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    A Number of Best Buy's PlayStation 3/HDTV "Deals" Are Iffy

    This Week's Gaming Stories, Dating Sim Gone Wrong Edition

    Castration Anxiety: Why Men Are Fixated With Pretty Girls Breaking Consoles

    PlayStation Now Extra Spotty and Interested In Girls, as it turns 15

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    Image of RainyDayInterns RainyDayInterns
    12/06/09

    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
    12/06/09

    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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    12/06/09

    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
    12/06/09

    @PurpleMonkeyDishwasher:: I dont see the 15% anymore.. it was until Cybermonday
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    Image of Cheesus Crust Cheesus Crust
    12/06/09

    @PurpleMonkeyDishwasher:: The one you are referring is $370, I got it at BF.
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    Image of Rejexted Rejexted
    12/06/09

    @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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    12/06/09

    @Cheesus Crust: Yeah it was $369 but with the 15% cashback it was $313
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    12/06/09

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

    [www.bing.com]

    Click the very first link at the top.
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    12/06/09

    @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
    12/06/09

    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
    12/06/09

    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
    12/06/09

    @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
    12/06/09

    @Archangel1596: Let's combine the two: it's Sony and Best Buy.
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    Image of Shawn Barney Shawn Barney
    12/06/09

    @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!
    12/06/09

    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
    12/06/09

    @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
    12/06/09

    @Monty: MSRP = Multiple Stores Robbing People
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    Image of flipnkraut flipnkraut
    12/06/09

    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
    12/06/09

    @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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    Image of flipnkraut flipnkraut
    12/06/09

    @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 Xagest Xagest
    12/04/09

    In reply to This Week's Gaming Stories, Dating Sim Gone Wrong Edition
    I know there are a few dating sims that get to the erotic scenes, and (due to Japanese conventions), the scene was censored. The way they chose to censor it, however, involved complete removal of penises in the entire game. It was horrifying.
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    Image of Diziet_Sma Diziet_Sma
    12/04/09

    In reply to Castration Anxiety: Why Men Are Fixated With Pretty Girls Breaking Consoles
    "Get me something to drink, yeah?"

    The hell? Douche got what he deserved.
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    Image of Curves Curves
    12/04/09

    In reply to Castration Anxiety: Why Men Are Fixated With Pretty Girls Breaking Consoles
    Just a note to remind my fellow commenters that not ALL men or ALL women are any particular thing. There are good and bad in both sexes equally. Just remember if you have a relationship, you have relationship issues. A lot of joy and a lot of heartache. Thats the way it is. Thats the way its always been. Thats the way it will always be.
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    Image of Twanzio Twanzio
    12/04/09

    @Curves: Do you need a hug? That sounded like it came from a personal place.
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    Image of Curves Curves
    12/04/09

    @Twanzio: I was just trying to stop the ALL women bashing, we arent ALL anything. This is not a new phenom to our generation either. Since Adam and Eve, men and women have had their differences, and personally, I wouldnt change it. Viva La Difference. :D

    ps-I have never bashed anyones anything.
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    Image of Mischif Mischif
    12/04/09

    @Curves: You can bash my anything...wait, that sounds like domaination. We should have sex.
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    Image of Curves Curves
    12/05/09

    @Mischif: Um....thinking it over....... No.
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    Image of fuchikoma fuchikoma
    12/04/09

    In reply to Castration Anxiety: Why Men Are Fixated With Pretty Girls Breaking Consoles
    I think it's more that after you put enough hours into these games, your save data is like an extension of yourself - if you evaluated it in terms of what you make per hour working, then even at minimum wage, this would be a tremendous loss, even not counting the emotional investment in it.

    So the girl sees it as a toy the guy spends too much time on her and smashes it. The guy sees it as a direct personal attack, like if she had poisoned or stabbed him.

    Personally, I don't think it's worth the risk of getting close to someone that unhinged. If a guy plays games and ignores his girlfriend she's well within her rights to leave. If she'd make a big deal about staging the destruction of one of your main hobbies... she's crazy. Get out of the house. Run for it. You don't want to be around someone that irrational.

    The console is not a penis. Even Freud (is attributed to have?) said "sometimes a cigar is just a cigar." The world is not made up of penis analogs.
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    Image of jinushaun jinushaun
    12/04/09

    In reply to Castration Anxiety: Why Men Are Fixated With Pretty Girls Breaking Consoles
    I'd be pissed too if my unemployed BF spent all his time on video games instead of me or finding a job.
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    Image of Killjoy Killjoy
    12/04/09

    In reply to Castration Anxiety: Why Men Are Fixated With Pretty Girls Breaking Consoles
    Assuming this is true (und dot is a big iff), what does it imply about the materialism it takes to subconsciously place consoles and genitalia on the same level of importance?
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    Image of Diziet_Sma Diziet_Sma
    12/04/09

    @Killjoy: You should ask the guy who'd rather play with his console than with his girlfriend's genitalia.
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    Image of Canoehead Canoehead
    12/04/09

    In reply to Castration Anxiety: Why Men Are Fixated With Pretty Girls Breaking Consoles
    Jeez, there but for the grace of God go I....

    ahem, I mean, that sucks for him. Still, if bill-paying is the problem, wouldn't she be better of hocking the PS3?
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    Image of EBone EBone
    12/04/09

    In reply to Castration Anxiety: Why Men Are Fixated With Pretty Girls Breaking Consoles
    Oh Freud, why does *everything* have to be about the wiener?
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    Image of OCEntertainment OCEntertainment
    12/04/09

    @EBone: Well, you know what they say....you write what you know.
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