On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 12:34:07 -0800, Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What great good fun! > > I went to Fry's as suggested by Rich. As Fry's experiences fall out, > this was in the third-circle-of-hell variety (I've had a couple of good > ones in a row, so I was due). The guy had never heard of Rich's > suggested special; he "searched" (if you can call it that) for an > inexpensive HD ... but their inventory SW: > > 1. can't sort on price > 2. can't screen out not-in-stock > 3. can't screen by location (i.e. we had to wade through LA etc) > 4. is subcategorized and must be searched separately within each > category > 5. is dog slow. > > I finally thanked him and walked away. I don't think anyone had ever > asked for an inexpensive drive before.
I think I missed the beginning of this. But I have found that Fry's deals are frequently reflected in the on-line web shopping at Outpost.com. < http://www.outpost.com >. Going to the web site, I find that one can click along through Hard Drives & Memory -> Hard Drives -> Internal Bare Drives -> Parallel ATA and finally reach a listing that can be sorted by price. Not too bad, I guess. You have the alternate path of Internal Retail Kits instead of Internal Bare Drives, also. My recent experience was that Outpost.Com was about $10 cheaper than Fry's on the 200GB drive special deal, and had a shipping charge of about $10. carl -- carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie
