BigNate

I haven't heard of them charging local (city or county) taxes yet so it could be cheaper if you have those in your area.

Amazon, Sam's or other companies may have a shipper in your area but apparently Best Buy hasn't set one up for large items. Like I said, Fedex and UPS don't want to deliver large items to homes. It's a pain in the butt for them so they leave that stuff to smaller local companies, just like you saw with your gun safe. It actually makes sense if you think about it from a business standpoint. Any place they have a store they need to have a delivery service, people buying large appliances in store will want to have them delivered. They can use that same delivery service for online orders of large items. To be honest, it's likely that the large items never go through a traditional shipper like Fedex or UPS. Best Buy probably has shipments going from their large warehouse to their stores at least once a week. They could throw a TV in their normal shipment to the closest store then the delivery service from that store brings it to your house. It would be very cheap for Best Buy because they don't have to do much extra work, that big shipment is going from the warehouse to the store anyways. It would be much cheaper than paying a delivery company.

I don't know about Best Buy but I know some online places do not ship TVs with normal carriers that service the whole US. Fedex and UPS generally don't want to deal with large shipments that require special handling or multiple people to unload. Instead they use small companies that are contracted to do local deliveries. If they don't have a company in your area set up to do deliveries they can't ship you the TV.

My wife and I set a limit of $150 each for our gifts. Family gifts are going to be another $200 or 300 on top of that. We're also spending about $800 to fly home and be with the rest of the family over Christmas.

I would do your best to track it down. The last thing you want is to get something on your credit report for their screw up.

Honestly I fail to see how this is Walmart's fault. It's the fault of the basket cases that literally crushed a man to death because they wanted to save a few dollars. A store shouldn't have to worry about people killing others over a sale but the public is going nuts lately. This is why I'm not really planning on going out on black friday anymore. People are getting rabid.

If you were still in the manufacturer's warranty period it would probably be covered. However, you don't have a manufacturer's warranty. Keep on trying to call and fax at this point, maybe check the internet for any information about them.

In my experience the only warranty that is really worthwhile is the manufacturer's. For large TVs they'll come to you for service. Also, if you contact the manufacturer you often can get extend the warranty.

Let's say you buy gas today at $4.00/gal. You then wait to use the card until gas is $4.20/gal. It would take you 150 gallons to even pay back the yearly membership fee. If you get 20 mpg that's 3000 miles to just break even. They only list a few different types of gas stations where the card works, and if gas prices stay the same or drop you end up losing money.

Any tire warranty is prorated unless it's a manufacturer's defect that's apparent very early after being installed. Usually they'll give you a few months, a year tops, where they'll replace it with a new one. After that it's prorated. It keeps people from killing their tires on purpose right before the warranty is done and trying to get brand new ones. If you paid $120 for the new tire (pretty cheap for a truck tire) and they offered you $30 for it, meaning you had used 75% of the safe life of the tire. What's there to be upset about? They are paying you for the unused life you didn't get from the tire, why should they pay you for the use you got out of it? Tires are wear items. They go bad, you need to replace them. Heck, you used to be lucky if you 5k miles out of a tire. You got a few years out of them, and 38k. They only cost you $240 for the set of two, which was a great deal for truck tires. If they treated you badly, go somewhere else. However, any tire place will have the same warranty.

I'm not surprised. Honestly, if you want decent service you shouldn't be going to Walmart, they're in it to make money. The quality of the stuff they sell is usually pretty low, I've found that if its something I'm planning using more than a few times it's cheaper to buy a better one somewhere else. It may cost more initially, but it's cheaper than replacing it later.

I don't think it was ever even delivered! I think they just marked it delivered to make their numbers look better (I know many delivery services rate their drivers by number of packages delivered per shift) and figured they would bring it back later.

I'm just angry that they said they would deliver it the next morning, but then the driver marked it as delivered right after they left the note. Now it's not in the system. My bet is the driver wanted his "delivered packages" number to be better. I'm just worried that now it's no longer being tracked that it will get lost and I'll never see it.

One of my vehicles needed a new oxygen sensor so I ordered one from Rock Auto (for anybody needed car parts it's ridiculously cheap, very good deals) and they Fedexed it out. Fedex left a message on my door yesterday that said they would leave it at the apartment office this morning. It said they came by at 6:30 PM. I called the office this morning, they said Fedex had been by, but they didn't get anything for me. I checked online and Fedex said that they delivered it, yesterday at 7:00 PM. This is a small part but it retails for $120-180 if I you buy it at an autoparts store (I paid $50, but still). Nobody seems to know where my part is. ARG!

I'll probably do the same, I've got to get her to agree to fixing my jeep somehow...

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I would get the 9 cell if you're going to use it mostly away from your desk. I can get over 3 hours on my monster of a 17 inch with the Dell 9-cell battery. Its money well spent.

Welcome to the valley of the sun! I'm over in Tempe. Unfortunately, I'm not going to be in town for black friday, I'll be back in New York. I'll have to plan out what stores to hit out there.

Firebabe! Good to see you!

They must have huge electric bills.

Don't worry, I reported it. I assume it will be closed in a sec. MrsHoneybee is the mod today I think.

This probably should go to the Black Friday forum.

At least you aren't stuck with AOL like you would if you signed that agreement.

I got to staples at 5:00 and was maybe 6th in line. They didn't have the hot deal on computer systems though.

I was expecting at least a 10% discount on the ipods but I guess since people are already buying them like crazy they dont see a need to discount. If you want an ipod usually you're willing to pay full price.