>> I think we've seen the last of these drives at the sub-$60 price. Any >> vendors that still have them--like OfficeDepot.com--are selling them at the >> old retail prices (~200 bucks). As many of you have probably noticed, >> several of these drives have shown up on ebay in the last couple of weeks, >> all them being sold in the $125 area. Bet they are some of the one's from >> the Smartdisk Yahoo store. >> >> Jim R. > >They were great prices, but unfortunately it seems as though the likes of >Shoplet and Sparco (who also had the drives) not only sold Smartdisk's >products, they also took customer service lessons from them too (i.e., I've >not had super service from Smartdisk in the past). > >I had my order for a 10GB exp bay HD and a 250MB Zip exp bay done and >confirmed by Shoplet on the 22nd, though I got an email from Shoplet a >couple days later saying the exp bay HD was permanently out of stock; same >deal with Sparco, whose real-time availability updating system showed 6 exp >bay HD's still available when I placed my order. They too emailed me a >couple days later saying the item was out of stock. Mine finally arrives this afternoon, although I suspect VST/SD may have dug a final one up for me because I'm a journo (has its advantages ;-) They were out and I fired off an email to them. They found one more (and only one). Hope it's not the one the marketing manager was using on his/her field trips ;-)
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