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    Image of RainyDayInterns RainyDayInterns
    12:06 PM

    In reply to A Number of Best Buy's PlayStation 3/HDTV "Deals" Are Iffy
    We agree with all the comments saying using MSRP is "normal" for calculating the "savings."

    There has to be a basis used...the MSRP is the only one that is "standard" across all the stores.

    However, who really cares what the "savings" really are? What is important is the price one has to pay.

    Why? Unless one is buying to resell at a profit, the "savings" are irrelevant. Buy what you can afford...OK, what you can afford at the best price.

    Wait...how do we know if we are getting the "best" price? What do they "normally" sell it at?

    Ahh..I guess this is why we are still interns...
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    Image of thechansen thechansen
    11:58 AM

    In reply to A Number of Best Buy's PlayStation 3/HDTV "Deals" Are Iffy
    Free PS3, game and movie with purchase of normal price TV? Now I'm no huge fan of Sony, but even if you find a cheaper 46" inch and buy the extras seperate, it would probably cost about the same. And you would have a Sony vs a Westinghouse.

    Then again the only Sony product I bought in years is the reader, and while I like the product the support for it terrible, so my ideal bundle would be a Samsung, Xbox 360, and $150 bluray player.
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    Image of PurpleMonkeyDishwasher: PurpleMonkeyDishwasher:
    10:42 AM

    In reply to A Number of Best Buy's PlayStation 3/HDTV "Deals" Are Iffy
    Using Bing Cashback, 15% on walmart.com, I just picked up a 120GB slim PS3 with an extra controller, Bluray remote, arkham asylum, infamous and the dark knight movie for $313 bucks plus some tax and free shipping with site to store.
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    Image of bpbp1002 bpbp1002
    10:50 AM

    @PurpleMonkeyDishwasher:: I dont see the 15% anymore.. it was until Cybermonday
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    Image of Cheesus Crust Cheesus Crust
    11:03 AM

    @PurpleMonkeyDishwasher:: The one you are referring is $370, I got it at BF.
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    Image of Rejexted Rejexted
    11:15 AM

    @PurpleMonkeyDishwasher:: Whoa, I had no idea cashback existed! Thanks for posting this. I'm looking to buy my first tower PC soon and this'll come in handy!
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    12:14 PM

    @Cheesus Crust: Yeah it was $369 but with the 15% cashback it was $313
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    12:17 PM

    @bpbp1002: Actually, it's up to 20% now.

    [www.bing.com]

    Click the very first link at the top.
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    Image of PurpleMonkeyDishwasher: PurpleMonkeyDishwasher:
    12:24 PM

    @Rejexted: Yeah, it's great. I was skeptical at first because it works only if you go through Bing's website to get to those sites. But once you are on the sites, there's no notification that you got the cashback. Bing says it takes 1-2 days to update your Bing account to reflect your savings so I took a shot and hoped it would work. After a few hours I got an email and the savings did indeed show up in my Bing cashback account. Also, for some reason, if you go to the bing.com/cashback site and look for participating retailers, some of the more reputable stores don't seem to show up (Walmart and Dell for example). But if you type in Dell cashback or walmart cashback in the bing search field, one of the sponsored links will get you there fine. Dell is 20% and walmart just changed from 15 to 20% as well.
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    Image of Segador Segador
    10:31 AM

    In reply to A Number of Best Buy's PlayStation 3/HDTV "Deals" Are Iffy
    I always see if I can find out what the Minimum Advertised Price is for an item- MAP means way more than MSRP on anything.
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    Image of dragon:ONE dragon:ONE
    10:26 AM

    In reply to A Number of Best Buy's PlayStation 3/HDTV "Deals" Are Iffy
    Of *COURSE* they're going to be overpriced prices - it's Sony!
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    Image of Archangel1596 Archangel1596
    10:37 AM

    @dragon:ONE: Of *COURSE* they're going to be overpriced prices - it's Best Buy!

    Fixed.
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    Image of dragon:ONE dragon:ONE
    10:53 AM

    @Archangel1596: Let's combine the two: it's Sony and Best Buy.
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    Image of Shawn Barney Shawn Barney
    10:56 AM

    @dragon:ONE: You may be right, but its worse in Canada. Most stuff in general is 300 dollars less (ex. KDL-52V5100 is selling here at Future Shop - owned by BB - for 1799.99) however I bought my last two HDTVs (both Sony's) for amazing prices off Amazon; got one 50% off and the other 37%, not too bad but when you factor in our high dollar its a pretty good stinking deal ;).
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    10:16 AM

    In reply to A Number of Best Buy's PlayStation 3/HDTV "Deals" Are Iffy
    MSRP: No other four letters have such foul play chronically associated with them
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    Image of Monty Monty
    10:25 AM

    @OMG! Ponies!: I have never understood how "You Are Being Robbed" translates to the letters M S R P.
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    Image of lehrdude lehrdude
    10:36 AM

    @Monty: MSRP = Multiple Stores Robbing People
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    Image of flipnkraut flipnkraut
    10:10 AM

    In reply to A Number of Best Buy's PlayStation 3/HDTV "Deals" Are Iffy
    So what? The way I see it, I'm buying a TV at retail, and getting a PS3, a game and a bluray for free. Thats a deal in my book.
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    Image of RipRapRob RipRapRob
    10:33 AM

    @flipnkraut: It might be a deal for you, but it's not the deal Best Buy are claiming it to be.

    While you might see it as getting a part of the package for free, you are not getting the $410 savings on the TV as advertised.

    And if you can't see that is a problem you are part of the reason Best Buy thinks they can get away with something like this.
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    Jack Loftus promoted this comment RipRapRob was starred RipRapRob was unstarred
    Image of flipnkraut flipnkraut
    01:02 PM

    @RipRapRob: It's being sold as a bundle. If the cost of the bundle is less than if you were to buy each item individually, its a deal.

    Would it please you if instead of how they worded it to say buy this TV at retail and get a PS3, Bluray, and Ps3 game for free? Because that's pretty much whats going on with this.
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    Image of Voyou_Charmant Voyou_Charmant
    11/30/09

    In reply to Department of Defense Buys 2,200 PS3s to Upgrade Supercomputer
    "isn't it just a bit curious that someone thought to save on upgrading the supercomputer just after Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 was released?"

    That was my first thought.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    11/30/09

    In reply to Department of Defense Buys 2,200 PS3s to Upgrade Supercomputer
    Do they get a discount for buying in bulk?
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    Image of Avocadobride Avocadobride
    11/30/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: If anything, Sony would probably want more. Since they *probably* wont be buying any games for the consoles. Or, someone is planning a huge MW2 LAN party. A man can dream.
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    Image of mmsk8erboi mmsk8erboi
    11/30/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: Maybe, maybe not.

    Don't sony lose money on the consoles and make it back on the games anyway?
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    Jrsy Devil's Advocate® promoted this comment mmsk8erboi was starred mmsk8erboi was unstarred
    Image of ForestFire0 ForestFire0
    11/30/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: I'd think they'd get an extra charge. The reason it makes sense to buy PS3s for supercomputing like this is because Sony sells the PS3 at a loss and recoups that cost with the huge profits on games. I don't think these PS3s will lead to a lot of game purchases by the US government, so whoever they bought them from must be somewhat annoyed.
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    Image of The5thElephant The5thElephant
    11/30/09

    In reply to Department of Defense Buys 2,200 PS3s to Upgrade Supercomputer
    Along with 2200 copies of MW2 our "next-gen" soldiers will finally receive realistic training and will be more capable due to perks providing increased ammo and faster running speed. Not to mention the morale boost from soldiers getting achievements and the simplification of the entire battle process with "action buttons" allowing each soldier to win the war with an appropriately timed button press of the correct color and geometric shape.
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    Image of AtomFury AtomFury
    11/29/09

    In reply to Department of Defense Buys 2,200 PS3s to Upgrade Supercomputer
    Oh common, we ALL know that they're really just organizing a massive LAN party :D. I hope they remembered to order 5000 bags of Doritos too.
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    Image of Jamez Jamez
    11/29/09

    In reply to Department of Defense Buys 2,200 PS3s to Upgrade Supercomputer
    IMB? IBM maybe? Or are we talking about something completely different?
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    Image of Rosa Golijan Rosa Golijan
    11/29/09

    @Jamez: I am very much blushing over that typo. Corrected, thank you.
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    Image of Rejexted Rejexted
    11/29/09

    @Rosa Golijan:
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    Rosa Golijan promoted this comment Rejexted was starred Rejexted was unstarred
    Image of Rosa Golijan Rosa Golijan
    11/29/09

    @Rejexted: Hmm. Wrong hair color.
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    Image of toyster17 toyster17
    11/29/09

    @Rosa Golijan: Oh how I missed your posts this weekend, now I can leave my laptop and stop refreshing for once..
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    Image of snoop_dizzle snoop_dizzle
    11/29/09

    @Rejexted: Blasphemy! The only picture that will suffice is one of Rosa as she is much more beautiful than she. ;)
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    Rosa Golijan promoted this comment snoop_dizzle was starred snoop_dizzle was unstarred
    Image of Rosa Golijan Rosa Golijan
    11/29/09

    @toyster17: Pshaw. I post and you run off? I see how it is.
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    Rosa Golijan was starred Rosa Golijan was unstarred
    Image of Rosa Golijan Rosa Golijan
    11/29/09

    @snoop_dizzle: Oh, you charming suck up.
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    Rosa Golijan was starred Rosa Golijan was unstarred
    Image of snoop_dizzle snoop_dizzle
    11/29/09

    @Rosa Golijan: I was just playing. ;)

    I deserve the backhanding I suppose though. So go for it. :'(

    (For the record though, you are pretty. I say that in the most non creepy way possible :P)
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    Edited by snoop_dizzle at 11/29/09 11:58 PM snoop_dizzle was starred snoop_dizzle was unstarred
    Image of Jamez Jamez
    11/30/09

    @Rosa Golijan: Just blame it on Jesus. I'm sure it's his fault anyways. It usually is.
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    Image of Greatbam Greatbam
    11/30/09

    @Jamez: I thought the popular thing to blame stuff on these days was still global warming. I guess we are getting close to winter and Christmas though.
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    Jamez promoted this comment Greatbam was starred Greatbam was unstarred
    Image of Jamez Jamez
    11/30/09

    @Greatbam: Are you living under a rock? Global warming is a sham! Watch the news!
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    Image of aogfilter001 aogfilter001
    11/29/09

    In reply to Department of Defense Buys 2,200 PS3s to Upgrade Supercomputer
    Yeah, I'll bet a few of the "backup" units are being stored "off site" in the homes of the technicians.
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    Nathan Obbards promoted this comment aogfilter001 was starred aogfilter001 was unstarred
    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    11/29/09

    @aogfilter001: Nah, those are the units that "fell off the truck''.
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    Image of Weihovah Weihovah
    11/29/09

    In reply to Department of Defense Buys 2,200 PS3s to Upgrade Supercomputer
    "isn't it just a bit curious that someone thought to save on upgrading the supercomputer just after Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 was released?"

    i was thinking the same thing
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    Nathan Obbards promoted this comment Weihovah was starred Weihovah was unstarred
    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    11/29/09

    @Weihovah: Well, it is the Air Force. They have to try and get the feel for actual combat somehow.
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    Image of Paul 'Pauly Crush' Geller Paul 'Pauly Crush' Geller
    11/29/09

    @Nathan Obbards: drone practice!
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    Nathan Obbards promoted this comment Paul 'Pauly Crush' Geller was starred Paul 'Pauly Crush' Geller was unstarred
    Image of Illundiel Illundiel
    11/29/09

    @Nathan Obbards: hey be nice to the air force...just because they...uh...umm...just because they took over officially watch dogging the internet from the NSA and mostly fly unmanned drones...who says they don't still care?
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    Nathan Obbards promoted this comment Illundiel was starred Illundiel was unstarred
    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    11/29/09

    @Paul 'Pauly Crush' Geller: Nah, those are XBox 360s.

    [kotaku.com]

    [www.army.mil]
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    Image of SSgtTEX SSgtTEX
    11/30/09

    @Nathan Obbards: Hey hey, there are plenty of Air Force career fields that see combat.

    Just cause I am a mechanic and sit 700 miles from the lines doesn't mean we don't have guys running convoys through the heart of Baghdad.

    I am just yanking your chain. But we do have quite a few guys that see combat. Think of Tyrese in Transformers. Him calling in air strikes. AF really has those guys attached to Army units.
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    Image of SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!! SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!!
    11/24/09

    In reply to PlayStation 3's PSN Will Get Premium Level Pay Subscription in 2010
    It was just a matter of time. With the PS3 price drop, this was kind of predictable.
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