[NTLUG:Discuss] OT: Fry's

[Joel Sinor]

My advice in general is never buy the cheapest component unless it is a
name-brand and you know for sure what it is.  CDRs and memory are the
worst for this, and no matter where you buy them if you buy cheap you
will end up returning them.  I stick with name brand memory and CDRs,
especially since the only times I have ever broken this rule (recently
buying cheap RAM and another time daring to buy PNY CDRs) nothing worked
period.  On the CDRs I just got burned, but I got to return the RAM. 
The RAM I bought at Fry's, the CDRs I tihnk were CompUSA.
So I think really it does not matter where you buy it if you buy the
right thing the first time.  What does matter is that Fry's and Wal-Mart
have the most lax return policies I have seen anywhere, and it is pretty
simple to return stuff.  It sucks to wait in line, but it would suck
more to wait 6 weeks for an online vendor to do something.