Bargain Moose

Pick up a new Nintendo 3DS at Best Buy Canada and get a $40 reward!

• Click here to shop this deal at Best Buy

The 3DS is available in red, black or blue for $169.99.

The Nintendo 3DS puts the power of cool 3D gaming in the palm of your hand. Its dual screen design remains true to its predecessor, but the top screen can display 3D visuals without the need for special glasses. And with a great selection of games to choose from, you’ll enjoy an immersive experience anywhere you go.

You’ll get a free $40 Gift Card for in store orders and in-store pick up. For online orders, you’ll get $40 off any video game with purchase. Add the 3DS to your cart and then add any video came to your cart and you’ll see the discount applied automatically.

Mario Kart 7 (Nintendo 3DS) is available for pre-order (until it comes out 4th Dec. 2011) and you can use your $40 discount online to get it for free! Going to be a hot game for Christmas!

Best Buy Canada’s first ever cyber Monday sale is online only, and there will be plenty of hot deals to be found!

• Click here to shop the Cyber Monday Sale at Best Buy

Although the picture above says the sale starts 28th November, 2011 and ends 29th November (3 am EST), the start date and time in the flyers is given as 27th November, 2011 at 10:30pm EST.  So be ready tonight at 10:30!

There will be online doorcrasher specials on HDTVs, laptops, digital cameras, home audio and more.

You can also find additional savings on your favourite electronics.

Free shipping on orders over $20, now including tvs up to 43″. Or you can choose free in store pick up!

One of this year’s biggest kids movies comes out on DVD and BLU RAY tomorrow. On 1st November, 2011, Cars 2 is released! At Best Buy stores, you can pick up Cars 2 for a great price, $17.99 and you even get a nice gift with purchase.

• Click here to find a Best Buy

When you buy Cars 2 on DVD, you’ll also get a free read along Cars 2 32-page storybook. The free books are available in limited quantities, in store only.

If BLU RAY is what you are after, you can get the 2 disc BLU RAY combo pack for $29.99 with this printable coupon. The coupon is from Disney Movie Rewards and is good until 6th November, 2011. There is a limit of 2 printed coupons per computer.

Over on Best Buy Canada’s online store, they’ve got a pre0order special offer for the 10″ 130425U Ideapad 32GB wi-fi tablet from Lenovo. You can order it now for only $349.99.

• Click here to get your Ideapad on @ Besybuy.ca

The tablet  is due to arrive on the 21st October 2011, so not long to wait for it.

While this Lenovo Ideapad isn’t really for sale at many places yet as it is a pre-order so that I can price compare, the Best Buy price is showing as $80 less expensive than the price on Shop.lenovo.com, which is a good sign (it’s $430 on Lenovo).

Even though the text on Best Buy says that the Ideapad is in white, it only shows a black picture which I am using to illustrate this post.

I’m not overly familiar with specifications on tablets, but here are a few highlights of the specs:

• 10″ touchscreen – 1280 x 800 resolution
• NVIDIA Tegra T20 1GHz processor
• Android 3.0
• 32GB hard drive
• MicroSD card reader
• Front and rear cameras

I have an iPad 2, my pride and joy! I’ve not really used many other tablets though, so it is hard to compare. I can tell you that I wish the iPad 2 had a MicroSD slot, it would be so handy! My digital SLR camera uses MicroSD and I really wish I could just pop the card out of the camera and into my iPad for ease of viewing, but alas, it’s not to be. Perhaps in the iPad 3, eh?

Lenovo is offering free shipping on free shipping day 2011!

Tonight Best Buy Canada starts their online only Anniversary Sale. This sale runs from tonight, October 9th, at 6pm EST to October 11th @ 9 am EST.

• Check out the deals on Best Buy’s Website

The sale sports some seriously good deals, check out some of the savings:

• 20% off cell phone cases, memory and power
• 20% off select home theatre speakers
• up to 50% off select headphones including Sony and Bose
• Free memory card with all HD flash camcorders
• 15% off Select Blu-ray and DVD Movies

Plus other stuff.

I am a bit confused though. Best Buy has been having a general Anniversary sale that started on October 7th, so I wonder how this sale will distinguish itself from the rest of the deals.

Best Buy has a Lexmark All-in-One Inkjet Printer X2670 on final clearance for $39.97. This is an amazing price for even a lower end printer of the Lexmark brand. Currently there are 17 left in stock.

• Get a new printer for $39.97 + free shipping @ Best Buy

Specs:

• Enjoy high speed printing at up to 26 pages per minute black, 19 ppm colour
• Complete tasks effortlessly with 1-touch copy and the 48-bit flatbed scanner
• Print borderless photos and create high quality photo projects with Lexmark Imaging Studio
• USB interface

I did a price comparison with Amazon and this printer is $69.99 on Amazon.ca

Free shipping on orders of $20+, so on this product.

Best Buy Canada has a new bundle up for the XBOX 360 250 GB. It comes with a game card – with Halo 3, Gears of War 2, Alan Wake, Fable III, and Halo Wars on it. It is listed at $299.99 but “A $30 discount will be applied to shopping cart automatically for all online orders. In-store pick-up orders will be charged $299.99 and receive the $30 gift card in store.”

• Get this great XBOX pack from Best Buy

So online it will cost you only $269.99 (and you get free shipping) but in store it will cost you $299.99 but you get a free $30 gift card. You will need an internet connection to download the games using the game card.

Thanks to Mooser Zuzanak for posting this on the community forums.

If you were waiting for a price drop on the Nintendo 3DS, it just happened. Gamestop Canada, EB Games, Future Shop, Best Buy and The Source all have dropped the price of the 3DS to $169.99 (originally $249.99).

So really after that, just pick your favourite store. Best Buy and Future Shop both offer free shipping on orders of $20+ so they might be the best choices.

On the ‘good to know’ news: Future Shop is taking pre-orders for the Nintendo 3DS in red – which should be released around September 9th.

• To pre-order the nintendo 3DS in red from Future Shop – click here

I haven’t found the red at any other store, not ever Best Buy.

FYI: The price has not dropped on Amazon.ca as of yet.

Best Buy has a sweet deal if you are a student and purchasing an Apple computer for school. When you purchase an Apple computer either online or in store you will get Microsoft Office For Mac 2011 for free, worth $129.99.

• Shop Best Buy Canada

• Check out Microsoft Office for Mac 2011

It looks like it will be automatically added with your purchase. This offer is only valid through the 15th of August, 2011.

While I love Pages for making invoices and my general word processing needs: when it comes to essays and reports I use Microsoft Office for Mac. I have a 2007 version (that I actually really hate) but I don’t want to risk any compatibility errors or marks for the wrong formatting (such as margins, font, spacing, etc). Microsoft Office does the job.

Starting tonight at 6pm EST there will be 2 rounds of a Midsummer Online Only Sale from Best Buy Canada.

• Check out the deals @ The Midsummer Sale

Here are but a few of the discounts you will see:

• 10% off Select DVD Players & Blu-Ray Players
• 20% off Select Home Theatre Speakers
• 5% off Select Laptops over $500
• 20% off Select ink and toner
• $25 off Select Digital Cameras $250-$499
• $50 off Select Digital SLR Cameras $500-$999
• 15% off Select Blu-ray and DVD Movies
• 10% off Select Playstation 3 Games
• 15% off Select 3DS Accessories
• Buy 1 get 1 free on select SkullCandy headphones over $50
• Get your choice of free headphones with purchase of Sennheiser headphones over $99.99

There are tons more, this is just a sample!

It’s the sizzling summer sale at Best Buy and music and movies are on sale. DVDs start at $3.99, Blu-Rays at $4.99 and music under $10.

• Click here to shop at Best Buy

You won’t find the hottest releases movies in this sale, as most are from 2010 or earlier, but if you have a favourite that you are looking to buy or just a movie that you haven’t seen before, it’s worth taking a look.

For the kids I found Ant Bully (Blu-Ray) for $4.99 and on DVD, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory for $3.99 and Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore for $7.99. For myself, there are a couple of movies I’d like to pick up and bring to the lake for those rainy days or nights when you are stuck inside. Some movies I haven’t seen are Inception ($9.99), Town ($9.99) and Losers ($9.99).

From the music section, there are a lot more recent selections for under $10. For $9.99 each I found music by Bruno Mars – Doo-Wops & Hooligans, Katy Perry – Teenage Dream, Rhinna – Loud and The Black Eyed Peas – The Beginning.

Shipping is free on orders over $20.

The Sony RDHSK8IP  Ipod Mini System is over half price from Best Buy – it was $199.99 and it’s now only $89.95. Plus, you get free shipping too as your order is more than $20.

• Click here to buy the Sony Ipod Mini System @ TheSource.ca now

The Sony iPod Mini System is a 75W iPod dock, into which you can slot your iPod to crank out some rocking tunes. It’s quite a funky design too, with customizable graphic skins.

Apparently it uses the standard Apple connector, but it can also work with a stereo mini line in jack.

Review wise, the commenters on The Source’s website are very positive indeed.

Diamond says:

The sound that this unit puts out with my IPOD is amazing.

And sounder says:

I bought it and was pleasantly surprised at its clean, crisp, punching sound…at high volume.

I wonder if it would fit my iPhone?

(Ends 22nd June 2011)

This deal is for students only! When you buy select HP Windows 7 laptops of $599 or more at Future Shop Canada or Best Buy Canada, you’ll get a free  Xbox 360 console ($199 value).

• Click here to shop at Future Shop Canada

• Click here to shop Best Buy Canada

• Discount: Free Xbox 360 4GB console
• Coupon Code: STUDENT

After you add a select participating laptop (Future Shop) or participating laptop (Best Buy) to your cart, add this Xbox 360 console (Future Shop) to your cart or this Xbox 360 (Best Buy) and then add the coupon code at checkout to get the discount.

A note from Future Shop/Best Buy:

By entering this promo code, you have verified that you are a student in Canada and are eligible for this offer. Further verification may be required in the form of a valid student ID at a later date.

Click here for all details of this promotion

I didn’t see anywhere that this deal applies to post-secondary students only, just that you have to have a valid student ID.

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This is a sweet little deal for anyone into buying apps or buying music. Right now Best Buy is offering a $50 iTunes gift card for only $40!

• Check out the Best Buy store locator

I found this on the last page of my local flyer, and I have read other blogs where it has been found in flyers in the GTA and elsewhere. Rumour has it that in Quebec it is 20% off a $25 card. Would like confirmation on that!

This is an in store only deal.

I buy music and an app or two now and then (and the odd bucket of smurfberries) and 20% off is fantastic – I am so picking one up!

Deal ends the 26th, May 2011.