Seattle Fry's Ads, online. Sort of.

Posted by Scott Laird Tue, 16 Nov 2004 01:38:33 GMT

A friend just sent me a link to this week’s ads for Fry’s Electronics in Seattle. This has been a long-running irritation for both of us–unless we go out and buy a paper, we don’t know what Fry’s is selling this week. It seems ridiculous that they don’t post their sales online themselves; instead, this link above comes from one of the two major Seattle papers; they’re both hosted in nwsource.com.

While it’s nice to see their ads show up online, it’d be even nicer if they were actually usable–as it is, you get an unreadably small image of the ad; you can click to zoom, but the zoomed image only shows a single segment of the ad, usually one or two items. So, to read the whole ad, you’d have to load at least 100 distinct images. Nice work, guys.

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  1. Sean said 19 days later:

    Yeah, I’ve been using that for a while (though only in a pinch) and I have the same complaint. Fortunately, I can’t walk around Seattle for less than 30 minutes without seeing a lonely abandoned Fry’s ad laying around. Seriously, I never buy a paper yet always have the Fry’s ads, business and technology sections at benches or empty tables at Starbucks. That’s all I would buy a paper for anyhow–go figure.

  2. FrysShopper said about 1 month later:

    This site has Fry’s ads

  3. Jim Bonfield said about 1 month later:

    Hello,

    We are working to improve the issues you point out and should have a much better presentation soon. Thanks for helping us on this, your input has been valuable. Feel free to drop me a line with suggestions on our new presentation anytime -it is you folks we do this for.

    Jim Bonfield VP Retail Sales Division Travidia Inc.

  4. plow123@hotmail.com said 8 months later:

    On a link to the Fry’s internet website there are plenty of sales items. I clicked to purchase a battery pack, item #4307515 with price $7.99 good thru Aug 8, and it said “Print out this page and bring it to the store!”. I did and went to the the store but they would not honor the sale price. Employee, David Morando, said the website is not theirs and would not let me talk to his manager, saying that he would inform his manager, Mike Queenan, for me. Why would Fry’s allow this to happen? That is a waste of customers’ time!!!

  5. Irritated said 9 months later:

    Saw on the website a set of speakers that sounded like a good deal. Went to the store and got the same “web deal only” crap. Went home and ordered them. Cost $50 less including the shipping then it was in the store. Sheesh.

  6. BF shopper said about 1 year later:

    http://www.frys-electronics-ads.com/

  7. null said about 1 year later:

    http://shopping.nwsource.com/ROP/ads.aspx?advid=150914&adid=2342229

  8. brian said about 1 year later:

    I saw an ad on the newpapers week, sony laptop for $1100 I went to the store and said it was a mistake on the advertising here in houston tx this is very bad

  9. brian said about 1 year later:

    fry’s sucks , there not like they used to be, I am very upset about the service.

  10. James said over 2 years later:

    The Times/P-I are no longer posting their ads online.

  11. Fry's Shopper said over 2 years later:

    They are still online via San Jose Mercury News at: http://newspaperads.mercurynews.com/ROP/ads.aspx?advid=32664

  12. anonymous said over 2 years later:

    They no longer post the ads online.

    QUOTE from link: [We’re sorry. As of Jan. 1, 2007, newspaper ads from The Seattle Times and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer no longer appear online. To continue to see the newspaper ads, we suggest convenient home delivery of The Seattle Times or Seattle Post Intelligencer. In addition, for more shopping information, including coverage of the best local shops, sales, deals, products, coupons and more, visit NWsource Shopping.]

  13. Jeppy said over 2 years later:

    you know it is shit like this that pisses me off. the seattle pi and seattle times has all of us by the balls. if we want to view the ad we have to purchase a subscription to the shitty daily paper. this is just another way for them to sale papers. do they really think someone will purchase a script just for the fucking as? fuck no! i will just figure out something else for my frys ad even if i have to drive down to the fucking store to see what is on sale. fuck the pi and times!

  14. tgood said over 2 years later:

    You can get the online edition of Seattle Times or PI for 99 cents a week. Or you can do what I did. If you get the newspaper delivered you can sign up for the online at no extra charge. I got a friend who gets delivery to sign up. He gave me his name and password.

  15. frysdude said over 2 years later:

    As of Jan 1 2007 nwsource no longer posts newspaper ads :-(

  16. boob said over 2 years later:

    Stupid Fry’s. Gotta buy a paper to know what is on sale. They actually expect people to pay to see advertising!?!

  17. Sven said over 2 years later:

    The Times/P-I are no longer posting their ads online

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