a dumpster.
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$180 for a new 6800gt a few weeks ago.
The best deal I ever got was a few years ago when I was getting my dad a 250GB WD hard drive from best buy for his birthday. They had it on a pretty good deal ... probably 40 - 50 cents/GB or something, which was good for the time, especially for such a large drive (but after rebates and such)
I also needed to buy some printer ink, so I picked up a pack of that as well. Turns out the cashier scanned the ink twice and didn't scan the hard drive ... so I ended up getting a 250GB drive for something like $18.95 :-D
I also got a pretty nice deal on those crappy KDS 19" CRT's for $70 that pop up occasionally. As soon as it was delievered, I cut out and sent off the rebates, before even turning the thing on (perhaps a mistake, I know, but it didn't end up hurting me). Once I get it on, I realize it just plain doesn't work at the specs cited on the website (I was naive and thought I could get a 1600x1200, 85MHz monitor for $70..).
Anyway, I call back Office Depot several times and try for five months to get the thing returned. All the while, I'm living in a college dorm room, so this damn monitor is sitting in the corner taking up what .. 75% of my room? :-p
They tell me since I ordered it online, they won't accept the return in-store. They won't give me an address to ship it back to, and it would have cost me $50 in shipping anyway. (They send an office depot truck for delivery/pickup). The problem is, the school post office won't accept the monitor to hold until someone comes to pick it up, and the dorms (where I lived) are locked from the outside, so the pickup guy can't come knock on my door to let me know he's here.
All this time, I keep telling them they need to call in order to get ahold of me when they come for pickup. Finally, I talk to some manager and it gets picked up.
Through some mistake of theirs, I end up getting refunded for the monitor ... and my rebates came in. I fully expected those to get cancelled.
Original price: $160 - $90 MIR = $70. Price to me: $160 - $160 - $90 = I made almost $100 from OD's mistake.
Normally, I'd have felt pretty bad about this and called to let them know. However, I'd guess I spent upwards of 10 hours on the phone with customer service over the course of FIVE MONTHS of trying to return this thing (because it wouldn't perform at the specs they had on the product page), so I don't feel guilty in the slightest.
I also needed to buy some printer ink, so I picked up a pack of that as well. Turns out the cashier scanned the ink twice and didn't scan the hard drive ... so I ended up getting a 250GB drive for something like $18.95 :-D
I also got a pretty nice deal on those crappy KDS 19" CRT's for $70 that pop up occasionally. As soon as it was delievered, I cut out and sent off the rebates, before even turning the thing on (perhaps a mistake, I know, but it didn't end up hurting me). Once I get it on, I realize it just plain doesn't work at the specs cited on the website (I was naive and thought I could get a 1600x1200, 85MHz monitor for $70..).
Anyway, I call back Office Depot several times and try for five months to get the thing returned. All the while, I'm living in a college dorm room, so this damn monitor is sitting in the corner taking up what .. 75% of my room? :-p
They tell me since I ordered it online, they won't accept the return in-store. They won't give me an address to ship it back to, and it would have cost me $50 in shipping anyway. (They send an office depot truck for delivery/pickup). The problem is, the school post office won't accept the monitor to hold until someone comes to pick it up, and the dorms (where I lived) are locked from the outside, so the pickup guy can't come knock on my door to let me know he's here.
All this time, I keep telling them they need to call in order to get ahold of me when they come for pickup. Finally, I talk to some manager and it gets picked up.
Through some mistake of theirs, I end up getting refunded for the monitor ... and my rebates came in. I fully expected those to get cancelled.
Original price: $160 - $90 MIR = $70. Price to me: $160 - $160 - $90 = I made almost $100 from OD's mistake.
Normally, I'd have felt pretty bad about this and called to let them know. However, I'd guess I spent upwards of 10 hours on the phone with customer service over the course of FIVE MONTHS of trying to return this thing (because it wouldn't perform at the specs they had on the product page), so I don't feel guilty in the slightest.
100gb maxtor external hard drive for 99.50 - back when an internal 100gb was $250+
Samsonite leather chair (really nice) $89.50 - originally $329.99
Canon SD410 for $87 - retailed something like $300 when I got it
120gb WD for -$10ish after rebate and PM - was $120 at retail
Quite a few other good ones i've gotten, I just can't remember many.
Samsonite leather chair (really nice) $89.50 - originally $329.99
Canon SD410 for $87 - retailed something like $300 when I got it
120gb WD for -$10ish after rebate and PM - was $120 at retail
Quite a few other good ones i've gotten, I just can't remember many.
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HOW!?!?!?!?Fastone said:
And how did more than a few of you score Office 2003 for free?
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A buddy fo mine worked at CC during that deal. I helped him out with some things he had going on and got the combo from him for $100 as repaymentstrossos said:I got the same one, not happy with the mobo at all but a good deal nevertheless. I work at circuit city, one of AMD's partners, so I got it 100% legit.
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My first truely hot deal was the Western Digital 200gig hard drive for $224-$200 in rebates.
My second more recent deal was the Toshiba RS-TX20 for 121.00 after rebates. Came to 599.99 took half off with a coupon and I'm getting a $200 rebate in the mail.
Also got 2 free $50 target gift cards for participating in a marketing promotion last month.
My second more recent deal was the Toshiba RS-TX20 for 121.00 after rebates. Came to 599.99 took half off with a coupon and I'm getting a $200 rebate in the mail.
Also got 2 free $50 target gift cards for participating in a marketing promotion last month.
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TheGamerZ said:
How do you get all these freebies? Do you work for a hardware review site? or do you win these?
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theacoustician said:
Microsoft Tech tours are your friends
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