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#8 Merry Month of May
It’s been a while since I made a comic. This came from a silly discussion a friend and I were having. It involved an insane man in a police parking lot. Enjoy! :D
Bigger image: http://stayornay.com/comic/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/may-web.jpg
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I really don’t know how to use Tumblr. Whenever I try to reply to something or comment on something I end up re-bloging something or ‘asking’ them a question.
It was clearly not meant to be…
Name what movie this quote comes from!
“Death is but a doorway, time is but a window, I’ll be back.”
Haggling at a retail store… like a boss!
So my parents needed a new external hard drive for backup. My Dad already has one for his iMac, but my Mom needs one for her hand-me-down MacBook. So after seeing Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace in 3D (I had to… don’t hate me), I went to the nearby computer store MicroCenter. I’m not up in North Jersey often, so it’s hard to pass up a visit to this store when I’m around. And this time I didn’t even buy anything for myself! :P
So on the hunt for a hard drive. Since the floods in Thailand all the prices have skyrocketed. Internal drives are way up. Prices have almost doubled in some cases, it’s very sad. Especially how companies, such as Seagate, will raise their prices as well, even though they’re not effected, just to make an extra buck. So off the bat I was looking to get a Western Digital drive, not a Seagate.
Thankfully the external hard drive options were cheaper and realistically priced. $125 for 1TB, $145 for a 2TB or $169 for a 2.5TB drive. Looking on their website now the 2.5TB drive is out of stock, but a 3TB model is at $195. So since I always want to get the best price I pulled out my iPhone, scanned the barcode on the box using the RedLaser app and found that TigerDirect.com was selling the same drive for $149.97. A savings of about $20! Now if it was a few bucks, I would have let it pass due to this store having everything at half the sales tax due to it’s location. But $20 is a big deal, especially with my parents.
I remember MicroCenter advertising at one point that they price matched with Newegg.com’s prices. After a few google searches about this on my phone I decided to give it a go. I found an employee who seemed new to the position, but he confirmed that they really don’t have a price match policy. I showed him the Newegg.com site which had the drive for $165 and the TigerDirect.com site which had the same item for $149.97. After a minute he talked to his manager and they said the best they can offer me is $155. That’s $15 off the retail price, and only $5 more than the online price (without a shipping cost!). “Deal!” I said.
So they printed out a sheet, the manager signed it, and I walked to the front of the store. I picked up some DVD-Rs (50 pack) for $8 for my parents as well. The total came to about $169 with tax. The cashier said I was basically getting the DVDs for free! I never haggled at a retail store before, and quite honestly I don’t think I’ll have the ability to do it again (at least not at another store). But the lesson to learn here, is that it never hurts to ask or try. My 2 minute conversation saved me and my parents $15. Cool huh? :D
-Steve
