Staples Ads 3/16 - 3/22

by **Ian** on Fri Mar 14, 2003 8:01 pm

http://instorespecials.staples.com

Not a lot...

MAXTOR 120GB 7200 RPM INTERNAL HARD DRIVE - $99.94 after $10 IR and $40MIR
PACIFIC DIGITAL 52x24x52x MAX INTERNAL CD-RW DRIVE - $49.94 after $10IR and $20MIR
SONY OR MAXELL 50/PACK RECORDABLE CD - $2.94 after $7IR and $10MIR

by **hoxlund** on Mon Mar 17, 2003 2:51 pm

just bought the Maxtor 7200rpm 120GB ATA/133 (2mb cache), from staples

here's the rundown from my recepit

$139.94 (selling price) - $54.96 (110% price gaurentee) - $20 Staples Coupon + $4.16 Colorado Sales Tax (6.4%) = $69.14

the price gaurentee was for the instant rebate, cause i work there, they just needed to price gaurentee someone

by **CowboySlim** on Mon Mar 17, 2003 4:41 pm

Hey,

There is one thing that I'm going to check out. It's a rotary cutter for photos @ $15. Has a board with index lines for common photo sizes. Just not a lever/guillotine cutter.

Slim

by **CowboySlim** on Wed Mar 19, 2003 4:28 pm

I picked up that cutter last night. Printed some photos, used the cutter.

Liked it so much that I'll pick up another for my daughter tonight.

Slim

by **hoxlund** on Wed Mar 19, 2003 4:55 pm

what does that have to do with hard drives?

by **CowboySlim** on Thu Mar 20, 2003 3:10 pm

Plenty much to do. Photos go from my camera up a USB cable to a dealy on my case and down some wire jobbies onto my motherboard and then through some other northsouthbridgees and then a IDE cable connector and up the cable to my HARD DRIVE then I go take a leak and its going out the other way backwards through that same stuff again to another usb cable that goes around behind the monitor but not touching it to my printer where is the blank paper and it goes ca-chunk and ca-chunk and out comes the photo and I pick it up because I washed my hands after leak and go to the CUTTER and make pictures so it has plenty much to do with my HDD!

CAN SOMEBODY PLEASE PROVIDE ME THE RULES ON WHICH SALE ITEMS ARE NOT APPROPRIATE FOR LISTING!

Accommodatingly yours,
Slim

by **cfitz** on Thu Mar 20, 2003 3:30 pm

Consider the source of the criticism, Slim, and don't worry about it.

One would be more justified in asking questions about hoxlund's post in another thread that was talking about a Maxtor 120 GByte, 8 MiByte hard drive:

http://www.cdrlabs.com/phpBB/viewtopic. ... 7910#57910

To wit: What does a purchase of the normal 2 MiByte cache version have to do with a thread about the high-performance 8 MiByte cache version? More relevantly, what is the point of a post describing a deal only available to a Staples employee in a Hot Deals forum intended for the general audience? And finally, why is hoxlund cross posting (the same post is in this thread right here), a practice specifically prohibited in the rules?

You have done nothing wrong, Slim.

cfitz

by **BuddhaTB** on Thu Mar 20, 2003 4:03 pm

CowboySlim wrote:CAN SOMEBODY PLEASE PROVIDE ME THE RULES ON WHICH SALE ITEMS ARE NOT APPROPRIATE FOR LISTING!

Basically any hot deal related to computer or electronics would be appropriate for this forum. Unless one of the admins, mods, or myself speaks out against a hot deal being inappropriate, continue to share those hot deals with the community. I remember awhile back, I was criticized too for some post I made on free soda. But you have done nothing wrong slim.

by **cfitz** on Thu Mar 20, 2003 4:10 pm

I would also add that not everyone here uses CD burners to burn stolen copies of games and such downloaded from the web. There are other uses for CD burners, and one such popular use is for archiving digital photography. It follows that people who take digital photos and store them on their CDs might also want to print them out and display them, so a tool for cutting photos does have some general interest here. I reiterate, Slim, you have done nothing wrong.

cfitz

by **CowboySlim** on Thu Mar 20, 2003 4:34 pm

Cfitz & BuddaTB,

I understand that you understand. I would have ignored it alltogether except that I failed to recollect his previous postings and attitude until after I responded.

And, yes, I do not see a disconnection between the cutter, digital photography and other subject matter discussed herein.

Thanks guys,
Slim

by **hoxlund** on Thu Mar 20, 2003 4:42 pm

jesus christ guys settle down, damn, i posted my deal on here to tell everyone that staples is offering 120GB drives for $99 after rebate, but shit, from now on ill keep that to myself

by **cfitz** on Thu Mar 20, 2003 4:57 pm

hoxlund wrote:jesus christ guys settle down, damn, i posted my deal on here to tell everyone that staples is offering 120GB drives for $99 after rebate, but shit, from now on ill keep that to myself

Could you point out where in your posts you told everyone about Staples offering a drive for $99? Here is your first post:

hoxlund wrote:just bought the Maxtor 7200rpm 120GB ATA/133 (2mb cache), from staples

here's the rundown from my recepit

$139.94 (selling price) - $54.96 (110% price gaurentee) - $20 Staples Coupon + $4.16 Colorado Sales Tax (6.4%) = $69.14

the price gaurentee was for the instant rebate, cause i work there, they just needed to price gaurentee someone

And your follow up:

hoxlund wrote:what does that have to do with hard drives?

The only person who needs to settle down here, hoxlund, is you. I think that is evident from your last post. And I will also remind you that profanity isn't welcome on the forums.

cfitz

by **hoxlund** on Thu Mar 20, 2003 8:50 pm

well according to the topic, and in the first post, yeah i think its clear that the 120GB is $99

by **cfitz** on Thu Mar 20, 2003 10:17 pm

hoxlund wrote:well according to the topic, and in the first post, yeah i think its clear that the 120GB is $99

Yes, Ian told everyone about Staples selling the drive for $99. What did you do?

cfitz

by **hoxlund** on Fri Mar 21, 2003 12:56 am

i let everyone know about the employee price, so if they have friends who work at staples, they can get in on this deal to, period

by **BuddhaTB** on Sun Mar 23, 2003 1:26 pm

The deals at Staples listed by Ian are good until March 29th.

by **hoxlund** on Sun Mar 23, 2003 10:53 pm

yeah, its a 2week ad, staples is starting to do that more and more

by **Tolyngee** on Mon Mar 24, 2003 4:07 am

cfitz wrote:And I will also remind you that profanity isn't welcome on the forums.

(before commenting on this post, please take certain note that most of the topics I am quoting are mostly (if not all) comments from Ian, a moderator here at CDRLabs... Thank you...)

I had some "fucking" free time, so i decided to "dick around" with the search engine and look for some "shit".

From 02-26-03

http://www.cdrlabs.com/phpBB/viewtopic. ... light=dick

From 02-02-03

http://www.cdrlabs.com/phpBB/viewtopic. ... 70&start=0

From an unknown date

http://www.cdrlabs.com/phpBB/viewtopic. ... 57&start=0

http://www.cdrlabs.com/phpBB/viewtopic. ... light=dick

http://www.cdrlabs.com/phpBB/viewtopic. ... light=dick

http://www.cdrlabs.com/phpBB/viewtopic. ... light=shit

http://www.cdrlabs.com/phpBB/viewtopic. ... light=shit

http://www.cdrlabs.com/phpBB/viewtopic. ... 40&start=0

I's all just slang anyway (well, according to Ian himself, see topic 8540 again...)

And some quality "family" material from this "family" site:

http://www.cdrlabs.com/phpBB/viewtopic. ... light=fuck

But, then again, you have to kind of wonder about admins that will post the IPs of users they have issues with:

http://www.cdrlabs.com/phpBB/viewtopic. ... light=fuck

http://www.cdrlabs.com/phpBB/viewtopic. ... ht=pissing

So, not to get in a "pissing match" with anyone, but what did Hoxlung do wrong?

The rules of the forums:

http://www.cdrlabs.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=8914

2. Please refrain from using _excessive_ profanity

(excessive is conveniently vague here, to be judged on a post-by-post basis based on social acceptance of the moment and of the author...)

Though I did see someone has the name "Fuct" which seems to go against:

4. Avoid using account names, signatures or avatars that are offensive and inappropriate

It's all how you interpret (and enforce) the rules...

But, then again, as history shows, rules and enforcement are only about social acceptance (and arrogance of power)...

But, then again, Ian is a "pimp". I'll leave it at that...

But, yeah, Hoxlund, profanity seems welcome here to me...

by **cfitz** on Mon Mar 24, 2003 11:04 am

I stand by my statement that profanity isn't welcome on these forums. I can't stop people from using it, there have been other instances beyond hoxlund’s that I didn't like either (including some posts you have linked here), and your idea of excessive and inappropriate profanity may not square with mine, but I still don't want to see it.

As for hoxlund himself, I saw his first post, which is nothing more than bragging, but did nothing about it. I may think bragging is bad taste, but that's just my personal opinion, I know hoxlund doesn't care about my opinion, and I know hoxlund has done it may times before and will likely do it again in the future, so I just left it alone. Then I saw he double-posted, which is against the rules, but again I just let it go. Then hoxlund posted what appeared, to me, to be a swipe at CowboySlim. Again, I thought it was uncalled for and inappropriate but again let it go because I didn't know if hoxlund's post bothered CowboySlim. When CowboySlim replied to hoxlund, however, and it was apparent that hoxlund's post had bothered CowboySlim, then I felt the need to speak up on CowboySlim's behalf and point out that hoxlund had no standing for his comments.

I really did just want to let this go, because I knew no good would come of it, but I felt that circumstances required a response in the end.

By the way, you are correct that what constitutes "profanity" depends on social acceptance. That is how social norms are defined, and doesn't in and of itself negate the value of social norms.

cfitz

by **hoxlund** on Mon Mar 24, 2003 11:13 am

dude, ok, just let me say this in the kindest possible way, these forums are swirling down the drains at an increasing rate

by **cfitz** on Mon Mar 24, 2003 11:35 am

I agree with you there, and am willing to let bygones be bygones. No need to carry on with this anymore, and I won't.

cfitz

by **hoxlund** on Mon Mar 24, 2003 12:14 pm

ok, deal, besides i check these forums less and less

by **Ian** on Mon Mar 24, 2003 12:46 pm

How did I get dragged into this??

Go ahead, make me look like a dick... (add that one to your list Tolyngee) :wink:

You guys gotta realize that this isn't my full time job. Unless someone complains, I'm probably not going to catch every violation.

By the way, Tolyngee's IP is 127.0.0.1

by **Ian** on Mon Mar 24, 2003 12:54 pm

For those with no sense of humor.. that post was supposed to be funny

by **hoxlund** on Mon Mar 24, 2003 2:00 pm

no, just no hard feelings ian, i just think that cd-rw drives and burning is coming to an end

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