Check out this short story from my experiences last night. Just less than 2 weeks after I bought the UX50 CompUSA had a 10% off on all PDA sale. I took my receipt in and received $76 in store credit. I have been saving this for some future item or PDA.
Then last week when Office 2003 was released CompUSA had a great sale where you received a ton of stuff for free after rebate. We were able to get the Student and Teacher full version for $149 because of us homeschooling our 3 daughters. So with my store credit I was down to about $74 out of pocket. I listed a few of the free items on ebay and have already recovered over $30 of that back and should actually come out ahead.
One of the free items was a portable DVD player that we wanted so we could homeschool on our upstairs TV (my daughters use a DVD program for part of their curriculum). It had an instant rebate and a mail-in for $170. The clerk told us it was a problematic unit and recommended that my wife buy the $9 warranty, which she did. The backlight on the player died after 4 days and my wife took it back yesterday. They did not have anymore and gave her a store credit for $185. I then went back last night and bought the XBox holiday bundle for a difference of $10.
So we ended up with a high quality DVD player and a gaming station with 2 games for only $10 out of pocket. I hope to make some contacts and post some Xbox game reviews on the Geek.com GameGeek section in the future.
I also returned both the Treo 600 and Samsung Nexio S160 so my reviews should be posted in the next couple weeks.
Then last week when Office 2003 was released CompUSA had a great sale where you received a ton of stuff for free after rebate. We were able to get the Student and Teacher full version for $149 because of us homeschooling our 3 daughters. So with my store credit I was down to about $74 out of pocket. I listed a few of the free items on ebay and have already recovered over $30 of that back and should actually come out ahead.
One of the free items was a portable DVD player that we wanted so we could homeschool on our upstairs TV (my daughters use a DVD program for part of their curriculum). It had an instant rebate and a mail-in for $170. The clerk told us it was a problematic unit and recommended that my wife buy the $9 warranty, which she did. The backlight on the player died after 4 days and my wife took it back yesterday. They did not have anymore and gave her a store credit for $185. I then went back last night and bought the XBox holiday bundle for a difference of $10.
So we ended up with a high quality DVD player and a gaming station with 2 games for only $10 out of pocket. I hope to make some contacts and post some Xbox game reviews on the Geek.com GameGeek section in the future.
I also returned both the Treo 600 and Samsung Nexio S160 so my reviews should be posted in the next couple weeks.
