(2005 thread but a classic) OT...YOU THINK you have seen something scary???. $378.00 HP laptop sale I was just at

[Anonymous1]

jarbo..if you don't mind...my hp III just craped on me after 14 years of great service...looking for a new hp...i will not stand in line at any time of the day...wanting monochrome only...have color...single machine user...want laserjet...whats say by you...thanks..

 

[VaultedTreehouse]

Dante, so many people flat out suck today that it doesn't surprise me. The sheer amount of people who would hurt one another to save a little money is disgraceful. Something is wrong with how common place stuff like this is.

 

[Jarbo]

jarbo..if you don't mind...my hp III just craped on me after 14 years of great service...looking for a new hp...i will not stand in line at any time of the day...wanting monochrome only...have color...single machine user...want laserjet...whats say by you...thanks..

Try an HP 1022 CHEAP CHEAP CHEAP for a B/W laser.

Printer Mfg's are looking to make money on supplies ( toner, paper,ink,add ons)

For HOME, buy cheap and if it craps out buy a new one. Sometimes it's mot even worth buying a Toner or supply item when out just buy a new printer.

 

[Doug]

Well, got EXTREMELY lucky.

Got a 17 inch screen (regularly $1374 laptop for $720 and it is awesome!!

TTinCO or anybody else...............It is a Toshiba Satellite M65-S9065.

What are the pros and cons of this laptop?

For the internet, it is AWESOME thus far..........built-in wireless, lightning fast, and huge screen.

Thanks in advance,
-FISH-

Con= very short battery life with Toshibas. You'll always have it plugged in. Screen is noticeably dim on battery power.

 

[Doug]

How's the battery doing, Fish ? Mine lasts an hour at best.

 

[Dante]

bump for Playersonly to read

 

[PixWinns]

I got to walmart at 2:30am was the first one there by 4am there where 100 people in a circle around a pallet of 15 Notebooks...I was right next to the pallet..everyone was talking of how nice there xmas will be and all civilized and stuff...


10 mins until they cut the wrap there are 200 people encased in circle for 15 laptops....I am pinned to the pallet..when they start cutting it becomes a free for all.. I have never witnessed anything so sickening and pathetic as this


I am not a huge guy but 6'1 210 I had my arms on one of the 15 and for 2 mins was stuck in this huge crowd of people trying to bully forward I was holding on to this for dear life ....my arms where stuck UNDER the shrink wrap still and I was being pushed and pulled all over...Finally broke free from it and now have a great laptop the box is a little bent in due to the commotion ...its actually amazing for the price


NEVER again in my life will I do that again people where getting hit and stepped on

PATHETICuke1:

Dante - Amazing story.

 

[Dante]

Bump for some comic relief....:O)

 

[Boxslayer]

Funny there was actually a post on another forum about how some guy wearing a Roethlisberger jersey pushed some little girl out of the way and got the last laptop. He then proceeded to say, "Who wants some!?"

Logic will tell you if you are surrounded by 100 Wal_mart customers for 15 laptops, you better bring your A-Game to get one of those. The culprit must have done some Dennis Rodman boxing out at least.

Police actually have a sketch of the man who did this....more in a bit

 

[Boxslayer]

Some of the youtube junkies will appreciate the sketch

 

[MrCleo]

i've seen something scarier. At my local footlocker, waiting for the Air Jordan 11s to release. basically envision an all out riot in a shoe store. ever since then I order my sneaks online as soon as niketown puts them up.

 

[Doug]

a pallet with 15 laptops would only be one layer, and about 6 inches off the floor !

The mob waited for an employee to cut the wrap ? Were the employees armed ?

 

[wolfie_cr]

just wait until the nintendo wii hits the stores

I have a friend that has refreshed the page from amazon at least 1000 times in the last month or so waiting for the PREORDER ANNOUNMENT........

they better put enough of those in the stores

 

[Dante]

a pallet with 15 laptops would only be one layer, and about 6 inches off the floor !

The mob waited for an employee to cut the wrap ? Were the employees armed ?

yeah she was ..she was about 5'0 and had the blade sticking out she could have cut someone when the mob surged forward hard enough it crushed some air out of me


the walmart clerk was SCREAMING HELP!!!!!!!!!!! I will never forget her terror

 

[kidslick]

Dante, so many people flat out suck today that it doesn't surprise me. The sheer amount of people who would hurt one another to save a little money is disgraceful. Something is wrong with how common place stuff like this is.

wow

I am supposed to wait in line this thursday night for a playstation III

this should be fun

 

[TTinCO]

This shit happens(to varying degrees) all over the country every year. It's amazing what people will for a bargain. It's only a matter of time until someone gets pissed off & opens fire.

 

[MrCleo]

trust me none of this was as bad as the Jordan release. People were robbed at gunpoint in the parking lot. Punches thrown, people being chased in the mall, it was bad.

 

[afawbush]

I heard on the news today that 90% of Americans will go to Wal Mart at least once for holiday shopping.

 

[MrCleo]

i wish everyone knew about the shady business practices of walmart and how they treat their employees like dirt. well, even if ppl did know I guess a lot of them would keep going there. but its ridicolous, walmart has shady mgmt and a lot of towns in this country won't let a walmart move there.

 

[Journeyman]

Hilarious...was there a Golden Corral across the street for all the red necks to get some fiddles after the long wait?