Of Mice and Men....

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Was window-shopping the other day....maybe for a tiny mouse suitable for a Lappy....and wandered into 'Officeworks' to kill some time.

I found a MS 5000 wireless Explorer 2.0 mouse instead....price on it was $27.95 AUS...so I told the Sales person that had to be a mistake..... he scanned it and said 'no, it's listed as a run-out item'...so I ran out with it [as it were].

RRP price in Oz was/is $79.95 .....

Ya gotta love a bargain...

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Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Hey, that's my mouse!

You got a better deal than I did, though.

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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Hopefully Paul, you get everything on the cheap........God only knows you'll break it.   
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Great deal.

Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
gosh.. that mouse looks awful big. I bet it's hard to use...
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
wandered into 'Officeworks' to kill some time.


And what a wonderful place it is....to 'kill some time'......

Went with my mother to Officeworks Brisbane to carry home a couple of x50 packs of folders for her filing cabinet....was there 3 1/2 hours while she went around looking at everything but....

Should've taken a pack horse...for the paper shredder; laminator; label maker; several packs of coloured printing paper to go with the new printer; packs of biros and blank CD's she bought in addition to....

Swore I'd never ever go shopping with my mother again (knowing her penchant to browse and buy to excess), but I was always a sucker for her 'let's have lunch' and fell for it time and time again....and to think, I'm moving back up that way Feb 07.

BTW...nice mouse, nice price.
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
hey..i got my ms explorer mouse at the junk yard for free ..
Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Hey, Jafo good to see you are still around and keeping this place in order. Looks like you got yourself a little bargain there - if i'd have known I'd have asked you to buy me one too  
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Update...

I mention the 'price' to others and they say 'can you get me one?'....so off I go in search of more at that price....

...and bugger me dead they are down to $13....

...except....

There's none left.

Anywhere.....  

Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top
...and bugger me dead they are down to $13....

...except....

There's none left.

Anywhere.....


Similar to when I first enquired about upgrading my 939 socket AMD 64 3200+ to a 4600+ dual core.....they were up around $600 -$800, depending on the store and which version.

When prices dropped I ordered and paid $480 up-front for an AMD 64x2 4600+ at my regular computer store....only to be told two weeks later it was no longer available (anywhere). Much the same thing, really....they advertised a lower priced item but didn't actually have it in stock, then said they couldn't get it, either.

They told me I'd have to go with the newer AM2 socket to upgrade....meaning I'd have had to replace my mobo and 3 gigs of DDR400 RAM as well. The mobo and RAM are less than 6 months old, so I enquired at a smaller store which GOT me the (NOT available anywhere) CPU I wanted for $420.

Not only did the much smaller store get me the unobtainable, they did for a much better price.