I just heard Limbaugh doing a commercial for CompUSA

Keep that in mind if you're thinking of shopping there.

I've been there twice previously. I found their merchandise overpriced and their employees annoying.


:thumbsdown: :thumbsdown:


FWIW: I usually try to mail order from NewEgg.

no more. Never did that often anyway. I will look into NewEgg, though.

And the ones I've encountered the few times I've visited one locally were incredibly ignorant about their products.

I was helping someone price shop for an LCD monitor a couple months ago and went there to use their prices as the water mark for "too high." One little twerp wouldn't leave me alone, so I finally just started asking him questions to which I already knew the answers just to see what he'd say. He got past the easy ones, i.e. the ones he could answer by looking at the product tag with the price on it, but when I got into more intricate things like response times and performance under various conditions, I just got a lot of gobbledy-gook he obviously pulled out of thin air. They were apparently trying to push this wide-screen monitor they had on sale, and he kept referring to it, which annoyed me because I'd already told him I didn't want it. Again, he wouldn't shut up about it, so I asked a question about it, such as why the text was so blurry.

"Oh, that's because the computer it is attached to doesn't have a fast enough video card (not that it was relevant to the sharpness of the font, but it had a NVidia 6600), and we've never loaded the font drivers for this monitor on that system."

"Font drivers." I laughed in his face and took that as my cue to leave.

Found a monitor I thought was decent and that pleased the person who wanted it at a small, locally owned shop, and paid about $50 less for it than what CompUSA was asking.

Both are great.

JG