What was your best PC Bargain ever?

[Carl Lawrence]

Hello guys,

What was your best PC Bargain ever? Mine was about 40 floppies in a lockable container for about twenty pounds.

 

[Jonathan_King]

I'm pretty happy with the nVidia GeForce 7200 GS I picked up for $10 + shipping.

 

[mpcrsc562]

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)

 

[DanFriday]

Just got these off of Craigslist for $20. Not a GREAT deal but better then $50 new and they sound AWESOME ! I would recommend these to anyone looking for speakers.
X-240 2.1 Speaker System

 

[TGSoldier]

I don't think I ever had any... :shock:

......@ 10$ + shipping..

 

[pparks1]

I bought a Dell Computer and went with the Nvidia 6800 upgrade from Dell. Well, the card seemed to have a hard time putting one of my Dell 18.1 Ultra Sharp flat panels to sleep. Called Dell and explained my problem and after confirming the issue, they just upgraded me to the ATI Radeon X800XT for free. They shipped me the X800XT and I sent back the 6800.

That was a great trade at the time. The Nvidia 6800 was about $175. The X800XT was $500.

 

[CarlTR6]

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

 

[Zepher]

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]

I got a I believe 750W PSU Free after rebate

 

[whs]

I bought a desktop 1 week before black Friday 2007. It came with an AMD 4800+, 320GB of Disk, 3GB of RAM AND a 22" HPw2207 screen. All of that for $480 after I claimed the additional black Friday rebates. In 07, that was a real good deal because the monitor alone went for $320 regular price.

 

[smarteyeball]

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?

 

[derekimo]

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.

 

[whs]

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.

 

[mpcrsc562]

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)

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

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.

I got a I believe 750W PSU Free after rebate

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

 

[DanFriday]

I bought my computer not knowing it was on sale. The following week it was $150 more. Another good deal I think.

 

[NoN]

I had rented a flat back in 2007 (the year i left it) which i'd lived 7 years in it....They refund me last month (was like more, late january 2010) the over-fees from my rent: $910,00!!!! That's a bargain for me as i have waited 2-1/2 years to get this refund. Damn, that was near Illegal!

I forgot to say, I did paid me the computer listed in my Specs (7,2% off) and me Usb Creative SB X-Fi Go! (20% off)! With that Damn money back!

 

[Kari]

A few years back, on a holiday trip to my native Finland, I bought a HP Photosmart 2575 and two Iomega's USB hard drives. Got a bargain price and because we were there with car, bringing them home to Germany was not a problem.

So, the price was OK and I paid with a credit card. It made a bit under €300, over €100 discount. Came home, and a couple weeks later got exact same amount I'd paid back to my bank account. I called to the credit card company asking reason to this refund, heard that the seller in Finland had canceled the transaction. Called seller in Finland, faxed them my receipt when they didn't know what i was talking about and asked them to debit my card again, I would have nothing against to pay for the stuff I'd bought.

My card was debited once again, and again about two months later the same amount was refunded, money was back in my bank account.

I decided to forget the whole thing. If they don't want my money, it's OK.

That's my best bargain!

 

[hclarkjr]

mine is real recent, i bought a visiontek radeon 4870x2 for $190 shipped from a for sale forum and the lifetime warranty was never applied for.

 

[Tarka Dal]

I bought this TV for my computer and found 2 weeks later it had gone up £150 in Currys...

 

[stevieray]

One day, about three years ago now, I stopped by a client's office to check on an upcoming job, and he gave me my first real computer! It was a Dell Optiplex GX50, with 512 MB of RAM and 20 GB HD. They were upgrading, and I was in the right place at the right time.

Free is always good!