Stingydave.org Deals

Amazon.com has the iGo Stowaway Ultra-Slim Bluetooth Keyboard for $29.99 shipped.

This is a great addition to a Bluetooth capable Blackberry and other PDA/handhelds and certain phones.

It's portable too. 

Dell Home is offering an additional $200 off this slick AMD configuration!  Unlike the server deal, this $449 base config is loaded!

Specs:
PROCESSOR    AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual-Core 5000+
OPERATING SYSTEM    Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium - English
MONITOR    No Monitor
MEMORY    2GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz- 2DIMMs
HARD DRIVE    500GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache™  (Nice!)
OPTICAL DRIVE    16x DVD+/-RW Drive
VIDEO CARD    NVIDIA GeForce 6150 SE Integrated Graphics GPU
SOUND    Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio
KEYBOARD & MOUSE    Dell USB Keyboard and Dell Optical USB Mouse
FLOPPY & MEDIA READER    No Floppy Drive Included
MODEM & WIRELESS    56K PCI Data Fax Modem

UPDATE:  Here's an almost identical deal with an Intel-based CPU.

PROCESSOR    Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor E4500 (2MB L2 Cache,2.20GHz,800 FSB)
OPERATING SYSTEM    Genuine Windows® XP Home Edition - English
MONITOR    No Monitor
MEMORY    2GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz- 2DIMMs
HARD DRIVE    500GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache™
OPTICAL DRIVE    16x DVD+/-RW Drive
VIDEO CARD    Integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3100
SOUND    Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio

Wareshousedeals.com is a "new" deals service from Amazon.com.

It is similar to the Dell's Outlet.  Basically, you can find deals on amazon items in real time that are open box, refurbished or whatever.  The cool thing is that you have a 30-Day return policy.

"If you are unsatisfied with the product for any reason, you can return it in its original condition within 30 days of delivery for a full refund. We'll also pay the return shipping cost if the return is a result of our error." 

As refurb return policies go, that one is near the top.  I think Dell's is slightly better, but still.

Happy bargain hunting.  Drop us a line if you score anything cool.

It's a slow day in the world of deals today.  It's the Saturday in between months, plus last weekend was crazy.  That happens sometimes.  So anyway, I thought I'd respond to some email...

A reader asked, 

"Any good deals on digital photo frames?"

It's funny.  I haven't been paying that much attention to this category.  For one, sometimes they come bundled with a camera.  They aren't brand new items, but they're certainly hot this year and prices seem all over the place.

At any rate, Ritz Camera has a few deals right now on them right now

Sunpak 7in Digital Photo Frame

Portable USA 5.6in Digital Picture Frame

Portable USA 15in PU-15W Digital Picture Frame

Matsunichi 8" Digital Picture Frame w/MP3 and MP4

 hope that helps I'll post some more deals on digital frames as I see them. 

Another reader asked... 

"...know any deals on a VCR?  it's hard to find anything NIB and especially without the dvd combo...i'd probably settle for a dvd recorder combo if it had a built in tuner and antenna in and out connections...maybe the LG RC797T...?  lemme know...and thanx for all the other deals i've already taken advantage of!!!"

VCRs... Hmmm... You're right it's tough to find a VCR that's not attached to a DVD, mostly because nobody really makes them anymore.

Perhaps your best bet for a plain VCR is to search ebay.

Here's a great deal on a refurb VCR/DVD recorder combo, but that's not quite NIB.

However, unless you really have your heart on a store-bought VCR, I'd strongly consider getting a cheap VCR on ebay and getting a separate DVD Recorder that can handle DVD-RAM discs.  DVD-RAM allows you to play and record on the same disc at the same time. 

(That's a great time saver and great way to skip TV ads and get time in your life back.)

Circuit CIty has a great deal on the Toshiba D-R400 Upconversion DVD Player/Recorder at $99 and that is about half of what I paid for mine a while back.  It does handle DVD-RAM

In the next email, I'll look for some deals on gaming PCs.  Stay tuned...

Circuit City has the Eclipse In-Dash Portable Navigation with CD Receiver for ~$399 (plus tax) installed!

You'll find some GPS units for by themselves at $400+. 

If you have a 10% coupon or something to that effect, this gets a lot sweeter. 

To top it off this car system has all the bells and whistles!

Fry's has the Polk RTi8 speakers for $149 each.  Shipping was about $20 for me.  Believe it or not, it is actually cheaper to order two separately because of their strange shipping calculations.

They are also available in cherry.

Before you complain that these are too expensive, go to any serious home theatre store where these are in stock and see what they want to charge you. 

This price is at least $50 better per speaker than anything else I've seen.

Amazon has the Polk Audio PSW10 Monitor Series Powered Subwoofer for 101.88 Shipped!

(Yes you read that right.  Free shipping on this 10" sub!) 

This is no doubt a great deal on a highly rated 10" powered subwoofer from Polk.

Dell Home has three new coupons.

Save $350 on all Inspiron™ Desktop purchases over $1049 (before tax, fees, shipping & handling)- Coupon Code: 6J5ZZ?ZX?RGJF1

Save $300 on all Inspiron™ notebook purchases over $1199 (before tax, fees, shipping & handling)- Coupon Code: ZDWPS9CZT37LLB

Save $200 on all Inspiron notebook purchases over $899 (before tax, fees, shipping & handling)- Coupon Code: TPT4DGZDQ38MFS  

Now Buy.com has the Black ASUS EEEPC Ultra 7" Linux Notebook for $349 (or $339 for 1st time Google Checkout users)!  Shipping is Free.  :)

I should point out that while it may seem underpowered, this laptop is hot!  Newegg recently sold out on pre-orders of this laptop at $399!  (How does that happen?) 

Why is it hot?  Well, because it is incredibly powerful/fully functional for its size (7 inches), weight and price.  Bigger isn't always better.

It also boasts a solid state (flash) drive instead of a hard drive.  That translates into  better speed, lower power consumption and (hopefully) less risk of data corruption since there are no moving parts.

Drugstore.com has 2 hot deals on Philips Norelco Shavers.

Get the Philips Norelco Shaver, Rechargeable Cordless, Model 7110X for $29.99.

Also, get the Philips Norelco Reflex Plus 6 Shaving System, Model 6423LC for $19.99.

Don't forget to use our Drugstore.com coupons, especially if you are a new customer.