Compusa is bad

[n_ick2000]

I was looking to buy the 40gb WD Drive from Compusa today. So I get there, looking at where the hard drives are. I see all kinds of different ones, but no WD 40gb. So then I ask a salesperson where they were. He was like "oh, we never got them in". My dad, who is good with debateing with managers and things like that was there, so he asks if we can talk to the manager. So, we get the manager and he was like "oh, we sold out of them eariler today. Then we cleared off the shelves and moved everything over". Bull Crap. They never got them in. The original salesman was right. I am so mad :mad: now beacuse I don't have my drive. They wouldn't give us a subsitute because the manager wouldn't admit that they never got them.

After that, I tried to pricematch it at Circuit City, but of course, it didn't go very far because the rebate on the drive was a mfr mail in rebate, but it was a compusa exclusive.

So I am home now empty handed. I would have gotten the bundle at best buy, but I don't have the money for the rebate and my dad doesn't want to spring me $110.

Now I am frantically trying to print the rebate off of compusa.com. But their rebate site (compusarebates.com) is SO slow now. Things are timing out all over the place. Hopefully if the rebate .pdf ever finishes downloading, I can order the drive from compusa.com and still get it, but not as soon as I wanted.

Either way, CompUSA is now added to my list of stores never to go to again. :mad:

[TheFrag]

compusa was good to me, but Office Max is another story

[cornbread]

Help your "dad" pay the $110.00, then get the drive you want.

[n_ick2000]

Cornbread, I would have done that, but I don't have the money for the rebate anyway.

[toastedzergling]

The bestbuy 80Gig WD/256Mb pc133 bundle cost $50 after rabate this morning, I woke up at 3:30 AM and arrived at BB at 4:30am, there were around 10 people ahead of me. When I rushed into the store at 6am I was so excited that I forgot to take the RAM, a BB emploree told me the memory was "inside" hard drive's box, of course I didn't check the receipt when I checked out and later found out there's nothing inside the box, not even the $100 rebate, worst of all they scanned my two pack CDR three times and charged me extra $13:mad:. Fortunately I returned to BB this afternoon and got the hard drive deal fixed, they wouldn't honor the CDR though. That's $120 (tax included) for 2 80Gig WD (2mb cache) and 2 sticks pc133 SDRAM, I've never gone to black friday sale before and needless to say it's an exciting experience. A lot of peple in the line are looking for the $650 Toshiba laptop which is crap IMO (1.5G P4 based celeron, 256M SDRAM, crap video, slow as hell). A lady in front of me were looking for CDs :rolleyes:

[Maxvla]

the compusa here after 4 hours still had about 30 of those drives in a bin.

sorry :(

[n_ick2000]

It's allright now. I ordered the drive online. The rebate loaded slower than a drunken turtle though.

I had to create a local small web page with the link so I could save-to-disk the pdf file because the link on compusa's site was a javascript thing, and it wanted to automatically open with acrobat reader and it kept timing out. The actual transer rate of the rebate form pdf was about 124 bytes/sec.

I won't get my drive for about a week, but it's better than nothing. I really don't think I will be going to anymore Black Friday sales again. The prices are great, but the rush is just not worth it. Plus the store employees are terrible that day.

[Edward2]

Your story reminds me of a recent trip to OfficeMax.

I get those early OfficeMax Sales Ads emailed to me, so I printed it and headed off to my local OfficeMax on a Saturday afternoon. I showed the ad to the store manager (just a coincidence that I ran into him) and told him that I wanted to get the CDRW drive. His first words were that they did not go on-sale until Sunday, although he was very nice about it (don't get me wrong). I told him that the email said to print the ad and take it to the store where I could get it before Sunday. Since they did not have any on the shelves, he said that he would look in back. He came back and said that they did not have any at all. I was furious!!! This drive was on the front page of their Sunday Ad and they DID NOT HAVE A SINGLE DRIVE IN STOCK. I told him that this explained a lot, because I had gone to the store on several occasions on Sunday morning looking for a particular item, only to be told that they did not have any. I don't think I have been back since then.

[n_ick2000]

Hmm, interesting. Makes me wonder if store manages get together and have discussions about how to be jerks to customers...

[Lithan]

I think the managers just dont know what the **** goes on sale until about when we do. (They probably get the adds early, and just dont look at them until they have to to label the sales and such.) and the warehouse or wherever there supply comes from doesnt make it THEIR business to make sure the store locations have this stuff in stock. So if they have this stuff when it goes on sale, then its in stock, if not... better luck next time. That blank number of units guarenteed is mostly crap. The only people who can be certain of how many they have are gonna be the first five or ten through the door. And probably only one or two of them are looking for one specific item, and so long as they get their's they dont give a **** if the store has 15 of 50 or whatever.

[TimDgsr]

CompUseless is more like it ;)