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Toshiba Deal Breaks Sales RecordCompUSA has broken a discount notebook record this Christmas. The superstore sold Toshiba notebooks for $149.99 during this past holiday shopping season. That equals more than $550 in rebates for buyers. The special only lasted 16 hours, and shoppers were stuck subscribing to AOL for a year, but bin-divers surely felt blessed by Santa to be part of such a record-breaking event.To get the Toshiba deal, consumers paid $450 at the cash register. The laptop technically cost $749, but buyers got $300 in instant discounts. Then, after they mailed in the appropriate photocopies of receipt and proof of purchase in quintuplicate, buyers received a further $300 rebate from CompUSA. Shoppers could also forgo the AOL altogether and get the discount notebook for $399. For a laptop with a 1.5GHz Celeron M processor, 15-inch screen, 256MB of memory and a 60GB hard drive, you can't complain about the price either way. It's no wonder the cheap laptops moved off the shelves to the score of 7,500 units in two hours. Do the math, and that comes to 2.5 per minute, which equals a sellout. The previous record was held by Wal-Mart, its lowest laptop price came on the notorious Black Friday of 2005, that big shopping day in America that occurs every year on the Friday after Thanksgiving. The superest of superstores offered a Hewlett-Packard laptop for $398. News.com reported that riots nearly broke out at several stores, with women's wigs flying and punches thrown, in part because of this sale. No riots or security issues were reported at CompUSA stores because of its Toshiba deals. By Matthew Brodsky - Laptopical Monday, January 02, 2006 |
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