wow prices are dropping on the x205's...

a freind of mine went to circuit city today to simply LOOK at the x205.. he was trying to decide between that and a few others. circuit city had one that was open box. my friend said he VERY CLOSELY inspected it and it was still wrapped up like new they opened it and turned it on.. everything worked flawless.. he walked out the door for 1150 +tax... !!!!!! this was the 49 model.. .i was stunned when he told me he's bringing it by tonight so i can take a look at it.. wow.... they are giving these things away now

 

thats a good deal but not many Circuit Citys have them in stock....

 

>.> thats gotta be a in store special, its not on their website

 

yep alot of Circuit Citys don't even have em in stock. Must have been a dissatisfied customer who didn't like an X205.

 

yeah it was open box but 150% brand new.. i was shocked when i saw the reciept.. i would have no questions asked.. taken one for that price...

 

How are you liking yours?

 

the screen on his is actually really NICE.. i just saw it he just left he got a lg screen. awesome screen nice and bright nice whites etc.. almost no light bleed i am shocked so many say bad things about toshibas lcd's we own so many of them and i have yet to see a bad one. im going tomm to see what else they have left if there is a another x205 im going to pick that up as well to have a nice backup system.. than ill be set for a while and will not worry about the other clevo i was going to get we'll see tomm.. i hope they have one

 

What other clevo, you mean the replacement one you have comping?

 

If the box was open and the price was $1150 , then run a dead pixels check before you start to install anything on it .
Check also the CPU's temperature after 3 work hours .
It should be some kind of refurbish . Just try to figure what was its original problem .

 

there is NOTHING wrong with it at all.. he ran the dead pixel program, ran memtest, stressed the cpu etc... everything looked like it had never even been taken out of the box, and def not a refurb he called yesterday and asked toshiba based on the serial it has not been refurbed. if the store changed out something well oh well... if they did you def can not tell at all..

 

Bottom Line your friend got a good deal. There's no need to make people think they got a bad deal. Your friend is a lucky son of gun.

 

i def was not trying to make anyone think they got a bad deal.. just shocked at what some of these places are selling these for.. im going there in a couple hours to see what else they have if anything.. we'll see..

 

Was most likely ordered of CCs website then returned to a store cause you cant find any of these machines in the CC stores . Still he got one hell of a deal and i would have snagged that in a heartbeat for that price just like any other sane person .

 

$1150 . OK , I got it . Then it should be its price in all other stores and it was supposed to be its price from the beginning when it was announced at $1990 two months ago .
Do you know any other $2000 product that its price was cut by half after just 2 months on the market ?

 

yes as a matter of fact i do lol... panasonic strada navigation system retailed at 1800.00 when introduced now sells for as low as 999.99 retail and online for under 800$ we were panasonic dealers so i know this for a fact... they are seling now for less then they cost us when we ordered them prior to the price drop and panasonic does nothing for us.. another reason we dropped the line..

 

Yeah - but when this navigation system was introduced in the market ?
It dropped in 2 months by half like this Toshiba ?!?!?!
NONONONONONO !

For many of you it is an opportunity to buy !Really great price . It probably continue to go down till it will reach $490 next month , but who cares .
But for others , especially the ones who trusted this company and thought 2 months ago that it worth really $1990 it should be an opportunity to reconsider if they'll buy a Toshiba notebook again .

 

that nav system has only been out since maybe feb ... in full retail no its wasnt 2 months but maybe what 5-6 months still a ridiculous drop

 

>.> well lately I was looking into bigger better systems so now I'm thinking toshiba sli, np5791 or np9261. the np9261 looks like it would roar when i turned it on, so its becoming really tempting....but these lower priced toshibas really make someone reconsider.

 

i can highly recc the 5791, they are sending me a brand new one also, no questions asked. i thought the screen was far to dim then i saw another one and i was def right. justin at xotic took care of the whole thing for me.. i scored over 4700 at 1280 on 3dmark06 with stock loaded drivers also

 

do you know why there is a 100$ discount if you get the wuxga screen? wouldn't mind getting that and then get the 7950 gtx

 

This is Ridiculous! 50% Price DROP in just 2 Months!
We need a Consumer Voice to petition against Toshiba (just like the iPhone price drop case have angered initial Apple supporters).
They should inform us of the "Almost-Immediately"-pending new SLi models they are well aware of in the first place, when they launch the 49/59 models just 1-2 months ahead,
and also offer a lower FAIR price in the first place when introduced - and NOT DROP 50% in 2 months.
There is basically mis-misguidedness and mis-information from Toshiba, they can sell and price anyhow they "hide" and Not much consumer protection...

 

I can understand that it would be frustrating to see the product you purchased recently drop drastically in price, however, I don't understand any of the reasoning behind complaints against Toshiba for price drops. It's the nature of the beast in technology, notebooks being one of the worst. If every company did an extended price match (months) on every product they sold, it'd be a huge logistical nightmare not only for manufacturers but consumers as well. The added nightmare would have an end result of products costing more to make up for the manpower needed to handle that nightmare. Further, if they were to offer extended price matches, where do you draw the line? 2 months? 6 months? It's just not realistic.

1) These are still retailing new for $1500-1750. This guy got an open box at a ridiculous price. One CC selling an open box item insanely cheaply is not a reason to bash Toshiba.

2)

If the product was "worth" what you paid for it when you paid for it, then you made what I consider a fair deal. If it wasn't a "fair" deal, then I would venture to say perhaps you shouldn't have bought it. Also, many STORES offer 30 day price drop guarantees but these are not legally required. It's simply an incentive to get you to buy from them, similar to how Costco offers an extended return period. They aren't required to, but they do so...so that you are more likely to buy from them. Some states don't even require a return policy at all. All sales are final unless your state has statutes saying otherwise. If you were to buy a car from someone in a private transaction, then attempt to return it to that person 2 months later because you suddenly found it cheaper elsewhere, you'd be SOL. Same applies here.

 

Also, it is the re-seller that is cutting the price, the price on tobshibadirct is still up there.

 

Amazon ran out of X205-S9349s, so now that they aren't selling them directly, their price went up from $1499 to $1749 from the secondary source J&R. I'm feeling lucky now, I paid $1679, then when it dropped to $1499 I called in and they gave me $180 refund to price match their own newer price, but hopefully, my Amazon $100 rebate will still go through, for a net cost of $1399