The Super Sales have started...

My techno set of brothers were up and at 'em early this morning at BestBuy where there were several HUNDRED early bird shoppers in line eager to take advantage of the super sales only available for the first several hours. When I say early I mean VERY early. Mark decided to get going at 2am to stand in line just to make sure he could get the "bestbuy" of his choice and he wasn't even FIRST at that outrageous hour. It was a nice gesture that they handed out free coffee and doughnuts for those in line. You can look at this way.. you might be losing some sleep but you won't be losing any pounds. ;-)

BestBuy had one of the best deals going here for a Motorola MPx220 Smartphone with a final price of about $50. :-) I love the ability to use the Smartphone as a modem.

I headed over to Staples for their 6am opening to pick up some great deals on a 256MB USB memory stick for under $10. I didn't expect a big turnout at Staples but I was amazed that there was still around a hundred people in that line. That is one of the justifications for getting there early before store opening.... you know you will end up standing in shorter lines during checkout. All the specials seem to be goobled up within 15minutes of being on the shelves and tables.

Comments

[Donald Burnettt]

I was excited for you to tell me that this phone was available and on sale.. However I went to the best buy webpage for this phone and it wasn't there..

I also found this note in The Register that this phone has been recalled due to a volume problem.. My heart sank, because I was ready to run out and buy this phone today..

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/16/moto_mpx220_recall/

[Dale Coffing]

Don... the ad is on page six on the flyer they had in our very FAT ad section on Thanksgiving. You can see it on the BestBuy Weekly ads of the BestBuy home site. I put a clip of it up in the main article for you along with a link. Normally $300 and with mail in rebate and activation its $49.99. I wonder if it is an instore only promotion?

BTW; I have no idea what the register is talking about in.

[Hector]

They had recalled all phones due to something in ROM but they were going to change phones in stores with the new Rom Problem.

[Cheryl]

This phone is awesome and BestBuy has only phones with the new ROM in stock. Also, all of the original phones did not have a volume problem--mine for instance is great and I've not had anyone complain that they can't hear me.

[Mike K]

Nice deals!

Wish we had some like that here in Canada, but I don't think we get into the Christmas rush as early as the US. We should be seeing some good deals appearing shortly though. I'm in the market for a new phone...

I did manage to get a Dell Axim X30 for a good price off Dell Canada's site a couple weeks back. Didn't have enough to go for the X50, but the X30 is a nice machine.

I've even got it syncing with my *Mac* now (yes, strangely enough you can use a PocketPC with a Mac) ... will have to post my experiences on my blog soon - http://www.macfoo.org