Unless something dramatic arises in the next couple days, this is, for build your own PC people, the worst Thanksgiving week in thirty years.
Twenty-five years ago, you could get most of the parts to build a PC for free after rebate, including the case, the CD drive, the memory sticks (always a rare find, but I got them at least once), the modem, the sound card, the mouse, the keyboard, the floppy drive, the speakers, the headphone (probably with speech recognition software), the tool kit, and little parts I'm forgetting about. Maybe a video card, although, not being a gamer, I usually don't bother with one. I can't remember if power supplies were free after rebate, but I think that bad ones sometimes came inside the case. All you couldn't get for free was the hard drive, the processor, and legitimate Microsoft software.
Last year was the worst before this year, but at least I picked up a bunch of interior and exterior cables that did come in handy when I put together an updated PC for my wife Barbara this past weekend. Plus, last November, I got the usually available year-old update for Dragon Naturally Speaking, with headphone and microphone.
I'm not saying I deserve to get stuff for free, but it was nice while it lasted.
This might have something to do with it:
https://slickdeals.net/f/11684747-ps...ust-went-under