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Offline Adonai

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« Reply #15 on: January 04, 2008, 05:05:10 AM »
I use to work for them back in late 90s in Tampa, Florida off Dal Mabry - was nice the discounts I got from there, but jeez they never sold anything honesty, remember a few radio stations coming out to do shows there for free computers just trying to get sales and it generated nothing but headbangers outside lol

Anyone rember when Babbage's was a computer store which changed name to Gamespot and sold only video games? They had a store in local mall for long time, remember when games back then new were over 70 dollars :cry
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« Reply #16 on: January 04, 2008, 06:00:29 AM »
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I use to work for them back in late 90s in Tampa, Florida off Dal Mabry - was nice the discounts I got from there, but jeez they never sold anything honesty, remember a few radio stations coming out to do shows there for free computers just trying to get sales and it generated nothing but headbangers outside lol

Anyone rember when Babbage's was a computer store which changed name to Gamespot and sold only video games? They had a store in local mall for long time, remember when games back then new were over 70 dollars :cry
THATS THE STORE WHERE I BOUGHT THE #@$@#@#$ COMPUTERS! Right off Himes:rofl
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« Reply #17 on: January 04, 2008, 07:25:53 AM »
Yep went into the one here before Christmas and it was a joke. They were only doing 10% off computer hardware and most of it was stuff from early 2006...which works out great but they still had it priced at 2006 prices.
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« Reply #18 on: January 04, 2008, 07:35:08 AM »
Never bought anything from them. As with SOB, I went in there once...
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« Reply #19 on: January 04, 2008, 07:53:21 AM »
I liked their return policy. You could order anything, say, a cougar hotas, and then when you found out that it sucked (the next day) you could return it for a full refund just because you didn't like it.
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« Reply #20 on: January 04, 2008, 07:54:03 AM »
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Dittos on Tiger Direct.  They are good to price compare against NewEgg


Only thing I hate about Tiger Direct, is they are in Florida so I have to pay sales tax. That causes me to order mostly from NewEgg.

On the CompUSA, they used to have one when I used to live in Melbourne, FL.. but it was closed almost a year ago if not longer. They had some tough competition though, there was a Best Buy just up the street and there were two wholesale computer stores within 2 miles of their store. (one was right next door).

Then to make it worse they had a Circut City on the other side in a shopping center with a Target. They were still a pretty busy store so I was amazed they closed.
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« Reply #21 on: January 04, 2008, 09:18:43 AM »
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my brother lives in allen... i love going to the frys in plano... wish they would open a branch in south carolina


I wish they'd open one in Boise, where I'm moving to.
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« Reply #22 on: January 04, 2008, 09:50:22 AM »
been closed in Mass, for 6 or more months.
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« Reply #23 on: January 04, 2008, 11:20:31 AM »
I used to buy from Babbages. I think the last new game I got from them was about $32.00, I was complaining about the high cost of PC games then too!
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« Reply #24 on: January 04, 2008, 11:46:18 AM »
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I closed them down personally after they ripped me off to the tune of about $80 dollars on a return in the Mid 1990s.

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Was it a Packard Bell computer or a 3DFX Banshee video card?
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« Reply #25 on: January 04, 2008, 04:04:14 PM »
Sad.  For awhile CompUSA was a desired destination.  Then seemed to go through various identity shifts, e.g., briefly even trying to market their own brand computers.  

Competition is fierce.  Nearby are Best Buy, Circuit City, a local computer store, Staples, and Office Depot.  I've had better luck with Best Buy for computers (mostly HP) than any of the survivors, but apparently that just shows what I (don't) know.
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« Reply #26 on: January 04, 2008, 04:35:21 PM »
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Was it a Packard Bell computer or a 3DFX Banshee video card?


It was actually a defective Zip drive. I've only bought one pre assembled PC and that was a 286 in about 1988 :)

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