Best Buy Fail

For reasons too involved to get into here, I had need to buy a CompactFlash (CF) memory card today after I got out of work.

First place I stopped was a Best Buy that is near my office. Their price for the smallest capacity card they had in stock seemed steep, so I drove to a Target that is fairly near that Best Buy to see what they might have available.

I found a CF card with the same capacity at the Target cost less by over $20! So, of course I bought that.

Now, in all fairness I should note the two stores each had only one brand of CF card available, Sandisk at the Best Buy, Lexar at the Target. Of course different brands of the same type of item can have different pricing, so after getting home I did a little research.

First, the Best Buy web site had the same pricing as the store for the Sandisk CF. Using that as a starting point, I looked on Amazon and the web site for B & H Photo for their pricing of that card. Each was about $15 less than the Best Buy price!

So, all in all, my conclusion is: Best Buy fail.

Temper, temper

I've been vaguely aware from news sites that people having been camping out in lines at stores for days in order to be among the first to get their hands on the new Sony Playstation 3 when it officially goes on sale this Friday (November 17).

A little earlier today I went shopping for a new land line phone and drove to a Best Buy store that is fairly near me to look at what they had. As I drove in, I saw there was one of these lines at this store, and there were two San Diego Police Department cars in it's parking lot, with what looked like four officers watching the line and talking with store personnel.

Seeing that police presence definitely made me wonder what was up. So, I just checked the local newspaper's site, and I see there had been fighting in the line earlier today.

All I can say is:

1. I have no interest myself in video gaming. As a result of that:
2. I can not imagine why people would wait in line for days to get their hands on gaming consoles. But:
3. I'm not entirely surprised passions among those who do want to wait in such lines would rise to the point of tempers being lost.