120GB hdd for $60 Holy moly!

DocHogan wrote on 5/31/2003, 11:17 AM
Sorry I didn't post this earlier, but I just discovered it last night. And, unfortunately, the deal ends today.

Last weeks BestBuy sale flyer has Western Digital 120GB drive for $159 plus an $80 mail-in rebate. Circuit City carries the same drive for $179, but has $100 in mail-in rebates. So, both turn out to give you the drive for $80

Here's the trick: Circuit City does price matching :D I took the Best Buy flyer to Circuit City, they matched the $159 price, and then I have $100 in rebates.

120GB drive for $60!

Unfortunately, the Best Buy deal ends today, so Circuit City wont pricematch tomorrow; as well, the $80 rebate from WD also ends today.

Four of us grabbed these drives last night ;) Happy happy joy joy!

Comments

BillyBoy wrote on 5/31/2003, 11:59 AM
Reminds me of what one of my neighbors said to me years ago when I got a Dell tower with two 3.2 GB drives. Why did you do that, you'll never fill them up. Cost $350 a piece too. LOL!
vicmilt wrote on 5/31/2003, 3:48 PM
Hey billy -
Bought my first 1 Gig drive from Digidesign in 1988 - cost?
$4,500 (hey - you'll NEVER fill that up!)
JonnyMac wrote on 5/31/2003, 5:47 PM
When I was 19 (21 years ago), I bought a Commodore 64 and told my girlfriend, "This is the LAST computer I will ever have to buy...."
discdude wrote on 5/31/2003, 8:32 PM
My first computer came with a 20MB drive. Never filled it up.

Now I have 2 60 GB drives in my system along with a 6.4 GB drive in my 1394 enclosure (for backup purposes mainly). I got a 15GB drive sitting on my desk. Times-a-changing.
filmy wrote on 5/31/2003, 9:09 PM
First of the 9 gig SCSI drives for video editing - we had pre-ordered one for 5 grand. Lucky for us when it actually came out the price had dropped to about 3 grand, boy what a score that was. To have an awesome 486DX2 with 16 megs of ram running at 66 MHZ with a 120 mb internal drive AND the 9 gig scsi. He he - we were happy campers.

Also have an Amiga - we were 'clever' because we put in a Syquest 80 mb removable drive. Had 10 of the disks - 1 for each reel of audio. Each disk cost about 40 bucks at the time. People were amazed we were using removable media for anything film/audio related. "And just why do you need SO much room anyway???"

Ahh...what a time here in 2003 to be working on computers. Everything is just soooo cheap! ;)