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I need(want) three tvs. A 42" for Family Room, 32" for master bedroom, and maybe a 15-20" for son's bedroom. My wife and I have done BF forseveral years but I will be in Afghanistan this time. I will be in the States during October (Ohio and Texas) and I'm hoping to score some deals during that two week window. I would order a tv now, but I need to be home to put it up etc... My fingers are crossed. I'm willing to spend about $800-$900 on the 42" and another $700 on the other two combined. If I don't catch a deal during that time at home, I'll just wait to January 2010 and check things out then.

Walmart at Easton in Columbus was awful. I "stopped by" at 2am to do recon on the location of stuff I wanted. It was obvious to me that more people than usual were hanging out in the store than past years. Thank God I didn't want the 42" or 50" TVs! There were already about 20 people sitting around waiting for those! When I came back to the store at 4:30am, people were digging thru the kids pajamas, knocking them on the ground, and I saw people people walking around with doorbuster items in their baskets. The Walmart employees were on the the intercom telling folks that the items were not available until til 5am and it made no difference! They had some 46" TVs in the main aisle, and suddenly a guy grabbed one of them. As soon as he did that, EVERYBODY started grabbing them! The Walmart managers had to go the each person and take the TVs back (they had to get the store security AND the Columbus police to stand there at 5am as they handed the TVs out)! The crowd was at least twice as large as last year's. I decided that this is probably my last year getting up for this (at least at Walmart). I'll stick with the websites for next year. It was not as fun as it usually is.

And Walmart calls it (or used to call it) Blitz. At the 24 hr Walmart, the majority of the Doorbusters are sitting on pallets and wrapped in Black Shrinkwrap or heaving shipping paper. Most people have scoped the contents out and will tell you what is in each container. Last time we went, someof the toys were in the frozed food section and TVs were in the clothing. It is like a scavenger hunt for adults.

Internet returns! I just picked up a print "Indian Summer" by Tadashi Asoma for $12.48! Its still available online for $99.00! Gotta love Target.

They are stupid! I just sent the link out to people to convice them that HhGregg has good deals and worth trying and the ad is gone! That will hurt them for sure. They won't be on my list for pre-planning, UNLESS they have the Nintendo DS Lite really cheap. Stupid move.

If it is indeed a Dual Screen & inch monitor AND it has a rechargeable battery, it is a great price. The lowest price for one of these in the last few months was about $124.00 and I don't know if it had a battery or not. If it doesn't have the battery, then it is an OKAY deal.

Reading the discription, I think this is supposed to be the 17 or 10 inch MONITOR. It has a slot-in dvd (not in the picture) and a TV tuner (not found in most portable dual dvd players). But it may be worth taking a chance on. Also, the price of shipping HAS got to be for a larger box than what dual dvd players come boxed in.

I saw a last week at the Whitehall Target. And also at the Easton location. But they had no more than 5 at each store. Goodluck!

If you have a Goodwill near you, check for the Disney Mix and Mix*Max Video players there! They went to salvage this week and were sent to some of my local Goodwill stores. I purposefully checked twice this week at Goodwill and tonight I found them! They had about 4 of the Purple Tinkerbells and 20+ of the High School Musical Editions. I bought one of each for my kids at $25.99! When I got home I checked the prices on Ebay and decided to get a couple more to sell. When I went back within 30-45 minutes, they had sold two of the Tinkerbells and a couple of the others. I bought the last purple and three more High School musical. My wife decided that she liked them and kept the purple mixmax for herself. I'm putting the remaining three on Ebay! Good Luck GDr's.

Leaving the U. S Border adds at least $60 in additional fees. I wanted Nassau but ot was .04 for the flights but $180.00 in total fees. So I chose Domestic and got Vegas for the $40.00 for two.

BTW! THANKS Gr8girls!!!!!!!

Excellent! I may just look for a cheap return flight to take later in the week and it would still be a big savings! I LOVE Gottadeal!

Returns flights ARE .01! Just booked Detroit to Vegas for my wife's birthday in September. Total with fees was just over $40.00! Not bad for an overnight!

Those Vegas prices are a little steep! I was considering Ebay, but don't know if that will work for a profit.

I bought two in Columbus (Whitehall). The one with the door unlock feature was $19.98 and the basic starter w/o door unlock was $14.98. I'm not sure if I am keeping either of them. Have not found out if either is compatible with an 04 Expedition with Keyless entry. Let me know if you want either of them. I will be returning one of them for sure.