Across the country, hidden away on clearance shelves and junk bins, there are piles of inexplicably outdated and overpriced electronics that should have no place on a store shelf. Our readers who scour the nation’s big-box stores in search of these retail antiquities are the Raiders of the Lost Walmart. In their latest field report, we see a modestly old PC, an iPod Touch and iPhone case that charges your device from 2011 or earlier from AA batteries, and the hottest media player Microsoft had to offer in 2009. [More]
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Raiders Of The Lost Walmart Must Wait Until January 30, 2007 To Sell This Computer
All over the world, in dusty corners of discount stores and warehouses, retail antiquities are waiting for someone to discover them. These tiny pockets of obsolete, comically overpriced technology are the purview of the Raiders of the Lost Walmart, a group who tirelessly search for these artifacts, then send pictures of them to Consumerist. This week, they uncovered two fascinating treasures. [More]
Morning Deals Round-Up: eMacMonitor
• We’re unsure how the NYC transit strike can make us late to work when we work from home, but by god we’ve managed to do it. In celebration, have a full-blown computer for $250, after multiple rebates. Slickdeals has the details.