Where to buy Vista in the US?

[Nigel Molesworth]

I've decided that I may as well wait until I visit the US at the end
of February before I buy my six copies of Vista.

Can anyone suggest stores to buy Vista at the best price in the US?

 

[Richard Urban]

Isn't that kind of like asking "where is the best restaurant in the U.S."?

If you visit New York, would you travel to Texas if that is where the best
store is.

How about narrowing your area down a bit. After all. the U.S. is so tiny to
begin with.

Give us a state at least. Are you willing to mail order when you get here.

--


Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

CompUSA, Best Buy, Circuit City, and Staples. They will all be about the
same for pricing and are nationwide electronics and software stores. Others
will make additional suggestions. I prefer CompUSA.

 

[Nigel Molesworth]

Give us a state at least. Are you willing to mail order when you get here.

I'm going to Florida, but I thought that most major stores would all
over the US.

I can't do mail order, they won't accept a non-US credit card.

 

[Chad Harris]

Nigel --

I don't think you'll see a penny's worth of difference in price comparison
among the store's Colin has mentioned. I'd add Costco if you happen to be
near one, but they don't emphasize as many IT toys or sell near as much
software --but some hardware can be cheaper. Vista is going to cost the
same. The discounts would come, at least in the US on Vista much later years
down the road.

Have a good time when you get to the U.S.

CH

 

[Mike Hall - MS MVP Windows Shell/User]

OT: how is Fotherington-Thomas? still saying 'Hello clouds, hello sky"?

 

[arachnid]

I'm going to Florida, but I thought that most major stores would all over
the US.

I can't do mail order, they won't accept a non-US credit card.

If you're shipping locally to a US location, just use paypal or one of its
variants to "launder" your foreign credit card into US funds. )

If that doesn't work, you can buy Visa and Mastercard "debit" cards at
some stores. They come in some minimum denomination but you can add more
money to the account when you buy the card or can recharge it later at
approved stores. They're used just like a credit card and can be used for
online orders but be careful because they're debit cards, not credit
cards. If something isn't as advertised, you don't have the same consumer
protections as with a credit card. The same is true of paypal.

I'm pretty sure Circuit City carries them. It seems likely that stores
like Target and Wal-mart would have them, too. I'm not sure but I think
you have to provide an address to activate them, and for online orders
this probably has to match your local shipping address.

 

[Chad Harris]

Nigel--

When you come back to the UK do you have to pay any tariffs or taxes, or can
you just go to where the prices are cheaper? I know last time I was in
London, most gadgets were 2-2.5X the cost in stores.

CH

 

[Brian W]

Nigel--

When you come back to the UK do you have to pay any tariffs or taxes, or
can you just go to where the prices are cheaper? I know last time I was
in London, most gadgets were 2-2.5X the cost in stores.

Nearly everything is twice as expensive in the UK! Petrol here is currently
around 85p a litre (yes, a litre, not a gallon!)

 

[Kenneth Cummings]

Hello Chadd,

I think you may find some competition between Best Buy and Circuit City
on both the time and the price you can pick it up.. Circuit City is allowing
you to
purchase Vista now, and pick it up, or, have it installed and pick it up on
the 30th
for the Ultimate at: $ 229.00 (retail $ 259.00).. So some competition will
be taking
place on the systems..

Ken

 

[Alias]

Nigel--

When you come back to the UK do you have to pay any tariffs or taxes, or can
you just go to where the prices are cheaper?

CH

Maybe, if you're stupid enough to declare it.

Alias

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

It seems you are confusing honesty with stupidity.
If someone is honest, that does nothing to even suggest they are stupid.

 

[Alias]

It seems you are confusing honesty with stupidity.
If someone is honest, that does nothing to even suggest they are stupid.

Retail tax, VAT over here, has been paid in the States. No more is
warranted as it wasn't purchased in the UK. You're confusing logic with
morality.

Alias

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

I am not confusing them at all.
It is you who suggests not declaring.
Or are you saying if you do not declare and the merchandise with receipts
are discovered there will be no problems?

 

[Nigel Molesworth]

I'd add Costco if you happen to be near one...

As it happens, I'm planning a trip to Costco to buy some 3-hole paper
punches (to sell on eBay, don't ask).

OT: how is Fotherington-Thomas? still saying 'Hello clouds, hello sky"?

He is a girlie, and utterly wet and a weed, like Molesworth II

 

[RonK]

Richard - Everyone knows it McDonalds !

Isn't that kind of like asking "where is the best restaurant in the U.S."?

If you visit New York, would you travel to Texas if that is where the best
store is.

How about narrowing your area down a bit. After all. the U.S. is so tiny
to begin with.

Give us a state at least. Are you willing to mail order when you get here.

--


Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Nearly everything is twice as expensive in the UK! Petrol here is
currently around 85p a litre (yes, a litre, not a gallon!)

Twice as expensive? Not at all! That's about 43.35 US cents a liter, or
41.07 US cents a quart. Just over a $1.64 a gallon. That's *very* cheap by
US standards these days. We are paying around $2.20 a gallon, depending on
where in the US.

 

[RonK]

Here in Ontario Canada we are paying 87 Canadian cents per Liter !
That's $3.48 Candian per gallon.

 

[Alias]

I am not confusing them at all.
It is you who suggests not declaring.
Or are you saying if you do not declare and the merchandise with
receipts are discovered there will be no problems?

Retail tax has been paid. Please try to read for content and logic.

Alias

 

[Glenn Shaw]

Twice as expensive? Not at all! That's about 43.35 US cents a liter, or
41.07 US cents a quart. Just over a $1.64 a gallon.

Um, Ken... with all due respect, your math seems to be off.

1p = 1/100 Great Britain pound (GBP), so 85p/liter = .85 GBP/liter

1 gallon = 3.785 liters, therefore, .85 (GBP/liter) * 3.785
(liters/gallon) = 3.21725 GBP/gallon

Using the currency converter at xe.com, 3.21725 British pounds is equal to
US$6.29587.

So if my math is correct, as is Brian's mention of petrol costing
85p/liter in Britain, gasoline there is about the equivalent of
US$6.30/gallon, nearly THREE TIMES as expensive as it is here in the
States.