Looks like some buyers at Newegg are having problems with these disks. If they are "Made in India", they may not be of as high a quality as those made in Singapore.
guycine
Broke Member
posted: Nov. 22, 2007 @ 12:41a
J&R has Memorex 50pk for $35+tax. I understand the Verbatim media is better than Memorex. But are they worth twice the $$s?
guycine said: J&R has Memorex 50pk for $35+tax. I understand the Verbatim media is better than Memorex. But are they worth twice the $$s?
Depends on your burner. Some people get tons of coasters with the Riteks (Memorex). Personally, I don't, so while I buy Verbs when there's a good deal, most of my burns are on Riteks.
Great deal! Am a little concerned though with all the recent (ie. the last couple of weeks) negative review on Newegg on these ones... sounds like they may have a bad batch of Verbatim disks in their stock... if you buy these, make sure to check them out to see if there are at least any problems visually with the disks..
timriley12 said: Great deal! Am a little concerned though with all the recent (ie. the last couple of weeks) negative review on Newegg on these ones... sounds like they may have a bad batch of Verbatim disks in their stock...
There's no "bad batch." The problem is that Verbatim has outsourced the production of much of their newer 2.4x DL media to India, and the quality is less than stellar in comparison to the disks made in Singapore at the main Verbatim plant.
You can't buy media online and know exactly what you're going to get, so it's a crapshoot. If you want the best, you have to buy your media in a B&M.
SickTeddyBear said: timriley12 said: Great deal! Am a little concerned though with all the recent (ie. the last couple of weeks) negative review on Newegg on these ones... sounds like they may have a bad batch of Verbatim disks in their stock...
There's no "bad batch." The problem is that Verbatim has outsourced the production of much of their newer 2.4x DL media to India, and the quality is less than stellar in comparison to the disks made in Singaore at the main Verbatim plant.
You can't buy media online and know exactly what you're going to get, so it's a crapshoot. If you want the best, you have to buy your media in a B&M.
Less stellar is an understatement - I'll go as far as to say the India discs are complete crap. You'd be better off buying Matrix DL's from Shop4tech (by the way, BF15 is the code for 15% off) which are more reliable than Verbatim DL's made in India.
I'd say wait for another Best Buy $30 deal where to you and pick out Singapore discs that are truly excellent.
Cpo22
Member
posted: Nov. 22, 2007 @ 12:45p
I saw this and was thinking of jumping in the deal. But after reading the recent reviews about bad quality drop of made in India media, I give up. There is no way you can choose where they were made, of course.
jerry62
New Member
posted: Nov. 28, 2007 @ 9:19a
I recently took a chance on Matrix DL's from Shop4tech, having searched the net and read the reviews. What a nightmare! The most unreliable DL's I've ever had. I have an NEC-3500A, which might be older than most of your devices, but my only solid choice for DL's has been Verbatim. Then again, if this batch from Newegg is bad, I won't know where to turn.
cstu11 said: SickTeddyBear said: timriley12 said: Great deal! Am a little concerned though with all the recent (ie. the last couple of weeks) negative review on Newegg on these ones... sounds like they may have a bad batch of Verbatim disks in their stock...
There's no "bad batch." The problem is that Verbatim has outsourced the production of much of their newer 2.4x DL media to India, and the quality is less than stellar in comparison to the disks made in Singaore at the main Verbatim plant.
You can't buy media online and know exactly what you're going to get, so it's a crapshoot. If you want the best, you have to buy your media in a B&M.
Less stellar is an understatement - I'll go as far as to say the India discs are complete crap. You'd be better off buying Matrix DL's from Shop4tech (by the way, BF15 is the code for 15% off) which are more reliable than Verbatim DL's made in India.
I'd say wait for another Best Buy $30 deal where to you and pick out Singapore discs that are truly excellent.
That code is not working, any other coupon codes?
jolo
Senior Member
posted: Dec. 6, 2007 @ 1:39a
cstu11 said: I'd say wait for another Best Buy $30 deal where to you and pick out Singapore discs that are truly excellent.
you can look all you want, but some Best Buy's have ZERO 20 pack MIS discs.
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