Price Drops and Special Offers on Holiday Handhelds

Still, I got my Tungsten for £300 inc. VAT (around $450 including 17.5% tax) when it first came out, so I can't complain that much.

Zuber

Where did you get that deal?

http://johnspalm.blogspot.com/

Carphone Warehouse made a mistake on their website offering it at £299 instead of their intended £399.

They were very honourable and sold it at that price to everyone who had ordered before they corrected the mistake with no quibble.

I might not have bought mine otherwise but I'm really glad I did!

norm

For example, a friend was wanting to buy a new hifi amplifier, so we thought we'd go into Dixons to 'have a play'. While fiddling with a Denon, a sales 'assistant' came over and asked if he could help. As my friend enjoys classical music, he thought it was important that it handled this well: he asked "What type of music is this good for". To this the assistant answered "Oh, both types". Huh! What on earth does he mean by *both* types? Both rock AND roll? Both rhythm AND blues?

Still, if they're selling the T|T cheap, I could be tempted to break a lifetime rule...


FBN

Ahhhh! Yet another way American English and British English differ....

Apartment = Flat
Subway = Underground
Elevator = Lift
Best Buy = Dixons

:-P

Alessandro
US & UK, two great countries separated by a common language <--- who said that?

Oh, that quote was Winston Churchill, and I think it was originally;
"Britain and America, two nations separated by a common language."

QUOTATION: We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

ATTRIBUTION: Oscar Wilde (1854–1900), Anglo-Irish playwright, author. repr. In Complete Works of Oscar Wilde, ed. J.B. Foreman (1966). The Canterville Ghost, ch. 1, Court and Society Review (London, Feb. 23 and March 2, 1887).

The words, or similar ones, have often been attributed to George Bernard Shaw, though they are not to be found in Shaw’s published writings. Bertrand Russell made a similar point in Saturday Evening Post, June 3, 1944: “It is a misfortune for Anglo- American friendship that the two countries are supposed to have a common language.”

Where did you hear about this? (Was it in the HS emails that I routinely ignore?)

Saw it on a Treo forum. Getting my 90 for $209 express shipped to NY. Ordered Monday, should be in my mailbox right now.

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Good luck!

Of course, I ultimately bought one from Staples for $405 before tax, curetsey of the Golden Price Match. :-) Pass the syrup....

Thanks!