As a kid I wanted one of those colorful Apple computers so bad. They may have been just colored plastic, but it made them so unique.

@skinnynotlegend963

9 ай бұрын

I still want one right now.. everything seems grey or white nowadays

@RyanPancakes

9 ай бұрын

The only time I saw one in person was at my computer lab in college. Ironically they got all white ones 😂

@SJBrianexe

9 ай бұрын

I wanted an iMac as well. I even had a dream as a kid that I had just been handed an orange one from my family and I was upset that I was woken up out of that dream

@marsandbars

9 ай бұрын

​@@RyanPancakesen.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMac

@rich213sal

9 ай бұрын

Overrated and super slow

And this is why the Sunday morning news papers were such a treat back then. Compusa, Best Buy, circuit city, American, a few video game stores. Sears, I can go on….

@CatholicTraditional

9 ай бұрын

Many Sunday papers today are the size of once was a daily paper.

@boostedmaniac

8 ай бұрын

Yup I loved looking for the Fry’s Electronics ad. They had one every day in the paper. I used to go the break room during lunch while at work to check the daily sales and sometimes hit Fry’s on the way home.

@julesgamingnstuff

8 ай бұрын

Exactly! I used to go through all the catalogs each Sunday before anything else. It was great for preparing X-Mas lists too.

@RustyX2010

8 ай бұрын

Every Friday had a large 3 page Fry's insert in the LA Times.@@boostedmaniac

Sometimes I'm completely awestruck at how much of a nerd I unavoidably am. A 25 minute video about a CompUSA flyer from 1999?? You bet I watched the whole thing! Twice!

@carltonleboss

9 ай бұрын

I saved my Maltesers just for this video.

@Gatorade69

9 ай бұрын

@@carltonleboss Maltesers ? What is that ? Some kind of alcoholic beverage ?

They really did not spare any expense on printing. Damn those colors are poppin!

@xitheris1758

9 ай бұрын

Twas a bygone age, when the value proposition was held equal to the profit margin.

@umeng2002

9 ай бұрын

It was dirt cheap. The paper was one grade above toilet paper.

@thesmashtvnetwork

9 ай бұрын

​@umeng2002 the paper was from west rock and it cost 200$ for 500 million sheets

@xitheris1758

9 ай бұрын

@@thesmashtvnetwork 😂

Every time I see one of these ads for a tower PC from the late 90s, I am THROWN back into 12 year old me being so so hyped to get my first PC. I remember cutting the ad out and just looking at it for hours while it was shipping, which took a week. Longest week I've experienced. I don't think I've been so excited about anything since, and probably never will again. I'm glad I got to have that once in my life.

As exciting and powerful technology is today, I will say the late 90s and early 2000s is probably the most exciting time for technology. Even though I was like 5-6 at the time, walking into a CompUSA and Best Buy was like walking into a theme park for me. My Parents once spent 349 dollars on a 64 MB RAM Upgrade for my dad's PowerBook G3 back then.

@ryang2573

8 ай бұрын

It really was a different era back then. I was in high school in the early 00s and can remember how it seemed how every new generation of computer would not only be faster than the last, but substantially so. For example, my first computer - an NEC Ready Series - took sometimes over a full minute to load an area in Fallout 1 and 2. When I upgraded to an HP Pavilion a couple years later, that load time went down to less than a second.

@metalmat3651

8 ай бұрын

The leaps were bigger in the 90s. For example, you could have gotten a mid-range gaming rig in 2019 and still be able to play PC games coming out today. On the flip side a mid-range gaming pc bought in 1995 would've been ancient as fuck by 1999. Even a top of the line expensive gaming PC in 1995 (Around a 133 MHz processor & 16 MB Ram) wouldn't have met the minimum requirements for games like Unreal Tournament, Quake 3 Arena or Half-Life.

These store advertisements remind me of the old Scholastic Book Club mini-catalogs growing up. Expensive prices back then compared to what can be found today in comparison. Thanks for going through the pages.

@kbhasi

9 ай бұрын

I remember that back in 2020, an author whose book was featured in one of those catalogues ended up posting a link to a digital copy of the then-latest Scholastic Book Club catalogue on their Twitter page and I had a look at it, so I know just what you mean! Aaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!! 😄📚

@jr2904

9 ай бұрын

I miss the scholastic book fairs from elementary and middle school, but for me that was 20 years ago...

@cleonituk

9 ай бұрын

​@@jr2904man makes me feel old. Left school 21 years ago.

@modelrailpreservation

9 ай бұрын

@@jr2904 Thirty years ago for me. But that does bring back some fun memories.

This took me right back. I worked at CompUSA in 1998-2000 for all the transparent craziness.

@IFixSAN

9 ай бұрын

Same. Store 747, Represent!

@ebruddah

9 ай бұрын

I miss CompUSA so much... It was such a candy store in my tween years...

@fungiplays2289

9 ай бұрын

@@IFixSAN I forget my store number but it was the Encinitas one

@fungiplays2289

9 ай бұрын

@@ebruddah Right???? I worked on the receiving dock, so I literally got my hands on every new thing first

@JustinEmlay

9 ай бұрын

They turned me down. Told me I wasn't qualified. Turned my eyes away from retail and started looking for entry level IT work. Got picked up by a company I've been working for over 25 years. CompUSA went out of business only to come back as a garbage website while I'm still a systems admin. The reason I wasn't qualified, I couldn't NAME the 4 sections of an IP address. Yeah, I still can't. No one I know can. That's one of those dumb things you read in a book once then never remember because it matters to exactly 0 people.

I sincerely appreciate your enthusiasm. I was the only kid around that got excited for these Sunday ads. Thank you for this!

Wow. Big nostalgia for me - I remember getting up extra early on Sunday mornings just to see what would be in the sale papers. It was fun.

I know I am starting to get old when retro adverts make me wistful for times that were and will never be again

Love these type of videos. Its like therapy and so relaxing thinking about those times

@miganhawkins8390

9 ай бұрын

Absolutely

I remember going to CompUSA with my parents at least a few times back when I was little, and my mom explaining to me that this was basically my stepdad's version of Toys R Us. Very sad it was replaced by a nursing school but the time I was old enough to really be into computers.

I miss the 90's. Great time. Loved going to Babbage's, Electronic Boutique, and others. Trying to find computer games on sale in the bins. It's easier now, but then it was adventure.

@Robert08010

9 ай бұрын

I loved going to the shows and finding the 2/3 off priced educators version of Corel and other large applications.

I miss CompUSA, I used to shop there a lot there at a mall back in the late 90s and early 2000s! I remember being blown away by the then-new iMac! It’s like seeing a brand new invention, those digital cameras were so cool!

You're one of the only people that can make a 25 minute video on decades-old shopping ads and not make it boring. Love this stuff man

@LGR

9 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@hamtaro126

9 ай бұрын

If you like LGR, I'd recommend another, smaller channel that does such things like this, namely "The Nostalgia Mall" does a good job of similar content, as well as adding some (mostly) packard bell and retro abandoned mall-based content, but we are here for the computer stuff, so please give him a check! And I think, but I might check again if I am wrong, that channel may have did at one point did some tech/computer shopping ads in the past (like Packard Bell/Dells/etc.), with his commentaries being interesting a bit also...

I love seeing these old ads! I used to read them religiously around the same time period, also without the money to actually buy anything haha. Also used to just hang out at stores like CompUSA and others in the computer section and just look at stuff and mess around with the display models for hours… man memories…

I would definitely like a Starfield review from the LGR perspective.

@schmobot

9 ай бұрын

seconded!

@noahmetzger3042

9 ай бұрын

Agreed!

@Chikana2011

9 ай бұрын

I third that. - Hopefully it's not a lazy game review. :p

The office I was working in at the time was like 1/2 mile from a CompUSA, I miss that store. Many "lunch" breaks were taken at that place.

OMG, every time I watch one of your videos I am instantly transported back to the 1990s where I first started with computers and laptops and first gen digital cameras (with floppy disks hahaha) and early PDAs and all that jazz... Thanks as always for the nostalgia trip. ❤

@Robert08010

9 ай бұрын

For me it was the 80s! TRS-80 in '79, C-64 in '82 and then my first PC around 1986. I eventually bought an 80 MEGABYTE hard drive for $359.99

I absolutely love these type of Retro Ad reviews.

My cousin and I played around with 3D Home Architect a lot back around that time. I don't know which version it was, but that box art looks very familiar!

Nice to know other people collect vintage retail ads. I saved a lot from 2016-2019 right at the tail end of my city's newspaper subscription before they stopped putting ads in it. I also saved cut-outs of cell phone ads from 2004-2008 (I collected them at the time) I still get the junk mail flyer that has a few ads in it but not an entire paper full. I work on sniffing out older ads from the 70s, 80s 90s but so difficult to find . My magnum opus I'm proud of is that I was very smart when I was 10 years old and had the foresight to save all the Game Crazy, EB Games, and Gamestop flyers that was sent to me and put them in a binder (been a game collector since 1998). I was stupid (being a kid of course) and hole-punched them for a 3 ring binder though which damaged them, but they are all still here.

This is hands down one of my favorite videos you've done! LOVED this retrospective on the adverts from those years. I was such a newbie to the computer scene, and though my interests were more into console gaming and toy collecting, this brought back a lot of memories!

@LGR

9 ай бұрын

Thank you, I’m glad you enjoyed!

I worked at CompUSA from 1999 to 2007, those ads brought back so many memories. Still have my uniform and name tag. Another video you have done in a while and if you are in a bind is a LGR eats video.

@standardnerd9840

9 ай бұрын

I still had my black Tech Shop shirt and name tag until my daughter took my office as her bedroom and my stuff got shuffled off to god knows where. I think I had a couple red shirts too. I wish I still had them, good memories. I worked at store 288 in Totowa NJ

LOVE these videos!! So much nostalgia within those papers.

I would always get SO excited for CompUSA fliers on Thanksgiving day. I would usually find nothing that was both "a thing I must have" and a substantial bargain, but the potential... oh, the potential... So exciting! Can't beat hanging with the family, full up on turkey and pie, and seeing ads for cakeboxes of store-brand CD-Rs at ridiculous prices.

The trip to CompUSA in the 90's was always a great time! The Flyers in the Sunday Newspapers were like a Sears Christmas Wish book! The Fry's ones were even better!

Perfect content to get through the final hours of this workweek. 🎉

Wow! Looking through the Sunday newspaper inserts is a crazy throwback. As a kid, I always looked forward going through all the toy and electronic store ads. This is definitely a series I would watch. Can't wait to see more!

@ebruddah

9 ай бұрын

LOL even the Target circular was awesome for console games... Print ads were the best and I miss my huge Sunday newspaper.

@miketroj3728

9 ай бұрын

@@ebruddah heck yeah! Target, Kmart, KB Toys, Toys R Us, Nobody beats the Wiz. Probably took a good hour to go through them all page by page.

I got my start in Computing back in 92 . The 90s were a exciting time for me and computers . I wish I had kept all my old machines . I still have my first computer that I built in 94 . 486 DX100 still runs perfectly ,just need a new case for it . I remember these CompUSA ads , Curcuit City , Frys Electronics ect.. Sad those stores are gone . I use to go to these places every pay day after I paid all my bills . Thanks for this one . I had a CompUSA branded computer back in the day . I love this old stuff ,a lot more fun than the modern stuff .

I loved all 3 of the color iMac I’ve had from 1998-2004 and then I went for the eMac which had the general shape and form but was sadly only white.. after that the slim style iMac came out and it looked pretty much the same since then (apart from the material).. I miss colors! I remember vividly playing Unreal Tournament online all summer on my iMac! Loved that computer it was awesome!

These are legitimately some of my favorite videos of yours. Love the nostalgia of looking through these old circulars.

I grew up In Elmhurst. Still glad to see that they still have community events. It's not just Elmhurst but the whole Chicagoland area is big on community events. As far as Elmhurst, the closest CompuUSA location was Downers Grove/Lombard. They moved from Butterfield and Finley to Butterfield and Highland to a new store location. Unfortunately they didn't last long after that. Their first location is a Brazilian steakhouse and their last location in Lombard is Dicks Sporting Goods. For the area, ElekTek and CompUSA were the got to computer stores. Then later Best Buy, Fry's, Microcenter. Best buy is not so much an enthusiast store like the others. Not to mention there was a PC King in Westmont not far from Microcenter. There were a few mom and pop locations around Chicago. Not mention for a short time we had a RadioShack Computer City in Oak Brook. That didn't last long either. And later on just like Tiger Direct stores I. Chicago didn't last long either.

Loved those weekly circulars! Always went strait to the games section of those, Walmart, best buy etc..

Man this really brings me back memories bro. I mean been a kid in the 90's was magical I can remember getting all this computer magazine and been mesmerized by it, especially the at the time brand new iMac G3 I thought was the coolest computer do to it's style all in color case which reminds me of my Jungle Green N64 because of the different colors were available. Of course I really enjoy seeing the new hardware coming up mostly Windows 98 Pc from Compaq, Hp and Gateway. Man I can go on but yeah those were the times.

@Neodestro

9 ай бұрын

yep the 90's was magical time i miss the 90s sooo much

that was the most nostalgic experience ive had in a long while. had me reminiscing of sunday afternoons at my grandmas, wish-listing with my cousin, eating lots of food with football on in the background. 12yo me wanted one of those windows ce palmtops so bad.. thanks for that and hope for more

This is some major nostalgia! Completely forgot about these ads. Thanks for making this video and putting me back on memory road!

I legit LOVE these old ad videos

Had the foresight to save some of these as a kid, still have them and enjoy looking through them every now and then! takes me back to those sunday mornings in the late 90s!

I've never watched a video that has made both happy and sad as this. I was one of those crazy people that bought Falcon 4.0 and read the manual while at school when I should have been working.. Good times...

Boy, that SimCity 3000 on the first ad you showed. I bought that release. I still have the original disc, but I've also bought the Unlimited release on GOG a few years back. Good times. Edit: I had a flash of memory reminding me I bought my copy at Books-a-Million.

100% yes please on the Starfield review. I'd love to see your take on this game.

I lived in Greensboro in '99 as well, and my elementary school (Jefferson, newly built and opened for the 99-00 school year) had a computer lab decked out with a couple dozen of those blue iMacs. Computer labs used to be a thing, and now a lot of districts give all their students their own laptops lolol. Impossible to imagine back then! And one of the techno-ish Ejays was also my first experience with music software! I believe my copy came from KB Toys lol. I later got a version of Magix from CompUSA as well, and then pirated copies of Fruity Loops and Reason. Thanks for the blast from the past for us fellow 90s kids!

These ads and others from that time were always awesome. I miss them.

I appreciate the work you do. You really take me down memory lane. Old Fry's ads would be a good one to do too along with Best Buy etc. I used to wait eagerly for the new weekly circular before the Amazon and pervasive online purchasing days.

i spent 25 minutes watching Clint going over vintage flyers. time well spent man, good job.

it's been too long since you did one of these! always fun, please do more

The crystal colors of 90's tech was the coolest thing growing up.

@jr2904

9 ай бұрын

I miss the transparent plastic on Nintendo consoles and Gameboys back then, never had myself but they looked so cool. Still have my trans blue PS2 controller though, and unlike my PS4 controller, no stick drift even though it's about 20 years old...

@Gameprojordan

8 ай бұрын

​@jr2904 I have a transparent purple N64 controller, and a transparent-glacier blue Gameboy Advance

I still remember getting up early Sundays before church to snag the CompUSA sale ad and thoroughly review it. My brother and I got a lot of their "free or almost free" games after rebate. I bought my 2 Voodoo 2 12 Meg cards there.

Thanks for this one Clint. I had a smile on the whole time. What a wonderful time for computing!

I probably have not seen one of these in 20+ years. I vividly remember looking at these every week from the newspaper. It was my main way of knowing when games came out and keeping up with what were the newest PC hardware was since I didn't have magazine subscriptions.

The Y2K paranoia was SO real. I was less than 5 years old but I still remember my dad filling a room in our unfinished basement full of two liter bottles of water (I'm sure there were larger jugs, too). He was one of those types that turned out to be a prepper later on. 😂 great video as always, LGR!

The tech in these ads were my life at the time. I took home a flyer from Staples when working there from 1997-2002. So foolishly tossed them out, of course, not knowing how nostalgic they would be. 😢

Reading catalogues, magazines, and comic books are my joy back in the day.

Not sure I'd call the most late-90s looking computer ever made "timeless," but these old inserts are fun!

@nickwallette6201

9 ай бұрын

Are you telling me you don't still love that aesthetic? Because I do. :-) I guess, to be honest, it took a while to warm up to it. I think maybe I liked it a little bit, but I was such a PC fanboy back then, that I couldn't be impressed by an Apple product. Or maybe I just can't love anything contemporary. That could mean that in 20 years, I'll look back fondly at computer cases that look like wanna-be starships with an unreasonable number of RGB lights in them.

@kutulukutu

9 ай бұрын

@@nickwallette6201 Oh no, I always thought it was a cool design, just. One look? You know what decade it came from.😆 Kind of like rusted shag carpet and the 70s or Nagel paintings and the 80s. Well, the shag shouldn't be enjoyed by any generation, but you get my point lol

Nostalgia is a hell of a drug.

@raspberrypi5518

9 ай бұрын

🤣 👍

@richtakings3359

9 ай бұрын

I was nostalgic about the 80s 8-bit days in the 90s !!

@mtechcom4863

9 ай бұрын

Overdose nostalgia

Oh the nostalgia of these goodies, Looking at the tech back then makes me geek out back then even as a 1990s child... I remembered a lot of these machines in these stores back then!!! Thanks a million for the nostalgia trip, LGR!!! 😁

This was a fun trip down memory lane. I would totally watch a Starfield review!

The Franklin Rex Pro itself WAS a PCMCIA card. You could slide the PDA into a laptop. If you could find one, that would be an interesting review.

@WalterFrancis

9 ай бұрын

Yep they were very neat, pop in laptop and sync stuff to it and pop it out and take the information with you.

For what it's worth, these are enjoyable nostalgia trip videos and I think they're a solid break in otherwise deep dive content. I dig it.

Haven’t watched the video yet since I’m in line for coffee but I already know this’ll be great. I love old computer ads for the intense blast of nostalgia they provide

Interestingly Putt-Putt Enters the Race wasn't a re-release, but the newest Humongous release at the time this catalog came out (game released 1/1/99) and featured the debut of Nancy Cartwright as the voice of Putt-Putt, replacing child actor Jason Ellefson.

I love the old school style videos just looking through old catalogues. Takes me back to when I first started binging all your videos. I personally would love to see a Starfield review seeing as your reviews are always spot on for me.

I don't really care if you do a review or not, but it's always nice hearing your opinion on the various games you play. So I guess that's a yeah, give us a review. Or an overview of your experiences playing the game

Keep in mind the prices from 1999 are lower then they would be today due to inflation. $100 in 1999 would be almost $200 today when adjusted for inflation, so just roughly double the prices in the ad to see what it would have felt like to buy those things back then

I love these kind of videos I watched someone flip through old Sears catalog from the 80s the other day

I mean it in the best way when I say watching your videos is like listening to a dad take a walk down memory lane about all the exciting stuff that went down in the computer industry back then, and I'm all for it.

Man! Those early digital cameras are why film stuck around so long! I can't imagine trying to use digital back then. In 1999, I was 15, so I was definitely shooting on a 35mm SLR, probs a Minolta.

@kbhasi

9 ай бұрын

Yep! When my family went on a trip to the US and Canada in 2001 and took me (as a toddler) along, my dad used a Kyocera Yashica 35mm camera with some kind of Fujifilm, especially during our visit to Disney's California Adventure and the Kodak-sponsored Journey into Imagination (fairly certain my parents used a mix of Fujifilm, Konica, and Kodak film, but I can't remember at this point or it may have been a false memory). I didn't know that was what those places were called until KZread recommended me videos from amusement park KZreadrs many years later as an adult.

@MrSkeltal268

9 ай бұрын

Those original digital cameras didn’t even have screens. My dad got one from a work bonus. It was incredibly difficult to use and his computer had a hell of a time connecting to the damn thing. 😂 wish I still had it though! Things was stolen at Disney World :(.

You’re doing what many of us did 25 years ago- and now older, I rarely buy any hardware new due to the price depreciation over time shown here!

Also a tip for any newspaper ad collectors - if you ever get wadded up or crumpled and wrinkled ads - spray them with "Magic Sizer" brand aerosol starch and then iron with a very low heat. delicately. the ads will be un-wrinkled and arrow straight. they will still show their crumple lines and the texture will look like construction paper, but they were already ruined when they got wadded up so they are not any worse than they were.

My buddy and I are in Chicago after a 12 hour drive down from Ottawa, Canada for our first VCF Midwest! We are super excited! I look forward to saying hi tomorrow.

I used to check out these and best buy circulars as a kid back then. I was always hoping my parents (being as old fashioned as they were) would get me at least the cheapest emachines

I started to laugh everytime you said "I have one of these" 😅. You have so many of these items in the catalog you probably forget about some of them

Love the video. Never seen you before, but I love old ads. Keep em coming

Your content makes me happy. Thank you

This is so fun to look at as well as incredibly depressing. We lived in an amazing time.

@BradizbakeD

9 ай бұрын

Yeah, a lot of that magic is missing these days, at least to me, since we've reached a point where all that tech has just become as common and natural and streamlined as walking or eating. Back then, it was new, newish, and evolving, whereas now it's pretty much homogeneous, but I have a feeling it will get just as exciting again, very soon. ❤

@jacobq.2204

9 ай бұрын

Bionic tech, the next great frontier

@SiXiam

7 ай бұрын

That's not what I remember from those times. Most people looked at those ads and saw all the stuff they couldn't afford.

Please do more of these! I'll be at the show looking at all manuals! So excited .

CompUSA was one of my go to computer stores back in the day. Thank you for this trip down nostalgia lane.

wow, turbo tax was $10? compared to the $100 ripoff it is now. love this video! wish there were more of these., not sure if anyone remembers, but back in the day CompUSA had crazy hot deals with their free after rebate stuff. i remember waiting in line outside a grand opening, and they were handing out tickets for those looking to get in on those items. they had scanner, webcam, mice, keyboards, surge protectors, air in a can, all free after rebate. i must have spent close to a thousand dollars and got every penny back.

@CatholicTraditional

9 ай бұрын

Back then, the Turbo Tax disc was offline. You answered the questions and printed out your return, and mailed it to the IRS, just as if you did it by hand. Today, at least the $100 gives them the responsibility for errors if you’re audited. (They charge more if you want to web chat with a CPA.)

I love the shot of the people going to be there because I have quite a few of these people on my list of videos to watch as soon as they come out.

I was the creative director and webmaster for CompUSA. The good old days indeed -- thanks for showing the circulars --

Thanks for the travel back, I really enjoyed this!

These types of videos looking at old fliers and catalogs are my favorite. I remember so many of these, circling items that I wanted, and even how these smelled at the time.

These are really cool, especially from this era. Please do more!

I'd love a Starfield review, I hear lots of mixed things but nothing so effectively and methodically analysed like you do best. Enjoy your trip, drive safe!

hello LGR! Thank you for your amazing content. :)

Wow this was for my area back in the day. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!

Love the vibes of these retro catalog videos. Brings back good memories 😊

I've enjoyed this two camera setup kind of video. I'd love to see more like this in the future

Insert videos are the best. Thank you

I worked at CompUSA in the early 2000s. When these flyers came out, I always had to look through it to see which items had rebates without having to send in the barcode because we had people that would come in near the end of the 14 days, say they lost the receipt and try to refund the items after sending in for rebates. Had one guy that would try to do it even if the barcode was cut out of the box. :| Best customer that knew how to game the system, would get high end graphic cards, buy the replacement plan, overclock them, bring them back, get it replaced under the plan, buy plan on the new one. So he was paying like 40 bucks for 400 dollar cards and I was meeting my quota of selling replacement plans out of the customer service corral.

Some of my favorite LGR content. I go back and watch these year after year.

This was the best. I like that you instabuyed it immediately haha. Thanks and hope you had a great time on the trip.

Thanks for these lot of memories, it's so interresting to me to remember the old school PC computers. It was a huge period for me, and I miss it so much now I'm 37 years old.

Always a nice trip down memory lane (and see some of the lesser known games that I bought back in the day too).

A couple of months ago, my father found a 1992 catalog from a superstore when he was cleaning the basement. Some of the things advertised were denim jackets, Aladdin toys and a great raffle where the winner could win a prize of two million pesetas.

This is nostalgia heaven. I'm glad you laid the paper down, the constant movement when held to the camera made me reach for the Travacalm :P

I remember in 1999 when the first 15" LCD monitors were available for about $1K, as you showed in this video. At the time while I wasn't poor and I wasn't rich, I did have a good job and some savings and really really really really wanted one, so I ran off to my favorite local CompUSA, a store where for several years I had spent a good portion of my disposable income, since building and upgrading computers was my hobby, and I bought one of these 15" LCD monitors and I remember it being $900 or $999... A huge chuck of change for the day. I excitedly brought it home, used it for a couple of days, and I don't think it was buyer's remorse but I was just underwhelmed at what I was looking at for the price, so I boxed it back up and brought it back to the store to return. What should have been a simple return ended up becoming a flat-out interrogation by the service desk who tried everything to deny the return. In the end they were unsuccessful and I got my money back.

I'm happy as long as i get to hear your smooth calming voice talk about tech and nerdy stuff.