You know what's funny?

Best Buy sells the 8500gt for $150.

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I just think it's rdiculous.

Wow! 8500gt 150$! What a deal right?
Like I can get the 9600gt less than 150$ from Newegg

Yeah, nice isn't it.

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But I got my 8800GT 's both at BestBuy much cheaper than Newegg at the time. They also were much cheaper than they sold that 8600GTS for. Most people get rooked buying harware upgrades there, but there are some great deals too. Also got an HD3850 from them much cheaper than Newegg too. The bargain to keep an eye on now is the 9800GTX. It is $349, but given the right sale it could be $300 and then 20% off that even. Might not happen, but the 8800GT, HD3870 and HD3850 all had similar deals happen to them. http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspag [...] 5538349548

Well, it's no better than my local wal-mart selling x1300Pro video cards for $130. xDD

But if you watch the sales, you can find good buys, even at Best Buy. My 22" Acer was $180 after a $100 instant rebate, and that was about a year ago. Or my old 120-gig Hard drive for $25 back in 2004.

I stopped shoping at best buy when the took CRT monitors off the shelf. They still sold them, but would not let you look at one or tell you anything besides "Duh, um ah just buy and LCD man its cheaper and better." Yeah well when you want a cheap monitor for a 5 year old you dont want to buy and LCD. Also as I have been in a bind I have had to go in there(AAAAAAAAHHHHHHH) for a mouse and some case fans. Total nightmare. My wife wanted to buy a new fridge, and suggested best buy. I was against it but she insisted. We went there, she talked to the fridge guy and with in 3 minutes was so pissed off she told the guy off (Been married 10 years and she has never told me or anyone else off) so we left.

If I'm buying an LCD or computer game I'll look there, otherwise my computer purchases are all Newegg or TD.

2 GB of RAM upgrade for $800!?

Damn.....I could build a decent PC for that amount, which would probably run better than the macbook. Kudos on just getting the ram from newegg.

I've bought minor stuff at BB, or found an occasional special there. Don't blame BB for having ridiculous prices though, blame those foolish enough to pay them.
It is funny though.
I've given more than one "geek squad" drone the hairy eyeball for thinking he knew what he was doing, when he hadn't even asked the right questions yet. Oh well.
30-35 years ago I got all my parts at Radio Shack (well, a few at Baynesville Electronics...). I had a lot of fun at my workbench, building all the little Forest Mims III books circuits, and tweaking them all over the place.

I found an 8500GT at www.directcanada.com for $47.45. That's less than a third of Best Buy's price

In BB's defense, I got my Logitech Z-5500 there on sale for $229. They're about $300 at newegg right now, including shipping. Best Buy isn't so bad, you just have to wait for sales.

That's not THAT funny... my local Wal-Mart has an ATI X1300 for like $139. That makes the 8500 GT look like a bargain... and I'm fairly certain they still have a single Nvidia Geforce FX 5700 for around $90.

What are the four words every business person should learn first?

Buy Low Sell High.

Yeah, I think my cousin got that deal on his monitor too.

And I wasn't really saying Best Buy was completely horrible, I just thought the price was humorous. I just got a gift card to Best Buy, and I was looking around. I thought using the gift card might result in me paying less cash than if I went to newegg. But that's not the case really.

I just noticed, the 8800gts costs less than then the 8800gt. And yes, it is the 512mb version.

Wait, that's because it's $140 off, lol. Normally $400!

Well, it was 4GB for $800. Since they come with two 1GB modules in the base version they would have to swap them out for a 2x2GB setup. They probably dropped the price because they can put in one 2GB module and just throw in an extra 2GB for the upgrade. That is just my speculation though.

Man !!!
That's a steel in daylight