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Was in walmart 3 years ago to wait for the cheap notebook. It is a 24-hour walmart but the sale won't be effective until 6am. People lining up since 2am. At 6, when the staff brings out the notebooks, people not in line all rush toward the staff and grabbed all the notebooks. People lined up can't even get a chance to touch the notebooks.

Google checkout will not apply $10 coupon if purchase is less than $10.

$349 Notebook, $99 GPS. Ordered 4:28am EST. Order number 91777783XX. Received 2 apologies. The whole order got cancelled

Transaction completed at 4:28am Eastern.

It's an email I received from staples. Basically my credit card has been charged and my order status showed the delivey date of 11/27. Of course, it's not there anymore, and I have not see a refund on my credit card

Valued Staples Customer, Re: Item #: 718680 x1 COMPAQ PRESARIO C712NR NB PC Unfortunately, the inventory on the "while supplies last" item you ordered has been depleted due to high demand. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. You were not billed for this item. We do offer similar products that you may find suitable. If you would like assistance finding an alternate item please call our customer service team at 800-333-3330, option 2 or you can place your order at www.staples.com. Thank you for choosing Staples. Staples Customer Service

The staples we went sucks! First they do have tickets, but they don't give the tickets before the store opens. Instead, they give everyone a map of the store (which shows the ticket counters in the store and what item tickets are available at each counter). And then... The store opens, everyone went to the ticket counters of their choice. Instead of first come, first serve, the staff basically made people beg for tickets -- They chose who gets the tickets. For example, they have 9 tickets of notebooks but only 1 of the first 9 persons in line got the ticket.

Already out of stock at 4:39am EST. Way before 6am

Not true. The processor is actually a Core Solo now. But Vista make the notebook slower than a Pentium III running XP. Toshiba notebooks cannot "upgrade" to XP.

Last year I was the first in line outside Staples in Iowa City, IA. But turns out the staff bought all the notebooks before the store opens.

One thing I don't like about Toshiba is that the function keys (fn + F6/F7 for contrast, for example) and the volume dial are not hardwired. If this notebook is really a re-numbered S7404, too bad that there are no driver for XP so all those won't work if I "upgrade" the notebook to XP. I don't know why they do it that way. Acer, Compaq/HP has the function keys hardwired.

Bring the item and receipt back, tell them they were wrong. They will give you the difference, plus $3.

Hi everyone. I ordered a B120 notebook during the $399 sale on Monday after Thanksgiving. Still in pre-production stage according to the dell.com status page. How's yours?

Couple friends and I went to a 24-hr Walmart in Coralville (the town next to Iowa City) at 3am on Friday. About 10 people already lined up at the electronic department and we are the 11th-13th. The line grew to about 45 by 4:30am. Between 4:30-5:00, about 20 people show up around the electronic department without lining up, and they are gathering around the warehouse entrance next to the department. Okay now's the fun part. At 5am, about 5 associates were surrounding the cart of 20 HP laptops while they were pulled out from the warehouse. The manager was kind enough to asked the associates to move the cart to the first people in line. I believe she was planning to hand out the notebooks to the people who lined up. When the notebooks arrived, those who didn't lined up began to beat the associates AND each other and grab the notebooks. And after 30 seconds of chaos all 20 notebooks were gone, and only the 3rd person in the line got one. Well, not that I am ranting after an unsuccessful attempt to buy a notebook in Walmart. But this was the worst of mankind I've seen. In the 3 minutes after 5am, before I left Walmart, I saw this sight: Those who gets a notebook got beaten up because (1) someone who doesn't get one tries to grab one from their hands, and (2) someone who already taken one tries to grab one more from them. When I left I saw a woman having 3 notebooks in her cart. Those who doesn't get a notebook got beaten up without a reason. The associates got beaten up, again, without a reason. I guess I just don't understand the "first come, first serve" policy the manager mentioned that morning before the notebook came out. Maybe she's too lazy to hand out tokens just like another Walmart 50 miles away, and just inexperienced enough to think that people are nice. Anyway, without getting a notebook, we drove to Staples in Iowa City, and we arrived there around 5:10am. We were the 30th-32nd person in line. I have another friend who was at the 4th position. The staff were so nice that they handed out store maps indicating where the stuff were in the store. So at 6am, the store opens. My friend was the 1st and we were about the 5th at the location where the Acer notebooks would be distributed (note that it was not the place where they showcase the other notebooks). Sadly, there were no notebook there. The staff there tells different people different stories (which at least one of those is not true): (1) The notebooks were sold out. (2) This store was not planning to sell any of those notebooks. Finally, none of the people in line get a discounted notebook. This really bugs me because on the store map, the word "Acer Laptop" was printed on the location. Also a price tag was placed on the counter of that location, meaning the notebooks should be available in that store and it should not be sold out (again, that was not the place for notebook or notebook price tags usually) Were the staff there kept the notebooks from the crowd so that they are purchase those themselves? I don't know. Anyway, thanks to gottadeal. I just ordered 2 B120 from dell today.