Ok, so I went to Time Warner today to find out the difference between their HD cable boxes and Cable Card.
Can you actually believe I was told.. “You can not get High Definition signals with the Cable Card.”
My mouth actually tried to speak but I couldn’t.
Ok, I spent the entire day today wanting to slap best buy in the face. I found the TV at Costco for $2100 cheaper than Best Buy. Only problem was it had a 20 business day delivery time and $199 delivery price.
So I went around to Circuit City, Tweeter, Convoy Video, and Fry’s to shop the price and see if anyone would match Costco.
I would have NEVER have thought of going to Fry’s to look at the tv, but Tweeter said they would match Fry’s. They specifically say “not Costco”. So I braved the crowds at Fry’s on a Saturday! I looked and looked and could not find the 1080p TV’s. I stumbled upon a high tech audio room that had the receiver I am looking at… “but that is another story for another day”. So I checked out all their theater rooms and Eurika, there was the 1080p Samsung TV’s.
I was checking them out and my mouth dropped when I saw the price. They had a $2000 instant savings on the TV. So the price was $2999.
I was all ready to go back to Best Buy and force them to match the price. I was all amo’d up and ready for battle. But before we went, we stopped for dinner. Because it’s best to do battle on a full stomach. 😀
I went into their Magnolia room and talked with Justin. I asked them if they would match the price and he said that they already had a manager special for that price. WHY THE HELL THE OTHER GUYS DIDN’T KNOW THIS I DON’T KNOW!
I spent a long time talking with him, but the end result of the conversation is I am going back Monday to buy the TV and it will be he in time for me to watch the Steelers kick but in the Super Bowl in HIGH DEF. And the best part of this is, NO INTEREST payments for 3 years.
As most people know, I use readerware. This is a wonderfull library cataloging program. Today while listening to: TWIT I learned about a neater program for the mac called delicious library. I am currently testing it out. It will actually import from Readerware.
A review will be coming later comparing the two programs.
Went to best buy last night to buy the samsung tv. I won’t bore you with all the details, but just let me say I may not be buying anything from them again.
I was lied to, insulted and told that they won’t match internet pricing. Many of you know that they always match internet pricing. This is now the second time I have tried to buy a big screen tv from them. The first time was such a rediculous situation. This time I was told by two stores they didn’t sell the model I was looking for.
I happened to stop by the Mira Mesa store and noticed they have a Magnolia section, that has higher end tv’s. And sure enough they had the TV. I noticed the TV price was higher than MSRP.
I questioned them on that, and was told that it was the lowest price they are allowed to sell the tv for. I then pointed out that the smaller size tv was selling for $300 below MSRP. So that was obviously a lie about not being able to sell for less.
I will probably have to wait a few weeks for other stores to start carrying the model. I have not decided I want to take a risk and buy from an online store.
With all of the stuff going on about privacy and phone home apps, I finally decided I need to install monitoring software and find out what my systems are REALLY doing. I am pretty good about not installing software from untrusted sources. With the recent issues with Apple and Sony, I found a decent tool called Little Snitch
