[rollei_list] Re: OT: Consumer Marts
----- Original Message ----- From: "Marc James Small" <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx> 
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Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2008 9:44 AM
Subject: [rollei_list] OT: Consumer Marts


At 09:58 AM 12/20/2008, Roger Wiser wrote:
Interesting Don, While I was not a great customer of Best Buy, I imagined them to be a solid operation. Circuit City has clsoed stores in this area. I need a new laptop and while there are all kinds of offers from the retailers, I question if I should pay more at a local house. The problem is that they offer an Acer that I want to avoid. I had an Acer scanner, highly recommended, and it was too complex to use. I am also reluctant to change from XP to Vista. 

Best Buy is still very much in business, but has
had to lay off a lot of folks and is considering
closing stores.  eBay has recently laid off a
chunk of people.  Circuit City is in bankruptcy
and has closed about 10% or more of their
stores:  these stores are conducting fire-sales
which make visiting them VERY attractive.

Marc
All these people being layed off have my sympathy. OTOH, fire sale prices seem to exist at a number of places. I was at a Fry's store yesterday, the prices of computers has dropped substantially since I was last there a couple of months ago. Its possible to buy a very nice computer complete for around $600 to $800 USD and a quite advanced machine for around $1200. These are not skimped machines but have very large disc drives and plenty of RAM. 1Tb external discs are around $140 and I have heard they are even less at other places. These drives amaze me, the first storage _system_ I ever saw claiming 1 Tb was a "juke-box" digital tape drive made by Ampex maybe a dozen years ago. This was an adaption of their first digital cassett machines and would fill an average bed room. I don't remember what it cost but probably on the order of several hundred thousand bucks. Frankly, I would rather pay more and keep Americans working. 

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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles, CA, USA
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