What was your best PC Bargain ever?

smsff7 · 12 Mar 2010

mpcrsc562 said:

i got a seagate 750gb hdd and an lg ggc-h20l blu-ray rom drive for...

free!

(gift from a friend who is a constant hardware upgrader)

CarlTR6 said:

I got Windows Seven Ultimate and MS Office 2007 gifted to me. I think that is a darn good bargain.

Zepher said:

If were talking freebies, E6400, 200GB Sata drive, and an LG Blu ray drive I got a couple of weeks ago when I upgraded a friends machine.

smsff7 said:

I got a I believe 750W PSU Free after rebate

isn't free the best bargain of all? damn right!

yup :) I heard a few years ago a few people almost built a holw computer with free after rebate items and stuff they already had (like monitor and keyboard)

johnwillyums · 12 Mar 2010

I visited Winfields which is a cheap shoe superstore selling remaindered shoes, boots, trainers and some clothing.
They had a little sub-section selling a few cheap electrical items and in there I found a box full of Logitech Trackman ball mice. I got one for £3.50.
This was three years ago and it's still going strong and I believe it's still available at full price so quite a bargain:)

smarteyeball · 12 Mar 2010

whs said:

derekimo said:

smarteyeball said:

Bargain? What's that?

Is that where you pay a price and then discover the cost has gone down literally days afterwards - consistently?

Does a free DVI cable count?

I hate that, Buy something and find out it's going on sale the next week.

Many stores have a policy where you can claim the difference within e.g. a 2 week timeframe.

Unfortunately that policy does not apply to any of the stores I buy from...

boohbah · 13 Mar 2010

18 months ago i bought a belkin lazer mouse for £7 in TK Max it would have been £24 elsewhere.

Prisoner · 13 Mar 2010

I got 3 Dell Latitude D600's, three copies of XP Pro, MS Office 07, and a Dimension 4500 with a 500GB hard drive in it for free.

Parent's work is overloaded with computers, I could probably get about 10 more of the laptops.

CarlTR6 · 13 Mar 2010

Now that IS a bargain.

jimbo45 · 14 Mar 2010

Hi there
I got some seriously good stuff ( 3 decent working machines with 250 GB discs in them as well) from a Council Tip (now rebranded as a "Re-Cycling centre") in South London UK when I was on a contract in that part of the world.

Luckily some people in the UK's capital have too much money -- no harm in relieving them of some of it.

I'm using one box as a W2008 Server -- simply for file / printer sharing.

I'm using another as a Stand alone Audio music server

I'm using the 3rd one as a stand alone Internet box - this is what I use if I need to download anything from the net --I can check that it's OK before copying it to machines on another LAN.

Cheers
jimbo

Prisoner · 14 Mar 2010

Now THAT looks interesting. -wants to get a crack at those-

NoN · 14 Mar 2010

It's amazing how some can throw away...Few years ago found in such garbages collector a dvd/cd Player Samsung DVD-907 absolutly brand new...just because this model doesn't plays mp3s but classic Dvds & Cds....still working fine.

Luckystar · 15 Mar 2010

It had to be my last Quad Core 2.50 (£150). Bargain in my books, brand new straight from Taiwan and yes it was genuine