Archive for March, 2008

I know that guy…

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

Looking around at craigslist, I found a posting that a Dream Theater cover band Glass Prison was looking for a singer. In looking at their band lineup, they list their bassist as Erik McFearsome.
Which led me to search around for Luke’s brother Erik MacPherson to see if that was him. Then I found [...]

Best Buy FTW?

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

Best Buy HD DVD Action Center

I think I’ve changed my mind about Best Buy. They’ve announced that they will give a $50 gift card to customers who bought an HD-DVD player before February 23. They’ll also trade-in your HD-DVD player — even if you did not purchase it at Best Buy. They’ll [...]

Joe vs. Toshiba - 5

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

Received a call back from Toshiba! Albeit a non-helpful call…
Tim was a friendly gentleman who claimed to be in the “same boat” as me, purchasing an HD-A30 just after Christmas. He claimed that Toshiba has no plans to compensate those folks who purchased HD-DVD players recently, nor do they have any plans to [...]

Joe vs. Toshiba - 4

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

Called Maria Rappoli (973-628-8000 ext. 4250) at Toshiba Customer Support for the fourth time today and left a message, as directed by the Toshiba customer support e-mail response. I have yet to hear back from her.
Thanks for screwing my family out of $500. Let’s see if I can help drum up some Internet [...]

Joe vs. Toshiba - 3

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

Circuit City rumored to allow trade-ins of HD-DVD players for a Blu-Ray player or gift card

Will Best Buy follow their lead (if it is true)?
And yeah, still no word from Toshiba. Time to call again.