Antec P160W offer from Buy.com

[FalvinP]

I’m probably going to order an Antec P160 case from Buy.com.

I’ve found something confusing. A few days ago I found the following link that shows a picture of the case with the side panel window, which I don’t need.

http://www.buy.com/retail/Product.as...omp&adid=17662

I couldn’t remember where I bookmarked that link (I’ve since found it) so I searched buy.com and came up with the following link:

http://www.buy.com/retail/Product.as...omp&adid=17662

What’s confusing to me is that the case with the window is cheaper and refers to the $20 mail in rebate, which is part of the reason for wanting this case. $80 seems to be a pretty good price.

The windowless case is out of stock and does not refer to the rebate and is $15 more expensive than the windowed version.

I’ve clicked on “refresh” on the cheaper unit to make sure the price hasn’t changed………..it hasn’t changed.

Is this situation normal? I can see why an out of stock item would not mention the rebate, but is a windowed version of a case typically cheaper than a case without a window?

I presume this is a pretty good deal, especially when coupled with free shipping.

Any thoughts on buying from Buy.com or this specific offer?

[Cricket]

I've never gotten anything from Buy.com, but their rating over at ResellerRatings stinks. I'd look elsewhere for that case. Did you check Newegg or ZipZoomFly yet?

Cricket

[TwoRails]

Actually, I've been shopping with them for years and never had a problem. Yes, it's common for prices of of less to be more when sales are going on. For example, I was in Best Buy yesterday and picked up Nero's latest version Nero 7 Ultra for off the shelf $50 less than the old version 6 is still selling for a couple of feet down. With a $20 rebate I'll pay $29.95 for the latest-n-greatest while someone who just knows they want "Nero" might pick up the old one for $99. I see that kind of stuff all the time. Even Newegg, farily recently, had the new Acronis version on sale for $10 less than the old one.