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07/22/2003: "Stolen Monitor"

I knew the LCD flat screens were driving the price of CRT monitors down, but this is ridiculous. I bought a 19 inch ViewSonic A90f+ CRT monitor, for $200 flat, today at Best Buy in Downers Grove. Killer! There is a bit of a special story behind my purchase, but it amazes me that just walking in off the street, you can buy a high-quality, 19 inch CRT monitor for $229. If you want to hear my story, click more..below.

We decided to go shopping for a 19 inch CRT monitor. It was near lunchtime and my beloved needed a hot dog. Her craving, once gratified, put us near the Best Buy in Downers Grove. We would normally shop two or three stores before making a decision, but the ViewSonic at $229 stopped us in our tracks. The Demo monitor on the shelf was the typical sort of grayish/tanish computer color, single color, monitor. We asked a cute little salesgirl named Mikey to pull one out for us. She couldn't find any boxed ViewSonic 19 inch monitors that were not marked gray and black. Very modern, but different from the Demo on the shelf. Perplexed, she opened one of the boxes to confirm the color. Yep, gray and black. After a couple phone calls, she sent us down the street to another location where the situation was exactly the same.

Now, it was our turn to be perplexed. Why had she sent us to another location when all they had in stock was the gray and black model? Further, if all anyone had in stock was the gray and black model why was the Demo model different from what was available? We decided to go back in asked Mikey. Mikey didn't know, she said, because she had only been working there a short time, but she offered to sell us the monitor in the box she opened, to confirm the colors a short time earlier, at a $30 "opened box" discount. Sold! For a review of the A90f+, click here.

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