What the heck…I’m going to Wal-Mart today…hope there’s still some there! (bills? what bills?) 
Woohoo!!! I got me an 8GB Clip…for the same price I paid last year for my 2GB.
Just wanted to pop in with a new account and say that I bought the Clip for the following reasons:
-$50 at Wal-Mart for 8GB (Same as my old iPod Nano, 4th Gen, but a third of the price)
-The features! Oh, my the features! (FM, Voice, etc.) in a small package
-OGG support. I use Ubuntu. Not only letting me use OGG, which sounds fantastic, but also Linux, sealed the deal where no other feature could.
-This forum is a very nice, supportive forum that I plan on checking up on occasionally.
Thank you SanDisk; buying this Clip has been one of the better purchases I’ve made in a long while.
@marvin_martian wrote:
Woohoo!!! I got me an 8GB Clip…for the same price I paid last year for my 2GB.
All set and ready to rock…59MB free…1,485 songs…02.01.32A :smileyvery-happy:
Ditto! I hesitated to get into the mp3 player thing because I couldn’t figure out the utility if I was going to drop, say $100. My main interest is really audiobooks for the commute. But at $50 for an 8gb player! I was sold.
Took me a wee half hour or so to figure out how to download library books from using Overdrive and NetLibrary. Even though their selections are somewhat limited, I no longer have to haul my a… to the library to take out CDs. And, wonder of wonders, I can actually “read” the same book while in the car and while taking my evening walks! I’ve even started going to sleep with these **bleep** books in my ear!
And that’s not to mention the WHOLE WORLD of podcasts that I’ve just scratched the surface of. I can listen to all my favorite radio programs at MY leisure. It’s quite amazing.
What further uses will I find? Who knows?
Great to see all the new people getting Clips. I never bought an MP3 player till now and I refused to buy an iPod because I despise that company. I’m nauseated at school half the time because I see so many people with an iphone or ipod with those craptastic white buds in their ears.
When I found out about this deal, I was really happy that I could finally have an audiophile quality player. I mean before, this was the best player for the money, but at $49, I think you’d have to be an ■■■■■ IMHO to buy any sort of iPod or what have you over this thing.
Personally I would advise you not to buy this, we bought this one for our daughter at Wal-Mart for $49 and it has so many problems. hench the reason I am on here now, this product isn’t the best out there at all. You will get what you pay for, that is for sure.
Every player has its issues. Every User has their issues. You have to work to overcome the issues on the player and when tiy do this the issues you have will be handled as well. With Sansa you have to make the player work for you unlike the ipod where you work for it.
@miikerman wrote:
Podcasts are dangerous: even with s smaller number of podcast subscriptions for podcasts that come out weekly, there often aren’t enough hours in the day …
I sort of realized that once I saw just how much STUFF (nod to Mr. Carlin) is out there. Not to mention all the aggregator programs that go out and snatch the programs to sync onto one’s mp3 player. For now, I’m just going to read my books with the one podcast that I won’t do without being Diane Rehm’s Friday weekly roundup.
Man i wish i had came here before i got my clip, i just paid $39 for a 2gig on sale, at ABC warehouse. They never even said anything about larger models and i did not see them there.
Now i here this and think 10 bucks more i could’ve got a 8gig, Dam.
Maybe i will get one anyways and just have two or sell this 2gig to some one.
Great devices, got 900 songs on my 2gig, @64k wma.
Transcoded with WPM10 and made playlist with ease using Tag&rename, just point Tag&rename to the MUSIC directoy on the clip in MSC mode and slect the folders and/or files you want in the playlist and save selected. No problem works like a charm.
I wish I had found this posting before I bought my 8GB Clip. I bought it at the WalMart in Lacey, WA for $80.00 in early February,'09. I stream in a chat room and the Sansa does a terrific job, as well as letting me have my tunes other times.
While at Wal-Mart today I picked up another 8GB Clip (Black). The tag under them said $68.88 and they had about 10+ in the locked cabinet. I asked the Salesperson to scan the price for me, she first pointed at the sticker price and I told her that they might have a sales price. They were indeed 49.00. Bought one for a bday present. The shelf is still marked with the wrong price.
Still a good deal.
@niko_sama wrote:
While at Wal-Mart today I picked up another 8GB Clip (Black). The tag under them said $68.88 and they had about 10+ in the locked cabinet. I asked the Salesperson to scan the price for me, she first pointed at the sticker price and I told her that they might have a sales price. They were indeed 49.00. Bought one for a bday present. The shelf is still marked with the wrong price.
Still a good deal.
Good find, as I’m starting to hear of some stores selling out of them.
My Grandpa has a birthday next week, Went to Wal-mart today to get myself an 8 gig black. My dad was gonna give gramps hius 2 gig red, and I was gonna give my dad mine, (He needs more space, and grampa will never use all 8 gig so it made sense to get a bigger one) and my Wal-mart was sold out of Black (still had a silver) but I was able to get them to give me proof of price, went to Best Buy, and they Matched the price plus 10%.
@conversionbox wrote:
My Grandpa has a birthday next week, Went to Wal-mart today to get myself an 8 gig black. My dad was gonna give gramps hius 2 gig red, and I was gonna give my dad mine, (He needs more space, and grampa will never use all 8 gig so it made sense to get a bigger one) and my Wal-mart was sold out of Black (still had a silver) but I was able to get them to give me proof of price, went to Best Buy, and they Matched the price plus 10%.
My Wal-Mart only had the black, but I finally saw the silver(4GB) in person at Best Buy yesterday. It was still in the package, so I couldn’t see how the display looked , but turned off it did look really cool.
Ya, i got one also today last one she had, it had a red and white sticker on it that said speical $49.00, for the 8Gig clip. It was $44.99 regular price for the 2Gig and 79.99 for the 4Gig. I can’t belive the deal. They did not have the 8gig in the display only if you asked it was in the cabinet.
As you stated the stick below the speical said $68.88 and below that it was $79.99
I asked if it was new and not refurbished and she said yes it is new. Just a speical price. Not sure why it is so much less then the 4G model?
Anyways it was at 2.01.31 firmware so it must be newer.
Rainey
@rainey wrote:
Ya, i got one also today last one she had, it had a red and white sticker on it that said speical $49.00, for the 8Gig clip. It was $44.99 regular price for the 2Gig and 79.99 for the 4Gig. I can’t belive the deal. They did not have the 8gig in the display only if you asked it was in the cabinet.
As you stated the stick below the speical said $68.88 and below that it was $79.99
I asked if it was new and not refurbished and she said yes it is new. Just a speical price. Not sure why it is so much less then the 4G model?
Anyways it was at 2.01.31 firmware so it must be newer.
Rainey
Its on Sale. Special.
just bought the black 8gb version at the mountain view, ca walmart. Price marked was $104 (ouch) but scanned just fine at $49… thanks guys for pointing out this great deal! (version was 2.01.16)
Of course, you could get the new Apple Shuffle instead, for $30 more, with half the storage, no screen, no fm radio, no recorder, no eq, no sleep function, and wedded headphones (or wait for 3rd party headphones and dongles to come out and then pay extra for those as well).
Omg, what a fool I was for buying the clip, the shuffle with all those features you mentioned is clearly the better product 
@volando wrote:
Of course, you could get the new Apple Shuffle instead, for $30 more, with half the storage, no screen, no fm radio, no recorder, no eq, no sleep function, and wedded headphones (or wait for 3rd party headphones and dongles to come out and then pay extra for those as well).
Omg, what a fool I was for buying the clip, the shuffle with all those features you mentioned is clearly the better product
I forgive you :smileyvery-happy:
