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CompUSA closing stores, Oliver’s dilemma
By Paul Venezia | March 17, 2007, 1:38 pm
Just got a call from our erstwhile friend Oliver. He was standing in a CompUSA near Edison, NJ, and sounded like a Supermarket Spree contestant. Apparently CompUSA is closing a bunch of stores, and those stores are selling everything except the walls at steep discounts. Note: This includes all Apple hardware.
The 15″ MacBook Pro that Ollie dropped $2,800 on a few months ago was $2,100. 22″ Viewsonic displays for $290 and so forth. HDTVs too. Poor Oliver was having a mental breakdown — quivering in an aisle, laden with hard drives, flash cards, and DVD burners, trying desperately not to spend money and failing miserably. I can only imagine the other furtive, geeky figures scampering around the store, picking the bones clean. Savages.
Of course the joke’s on me; my nearest CompUSA is 60mi away.
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March 18th, 2007 at 3:13 pm
Got away cheap, really. Picked up about 400GB of DIY USB storage (you gotta love that value bin) and one of the new powerline Ethernet setups (192Mbps) so I can connect the basement lab to the upstairs office without dropping a Cat5e cable.
Then again, I may go back.