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AuraEdge · 08-31-2002, 12:57 PM

Well I just made my trip down there. Apparently, the web price was 54.99, but the store price was 59.99

But all it is is a tag that says $59.99 - 500va, and it was conviently right underneath the sticker tag that said APC va350 - 89.99 - $30 MIR = 59.99

So i asked the sales guy, and I flipped the va350 tag over. He looked in the computer, and that was an APC model of the va500, but that particular model that matched the tag was gone. There, however, were two APC ES series va500, and he said it matched neither. The only difference was that one had USB connectivity, a RJ-45 jack for surge protection, a $50,000 warrantee, and said "18 minutes runtime while the power is out", whereas the other one was just serial, only had phone, had a $25,000 warrantee, and said "16 minutes runtime while the power is out". So I ask him to do a price lookup for those two..he takes them to the computer. He searches the USB model one, and it comes up at 59.99 also...So im thinking, wow, cool. He searchs up the other one, and he says "$37.49" I repeated him and said "37.49??!" and hes says yep.
So i snagged two off the shelf, rang them up, used the coupon, and walked out with two APC va500 for under 60 bucks after tax with no MIR. Mind you I checked all down the highway stores I passed for any 500va UPS's, including BestBuy, CompUSA, and OfficeMax. They either didnt carry UPS's, or the cheapest one was $99.99. And I got two for less than 60% of the price.

Maybe this should get its own topic in Deals and Steals?

Anyways, to sum it up

APC Back-UPS ES Series 500va x 2 (Serial number 1B0131S33033) ($75) - $20 off $50 Coupon = $55 for 2 500va UPS's

If you dont need two, you can pick up the other model of APC's ES series 500va with USB, better warrantee and Network surge protection and use the $20 coupon to make it $40 for 1 better model UPS.

EDIT - I just hooked up the UPS's. Lots of rewiring since I wanted to tidy up everything. Only note I wanted to add was that the phone jacks on the UPS's that I bought are actually Hybrid 8-pin RJ11/RJ45s. That means you can surge protect either the phone or network with this UPS. I hooked network in one, and phone to the other in the other room.

The chart on the box I bought states 9 minutes uptime with a Desktop and 19" screen, 12min with a 17", and 16min with a 15". Below it, they state runtime for a "Tower" system being 7min for a 19", 9 min for a 17" and 13min with a 15". If your computer is loaded up with tons of harddrives, CD-roms, hungry CPU's, etc, then itll probably be around the tower quote or less. Havent actually tried it out since I still need to charge up the battery.

08-31-2002, 12:57 PM	#16 (permalink)
AuraEdge Ultimate Member Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Clifton, NJ Posts: 5,050	Well I just made my trip down there. Apparently, the web price was 54.99, but the store price was 59.99 But all it is is a tag that says $59.99 - 500va, and it was conviently right underneath the sticker tag that said APC va350 - 89.99 - $30 MIR = 59.99 So i asked the sales guy, and I flipped the va350 tag over. He looked in the computer, and that was an APC model of the va500, but that particular model that matched the tag was gone. There, however, were two APC ES series va500, and he said it matched neither. The only difference was that one had USB connectivity, a RJ-45 jack for surge protection, a $50,000 warrantee, and said "18 minutes runtime while the power is out", whereas the other one was just serial, only had phone, had a $25,000 warrantee, and said "16 minutes runtime while the power is out". So I ask him to do a price lookup for those two..he takes them to the computer. He searches the USB model one, and it comes up at 59.99 also...So im thinking, wow, cool. He searchs up the other one, and he says "$37.49" I repeated him and said "37.49??!" and hes says yep. So i snagged two off the shelf, rang them up, used the coupon, and walked out with two APC va500 for under 60 bucks after tax with no MIR. Mind you I checked all down the highway stores I passed for any 500va UPS's, including BestBuy, CompUSA, and OfficeMax. They either didnt carry UPS's, or the cheapest one was $99.99. And I got two for less than 60% of the price. Maybe this should get its own topic in Deals and Steals? Anyways, to sum it up APC Back-UPS ES Series 500va x 2 (Serial number 1B0131S33033) ($75) - $20 off $50 Coupon = $55 for 2 500va UPS's If you dont need two, you can pick up the other model of APC's ES series 500va with USB, better warrantee and Network surge protection and use the $20 coupon to make it $40 for 1 better model UPS. EDIT - I just hooked up the UPS's. Lots of rewiring since I wanted to tidy up everything. Only note I wanted to add was that the phone jacks on the UPS's that I bought are actually Hybrid 8-pin RJ11/RJ45s. That means you can surge protect either the phone or network with this UPS. I hooked network in one, and phone to the other in the other room. The chart on the box I bought states 9 minutes uptime with a Desktop and 19" screen, 12min with a 17", and 16min with a 15". Below it, they state runtime for a "Tower" system being 7min for a 19", 9 min for a 17" and 13min with a 15". If your computer is loaded up with tons of harddrives, CD-roms, hungry CPU's, etc, then itll probably be around the tower quote or less. Havent actually tried it out since I still need to charge up the battery.