OfficeMax Sucks
There's really no two ways about it. OfficeMax is a terrible retailer. They regularly practice poor advertising techniques (having very few if any of the popular sale items in stock, even on the first day of the sale), plus their website is terrible. Their only redeeming factor is the coupons they offer, which can sometimes be used to garner a decent deal, albeit with a nearly painful amount of effort.
Today, for example, my friend Lippy and I went to an OM to use up our $10 off $20 coupons. We didn't need anything, we just wanted to get some FAR stuff that we could use to eventually cash out our coupons...
This week, OM advertised some particularly cool FAR stuff, namely GMRS walkie talkies and hands-free kits.
Of course, by the time we got there (if not before they opened) they were "out of stock" of most of the FAR stuff that was advertised. They were even out of advertisements! In the end, we each settled on a 100 pack of KHypermedia CD-Rs. However, since they only cost $19.99 (before rebate), we needed to get something else. Instead of paperclips or staples (of which I now have plenty), we each got another FAR item - I got a PC Toolkit and Lippy got a NIC.
Later tonight I discovered that a 52X CD-RW drive that was supposed to be $5 AR was really -$5 AR. To earn free shipping, I threw in the Uniden GMRS radios and an 8-device remote control. The radios are backordered, but hopefully they'll come anyways.