Sony S301 (the S300 with free HDMI cable) $279 at Costco

[bluskiessmingatme]

Costco picked up quickly on the sales of it at $299 and has it for $279.99. Not only is this $20 cheaper than Best Buy, Circuit City, and other places selling it for $299, the box also contains a free HDMI cable. Plus Costco has the best return policy I have ever seen.

I had purchased the Sony S301 (it is the same as the Sony S300 but comes with a free HDMI cable) from them in September at $455, and returned that on Sunday and got a new one at the $279.99 price. They had reduced the price to $379.99 prior to Sunday die to last week's sakes but brought it down $100 more on Sunday as a "manufacturer's instant rebate" to $279.99. The tax charged is based on the $379 original price they had it at on Saturday.

The sale ends on December 29th. This is in-store. They don't list it at this time on the website.

[jed]

We've also received reports from readers that Sam's Club is offering the same deck for $279....

[MNTWISTER]

I was at Target in northern MN today and they were just reducing the price of this player to $289, they have a nice great big display and it's the only HD player they sell. It was nice to see people looking at the display and asking questions, and they did sell one when I was there. Of course, I gave some positive feedback too. They also sold out of PS3 systems by today, they had 9 on Saturday :-). This means that both formats 1080p entry players are the same retail price, finally. I am confused though, why didn't they do this over Thanksgiving, seems they could have sold more in the last couple of weeks at this price.