Where is the best place to buy electronics, like TV, DVD player, etc.

[Brucey]

Do you go to eBay? How about Best Buy? Is used okay?

[RC]

1. eBay to Feds: come and get what you want

Israeli daily Haaretz has unearthed highly embarrassing, and disturbing comments by an eBay executive. To an audience of law enforcement officials, eBay's Joseph Sullivan boasts that his company's privacy policy is meaningless.

"We don't make you show a subpoena, except in exceptional cases," Sullivan told a closed-door session at the CyberCrime 2003 conference last week.

"When someone uses our site and clicks on the `I Agree' button, it is as if he agrees to let us submit all of his data to the legal authorities. Which means that if you are a law-enforcement officer, all you have to do is send us a fax with a request for information, and ask about the person behind the seller's identity number, and we will provide you with his name, address, sales history and other details - all without having to produce a court order. We want law enforcement people to spend time on our site."

Law enforcement snoopers will have plenty of material to work with: Sullivan also boasts that eBay has logged every item of user information since 1995. eBay helps with over 200 a month, Haaretz reports.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/32936.html

Still want eBay?

[alcuno]

2. I just bought a digital camera for mom at amazon.com

and for DVD players and TV's, we go to Sam's Club. I would not ever buy used electronics. Saw a small (hardcover book size) VCR at Sam's today for 39.95. Pretty soon they'll be giving them away.

[uberotto]

3. I will typically go to Best Buy or CompUSA first to check on prices...

Then I will go to eBay, Half.com, Amazon or some other online shopping place. If there isn't any real difference in price, after adding in shipping then I will just get it from the store. So far I've had really good luck buying online and used is usually good enough, but it depends on what it is. The laptop I'm using right now was bought used from eBay.

If it is something for a computer, I will go to http://www.pricewatch.com to check out what price ranges things are selling for, before buying from anywhere.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

4. Retail? I like Costco.