Re: Pismo/Lombard etc. SmartdiskVST sale
Thanks, Beverly. I ordered one for my brother. He has not forgiven me since I picked up one for $50! Gary Beverly Woods wrote: The prices are higher, and they only appear to have the 10G ($60.69 + shipping), but you might also want to check: http://www.globe-mart.com/page/e/ing_ebhdg3210.htm (I have no experience with this company, just found it in a Google search.) The Zip drives (100MB) for Piz/Lomb are still available as of now (01:35 EST). 57 units in stock according to the store @ 30 bucks a piece, as are the Wallstreet Zip 100s (100 units), also at 30 bucks. The Lombard 333 DVD kits are still there at $120 as well (51 units). If you need the decoder card only for Wall though, you might be better off buying (I think) the $99 unit from MCE (I think that's how much they sell them for). I'd seriously like an 8GB or something Media Bay HD for the Wall I have here, as the 3 gigger (non-stock Hitachi) is useless with OS 9/X on it. And $35 is a lot less than most 8 giggers usually go for. Frankly, I think VST would have made a killing if they'd just produced a heap of empty exp. bay shells and then optioned in the drives as people wanted them. Less outdated (e.g., 4GB) stock. As it is, MCE's $99 and $119 cases are probably too expensive. Ditto for ROM drive cases; produce the case and then put in OEM Matsushitas, 16x if the customer wants. BTO is the way to go. Cheers, RD Remy Davison Contributing Editor/News Editor, Insanely-Great Mac http://www.insanely-great.com mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RD's PowerBook page: http://www.macpowerbook.com -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Pismo/Lombard etc. SmartdiskVST sale
I agree with you, Remy. If they had sold the bare cases, they could habe made a bundle. Of course, given what the prices were for these before they cleared them out, they probably DID make a bundle. There are still some available at various places for list price, which means, Mucho dinero. ;-) Gart Remy Davison wrote:Frankly, I think VST would have made a killing if they'd just produced a heap of empty exp. bay shells and then optioned in the drives as people wanted them. Less outdated (e.g., 4GB) stock. As it is, MCE's $99 and $119 cases are probably too expensive. Ditto for ROM drive cases; produce the case and then put in OEM Matsushitas, 16x if the customer wants. BTO is the way to go. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Pismo/Lombard etc. SmartdiskVST sale
Though items in general, and the expansion bay hard drives in particular, went quickly (i.e., within about two hours from when I received the Smartdisk email announcing the sale), you can bet they'll be appearing on e-bay pretty soon. It's likely that some people pounced on the sale and bought as many units as they could, with an eye to reselling them. I was disappointed about not getting one of the 30GB or 18GB expansion bay drives, though I did find out in the end that buying one off e-bay might be cheaper than if I'd got it directly from Smartdisk. Just to get an idea on shipping, I put an order thru for an expansion bay HD and a USB floppy, and at checkout I got international shipping rates of $100 to Europe and $60 to Canada (!!) What a joke. Even more so considering that they were offering free ground shipping in the US (e.g., Vancouver, BC is just across the border from Vancouver, WA, but they want $60 to go that extra mile or two). I'm sorry now I wasted an hour or so rummaging thru the Smartdisk web site and returning from time to time, hoping to find that the stock had been replenished. If prices don't get too out of hand on e-bay, I'll be able to get an exp bay HD shipped to Canada for about $35 less than Smartdisk wanted. Chris H -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Pismo/Lombard etc. SmartdiskVST sale
On 30/05/02 10:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Though items in general, and the expansion bay hard drives in particular, went quickly (i.e., within about two hours from when I received the Smartdisk email announcing the sale), you can bet they'll be appearing on e-bay pretty soon. It's likely that some people pounced on the sale and bought as many units as they could, with an eye to reselling them. I was disappointed about not getting one of the 30GB or 18GB expansion bay drives, though I did find out in the end that buying one off e-bay might be cheaper than if I'd got it directly from Smartdisk. Just to get an idea on shipping, I put an order thru for an expansion bay HD and a USB floppy, and at checkout I got international shipping rates of $100 to Europe and $60 to Canada (!!) What a joke. Even more so considering that they were offering free ground shipping in the US (e.g., Vancouver, BC is just across the border from Vancouver, WA, but they want $60 to go that extra mile or two). I'm sorry now I wasted an hour or so rummaging thru the Smartdisk web site and returning from time to time, hoping to find that the stock had been replenished. If prices don't get too out of hand on e-bay, I'll be able to get an exp bay HD shipped to Canada for about $35 less than Smartdisk wanted. Having lived in Canada for many years, I can certainly understand your pain and frustration. I think that the gouged price might be for customs, you know those kind of thieves that will fill a form at the border for your package and charge you something like $30 or $40? -Laurent. -- = Laurent Daudelin Developer, Multifamily, ESO, Fannie Mae mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Washington, DC, USA ** Usual disclaimers apply ** cargo cult programming n.: A style of (incompetent) programming dominated by ritual inclusion of code or program structures that serve no real purpose. A cargo cult programmer will usually explain the extra code as a way of working around some bug encountered in the past, but usually neither the bug nor the reason the code apparently avoided the bug was ever fully understood (compare shotgun debugging, voodoo programming). -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Pismo/Lombard etc. SmartdiskVST sale
Chris, this is a little off topic, but what are the rules on e-commerce in Canada? I recently moved to Montreal from San Francisco and I'm afraid to order stuff because I don't want to pay huge import taxes. Jim On Thursday, May 30, 2002, at 10:42 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Though items in general, and the expansion bay hard drives in particular, went quickly (i.e., within about two hours from when I received the Smartdisk email announcing the sale), you can bet they'll be appearing on e-bay pretty soon. It's likely that some people pounced on the sale and bought as many units as they could, with an eye to reselling them. I was disappointed about not getting one of the 30GB or 18GB expansion bay drives, though I did find out in the end that buying one off e-bay might be cheaper than if I'd got it directly from Smartdisk. Just to get an idea on shipping, I put an order thru for an expansion bay HD and a USB floppy, and at checkout I got international shipping rates of $100 to Europe and $60 to Canada (!!) What a joke. Even more so considering that they were offering free ground shipping in the US (e.g., Vancouver, BC is just across the border from Vancouver, WA, but they want $60 to go that extra mile or two). I'm sorry now I wasted an hour or so rummaging thru the Smartdisk web site and returning from time to time, hoping to find that the stock had been replenished. If prices don't get too out of hand on e-bay, I'll be able to get an exp bay HD shipped to Canada for about $35 less than Smartdisk wanted. Chris H -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Pismo/Lombard etc. SmartdiskVST sale
For all you collectors of expansion bay devices, especially Gary :-) SmartDisk are having another sale - they've dug up some 12, 18 30GB drives which start off even cheaper than the 10 giggers they were selling recently (dammit!). Go here: http://store.yahoo.com/smartdiskstore/exbayandulde.html I should be on commission, but I'm not (damn again). Cheers, RD Remy Davison Contributing Editor/News Editor, Insanely-Great Mac http://www.insanely-great.com mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RD's PowerBook page: http://www.macpowerbook.com -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Pismo/Lombard etc. SmartdiskVST sale
Remy Davison wrote: SmartDisk are having another sale - they've dug up some 12, 18 30GB drives which start off even cheaper than the 10 giggers they were selling recently (dammit!). Go here: http://store.yahoo.com/smartdiskstore/exbayandulde.html I should be on commission, but I'm not (damn again). Have you tried to order any, they list 0 in stock for all those drives... ;-( -- Alan Miller Underwater Photographer http://home.earthlink.net/~uwphoto/ 6400/200 w/ Sonnet G3/300/1 eBay ID uwphotoer Live each day like it is your last because someday you'll be right. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Pismo/Lombard etc. SmartdiskVST sale
SmartDisk are having another sale - they've dug up some 12, 18 30GB drives which start off even cheaper than the 10 giggers they were selling recently (dammit!). Go here: http://store.yahoo.com/smartdiskstore/exbayandulde.html I should be on commission, but I'm not (damn again). Have you tried to order any, they list 0 in stock for all those drives... ;-( That happened last time as well. They were out of 10GB drives and restocked twice - check up frantically every few hours like I did and you might be in luck. Cheers, RD Remy Davison Contributing Editor/News Editor, Insanely-Great Mac http://www.insanely-great.com mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RD's PowerBook page: http://www.macpowerbook.com -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Pismo/Lombard etc. SmartdiskVST sale
Unfortuntately every single expansion bay hard drive is sold out. I found out about 3 hours ago and they were already gone boo hoo. Thanks, Remy! I was looking for my brother this time! Gary Remy Davison wrote: For all you collectors of expansion bay devices, especially Gary :-) SmartDisk are having another sale - they've dug up some 12, 18 30GB drives which start off even cheaper than the 10 giggers they were selling recently (dammit!). Go here: http://store.yahoo.com/smartdiskstore/exbayandulde.html I should be on commission, but I'm not (damn again). Cheers, RD -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Pismo/Lombard etc. SmartdiskVST sale
The prices are higher, and they only appear to have the 10G ($60.69 + shipping), but you might also want to check: http://www.globe-mart.com/page/e/ing_ebhdg3210.htm (I have no experience with this company, just found it in a Google search.) Beverly SmartDisk are having another sale - they've dug up some 12, 18 30GB drives which start off even cheaper than the 10 giggers they were selling recently (dammit!). Go here: http://store.yahoo.com/smartdiskstore/exbayandulde.html I should be on commission, but I'm not (damn again). Have you tried to order any, they list 0 in stock for all those drives... ;-( That happened last time as well. They were out of 10GB drives and restocked twice - check up frantically every few hours like I did and you might be in luck. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
