[geeks] FYI: CompUSA is offering OS X 10.5 for $99 (after rebate)

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com>
>Date: 2007/10/27 Sat PM 09:07:43 CDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] FYI: CompUSA is offering OS X 10.5 for $99 (after 
rebate)

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>Maybe I didn't look enough, but I checked with local stores and a lot  
>of other people, and never could find a distributor worth doing  
>business with.
>
>Three local computer consultants and one store that I know of buy all  
>of their equipment at Newegg, using multiple addresses to get around  
>ordering restrictions.  That's the only way they can stay alive.

When I built a few servers a month at $JOB-1 we found that we could usually 
get the best prices at newegg.com or provantage.com (and sometimes 
compuvest.com). We had a relationship with a major wholesale distributor, but 
the prices weren't usually great - the real value was the net 30 days terms.

I flirted with the idea of a retail computer parts/repair business this 
weekend (a small shop in a popular strip mall is available - maybe 800-900 sq 
feet), but based on the posts on this list, I 've put it right out of my 
mind...

Lionel