RE: Some nice stuff on Scan today...

["Don McAllister" <donmc@xxxxxxx>]

Someones going to have a busy weekend ! A word of warning, the quiet PSU
isn't that quiet (if its one of the Enermax). Be glad to know what think.

Don

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Graham Howe [mailto:graham@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 14 December 2000 21:48
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Some nice stuff on Scan today...
>
>
> I ordered two motherboard bundles (one 700 Duron and one 1000
> Athlon), one
> 46Gb disk, one quiet PSU and one 256Mb PC133 and postage is
> only about £15
> for the lot. With the Athlon bundle at DABS I would have paid
> £145 for the
> processor, £96 for the board, £51 for the memory, £8 for the
> fan (though I
> don't think this is the same one), total of £300 compared
> with the £269 I
> paid. 256Mb PC133 at Dabs is £119, I paid £87. Duron bundle
> is about £8
> cheaper at Scan, Hard disk is £4 cheaper and Dabs have no
> quiet PSUs, their
> normal 300W one is £20. Also very few of the items are in
> stock at Dabs
> although scan are delivering everything tomorrow. Finally the
> Pine CD/MP3
> player is £145 at Dabs without any free CDR's, I know this because I
> received one from Dabs yesterday, unfortunately Scan did not
> have them on
> offer when I ordered it on Sunday.
>
> Looking at the page today, I would say that there are some very good
> bargains, also they tend to have stock of the things that are
> on offer. I
> would agree that Scan prices are not generally better than
> others but some
> of their today only offers are certainly at very good prices, far
> outweighing the cost of shipping.
>
> I saved £75 today compared with Dabs, if I had bought the CD
> player too then
> I would have saved £91 on an order total of about £700, even adding on
> shipping that is a 10% saving.
>
> Graham
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mick Furlong [mailto:dorsai@xxxxxxx]
> > Sent: 14 December 2000 20:53
> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Some nice stuff on Scan today...
> >
> >
> > The self same drive is £126 on Dabs with free postage and
> that is the
> > normal price not on sale;)
> >
> > Scan prices are a tad cheaper when they have offers but the
postage
> > brings it up to the usual level...and even bigger orders
> don't make a
> > saving as they charge postage by weight.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 14 Dec 2000 13:34:27 -0000, you wrote:
> >
> > >Thanks for the warning! - Won't be getting one of those
then...
> > >
> > >Still trying to get through on the phone to order a 46GB
> > drive though...
> > >
> > >Paul G.
> > >
> > >
> > >>
> > >>These things are crap. A mate of mine who works at Dabs
got
> > one, and took
> > >>it back it was that bad.
> > >>
> > >>I don't even think they're waterproof, so they're no good
> > for an external
> > >>security camera (if they can run all the time)
> > >>
> > >>
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