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Subject: 
Cheap RIS sets
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Date: 
Mon, 8 Oct 2001 23:11:44 GMT
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Confirming a post earlier, Comp USA (White Plains NY in this case) has RIS
1.5 sets at $139. A bunch in stock.   Dark Side Dev. Sets are still
(relatively) overpriced at $75.  Only a few around.

The peons on hand were not clear, but this might be available thru phone
sales (I could NOT get a rational answer about acceptance of school district
PO's, but then they changed their whole small business sales approach a
while back, centralizing it in Dallas I think - NOT in a positive way - a
few companies I know stopped dealing with them) - do they have a web site?



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  Re: Cheap RIS sets
 
(...) When the employee at the store I visited (Vacaville, CA) discovered I was looking for good deals on Mindstorms, the first thing he asked was, "Is this for your school?", which made me assume that they are used to handling PO's. Then when I (...) (23 years ago, 9-Oct-01, to lugnet.market.shopping)
  Re: Cheap RIS sets
 
I'll see what I can find out by phone order. $60 off the RIS is just too good to pass up despite being so very far away from an actual store. I know it's a pretty big purchase, but is anyone willing to pick one of these up for me? I could add (...) (23 years ago, 9-Oct-01, to lugnet.market.shopping)
  Re: Cheap RIS sets
 
Surprisingly, the RCX in the set I just got was marked "2.0" which means that this bunch was a relatively recent restock - I'm guessing June or so, just before the release of the 2.0 sets. (SAH had a stock-out period for a bit before the new 2.0's (...) (23 years ago, 9-Oct-01, to lugnet.market.shopping)

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