Maurice Kinal wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 MK> Hello Roy.

 MK> 29 Aug 03 04:06, you wrote to me:

 RT> I hit this one place this morning that was showing total bottom-line
 RT> costs,  including shipping and tax,  if you had to pay that...   Still
 RT> didn't find anything as cheap as what's being talked about in here and
 RT> some of that stuff was *way* expensive,  made me wonder how recently
 RT> they'd updated it.

 MK> I am not sure, but many places don't update their prices as they
 MK> wouldn't be able to recover what they paid for it themselves.

Yeah,  but we're talking stuff under 1G here...

 MK> The bigger chains usually have a limited quantity of the special 
 MK> priced item to suck customers into the store and then sell the 
 MK> higher priced items when the special os sold out.  Read the fine 
 MK> print. Anyhow, last time I checked a 40G Maxtor regular price was 
 MK> $125 Canadian, no rebate.  I have one here.  It works good and I've
 MK> hardly put a dent in it byte-wise.  I'm happy.

The "sweet spot" (as I saw that break point described on one page
today) seems to be in the 60G or 80G units,  go bigger than that and you
end up paying more per GB.

 RT> Yeah,  anyway.  Especially when the rebate doesn't get here.

 MK> That too.  I don't know myself seeing everything that interests me
 MK> never seems to have rebates, 50% off, or anything remotely 
 MK> resembling that.

Well,  yeah.  Sometimes it does seem to work that way.

 MK> The only deals I find are because nobody wants them anymore.  Then 
 MK> they're really cheap, sometimes even free.

You and I are into some of the same "junk",  I think.  :-)

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