Archive for June, 2008

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As Rory Breaker, the villain of Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels said, “If the milk turns sour, I ain’t the kind of [cat] to drink it.”

I saw over on SlickDeals that WalMart has a promotion running on PS3s that gives you a $100 gift certificate along with the purchase of a 40 GB PS3 at $399. Obviously, you can’t use the $100 on the PS3 itself, but so many peripherals are needed along with a system purchase that it might as well be $100 off. The posting on the deal said Best Buy was matching it, and I try to avoid WalMart on the weekend if I can avoid it (I’m not a huge fan of insane crowds).

Just to make sure, I called up the closest Best Buy, got a manager on the phone, and asked if they were honoring the $100 gift card deal. They were. In the 45 minutes it took me to drive down there, pick out a few peripherals ($80 for an HDMI cable, $60 on an extra controller, $60 each for two games, $25 each for two Blu-Ray movies, and $40 for the non-Blu-Ray-but-recently-released season 3 of Rescue Me), they received an email from corporate that WalMart was out of stock, so they no longer had to honor the deal. When I got to the checkout counter, he told me there was no way he could give me the $100 off coupon. Read the rest of this entry »