From: dennison@telepath.com
Subject: Re: CompUSA New Policy
Date: 1999/02/24
Date: 1999-02-24T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7b16dn$p0e$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7avmc6$gvf$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com
In article <7avmc6$gvf$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
schrader01@my-dejanews.com wrote:
> I agree! Not only are CompUSA's prices 20% more than mail order, now they
> have the same restocking charge. I wonder if this has anything to do with
> their buying of Computer City, and thus eliminating the competition.
At one point we had a Computer City, CompUSA and Best Buy within a mile of
each other here in Tulsa. I took a notepad with me to each store and wrote
down the prices for all the games each had that I was remotely interested in.
I happen to have the list right here with me.
In games more than one had, CompUSA had the higest price of all but one, and
it never had the lowest price. Best Buy had the lowest price in all but 3.
There were lots of ties, but none 3-way. CompUSA also had the smallest
selection (again, of the games I was interested in).
Interestingly, I found later that Wal-Mart seems to have even lower prices
than BB, and its open 24 hours.
If anyone's interested, I can send or post the raw data. But it seems the
lesson here is clear. I always mentally add the restocking fee to the price,
so that just puts them further out.
T.E.D.
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Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-02-18 0:00 CompUSA New Policy David Botton
1999-02-24 0:00 ` schrader01
1999-02-24 0:00 ` DPH
1999-02-24 0:00 ` dennison [this message]
1999-02-24 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-02-25 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-25 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-25 0:00 ` bill
1999-02-26 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-25 0:00 ` bill
1999-02-26 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1999-02-26 0:00 ` fmanning
1999-02-28 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-27 0:00 ` bill
1999-02-28 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-02-28 0:00 ` Bob Collins
1999-02-28 0:00 ` bill
1999-03-01 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-01 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-01 0:00 ` dennison
1999-03-01 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-03-01 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-28 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-03-01 0:00 ` fraser
1999-03-01 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-26 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-26 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-03-12 0:00 ` Tony Gair
1999-02-26 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-26 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-02-26 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-28 0:00 ` robert_dewar
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