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Here we go: today's Fry's ad in The Dallas Morning News: $230 for Q6600 + ECS GF7100PVT-M $200 for 1TB Seagate SATA300/32MB, 7200RPM $60 for 4GB PC6400
by aggieben 19y ago
Here we go: today's Fry's ad in The Dallas Morning News:
$230 for Q6600 + ECS GF7100PVT-M
$200 for 1TB Seagate SATA300/32MB, 7200RPM
$60 for 4GB PC6400 DDR2
$70 for Antec uATX Minuet 350 case
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$560
Throw in another $60 for 4 more GB of memory, and you've got what he's got, but with a bigger disk and much, much smaller case (it probably won't be as quiet) and for only $620 instead of $900.
- subwindow 19y ago4 GB of RAM is $60? When the hell did that happen?
- henning 19y agoFry's sells defective components back to customers in the hope they'll be too lazy to return it (they do have an extremely liberal return policy, though -- it'll just go back on the shelf for someone else to buy).
- aggieben 19y agoI've never had a problem with components from Fry's. Just gotta choose the right brands. Patriot and Kingston are decent brands that usually gets sold in good sales (I think I got a couple of nice Kingston 2 GB sticks of for $35 each recently). Sometimes you'll see a great deal on Crucial as well. I should also add, that your theory doesn't even make sense - the kind of people who buy components from Fry's are exactly the kind of people who will return stuff. What they are doing is just typical retail loss-leading sales in hopes that you'll buy that new DVD-burner* with a higher markup while you're in there. * or whatever