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tikipirate · 02-15-2005, 10:39 PM

I recently purchased a Sony KDF-42WE655 from Crutchfield. The price was a very competitive $2249. (At all the 'pricefinder-type' websites the Crutchfield price shows up as $2499, because you only get to see the discount after adding the item to your cart on the Crutchfield website.)

This price was a few hundred dollars higher than the cheapest of the NY/NJ websites, but those businesses looked too skeevy to deal with. If I have a real beef, I can drive to Charlottesville, VA and pound on a desk. Might not want to do that in a pier warehouse in Brooklyn.

After a minor hassle with billing (had to add my shipping address to my credit card account) I received a call from Eagle Global Logistics arranging a time for delivery. They were here exactly when promised, carried the TV up a flight of rickety wooden stairs, set it up, and took away the packaging.

Soooo... The TV was $150 less than Best Buy's sale price, I paid no sales tax, and it was expertly delivered for only $19. Hard to beat, especially when you weigh in the cost/schedule/performance risk you may introduce to get the absolute rock bottom price from other vendors.

02-15-2005, 10:39 PM	#37
tikipirate What is HD? Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 1	I used to chuckle at Crutchfield customers until... I recently purchased a Sony KDF-42WE655 from Crutchfield. The price was a very competitive $2249. (At all the 'pricefinder-type' websites the Crutchfield price shows up as $2499, because you only get to see the discount after adding the item to your cart on the Crutchfield website.) This price was a few hundred dollars higher than the cheapest of the NY/NJ websites, but those businesses looked too skeevy to deal with. If I have a real beef, I can drive to Charlottesville, VA and pound on a desk. Might not want to do that in a pier warehouse in Brooklyn. After a minor hassle with billing (had to add my shipping address to my credit card account) I received a call from Eagle Global Logistics arranging a time for delivery. They were here exactly when promised, carried the TV up a flight of rickety wooden stairs, set it up, and took away the packaging. Soooo... The TV was $150 less than Best Buy's sale price, I paid no sales tax, and it was expertly delivered for only $19. Hard to beat, especially when you weigh in the cost/schedule/performance risk you may introduce to get the absolute rock bottom price from other vendors.