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Originally Posted by fleury
After much ranting about Futureshop, my sister needed a laptop and wanted one pretty fast (within the day), so I helped her look for one and found one for an alright price (I did say I would not buy from Futureshop in the near future, but I didn't say others close to me wouldn't  . Anyway, here's the one that she got. I thought it was a good deal, and I've always liked Toshiba when it came to laptops. The 640m that others posted was another really really good bang for buck deal too, and that was one of my considerations, but it would take a week to get it which was not viable at the time. In addition to the pricetag for the 640m, you can find some nice coupons on redflagdeals to go with it. It was up there a week and a half back...check out that site too. |
Quoting myself, but another thing I forgot to mention, if you're going to FS to get it, the sales people push extremely hard for you to get the extended warrenty. My sis wanted the computer, so I decided to try and wheel and deal the customer service guy into getting an even better deal. It didn't work, but they tried selling their in-store warrenty ($300 extra dollars for a 3 year deal on a $900 laptop). So I say to the guy, I'll take my chances, knowing that to buy the extended warrenty would be assuming there's a 30% defect rate, which is ridiculously high. His response...statistically, there's a 33% defect rate among laptops within the first year. What a joke. Does this guy think customers are fools? We just took the laptop and checked out. Oh, and in between helping us out, he receives a call on his cellphone, tells us to hold on a few minutes, and comes back 15 minutes later! Ridiculous. But yeah, back on topic those extended warrenties are a scam.