 | | Scout on sale at Fry's Electronics for $69 —Tilman Sporkert
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| | | If you live near a Fry's Electronics store in the US, check out if they have the Robotics Discovery Set. The stores in the San Jose, CA, area are clearing them out today for $69. Yes, that's not a typo or a misprint - I already got one at that (...) (25 years ago, 12-May-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | Re: Scout on sale at Fry's Electronics for $69 —Paul Gyugyi
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| | | | Every single one of the 100 or so boxes in Sunnyvale had been opened. I checked and everything seemed to be there. The key components to look for are: The Blue Scout 2 motors. Bag with 2 touch sensors & 2 clutch gears. Bag with 2 foam balls and (...) (25 years ago, 12-May-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | RE: Scout on sale at Fry's Electronics for $69 —Dick Swan
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| | | | | I checked the Fry's in Dallas [the Garland store]. They had about 200 Scouts but the price was $119 and not $69. They have been at this price for several weeks. Most seemed to be new units and not exchanged and restocked units. They did not have any (...) (25 years ago, 13-May-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | Re: Scout on sale at Fry's Electronics for $69 —Al Thiele
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| | | | | | Fry's here (San Diego, CA) is advertising the Robotics Discovery Set for $99, today thru Tues 5/16/00. Al Thiele (...) (25 years ago, 13-May-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: Scout on sale at Fry's Electronics for $69 —David Kadansky
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| | | | It was pretty much the same story at the Palo Alto Fry's. I saw at least 50 RDSs. They rang up at $69.99, but the boxes and the shelves still said $149.99. Since the boxes had been opened (who? why?) I appreciated having Paul's inventory. I counted (...) (25 years ago, 14-May-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| | | | | | RE: Scout on sale at Fry's Electronics for $69 —Tilman Sporkert
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| | | | | (...) I wonder if there's a problem with the glue of those little seal stickers. Who would open all the boxes in such a big pile. I've seen the stacks of these sets at Fry's for month now, and they haven't been moving. I.e. it's not like they got (...) (25 years ago, 15-May-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: Scout on sale at Fry's Electronics for $69 —Matthew Wilkins
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| | | | Fry's usually opens things like that to put inventory control tags into the boxes; if the tags are on the outside of the boxes, they are more easily removed. TRU does the same thing. -Cheese (...) $149.99. (...) have (...) them (...) one at (...) (25 years ago, 15-May-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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