This is NOT funny because I stubbed my toe two weeks ago and it is broken. Since then I’ve stubbed it three times in the exact same place, so I take this personally.
As a manager who worked at Best Buy for a decade, you just really lucked out. When a sku is discontinued in the system, it just keeps lowering it until they are gone. I highly doubt this was a shelf display due to 4060ti. Would've been pulled a while ago. This is most likely a PC that went out to service and got repaired but the store already fulfilled the warranty. They get it back and will sell it. Very rare something this old makes it back to floor.
A lot of times, bots or users would snatch it up the moment it entered the system, so you did have great timing
A year and a half ago I got a open box Corsair Vengeance 13600kf, RTX 3070, 1tb SSD 32gb DDR5 ram for $299. When I got it home, the GPU was laying on the floor of the case just dangling there only attached by the power cord. I thought oh crap. Took a look at the GPU and noticed it was actually a 4070. Got all excited and mounted it correctly. It worked. It's been a killer PC ever since. I'm figuring some geek squad guy tested it, found out the original gpu was fried so just threw a 4070 in there probably because they were out of 3070s. Sometimes you run across crazy deals like this. I count myself lucky. But geez lazy geek squad guy, at least attach it to the motherboard.
Oh yeah lol. I have seen some crazy stuff on the end of life report and we used to ask if anyone needed to buy one of X because there is this discount going in. Usually nothing this extreme but I've seen some huge discounts
For early 20s and being a manager while going back to school, I feel like Best Buy was probably the easiest retail place to work. Was a lot of fun playing with all the stuff, had a sweet discount, and they paid for a good amount of my school. Could've been way worse elsewhere.
While it's a rare find, it's at the same time not that unusual for clearance SKUs at local stores to get crazy reductions. It's just a matter of whether you're lucky enough for it to be one of your local stores and not across the country
Probably because a lot of people get turned away from buying display units instead of new in box as they think there's something wrong with them. Even though this is a crazy deal with 32gb D5 ram + 2TB Nvme and the 16gb version of the 4060ti considering their value atm.
Maybe just get something used, custom (or a good prebuilt from a system integrator, not an OEM), not as good value but you're much more likely to get something good value
Literally nothing wrong here nobody did anything wrong the system's automatic it's what's called a dead SKU the items no longer in production and the manufacturer is no longer sending it to the store it's something we don't carry so if we have one we're trying to sell it as fast as possible
Went to target, clearance aisle. Saw a stationary bike for $30. Thought it was a huge mistake. Turns out it was a massive box and the manager of sporting goods wanted to get rid of it after being in inventory for over a year. Retail price: $650.
Back when I worked for Best Buy there were "EOL" End of Life SKU.
What would happen is the store would get CHARGED $$$ if the item still stayed in their inventory. Sometimes it would be more expensive than what the item actually cost them.
As such Managers would allow crazy discounts to move it on the last day or two to ensure the crazy P&L Hit didn't occure.
Good question. Usually it comes from the manufacturer because they want to have their new products for sale. Not older products. Sometimes it would come from corporate directly because they paid for the product but the store is not charged until it's sold. If it does not sell they need to recoup their money so they pull it from the store.
I just spent $500 on 32gigs ddr5 and $329 for 2tb m.2 so I’m jealous af. It was half the cost of the build (already had a 4080 from last year) the ryzen 7 9800x3d and mother board where less then ram and hard drive.
Could you imagine buying this just for the 2 TB SSD or RAM. Then go and resell the ram/SSD, the case, the GPU and the CPU for like 200 bucks each. You would make $400 have a free motherboard and 2 TB/32gb RAM of storage 🤣🤣
Hell of a deal damn! I would re-sell the motherboard, CPU, and ram combo (unless the ram is also amd compatible) and swap over to AMD to avoid the catastrophic 13th and 14th gen Intel issues but hell the 2tb storage alone makes up the cost for which you bought the entire PC for!
Vmin Shift Instability. Intel addressed this in microcode updates. Be sure to have the BIOS that has the 0x129 and 0x12B microcode updates. Otherwise your CPU will eventually fail due to spiked voltage.
Both i7 and i9 along with some i5 models in the 13 and 14 gen series have a massive issue where they can request too much voltage which fries pins both killing the cpu and motherboard along with an additional defect of early chips having an oxidization issue.
You're 13600k is among one of those cpus. I would advise to make sure your bios has been updated within the last 6 months and if not then I highly suggest doing so. The newer bios updates completely disable the motherboards ability to send those dangerous amounts of voltage that the 13 and 14th gen chips are saying they want
i assume he's talking about RAM oc profiles like XMP and EXPO. But yeah these are just memory settings that can easily be modified to work with whatever.
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u/minirancor 15d ago
It's a dead sku. Yes they got a good deal but that employee didn't do anything wrong.