headlinenews
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Google checkout will not apply $10 coupon if purchase is less than $10.
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$349 Notebook, $99 GPS.
Ordered 4:28am EST. Order number 91777783XX.
Received 2 apologies. The whole order got cancelled
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what time EST did you order your items?
Transaction completed at 4:28am Eastern.
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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
Just curious because I too ordered that same computer. How far along in the order process did yours make it to. Right now my receipt says processing. I guess I'll just have to keep my fingers crossed!!
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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
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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.
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Already out of stock at 4:39am EST. Way before 6am
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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.
Ithink the toshiba is the same as the one from 2 years ago that was 400, which I have, and its great for what you want it for. Internet, papers, photos, dvds.
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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.
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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.
Here is the specs for the one on BB.com, the product code is off by one (listed below is Toshiba A135-S7404). Most likely it is the same one being offered on BF, BB has a habit of changing product codes by a couple numbers to stop price matching. Not sure if that is the case here.
Product Features
Intel® Celeron® M processor 530 with 533MHz frontside bus, 1MB L2 cache and 1.73GHz processor speed
512MB DDR2 SDRAM for multitasking power, expandable to 2GB
Multiformat DVD±RW/CD-RW drive with double-layer support records up to 8.5GB of data or 4 hours of video using compatible DVD+R DL and DVD-R DL media; also supports DVD-RAM
15.4" TFT-LCD widescreen display with TruBrite technology and 1280 x 800 native resolution; support for 720p
80GB Serial ATA hard drive (5400 rpm)
Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 950 with 8MB-64MB dynamically allocated shared graphics memory; S-video output
CD/DVD media controls for easy one-touch access to movies and music; Internet button conveniently launches default Web browser
5-in-1 bridge media adapter supports Memory Stick, Memory Stick PRO, MultiMediaCard, Secure Digital and xD-Picture Card
4 high-speed USB 2.0 ports for fast digital video, audio and data transfer
Built-in Atheros high-speed wireless LAN (802.11b/g); 10/100Base-TX Ethernet LAN with RJ-45 connector; 56 Kbps modem
Weighs only 6 lbs. and measures just 1.5" thin for lightweight portability; lithium-ion battery
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic Edition operating system preinstalled; software package included with Microsoft Works 8.5, Ulead DVD MovieFactory 5, Adobe Acrobat Reader and more
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Bring the item and receipt back, tell them they were wrong. They will give you the difference, plus $3.
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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?
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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.
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