[TriLUG] OT: Retail Sharks

[Aaron S. Joyner]

Just a note, I'm not sure what you consider to be very expensive, but at 
the moment blank DVDs actually on sale (have been for a week or two).  
Right on the front page (http://www.intrex.net/) - 10 packs - Buy two 
get one free.  I actually heard a rumor today though, that some people 
have had reliability / coaster issues with them, and since I'm rather 
stocked for DVD-Rs at the moment I have yet to purchase any.  Anyone 
else have any practical experience to share?

Just to be fair, I poked CompUSA's website real quick to compare 
prices.  The best deal I could find was on unknown or CompUSA brand 
DVD-Rs in pack sizes from 25 to 50 which were approximately $1 a piece 
(same basic price as at Intrex).  Note that those were 1x discs, not 4x 
discs.  The ones we have at Intrex I'm fairly sure are KHypermedia or 
some other off-brand, but are 4x as opposed to 1x, and at the same 
cost.  Is there some in-store special or particular bundle deal from 
CompUSA that I'm overlooking?

Aaron J.


ALFRED JOHNSON wrote:

> On the other hand, Intrex has extremely expensive blank DVD's while 
> Compusa has the cheapest.  The biggest mistake most shoppers make is 
> assuming that just because a store is the cheapest on product X that 
> they must be the cheapest on product Y.  Just about every store has 
> it's loss leaders and products priced sky-high. Anything you need to 
> obtain at the lowest price needs to be compared in every store that 
> sells it. -- Al Johnson.
> On Friday, April 16, 2004, at 03:57 PM, Kevin Flanagan wrote:
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>> If you are in the N Raleigh area, I'll give you a dozen for free!  We
>> boxes of the things.
>>
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>>> Retailers need to compete with online competition and get their act
>>> together.  Example Compusa.  I needed a plain power cable for a PC.
>>> Price  at CompUSA $19.99.  Price at Intrex $1.50.  Give me a break 
>>> there
>>> is no  explanation between the two prices.  If anything Compusa should
>>> be  cheaper.  I can take a markup for convienence but that is a little
>>> excessive.
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