It's better than paying the $12.95 + tax at the BestBuy.
Over the past couple of weeks I've bought three NEW 9GB SCSI hard disks up to
$39 each, shipped. Now, these are 7200RPM drives, but, using Adaptec's
benchmark, they outperform the 8GB Quantum Atlas II (10Krpm) drives by about
25% in random transfers of 32KB blocks.
I had one drive (not one of the ones above) arrive non-functional, and within
10 minutes of letting the seller know, my $$$ was back in my own PayPal
account. On a few occasions, I've been outbid, much to my frustration, but I
certainly can't complain. I've bought lots of things and never felt I got
hurt on merchandise that arrived intact. It does p*ss me off when stuff is
shipped UPS and gets lost or damaged, which appears to be the rule rather than
the exception with UPS. Then I get my $$$ back but lose the bargain.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Hellige" <jhellige_at_earthlink.net>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2002 12:16 PM
Subject: Re: This is funny (ebay)
> >Are you saying that paying $9 for that
> >cable is a "good deal" where you are?
>
> If I was in need of it, yes. Any type of external SCSI cable
> bought locally will likely cost more than that, especially the newer
> types. If you're able to find them used at thrift stores or whatnot,
> that's fine, but it's my experience that you rarely find much SCSI
> anything at thrift stores. At least in the areas I've frequented.
> You can also go to the sellers at the big computer shows and maybe
> pay less than that but it will cost you $5 or so to get into the show
> so it doesn't make much sense to go just to buy that cable.
>
> Jeff
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Received on Sat Feb 23 2002 - 16:24:41 GMT