Ai42

Ok this is a lot of work to get this price so if you don't got the time this won't work.

http://www.nd.edu/~cgwaltne/scans/
That is this weekends ad flyers that will come out this comming sunday. Check out the OfficeMax ad, dlink DWL-900AP is $60 (no rebates) not bad deal. Well to get it next to free.....

Circuit City has the same AP for $179.99 with a $50 rebate (you can check the circuit city website to check it out).

Ok so you go out today, (possibile on Sunday too but chances are they will be sold out), and buy the AP at Cirucit City. Act stupid every store I've been to hasen't shown the rebate on the shelf tag so act stupid and surpsrised when the rebate receipt prints out. Say thank you and leave the store.

Ok so when Sunday rolls around check your newspaper for the OfficeMax ad, and go back to Circuit City and have them Price Match Office Max from your previous purchase. You SHOULD get a 110% of the differance (if they try to deny you or something you can make a big scene and start yelling that they are advertising the 110% price garuantee on TV (which is true) (usually always works if you make a big scence that catches other customers attention, in front of the manager)).

So....
You paid $180 + tax
you get $132 + tax back from the price match.
$48 in total cost
then send in your $50 rebate and make $2 (but chances are you ended up paying that in taxes)

PLEASE NOTE!!!
Not all OfficeMax areas have the same ads at the same time, so if it isn't in your ad you have up to 30 days for it to show up in the following weeks ads.
I would NOT OPEN the AP from Circuit city, or send in the rebate because if it all falls through it is a very expensive AP, so you can return it for a full refund if it is still sealed.
I am not responsible if you overpaid for an AP.

freshinc

Got mine today (Sat) for $59.99. I went to CC with a pic out of one the post and they sold it to me for the same price and gave me $50 mail in rebate. An ap for $9.99 sweettttt.

Good looking out...

rerunn

Thats one hell of a scam^H^H^H^Hscheme.

Too bad none of those stores exist around here

Good luck!

WitchDr

Well, I got the AP at CC but there is no Office Max ad in this Sunday's paper. I guess I can go over to Office Max and see if they have a local copy or something.

freshinc

Witchdr,
Use the pic of the ad in this post. I printed the pic from this post and took it to CC and they took it....No ?'s asked..

Ai42

So anyway I was looking at the box.... that dlink AP is 10/BaseT connection! Dlink! I want my 1 MegaBit back! Oh well no worries can't beat a $3.44 AP

mentat

Then build your own AP with a laptop, you'll never get real 11 Mb performance with the off the self APs.

biko

thanks very much for the idea !

but from which area in the US is that Office Max catalog ? And Í couldn´t find dates on it, so they maybe say that they won´t accept it if its just printed out !
did anyone try this with the printout ?

fordem

You'll never get real 11Mb performance with 802.11b!

Max throughput is probably 6Mb without WEP - and my experience with 10baseT is that the average throughput is about 4-7Mb, although one time I was using the 3Com parallel tasking cards - when they first came out - 3 clients hammering a single server - actually saw 11Mb throughput WITH the collision light on the hub flashing bigtime

Ai42

You can print directly off Office Max's website goto "In-Store specials" on the side pannel, then state/city. But like I said not all ads are released at the same time I pricematched from Texas/Waco (I'm in Dallas 150mi away). I used it to price match worked great, especially if you use Windows/IE and it prints off the web address and print it out the same day you go price match, so they can't say that it isn't current.

What are you talking about, I think you have this badly confused?! MegaBIT or MegaBYTE?! There is a pretty big differance. Network speeds are measured in MegaBIT. To translate from MegaBIT to MegaBYTE you divde Bit by 8.

MB=Megabit
Mb=Megabyte

So at 100MB (standard 10/100 network) your theroetical max MegaByte transfer is 12.5Mb/s. 10MB theroetical max is 1.25Mb/s. And full speed 11MB WiFi is 1.375Mb/s. First of all it is RARE for anyone to get within 10% of your theroetical max speed. My point is that this AP has a 10MB connection but transmits at 11MB and you lose 1MB/s transfer speed due to that connection.

lincomatic

slight correction...MB usually means megaBYTES and Mb usually means megaBITS.

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biko

hey folks,
just came back from a little trip to CircuitCity - it didn't work !
The store manager told me he can only match what they have on their website, and that price is 169.99. He said the exact product model number (DWL-900AP) is not legible on the printout, thats why he can't give it to me to that price.
He was arguing for quite a while, and I wasn't really in the mood to start crying or something, so I just took off.
Su... big time ! If sometime tries it in Somerville, MA please post

Thunderforge

BAH! The ad scans from OfficeMax for my area show the D-Link AP on sale for ONLY $119. What a jip. The closest OfficeMax is about 50 miles, but as you can see, it's not worth the trip.

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Ai42

Ok, it is the same item the ad does not show a model number. My suggestion is to print the BIG images of the ads too. It does give an OfficeMax SKU number which can be found to the same item, on their website or you can have them call OfficeMax.

In fact if you carefully read the pricematch policy they cannot price match online stores, only physical stores. So if they are trying to pricematch officemax.com they technically can't. Also know that the 59.99 price is in-store only not online.

Of course it depends on the current manager my suggestion go back and try a diffrent one.

biko

hey, you are funny !
do you want me to shoot the old one and then try the new one a couple o days later ? or do they have several store managers ?

that guy was pretty smart ! he had already talked to officemax in the boston area and they sell that thing for 90. but since i didn´t have an ad for that, he wouldn´t do it - that might be still worth it. buying for 90 instead of 60 just means paying 40 instead of 10 bucks for it !

i tried emailing CC already and complaining about that store manager, no reply yet.

but thanks for the help !
biko