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The following is taken directly from the CompUSA web site: CompUSA.com » Free Shipping Details: Free shipping offer is limited to "In Stock" items only. Applies to ground delivery only. Not available to Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, or on International Orders. Not available on TVs. Not available at CompUSAAuctions.com, CompUSA eBay Auctions, or purchases from any of our affiliate companies. Not valid on clearance items. Excludes Configure-to-Order purchases. CompUSA.com reserves the right to end or modify this offer at any time. Please Note: All orders are shipped Monday through Friday only during regular business hours. Delivery time is from point of order fulfillment, not order placement. Offer valid 11/27/2006 from 12:01 a.m. to 11:59 p.m. Central Time Only. Last Minute Gift? No Problem! Let them know it is on the way with a FREE e-Gift Announcement and your gift presentation and personal message can arrive instantly! Click here for details. Want your order faster? Try our In-Store Pick-Up! With over 200+ Superstores nationwide, there's no need to wait on shipping - Our in-store pick-up feature allows you to order it now and pick it up at your nearest store within 15 minutes of placing your reservation. No shipping charges, no hassle.

It looks like the "Big Deal" from CompUSA for Cyber Monday is adding FREE SHIPPING to the stuff they had on sale previously. Not really what we were looking for. Personally I hope that CompUSA gets a bad reputation from this Non-Sale Sale and people avoid them.

On the APC Surge & UPS page it appears the BIG DEAL is free shipping for today only. Not really anything on a deep sale as expected.

Looking at the Best Buy cyber sale for a new monitor. Problem is that as of 8pm EST, 2 of the 3 monitors on sale are ALREADY SOLDOUT. This stinks. But on a lighter side, on BF at 11:45am (just before the secret sale items ended) I was able to get one of the Samsung Nexus 50 XM radios for the sale price of $49.99. Then on Saturday night (about 9 pm) when I realized it didn't come with a car kit and it had to be docked to receive the XM signals, I exchanged it for a Pioneer Inno. The Inno came with both a home and car kit, special antenna headphones, free activation, a $30 XM service gift card and a $50 rebate, all for the price of the Inno with home kit alone. Now while standing in line for future BF specials I will be able to be entertained by XM radio. Hey how about next year setting up a special BF XM radio broadcast with live updates to the sales?

I live in Metro Atlanta, home to the HD HQ and all the local stores were sold out of the TV by 6:30am on BF according to one local store manager. On BF the web page would on and off allow you to order the TV online, with a $31 shipping charge even though their web site said all orders over $49 had free shipping. Unfortunately I was out of town on BF and couldn't carry a 32" LCD back we me, so I had to wait until Saturday afternoon to try to find one. Bottom line is that all of the cheap 32" LCD TVs (HD, WalMart, Circuit City, Staples & Best Buy) were gone within minutes of the stores opening their doors on BF. About the best deal I could find on Sat. or Sun for a 32" LCD was $699.