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New Maxtor 7200, 30GB Harddrive $50
Name: goodstuff Date: February 3, 2003 at 15:30:22 Pacific OS: Windows XP CPU/Ram: PIII 256M
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On ebay,item #2305381427, New Maxtor 7200 rpm, 30GB Harddrive $50, is it good deal??--please tell me fast, the auction is closing!
Name: Ilushka Date: February 3, 2003 at 15:36:20 Pacific
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That regular price, you get same prices on Price Watch.
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Response Number 2
Name: goodstuff Date: February 3, 2003 at 15:59:05 Pacific
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thank you.
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Response Number 3
Name: frink36 Date: February 3, 2003 at 17:39:23 Pacific
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A good rule now, is that if look hard enough, you can usually find a new, name brand drive for a dollar a GB. Maybe a couple dollars more.
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Response Number 4
Name: TekWiz Date: February 3, 2003 at 17:54:48 Pacific
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The funny thing is that there are lots of people on ebay willing to pay top dollar for old obsolete drives. 8 gig drives sell for like $30 all day. Either they need parts or say the usual thing "hey, what the heck would I ever do with 30 gigs of space? I can't even fill 4! An 8 gig would be great! And if I can save $20, hey, I'll take it!!!!" :-). Well many of us computer enthusiasts find that pretty cooky, but think about it, how many people go into salvation-army type stores and pick up ancient TVs or VCR's for like $40 or $50 when they can go buy a new one for the same price or maybe $10 or $20 more?
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Response Number 5
Name: Bobthearch Date: February 3, 2003 at 19:08:29 Pacific
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Especially sice shipping can be so high for eBay items. Many oline retailers have very reasonable shipping rates, or even free shipping.
I bid $5 on a used sound card; I watched it go to over $10. Found a brand-new one instead for $16, including shipping...
You should also be careful with buying hardware from eBay 'cuz, as I learned the hard way, the warranty you would normally get with the same item bought in a store might not be available to you. In my case it was a 120gig Western Digital hard drive that I thought was a steal at just over $100. Two months later the drive went belly up. A call to Western Digital showed that the drive was part of a lot that Dell had purchased for installation on their PC's. And Dell won't honor the warranty 'cuz I didn't buy it at retail. I'm not exactly sure how they get their hands on 'em, but it seems common for people to purchase lots of hardware at a greatly reduced price, then try to sell it off at prices that DO look "too good to be true". End result? I now have a nice (expensive) paperweight that looks just like a Western Digital hard drive!
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