On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Sean Waite wrote: > Just last weekend I had to stop in at Costco to pick something up for > someone else. Personally I find Costco to be a complete rip-off. While I > was there I saw 50-pack of DVD+Rs for around $40-50. This is somewhat OT, thus the new thread. I just want to say that Costco gives great prices on some things. When I got married a couple of years ago I researched booze prices and bought a bunch of bottles for the wedding. Costco beat everyone else in town, usually by a fairly substantial margin. On most days their gasoline is cheaper than anywhere else I know of (often by about $0.10/gal), but I'm not sure that's consistent. One of the ways that Costco and Sam's club make their money is by selling some items at ordinary prices -- sometimes even higher than those at the grocery store. The other more obvious approach is to buy massive amounts of smaller numbers of items. If you don't have a stand-alone freezer or plenty of storage room, it might not be so great to shop at Costco. There is no doubt in my mind that I save plenty at Costco by buying the right things in large quantities. I just ignore most of the stuff in Costco -- it isn't a good place for impulse purchases of big-ticket items. Apparently, it isn't a good place to buy DVD+R media. Mike