You should put "after Live.com CashBack" in the title. That's probably why you are getting red.
raioshima
Member
posted: Dec. 1, 2008 @ 11:55a
I think he's getting red since someone is posting yet another eBay/Live.com CashBack deal. Its just crowding the forums and gets in the way of other deals. People can just figure out these deals on their own by looking at the main thread for the eBay/Live.com CashBack deal. There really is no reason to call individual deals out since that will take so much space and people frankly just do not care.
mydeals411
Member
posted: Dec. 1, 2008 @ 11:55a
Thats a pretty good deal, I am going to check it out, thanks!
raioshima said: I think he's getting red since someone is posting yet another eBay/Live.com CashBack deal. Its just crowding the forums and gets in the way of other deals. People can just figure out these deals on their own by looking at the main thread for the eBay/Live.com CashBack deal. There really is no reason to call individual deals out since that will take so much space and people frankly just do not care.
You could apply that same logic to FatWallet in general and then we wouldn't need the community at all. People can just figure out these deals themselves!
Wait a sec, I thought that deals from Buy.com's online eBay store DO NOT qualify for the CashBack, since they use an incompatible 3rd-party checkout system.
OPs deal does not exist!
hackett83
Thrifty Member
posted: Dec. 1, 2008 @ 12:12p
Shredfest said: raioshima said: I think he's getting red since someone is posting yet another eBay/Live.com CashBack deal. Its just crowding the forums and gets in the way of other deals. People can just figure out these deals on their own by looking at the main thread for the eBay/Live.com CashBack deal. There really is no reason to call individual deals out since that will take so much space and people frankly just do not care.
You could apply that same logic to FatWallet in general and then we wouldn't need the community at all. People can just figure out these deals themselves!
No, I completely disagree.
One thread saying "30% ALL BUY IT NOW ON eBay" would suffice...
Oh wait... we have that.
Every time one of these idiots finds a seller with a slightly discounted price that is average, they post an AMAZING deal with the CashBack... yawn.
Yip
Cranky Member
posted: Dec. 1, 2008 @ 12:12p
VirtuaL said: Wait a sec, I thought that deals from Buy.com's online eBay store DO NOT qualify for the CashBack, since they use an incompatible 3rd-party checkout system.
OPs deal does not exist!
You thought wrong, evidently. As many are tauting Live's CB through Buy.com's eBay store.
raioshima
Member
posted: Dec. 1, 2008 @ 12:14p
Shredfest said: You could apply that same logic to FatWallet in general and then we wouldn't need the community at all. People can just figure out these deals themselves!
Except there is a difference between FatWallet in general and these types of posts. Something that stems off of a post like the eBay/Live.com CashBack deal (where most everyone who is a FWer knows about it) is unnecessary.
Do you want to have the Forum crowded by posts like these? I'd rather have a new type of deal posted that I had no idea I could get. Grant it most posts in the Forum are from retailer ads, the most useful to me are stackable coupon/rebate types of deals that maybe only the privileged few got an email or announcement.
I also have no objection to these types of post that include potential rebates attached to the Live.com CB that no one knew was possible.
These are just my opinions so take it as you will.
hackett83 said: Shredfest said: raioshima said: I think he's getting red since someone is posting yet another eBay/Live.com CashBack deal. Its just crowding the forums and gets in the way of other deals. People can just figure out these deals on their own by looking at the main thread for the eBay/Live.com CashBack deal. There really is no reason to call individual deals out since that will take so much space and people frankly just do not care.
You could apply that same logic to FatWallet in general and then we wouldn't need the community at all. People can just figure out these deals themselves!
No, I completely disagree.
One thread saying "30% ALL BUY IT NOW ON eBay" would suffice...
Oh wait... we have that.
Every time one of these idiots finds a seller with a slightly discounted price that is average, they post an AMAZING deal with the CashBack... yawn.
True, that's the case most of the time. but isn't $159.99 for this drive a pretty good deal already since it's sold through Buy.com? this seems like a specific deal from a specific seller that someone might not find on their own.
i agree the title should show "with Live.com CashBack" though.
raioshima said: I think he's getting red since someone is posting yet another eBay/Live.com CashBack deal. Its just crowding the forums and gets in the way of other deals. People can just figure out these deals on their own by looking at the main thread for the eBay/Live.com CashBack deal. There really is no reason to call individual deals out since that will take so much space and people frankly just do not care.
Wrong, he's getting red because there are other ways to get a better price on this drive, it has nothing to do with this being another live/cb deal. If you're going through some hassle anyway, may as well get it $10 cheaper than this.
Ehero said: Prevenu said: last I heard, seagate's 1.5tb drives were a data disaster with high failure rates.
Information source?
His information source is gossip online. The actual issue with 1.5TB drives is that if you're running Linux OS, drive might hang for 10-15 seconds when accessing data. Seagate has released a firmware fix for that. That fix, however, should be applied only to users who are affected. Everyone else online is saying "disaster" because they've heard it on a similar forum and in fact have no idea what the actual issue is.
-- Andrey
willy2
Senior Member
posted: Dec. 1, 2008 @ 3:32p
I think that if the end price deal is a lot better than the price you can find anywhere else (or has been found before) then it should be posted here. I don't know if that is the case here but I think so, and found the OP's post useful.
dreys said: Ehero said: Prevenu said: last I heard, seagate's 1.5tb drives were a data disaster with high failure rates.
Information source?
His information source is gossip online. The actual issue with 1.5TB drives is that if you're running Linux OS, drive might hang for 10-15 seconds when accessing data. Seagate has released a firmware fix for that. That fix, however, should be applied only to users who are affected. Everyone else online is saying "disaster" because they've heard it on a similar forum and in fact have no idea what the actual issue is.
-- Andrey
Supposedly there are issues with RAID controllers and even regular SATA connections. I emailed Seagate support about the internal 1.5TB drive, and they replied quickly, asking me for a serial#. When I replied I was only checking if it would work with my Adaptec AAR-2810SA RAID controller they didn't respond. Good stuff, at least they're confident. As for their external drive, it SHOULD work. Use at your own risk. It's ONLY 1.5TB, at least the warranty will replace your data, right?? =P
dreys said: His information source is gossip online. The actual issue with 1.5TB drives is that if you're running Linux OS, drive might hang for 10-15 seconds when accessing data. Seagate has released a firmware fix for that. That fix, however, should be applied only to users who are affected. Everyone else online is saying "disaster" because they've heard it on a similar forum and in fact have no idea what the actual issue is.
-- Andrey
It's not "gossip online". Look at any site with reviews for these drives, the online reviews are abysmal. Look at any forum discussing these drives, you will always see the same trend - these drives have a very high failure rate. I purchased two of these drives, one for myself and one for a friend, and they both developed data errors and one failed completely within a month. I did some reading online, and decided to just return the darned things and get my money back rather than muck around with a clearly defective drive model.
My personal opinion is that these drives are not worth a dime. A hard drive that you can't trust is worse than no hard drive at all.
BlaZebOY said: bmobrien said: If youre gonna use CB wouldn't buying a Seagate 1.5TB drive from Tiger be a better deal. at $119 and 15% CB it only costs around $100
Show me the link!
I think that poster probably did not realize that Tiger sells an internal drive at that price, not an external. Good thing for me that I need an internal drive now, and that Tiger deal with CB works great for me. Thanks.
MisterBeefhead said: dreys said: His information source is gossip online. The actual issue with 1.5TB drives is that if you're running Linux OS, drive might hang for 10-15 seconds when accessing data. Seagate has released a firmware fix for that. That fix, however, should be applied only to users who are affected. Everyone else online is saying "disaster" because they've heard it on a similar forum and in fact have no idea what the actual issue is.
-- Andrey
It's not "gossip online". Look at any site with reviews for these drives, the online reviews are abysmal. Look at any forum discussing these drives, you will always see the same trend - these drives have a very high failure rate. I purchased two of these drives, one for myself and one for a friend, and they both developed data errors and one failed completely within a month. I did some reading online, and decided to just return the darned things and get my money back rather than muck around with a clearly defective drive model.
My personal opinion is that these drives are not worth a dime. A hard drive that you can't trust is worse than no hard drive at all.
Look at any site with reviews?
How about this one?. Only one out of four reviews said something negative. Make sure we are commenting on the same drive, not the Freeagent Pro.
ageedoy said: This is in an external enclosure. It's not the same as what's on Tiger.
That it is, and without the usual limitation of a 1 year warranty for the externals. But it's also USB 2.0 only and such a large drive that most will find that hard to live with. Internal SATA for $8 less to apply toward an ESATA solution if needed is still going to win out for most people..
Did the TD deal and the Thermaltake ESATA for $20 at Newegg myself. $12 more for ESATA was a no brainer.
But, there is also a 10% off coupon I have sitting in my eBay messages for today. That should make it end up around $96. Now that's enough extra I think I'm going to pull the trigger on one of these too, I'll either use it as backup or pull the drive for internal use and stick my WD 640 in there..
eBay flippers are scared of buyers buying up their cheap deals share the deals OP, share the methods OP! ebayers get your own reseller source and let us consumers buy some deals.
FrugalFreak said: eBay flippers are scared of buyers buying up their cheap deals share the deals OP, share the methods OP! ebayers get your own reseller source and let us consumers buy some deals.Almost every single technology item can be had on eBay right now for less than any other retailer if you stack it with 30% live.com (and especially if you can also use the 10% paypal coupons--which can't be stacked with Buy.comeBay sales though).
Do you honestly think a separate thread for every single hard drive, telephone, printer, laptop, desktop, gps, usb device needs to exist here just because some people might be looking for it?
It's not about eBay sellers trying to protect themselves, it's about cluttering the forum with junk posts that anyone who reads just the first page of the 30% eBay+Live.com thread should be able to figure out.
1) Sign up for live.com CashBack account 2) Search for random words on live.com til you get a 30% eBayCashBack link 3) Click it and then change the search on eBay to look for the product you want by model or name. 4) Click sort by price+shipping low to high, and click Show BuyItNow only+PayPal options 5) Find the lowest price + lowest shipping price to maximize discount off of main price on the item you want. 6) Take a calculator and multiply the selling price by .7 (or .6 if you have a 10% PP coupon) and add in the shipping if any 7) Compare this price to any deal posted here or at your favorite sites. 8) If it's less, and you've done due diligance in checking the sellers feedback, ensure they don't use a 3rd party checkout, etc... click BIN, verify the 30% amount calculates, enter your 10% paypal coupon if applicable and commit to the purchase. 9) Post the deal to the eBay+live.com thread if you want to tell others---search will find it.
Simple. No need for 1000 posts of each unique item from each unique seller that happen to have the low price for a few minutes or a day that day.
Buying on eBay is risky, even with Buy.com -- reports are people cannot use PayPal coupons and have been waiting 2 days to receive CashBack credit and still haven't. With all the variables, this is another reason a separate thread for each product is not warranted.
MrLateNite said: Almost every single technology item can be had on eBay right now for less than any other retailer if you stack it with 30% live.com (and especially if you can also use the 10% paypal coupons--which can't be stacked with Buy.comeBay sales though).
Ah good to note if that's the case, didn't see anything limiting the 10% but I didn't look too hard yet either..
But you're completely wrong on the deal posting. Deals are deals. If due to the 30% CB most deals are best on eBay, then that's what should get posted. It'd be stupid to be posting worse deals because they aren't on eBay, and not posting the best deal on eBay.
This deal wasn't made by the 30 or 40 % anyway, it was made because the price drop along with the 30% put the deal down into good territory.
As always, post everything you find as long as it's legitimate.
pnang111
New Member
posted: Dec. 2, 2008 @ 3:08p
wow, didn't know it hurt so many people to post deals. I was in the market for a nice external and I thought the price was better than anywhere else so I posted.
Green, red, it doesn't bother me. I went and bought one at what I consider as a nice price.
alegalsec
Member
posted: Dec. 9, 2008 @ 11:51a
Is the 35% squaretrade for eBay purchase still valid? What is code? Thanks.
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