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Wal-Mart is holding a "secret" sale on Friday with some big deals for tech enthusiasts, including a $99 HD DVD player from Toshiba.
The Wal-Mart secret sales site forwards to a "holiday.ri-mart.com" domain, but company officials contacted Thursday confirmed the site was legitimate.
Five products are being offered at discounted prices: the Toshiba HD-A2 HD DVD player for $98.97; a Sanyo 50-inch plasma HDTV for $998; an Acer laptop with 1 Gbyte of RAM for $348; selected HD DVDs for $14.96; and a Fisher-Price NASCAR ride-on toy for $144.72.
Typically, the holiday season starts on "Black Friday," or the day after Thanksgiving. But a Wal-mart spokesman said that there was no reason to hold to a fixed date. "Basically what it is is that we don't think that shoppers need to to wait until after Thanksgiving to receive low prices," he said. "We're Wal-Mart, and we're about saving shoppers money."
Secret Wal-Mart Sale Includes $99 HD DVD Player - Yahoo! News (broken link)
Thanks for the heads up, I was going to stop by to pick up a few things tomorrow but I think I will give it a miss because I am sure they will be VERY busy.
Glad to see, I'm not the only one who's out the $98. But hey, the 5 free HD-DVDs were nice...and I can still use it for regular DVDs until I get Blu-ray.
It sorta sucks for people who just bought that top-of-the-line HD DVD player only to have the rug pulled from right under them after they discover HD DVD will be discontinued. Good thing I never bought one
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In some states, though, laws prohibit businesses from selling things at below cost.
Yep. Gotta drive over to Alabama!
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