So I finally splurged on some stuff the weekend before last. I got a $25 gift card from work for being awesome with an issue that had been harassing the IT department as a whole, and I got a 10% off coupon for Best Buy. Armed with these, me and Helen headed down to southcenter on Friday to check out TV’s. After browsing through their display TV’s, I settled on the Toshiba 32AV500U. I went home and did some research on it to make sure it was a good buy, which it sounded like it was.

Armed with this knowledge, I came back on Sunday to get it. The first rep who came up asked if we wanted anything, I pointed to the Toshiba and said “I want that one”. I’m guessing he wasn’t expected someone to be so decisive, so he said he’d be right back after pausing for a second. Unfortunately, we he came back, he told me they were out of stock

But! Instead, he gave me the Samsung LN32A330, which was ten bucks more, for the same price. I was really antsy about getting something else on the spot, since I haven’t gotten an LCD TV before and wasn’t sure what the big differences were. I decided to go with it since I could just bring it back, and Helens parents had a Samsung and it was damn sexy.  After we picked it out, we went up to the front with the guy, and they rang us up. I got the 4 year service plan (I get the extended one with expensive things), so it was 679+199, a total of $878, take off 10% to make it $790.2, and then another 25 off that, $765.20. Which was a damn good deal.

We took it home and set it up, I put it on the dresser so I didn’t connect the cable at the time. I hooked up my laptop and we watched Banlieue 13, in 720p. It looked so damn good

More later, as it’s dinner time.

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