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Petulant Pixie · Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 8:43 am Post subject: Quick!

I need 5 stopwatches by Friday. Where would you recommend getting them? Target and Walmart have fancy ones for $9.99 apiece. I was hoping for cheaper. Amazon.com has the ones I'm looking for for $4.95 each... these but I won't get them by Friday. I didn't get word until yesterday that I needed them at all.

The sporting goods store near us has them (online) for $45 for a six-pack, so that's like $7.50 apiece, if they have them in the store. Any other suggestions to find these goddamn things?

prescott · Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 8:48 am Post subject:

Do they all have to match? Maybe try a Play It Again Sports store to get a good deal on some used ones.

Other than that, we always go to the big Dick's Sporting Goods near us so that's all I got.

Petulant Pixie · Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 9:31 am Post subject:

No, they don't have to match. The play it again sports is a good idea, we have one real close to us. Dicks is the other place that has them in bulk online.

I'll look at both of those places tonight. The school/PTA may reimburse me for them, but if not, then I don't want to be out $50 for these damn things, so cheaper is better. If I'm not reimbursed then I may keep them for my personal use in the future. I'll need them again in February for the next AT meet my school (me) is hosting and then Alex may do this again in 8th grade and our school may end up hosting again, and then Katie can start in 5th grade, so there is a potential for a lot of MY use for this through the school. If I donate them to the school, it's tax deductible, too, right?

Anthromomma · Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 10:13 pm Post subject:

Last year I bought a new pedometer at Best Buy for, like, half the price of the cheap one at Target. It seems to me that they had quite a range of stopwatches and timers as well, so that might be a place to look if you strike out at Play it Again.

Petulant Pixie · Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 9:35 am Post subject:

Aha! Will try there too. Fucking Dicks didn't have the set they advertised on their website. They said that the online store is really owned by a different company (as are so many online stores vs mortar and brick stores). But, I think I will shop there more often just so when I'm disappointed I can call them Fucking Dicks because I like saying that.

Didn't make it to Play it Again yet, they're on my list today. I think I'll Phone First! (80's anyone???)

Jessica · Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 12:03 pm Post subject:

Scout · Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 1:03 pm Post subject:

I like that Prescott called it "the big Dick's." Freudian?

Petulant Pixie · Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 1:31 pm Post subject:

LOL, I didn't catch that. You know the big fucking Dick's sporting goods was Alex's accidental initiation into internet pornography and how you need to be really careful about how you look for things. He was researching basketball nets and looking them up on all the websites--wal-mart, target, dicks, and since the first two were just the name.com, he tried dicks.com and well, he didn't get the kind of dicks he was trying to get. He came to me all humiliated because he knew that we check up on the history after him. Poor kid.

Play it again is out of them, and best buy doesn't carry them, so it looks like I have to get the $9.99 apiece ones. I think I can get away with just four of them. Wish me luck. The big meet is tomorrow.

mammaX3_MOD · Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 4:28 pm Post subject: