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    3.5" WD 750 GB Hard drives half off sale price!

    Discussion in 'Notebook and Tech Bargains' started by windworker, Oct 6, 2011.

  1. windworker

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    Does he have a contact email?
     
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  3. Phil

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    Please be careful. When someone is selling these kind of quantities at 50% of retail prices there is a reasonable chance that there might be something wrong.

    Could be stolen or it could be a scam. Or it could be legit. I don't know.

    And they are 3.5" drives for desktops.
     
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    Yea... seems a bit fishy, if your company ordered too many why not just return them? I'm sure the restocking is less than 50%
     
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  5. windworker

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    The guy selling them has been on the site since '07. That website doesn't give out email address's of its members, I could PM him if there's interest.

    I'll keep an eye on the thread and PM some of the people he sells to for a review.
     
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    I PM'd the user and he sent me his email address if you guys wanna talk to him further. You can sign up on that site, but PM's are disabled for new users because of spam and scam.

    PM for email address.
     
    windworker, Oct 6, 2011
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  8. windworker

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    Yea, I don't know the prices on any of this stuff really. Just posted in case :)
     
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  10. TwelveV

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    If they were ordered wholesale, it may not be as easy to just return them. A lot of wholesalers (in other industries, I don't have any experience with PC part wholesalers) won't just take something back.

    Just playing devil's advocate here, there are definitely reasons this could be legit, as well as reasons they could be stolen/scammed.
     
    TwelveV, Oct 7, 2011
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  11. Qing Dao

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    I really doubt this is a scam. If it was a scam, it would be 3TB drives for $100. $30 for 750 is good, but not that great when much larger drives are not much more expensive. Also them being stolen is unlikely since their serials could be traced.
     
    Qing Dao, Oct 8, 2011
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    also stolen stuff is posted on Craigslist.
     
    Opteron, Oct 8, 2011
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