Re: RE: DDAR bulk purchase

["Gareth Cook/STA/Lotus" <gcook@xxxxxxx>]

Use the old PC, buy an IDE Controller
(20 quid), slap a 60gig hard disk on it (150 quid at dabs) - and setup as 1
partition. And your laughing.

G.

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"nick broughton" <mail@xxxxxxx>
Yesterday 23:17

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Subject: .	Re: [ukha_d] RE: DDAR bulk purchase .
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I do WANT to buy one, but as of right
now I don't have any significant MP3
collection available to play on the beast.  If I did I wouldn't
hesitate at
the price.  As I don't, and probably also need to invest in a new PC
to host
any such collection I found myself wondering how much it would cost to
import personally in the future.  My first thoughts were that extra
charges
(repackaging) were being incurred because of the size of your order and
the
desire to avoid duty.  Therefore, perhaps there was no significant
advantage
to the bulk purchase, especially as no discount was forthcoming from
Dell.

After further investigation I could see that I was wrong and that
shipping
was significantly more than I'd anticipated.  The exchange rate is
also
worse than when I last checked!

Perhaps if I'd explained my situation more clearly to start with .....

NOW.  Suggestions please, I need the cheapest machine available that I
can
stick a big disk in and use as an MP3 server.   The old machines I've
got
won't easily accept big disks (least not as a single partition).

----- Original Message -----
From: Graham Howe <graham@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 9:13 PM
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] RE: DDAR bulk purchase


> No offence taken, but at first you indicated to the group that you
wanted
to
> buy one of these 140 pound units (in your reply to the MP3 ripping
thread)
> and then you posted to me suggesting that this was not a good deal
and
that
> a similar or better price was possible elsewhere. I and others here
know
> that that is just not true unless you happen to be able to get someone
to
> bring the unit back personally. As you have now indicated, with
further
> investigation, shipping from the US is expensive. I thought that it
was
> necessary to state the facts incase people decided to pull out of the
bulk
> purchase because they believed they could get the units sent
themselves
for
> the same price. As for the offers to pay me a fiver, that is really
not
> necessary, as I said with the ePOD sales, I get a great deal from
this
group
> and am not interested in making profit from it.
>
> Regards
>
> Graham
>
>
>
>
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