Where do you go for (cheap) geek gadgets?

[netmouse]

eviljohn and I were talking the other day about how thumb drives have gotten quite affordable - if you get them online instead of in stores. I don't have a thumb drive (my birthday's on Monday: hint, hint), and we chatted a bit about places to find good deals on things like that.

I thought I'd ask you all - where do you go to get your geek gadgets? frugal? eBay? Newegg? ThinkGeek?

Someplace else?

I'm also looking to get an external hard drive for backups, and possibly a new phone though I'm having trouble picking one.

Oh, wise people of the web, advise me!

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[encorecrazay.livejournal.com]

http://www.outpost.com which is Fry's website. Sometimes Office Depot or Office Max will have flash drives on sale as a loss leader. I also use http://www.pricewatch.com/ and http://www.pricegrabber.com/

A few months ago I found a 600 gig external drive on sale at BestBuy, which I bought and so far have 31.8 gig on it, my C drive has 20 gig free out of 60.

[yix.livejournal.com]

I watch slickdeals for stuff I'm not needing right away, but what encorecrazay said for the more immediate stuff. (Though we have a Fry's store locally, so I often just go there.)

[encorecrazay.livejournal.com]

My Fry's is 15 miles away so I don't go there that often.

[eviljohn.livejournal.com]

I stop by http://www.techbargains.com fairly regularly, and as encorecrazay said both pricewatch and pricegrabber are quite good too.

Lately I've been buying stuff from http://buy.com lately and http://geeks.com .

Right now you can get a 1GB thumb drive for as low as $15. See here (http://techbargains.pricegrabber.com/search_attrib.php?page_id=152&form_keyword=1gb+usb+flash&rd=1).

[eviljohn.livejournal.com]

Oh, and when I price comparing I often go to http://froogle.com . I like thinkgeek, but their prices are usually higher tham most places, although they often have the coolest geek toys. ;)

[atdt1991.livejournal.com]

compgeeks.com for the technical stuff. thinkgeek.com

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

A family of sites, not selling anything but watching prices on all the other sites: Dealmac.com and Dealpc.com for monitoring the latest bargains. Dealcoupon.com for coupons at various on-line and brick'n'mortar retailers.

Thumb Drives

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

I've been watching the average size of convention-give-away thumb-drives incrase over the years. Now the common give-away size is 128M. The next time I get one, I'll mail it to you.

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Re: Thumb Drives

[netmouse.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

Re: Thumb Drives

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Don't know when that will be, mind you.

Probably RSA in January.

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