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alibosworth · newb Joined: 27 Jan 2005 Posts: 2 Location: victoria

while this may seem offtopic, the more of us potential developers/researchers that have our little hands on one of these, the more work that will get done on them. please contribute to this thread any online/offline locations for getting these devices. please keep in mind that people interested in this project may be all over the world.

to start with:

electronic goldmine (in the USA, will ship internationally)
starter kit - 49.99USD (includes base station)
only the messenger - 23.99USD (no base station)

tak · newb Joined: 27 Jan 2005 Posts: 1

Also, Walmart is selling the starter kits for $35USD + shipping.

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.gsp?product_id=3059749

EDIT:
Walmart does _not_ ship outside of the USA.

xantus · Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 5:30 am Post subject:

Walmart is also selling them in their stores. I've seen them in the computer section with all the wireless hubs.

shavenwarthog · newb Joined: 06 Feb 2005 Posts: 2

http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=MX240A-N

There's a little more information on a similar device, the Zipit Messenger, on the I-Appliance BBS:

xantus · Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 11:03 pm Post subject: Re: $35 at Computer Geeks

hagakure · newb Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Posts: 2 Location: South Florida

I just wanted to inform that I bought an IMFree at the walmart I work at for $15 on clearance. This means we aren't going to carry them anymore. Let me clarify. Our store (#1087) won't carry them. This may or may not follow with all other walmarts in the future, but they have always been (at our store at least) very unpopular. I don't think I even sold one in the year or so we've had them. The retail when we first got them was around $60-70, it now retails for $34.94 at our store.

The reason I bought it was solely to see what kind of "hacks" there are available for it. I don't need it for AIM. But just the other day I did some modifying of my old palm zire, which I first saw on hack-a-day, and put palmorb on it, and lcd smartie on my PC. After having so much fun doing that, I started looking at other possibilities. I have no (or if you want to be nice, very little) hacking skills and have only basic C programming skills, but I'm still anxious to see what becomes of it.

ertyu · newb Joined: 05 May 2005 Posts: 4

Geeks has them for $20 till June 15 with code MOTOGEEK

danembraceddc · newb Joined: 29 Jul 2005 Posts: 1

our local walmart also had one on clearence, only it was 19 bucks.
we quickly snapped it up.

shanebat · newb Joined: 31 Jul 2005 Posts: 1

creeva · Regular Poster Joined: 08 Aug 2005 Posts: 20

wal-mart price seems to now be 15.00

Whyaylooh · newb Joined: 09 Sep 2005 Posts: 1 Location: Green Bay, WI

Check out Computer Geeks (www.geeks.com) between 2 p.m. Eastern / 11 a.m. Pacific, and 4 p.m. Eastern / 1 p.m. Pacific. They have their daily green light specials going on, and these have been popping up for as low as $9.99 there. They also seem to turn up for $9.99 rather often in their Sunday Madness sales, which happen every week from 7 p.m. Eastern / 4:00 p.m. Pacific, and 11 p.m. Eastern / 8:00 p.m. Pacific.

Of course, if you're not interested in waiting for one of Computer Geek's sale times, you can always get one from Woot (www.woot.com) right now for $13.99.

The prices do seem to be eeking down on these . . .