Earlier today, I stopped by my local OD store in College Point, NY. A friendly Caucasian (sorry, I forgot to ask for his name) sales associate said that by placing a special order via the in-store kiosk, you can slash the site's $899.99 AR price to $549.99 AR. He was pretty reticent, but told me that it is a special promotion OD is having now. I got the impression, from our conversation, that this is a loss leader and OD didnt want many customers in on this. In other words, OD wanted to keep hush on the deal.

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I am interested in this deal can you provide more details? I would like to jump on this.

Step 1 go to the store.
Step 2 go to kiosk.
Step 3 ???
Step 4 pay 549.99.

I need step 3

airtommy said:I've never heard of ordering a regular item at the kiosk. I've only heard of making a CTO/BTO computer there. OP says employee must place the order.

For God's sake, don't go to a store and tell them you want "the deal you heard about on FW"!

My friend, Adam, got in on this deal for $550 AR. The employee has to place the order for you to get the savings. At least that's what he told me.

good luck

I just called in to a local store who said they had three in stock but that the price is 799 not 700.

Anybody has a receipt scan? Perhaps maybe able to pm this to CC ?

http://www.CircuitCity.com/ccd/productDetail.do?oid=215022&om_keycode=66

I saw this a couple days ago and asked in store about the price before seeing this thread. The price listed is with a bunch of crap bundled with it. I asked what the price was for just the laptop. The clerk looked it up and said 550 after the rebate. I passed as I am not sure I want this.