netmouse: (listening)
netmouse ([personal profile] netmouse) wrote2006-12-02 11:49 am

Where do you go for (cheap) geek gadgets?

[livejournal.com profile] 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!

[identity profile] eviljohn.livejournal.com 2006-12-02 05:41 pm (UTC)(link)
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).

[identity profile] eviljohn.livejournal.com 2006-12-02 05:45 pm (UTC)(link)
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. ;)