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RE: [TCLUG:1585] STATE FAIR SUPER COMPUTER SALE



yea.. last state fairsale.. a friend of mine got a netowrk monitoring box for
$20, it's a fun toy.. sits on his network and generates mrtg graphs.. you can
sometimes find uniqe toys there.. but if you are planning on building a
computer.. don't even bother.

On 05-Oct-98 Jon Kotek wrote:
>   The whole fair thing is a rip-off, unless your going for something very
> unique and or old you will find very few deals.  I prefer going to a couple
> small computer shops around the area, if you work with them enough they
> will reward you by giving you deals. (And I am not talking about Computer
> Rennisance, sheesh don't get me started).  Anyways the last thing I bought
> at the fair was a video card that sometimes doesn't want to work and even
> Win95 had problems with it.
> 
> 
> Jon Kotek
> 
> 
> 
> At 01:06 AM 10/5/98 -0500, you wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Be aware, at last year's computer fair, a friend of mine bought a new
>>> PII-350 system with a 14GB hard drive.  When he got home, it
>>> turned out
>>> the wrong hard drive was in the package and he had to pay $6 again to
>>> get into the fair and return the unit.
>>
>>I've gone through this myself. If you bitch at the door, they will let you
>>in as long as it is just to return/exchange the item. You also have to
>>research what you're planning on buying. THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT! My friend
>>bought a video card that was labeled "Matrox Millenium II, 8Mb," because I
>>had told him it was a good card. When I saw it, it just didn't look quite
>>right, and $89 was just too good of a price at the time, so I got on the
>>Web. It turned out that it was the new Productiva G100. We went back to the
>>show to return it. The salesman was all set to argue until I whipped out
>>print-outs of the Matrox Web site of both the MII and the Productiva,
>>showing him the difference. He gave my friend his money back. Interestingly
>>enough, in the time before we returned, the guy had marked the same label up
>>to the proper price for the MII...and the Productiva was still attached to
>>it. <shiver> There's some poor suckers out there somewhere...
>>
>>>
>>> If you do buy,  stick with vendors you've heard of or are in business
>>> around the metro here or something, otherwise you never know
>>> what you'll
>>> get.
>>>
>>
>>I'm with you there. I try to trust my instincts about this stuff. You can
>>sorta tell who is legit and who is questionable. Ask lots of questions about
>>what their policy is about tech-support and returns/exchanges. Also, with
>>the way the computer industry is going, I've often found that BestBuy and
>>CompUSA often aren't all that much more expensive, especially when it comes
>>to video cards, sound cards, and hard drives. The technical ability of these
>>places may or may not be great, and you might not get that "personal touch"
>>but at least you can always return something. If I can come within $20 or so
>>of the show's price at BestBuy or CompUSA, I'll usually go there instead.
>>
>>Neal
>>
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Thank You,
        Ben Kochie (ben@nerp.net)

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