Anyone know whats up with BestBuy and the SONY GRV680?

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Anyone know whats up with BestBuy and the SONY GRV680?

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The Sony GRV680 laptop keeps appears (sporadically) on BestBuy.com listed for $300 with a $150 mail-in rebate. Everyone at work has now ordered one: its a 2.6 GHz , 60 GB HDD, 512 RAM, CD/DVD R/W.

Has anyone heard anything about this? Has bestbuy been hacked?
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couldn't find any when I tried - pick us up a couple huh? ;)
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Have had several bad experiences with Best Buy -- not honoring extended warranties and such things. Beware.
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heh, who cares about much warranty when you get a new laptop for $150 :)

no such item now, it must have been an error, do u know if any of them have gotten an email that acknowledged the order and/or shipment Eric?
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Is it refurbished or what? Also whats the link.
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Everyone got the confirmation order emails, but not shipment, listed a 3-5 delay for shipment at time of purchase.

Yeah its gone from their page now. It appeared to be browser dependent too. You had to be on a MSIE on a Windows platform, and with valid login cookies to see it. Now we'll just wait a few days and see if we get a shipmnet notice or an apologetic email from them....
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This is the only laptop I'd take from Sony. :D
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Ewww, gross. (I like my laptops as possibly desktop replacements, ie large screen, full accessories). If i have to carry around external disk drives, etc its not a good laptop for me. Besides for $150 (after mail-in rebate) just about any PIV is worth it :) )
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HP has made a 17" laptop which literally looks like a desktop. Ewww.
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Well I have the 17" PowerBook and I couldn't be happier its awesome :)
only an inch thick though :)
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Oh well, got emails today saying "oops we messed up, sorry no computers for you"
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damn.. should at least get something, like a $25 gift cert or something...
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Oh they're promising us some special deal on something to be announced in the next couple of days... we're suspecting it will be $10 off a cheapo digital camera or something.

We knew it was too good to be true, but we still got our hopes up
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What you should do is email them saying you promised your crippled child a new computer and now you have to tell him BestBuy.com says no.

:twisted: Include a picture of some crippled kid looking sad.

Then put "How about a gift certificate?"
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this ain't funny! lol..i want a laptop for $150....lets sue em lol
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