Laptop sale causes violence
Panic insued when a laptop sale happened.. http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/08/16/com....ap/index.html
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a four year old laptop? That pretty much a paperweight? make anything cheap enough and people will wait in line and buy it. |
Holy crap. I can't say I'm really surprised, after seeing parents come to fisticuffs over Cabbage Patch Kids, and having people get crushed over $39 DVDs at WalMart on the day after Thanksgiving. I guess the prospect of getting a $1000 laptop for $50 is pretty exciting, but honestly. You'd think the people selling them would have thought things out more thoroughly and come up with some kind of orderly system. If only we anal-retentive Virgo Type-A organizers ruled the world...
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When I first starting reading the article, I was expecting the setting to be Wal-Mart :lol:
People are completely insane sometimes. Instances like this make me realize that we really aren't that far evolved. We still act like enraged animals in certain situations. |
I just noticed this quote, does it sound to anyone else like this guy is hypnotized by his new bargain?
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Yeah, when I heard about that sale, I had a hunch there'd be trouble.
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Why would I want a 4-year old notebook for $50 when I just bought a new one?
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Here's a pic of the fiasco linked to boingboing:
<a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2005/08/16/ibook_stampede.html"><img src="http://www.boingboing.net/Picture%205-8.jpg"></a> |
For 50$, I'd be willing to buy an old iBook. You can always toss a copy of FreeBSD or Linux on it and use it for whatever purpose. So it may not be in the best quality, it's still a good deal.
However, I can't help but laughing at some of the quotes from that article. I'd almost loved to have seen it, just so I could stand there and laugh at how people can get so emotional and messed up over something like a cheap computer. |
Here's another article, my favorite part is at the end where they have a help desk setup for people to call in. "uh, all you a-holes who trampled people, call in tonight at 6pm and we'll help you setup your email profiles"
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And I thought getting gas at 5 cents off per litre was bad.
I try my best to avoid such sales. It just isn't worth it most of the time. |
dang this is scary, I read this deal on fatwallet or slickdeals, but dang this is nuts. 50 bucks is a good price for a laptop but it aint worth my life. lol
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A 4 year old laptop retails between $999 and $1,299? Granted I am unfamiliar with Apples but that seems steep to me. And if they were worth anywhere near that, I would be pissed as hell at my school district letting them go for 50 bucks.
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But that's a lot of laptops that they got rid of. come to think of it.. were they given to students? Why would a school district need so many? |
"It's rather strange that we would have such a tremendous response for the purchase of a laptop computer -- and laptop computers that probably have less-than- desirable attributes," said Paul Proto, director of general services for Henrico County.
Looks like someone is a PC/X86 guy. |
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The thought of the hole thing almost makes me want to be sick. |
Let's see:
Let some grade schoolers get notebooks to learn computers and whatnot or Let asshats who know jack about computers get in line to damn near trample each other I'd be willing to bet that the majority of those people saw '$50' and 'computer' in one sentence and didn't need to see anymore. Results would have been the same if it had been P3's out there. |
Some better off school discricts will issue laptops to all of thier students. When getting a new set, it's pretty commonplace to sell them at a token price to help offset the purchase price of the new set.
When I got my PS2, well, one of them anyway (I actually got six on the first day and sold five of them) the one I got from a store where I didn't pre-order I stood in line, and one of the clerks came out and gave everyone a priority ticket (I was #36) and when they'd handed out enough to cover their inventory, sent everyone home. This is what you do when there's a big crowd. I saw the crowds for the $39 Apex DVD players at Wal Mart on the news. I don't go shopping the day after Thanksgiving, and it's mob induced stupidity like that in this article that is the reason why. I hope the chair guy gets arrested for assault. Gilda |
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