[TriLUG] Lenovo warehouse sale until 3pm today

[Reginald Reed]

This sounds like my experience with the last sale.  After that
experience I vowed never to return to another.  Once I got in, the
prices were really not that great and many instances, just as much as
competing brands would be brand new with similar specifications.

On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Clay Stuckey <claystuckey at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> For those of you who missed the sale, you didn't really miss anything. I got
> there late so the line was about 30% of what it was earlier. It still took
> me an hour and a half to get in. Once I got in, I saw pallet after pallet of
> non descript brown boxes with those wonderful Lenovo/IBM model numbers that
> don't make any sense. (example: er4-223) There were no pictures,
> descriptions or prices. There were tabloid sized spreadsheets with a 10pt
> font 10-20 pages long with more information than you can shake a stick at. I
> kept hearing people go up to the employees saying "man, can I just buy a
> simple laptop?" Once you found Jimmy Hoffa, I mean the computer that you
> were looking for, you go to the next room where there is another long line
> to wait for refurbs, another for accessories, another for checkout. Yea you
> may save yourself a hundred bucks on a laptop but you are going to have to
> invest 5 hours to get it. I'd rather work 2 hours, buy it new and sit by the
> pool for three hours. No thanks man!!!