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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (7516)	5/18/1999 1:56:00 PM
From: Dave Hanson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Glad you caught that in time, Clarence. On buy.com (and the 4416:) -the currently advertised 4416 at buy, for $35x, is the external retail model, not the internal one. This is actually a good price for the external (or at least was last I checked.) But I doubt most of this thread's readers would want it over the internal one. -I actually do check the buy.com site more days than not. The trick is to save bookmarks for their various e-searches, making the process quick and painless. -They don't offer price protection on their own stuff, but usually, this is easily circumvented via their 30 day, no-restock fee return policy on unopened stuff. Say you buy a drive, and in two weeks it drops $120. Well, if you simply order the identical drive again, but don't open it, you can return it as the original higher-priced drive and get full credit (minus UPS ground shipping back, which is pretty minimal on most items.) I've done this several times with no problems. -When they do have a screaming buy on an item, it's always best to just pull the trigger, especially if you need other stuff anyway. This is true for at least two reasons: enough people pounce on such buys that their stock often depletes quickly, and I gather they're getting wiser about checking their pricing when order quantities spike on a given item. So, e.g., they finally stopped undercutting OEM pricing with their retail SB Live sound cards. They must have taken a bath on these, since their cost can't be below about $70, and they were selling them as low as $40.95. (At which point I ordered a bunch, figuring I'd use one or two, friends would use a few more, and I could resell extras above my cost at no effort whatsoever. No doubt others think the same.) -Extreme bargains can most often be had at buy.com when the main price search engines, like shopper.com, don't differentiate between an OEM and retail version of the same product. This was true in the yahama case, as in the SB Live value case, the Audio PCI sound card case, the Diamond s220 PCI video card case, and the ATI video card cases. Not only do you get a better outfitted (and sometimes better built) product by getting the retail version, but often you get get generous rebates too, which are NEVER available with OEM versions. -If I see this particular drive get cheap again, I'll post to you. Dave