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Spreets - 2TB Hard Drive Delivered for $79.00!
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jojomuir on 24/01/2012 - 12:38 spreets.com.au (320 clicks)
Last edited 24/01/2012 - 13:40 by 1 other user

MOD: Please note that there are member concerns that this deal might not be legitimate. See the discussions below and this thread for more details. If you wish to proceed, please do so with caution.

YES it is a spreets deal but a 2TB Harddrive for $79 Delivered…..sounds too good to be true!

Description from the site:

Get your hands on the Tancel 2TB Desktop External Hard Drive for just $79 and back up your files (before it’s too late) Valued at $299!
2TB (2,000GB) will give you loads of space for your music, movies, photos and other files!
A small, light, high-quality aluminium design means it won’t take up much room and dissipate heat, protecting your files
Super speed 5GBPS and 1-GBPS will make file transfers a breeze
The Tancel 2TB Hard Drive is compatible with Microsoft Windows – happy days!
A USB 3.0 interface with backwards compatibility to USB 2.0 and 1.1 means you’ll be able to get just about all files from just about all devices securely onto your hard drive!
Impressive 2.5 SATA drive!
Available in black, red, blue or white!
PLUS delivery is included!
Buy as many vouchers as you like!
Keep your files safe forever!

The Fine Print:
Can buy unlimited vouchers per person; can buy multiples as gifts
Please provide your delivery address when purchasing the deal, Karno will ship your order automatically
Delivery is made by registered post from Monday to Friday 9am – 5pm only. Please ensure there is someone present at the delivery address to sign for receipt of the product
Please provide a valid street address, strictly no PO Boxes
If there is no one present at the delivery address to accept the product when it is delivered or a PO Box is provided at check out, a re-delivery fee may apply and you will be solely responsible for paying any such fee
No further redemption required
Please make your selection carefully. No changes or cancellations can be made once you have purchased a voucher as products are automatically dispatched
Not available with any other offer; not redeemable for cash
Expect delivery within 28 working days
For queries contact Karno via www.karno.com.au

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  • panderiz on 24/01/2012 - 12:39

    Is this the same crap as before?

    • Ughhh on 24/01/2012 - 12:41
      +1

      Yeh looks like it http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/62202

      • moocher on 24/01/2012 - 12:49

        The other deal is from Groupon, so technically it's not a duplicate as they have different URLs.

        • Ughhh on 24/01/2012 - 12:54

          I didnt mean it was a dupe, but rather same concern about the legitimacy of the product.

        • moocher on 24/01/2012 - 13:14

          JLove, sorry, I replied below your handy link. Others reported it as a dupe.

  • SBOB on 24/01/2012 - 12:40

    here we go again :)

    2.5" 2TB SATA drive for $79, less spreets cut and less shipping…
    this sounds a tad 'too good to be true'

  • leoleakey on 24/01/2012 - 12:40

    another one

  • [Deactivated] on 24/01/2012 - 12:41

    Dupe of that horrible "bargain" posted earlier. And it's fake.

  • nicksnoobie on 24/01/2012 - 12:42

    sounds too good to be true!

    Then maybe you shouldn't post it? Since we all know it's fake

  • siuol on 24/01/2012 - 12:42

    ROFL again!

  • siggy213 on 24/01/2012 - 12:43

    lol no comment

  • chadiwrx on 24/01/2012 - 12:44

    Again

  • StewBalls on 24/01/2012 - 12:44
    +1

    WTF are Spreets doing??? :o

    OMFG, has anyone seen the original fake price: http://karno.myshopify.com/products/2tb-hdd-usb3-0 HAHAHA, nice try Karno! :p

    • Jeremy Dewitte on 24/01/2012 - 13:13
      +4

      "Tried" to buy one from the Karno website. Got to the payment page.
      $299
      Takes Paypal and the recipient is "Michelle Templin".
      The authorities should investigate this person.

      • SKiZO on 24/01/2012 - 13:16
        +1

        Wow! Impressive stalking technique!

      • A3Australia on 24/01/2012 - 14:57

        I agree. She has registered the karno domain without having the required trading name registered. She used her company name MJ Templin Pty Ltd.

        She and her company are not registered for GST.

  • quickling on 24/01/2012 - 12:51

    lol

  • [Deactivated] on 24/01/2012 - 12:55

    Can I neg the picture?

  • ca6leguy on 24/01/2012 - 12:57

    Can people stop posting this dodgy deals up.

  • Pobman on 24/01/2012 - 12:59
    +1

    For some reason my iPhone is showing today's date as the 24th of January … When clearly given the number of made up HD deals today it must be April 1st.

  • Mikinoz on 24/01/2012 - 13:02

    Keep your files safe forever! thats how i know its a scam lol

  • SKiZO on 24/01/2012 - 13:07

    Ok who's the joker that +'d the deal?

  • Jeremy Dewitte on 24/01/2012 - 13:11
    +1

    Quoted from the website:
    "made from high-quality aluminium (which means it’ll dispose of heat like nobody’s business) and equipped with a powerful fan (so it’s nice and quiet)"
    To me the cases look plastic and I don't think I have seen any portable hard drive with a powerful fan.
    It's all a SCAM which everyone should avoid.
    If not already noted, this should be another wake up call to get these Group Deal/Coupon websites regulated.

    • StewBalls on 24/01/2012 - 13:34

      If not already noted, this should be another wake up call to get these Group Deal/Coupon websites regulated.

      +1

      To be honest, I reckon this one deserves a complaint to the ACCC because they're advertising a product for sale that to my knowledge does not exist at all, anywhere in the world!

      • Jeremy Dewitte on 24/01/2012 - 13:41

        Is there one us that could contact Fairfax papers about this? They've run a few articles recently about these group deal sites and would probably be interested in this one.

    • SKiZO on 24/01/2012 - 13:37

      It's sad, but I think they already are:
      http://www.adma.com.au/consumer-help/faq/group-buying

      Edit: scratch that it looks like some sort of <beep> self management org.

  • jojomuir on 24/01/2012 - 13:28

    sorry all - did not know about all the details - thought it was a good deal. MOD can you pls delete

    • neil on 24/01/2012 - 13:41

      I have put a note on the top of the deal. Thanks.

  • AlphaCharlie on 24/01/2012 - 13:47

    Can someone please explain the 'fakeness' of this please… Almost pulled the 'buy' trigger!

    Cheers - AC

    • neil on 24/01/2012 - 13:53

      From looking at the 2 deals, my interpretation of the comments is that
      * 2TB portable hard drives don't exist
      * Tancel is an unknown HD company
      * Tancel is spelled Tancell on Groupon's description
      * Karno, the retailer, seems to have ABN information that has changed a couple of times

      I wouldn't say there is enough information to warrant calling it a scam but after Ourdeal's HD deal that never eventuated, members are wary. Would be nice if commenters could articulate why they are negging to help people out instead of ROFL, +1, or other random words.

      • Shaw on 24/01/2012 - 14:35
        +2

        "* 2TB portable hard drives don't exist
        * Tancel is an unknown HD company
        * Tancel is spelled Tancell on Groupon's description
        * Karno, the retailer, seems to have ABN information that has changed a couple of times"

        I would have thought that this is enough to call it a scam… the first point especially…

        • neil on 24/01/2012 - 14:44

          That's just what people say. A quick Google says they do exist: E.G. http://www.auspcmarket.com.au/info/SYN-WDBACW0020HBK-AESN/18…

          Groupon often screws up spelling, grammar, dates, etc on all of their sites worldwide and on a couple of times I have tweeted them to fix it. That's probably not a big deal.

          Never heard of Tancel, and is not on Google. Doesn't really mean much, there are a lot of yum cha brand stuff floating around. USB cases a dime a dozen. Would be more interested in what brand of HD is inside.

          As for the changing ABNs, that's a bit strange.

        • andy19363 on 24/01/2012 - 14:55

          That's just what people say. A quick Google says they do exist: E.G. http://www.auspcmarket.com.au/info/SYN-WDBACW0020HBK-AESN/18…

          is a desktop……

          http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=240

        • StewBalls on 24/01/2012 - 14:56

          Sorry Neil, but that's wrong; the 'My Book' series you've linked to are 3.5".

          Just check the dimensions: 165 (H) x 135 (L) x 48 (W) mm, 1.18kg and the section it's listed in: Drives > USB-Firewire-Network Drives > Mains-Powered USB3 - Super-fast USB3 drives powered by 240v

          Maybe use a longer google next time! :p

        • neil on 24/01/2012 - 15:20

          I understand Stewballs. What I'm saying is that there are lots of retailers that describe their hard drives as portable. We use a couple of those WD's at work. While we take them off-site often and are portable, there is an assumption when portable is used that 1. it is a 2.5" drive and 2. No external power is needed. Unfortunately, there is no regulation in what you want to describe your item as.

        • Shaw on 24/01/2012 - 16:48

          The item is clearly described as 2.5 on the website, no mention of a 3.5" or desktop drive anywhere.

        • neil on 24/01/2012 - 17:06

          Yes, saw that although it didn't specify a measurement. 2.5 inches, picas? There were some Chinese wholesalers selling 2TB portable drives on Alibaba. I wonder if there is a way to enclose 2 x 1TB. A typical 2.5" hd would be around 120 grams so not sure how they can have a drive and a case for 103 grams.

          Has anyone contacted Karno? Either this is a new product to market or the specs are way off.

        • lbft on 24/01/2012 - 22:31

          Portable necessarily means 2.5". You can't power a 3.5" drive off USB (even USB 3.0, since it only has 5v power and a 3.5" needs lots of juice at 12v to start up. I'm sure it's technically possible but nobody's made one yet because the wholesale cost on a 12v plugpack is <$2.)

          Look at the pictures they're using. They clearly show a 2.5" drive (3.5" external drives just don't plain come in those dimensions.)

          Also on the subject of the pictures: they look a lot like certain WD Passport models, don't they? Here's a reverse image search of the one off the Karno website: http://www.tineye.com/search/231ae73f87c2715b1279939cd966f0c… Look, magically the image happens to be identical to a WD stock photo, but somebody's photoshopped the WD logo off. Here's another from the Spreets page: http://www.tineye.com/search/52802c32cd7d31eb4d556b8b30f7767… Again, WD image with the WD logo photoshopped off.

          Hard drive manufacturers don't release new drives to the market via some random Chinese enclosure manufacturer. When a 2TB 2.5" is released there will be a big hullabaloo in the tech press with no shortage of Google results, and it will likely be first released as an external by WD or Seagate rather than as bare drives. There are no small manufacturers of hard drives, the physics and the logistics and the patent minefield are all too difficult for someone who isn't one of the major players (and the number of major players has dropped incredibly lately thanks to everyone buying out everyone else).

          I don't doubt that these have come from some seller on Alibaba, likely the same as the Axeze "Seagate" 2TB 3.5" external. That's half the problem because it gives a way for the crap on the Chinese market to make its way to Australia. You haven't been able to safely buy flash memory on eBay (small quantities) or Alibaba (large quantities) for several years and fake external hard disks have appeared in various parts of China on and off for a while, so it's no surprise that the flash frauds have added external hard disks to their repertoire.

  • Jeremy Dewitte on 24/01/2012 - 13:54

    This is gonna be bigger than the Living Social ozthongs Havianas debacle!

  • Daniel Plainview on 24/01/2012 - 14:15

    Multiple warning signs on this deal scream, "Caveat emptor" !!!

    Hence the negative.

  • viggenn on 24/01/2012 - 14:15

    This is becoming like spam!

    • andy19363 on 24/01/2012 - 14:29
      +1

      unfortunately, as is the way of the negging system, even though all of these posts are filled with useful warnings…. none of them will be seen….meaning, potentially, people will be getting scammed, and others will keep posting this as a deal, as it will not show up as a deal when they search.

      I'm not convinced that negging, as a warning system, is effective.

      in fact, I struggle to see the point of the negging system at all these days…..

      • Brendy Bear on 24/01/2012 - 15:24

        I agree(I have only joined Ozbargain recently though). The way that the negative voted deals and comments don't show up (unless you change the settings) can remove a lot of useful information.
        This deal is a good example, where this deal is risky at least, keeps being negged and disappearing from the views of users, and hence they put it up again and again, not knowing of the previous duplicates and not knowing about the advice given in the other comments.
        Another example is someone puts up a comment that is either incorrect or just plain stupid, however the replies to that post could be very informative and useful, explaining exactly why the comment is incorrect or stupid. Need to be able to see the good with the bad in order to keep perspective, otherwise it will turn into a very one sided viewpoint where a large group of people can just agree with each other and just neg all the comments that disagree, making it appear as though there is only one viewpoint.

  • boozler on 24/01/2012 - 14:30
    +1

    Even Groupon is getting in the act, sold out at 1504 bought. Spreet is at 342 sold and still taking orders for another 9hrs. Get in people and give them your money. The whole operation stinks!

  • mudguppy1 on 24/01/2012 - 14:44

    Spreets has seperate sales volumes for each city. They are well over 1500 sold all up.

  • billymm on 24/01/2012 - 14:44

    there are 2 things that immediately bug me about this 'deal'
    "Buy as many vouchers as you like!"
    "Expect delivery within 28 working days "

    What is this nonsense with buying vouchers
    28 working days!!! thats 6.5 weeks… NO THANKS

    Also as others have pointed out a 2TB 2.5" drive doesnt exist
    The biggest I could see from quickly looking at msy & pccg was 1TB…. so definitely starting to smell fishy

  • chyawala on 24/01/2012 - 14:57

    no deal

  • boozler on 24/01/2012 - 14:58

    I just called up their customer service and was informed there's no limit in term's of stock level. So i then asked "have you got the harddrive on your premises", and her reply was no, but the stock is currently at the dock in china ready to be shipped once they give the OK. Now, if you know they're going to sell like hotcakes wouldn't you have the stock in Australia??.

  • CyberMurning on 24/01/2012 - 15:02
    +3

    but why spreets and groupon fell for this kind of scam? arent they big enough to smell this? they didnt investigate enough? sprrets and groupon should somehow liable too..

    • samfisher5986 on 24/01/2012 - 15:11

      Big does not equal smart.

      Most of us would probably know computers better then these companies, they wouldn't know what a scam would look like.

  • KevCol on 24/01/2012 - 15:04

    The deal said "Expired" when I saw it but the order screen worked and I ordered.
    Think I looked for comments but could not see any?
    Now am trying to cancel and do not welcome the hassle.
    Have mailed Spreets and PayPal but imagine it will be a long time before I seee a refund.

    • StewBalls on 24/01/2012 - 15:07
      +1

      You never know, you might actually get the HDD delivered by unicorn with a bonus free shipment of hen's teeth & rocking horse shit! :p

  • ashley1969 on 24/01/2012 - 15:08

    It does say desktop on the page I went to from my email. Still not bad price if desktop, just more after a named brand, or does it have a branded drive inside this thing?

    • ashley1969 on 24/01/2012 - 15:14

      but it sure looks like a portable, and says portable in the picture, but i suppose "portable" is open to interpretation, a portable bbq sure ain't small… ;-)

      • StewBalls on 24/01/2012 - 15:17

        It also says: "Impressive 2.5 SATA drive!"

      • mudguppy1 on 24/01/2012 - 15:20

        "The Tancel Hard Drive is not only small (13cm x 1.2cm x 7.4cm)"

  • bugman on 24/01/2012 - 15:28
    +2

    You also get automatic entry in to a Nigerian lotto mega billion draw

  • CyberMurning on 24/01/2012 - 15:34

    sorry i lost the link but last week i found a blog where after a guy opened a cheap portable 2.5" hard drive made in china (label said 1TB), inside is a piece of usb drive (32GB) soldered, together with some bolts to make it heavy !

    • StewBalls on 24/01/2012 - 15:40
      +1

      Props to Videoman for this from the OurDeal thread: http://blog.jitbit.com/2011/04/chinese-magic-drive.html :)

      • c64 on 24/01/2012 - 21:03

        yep, a classic. they even gave it weight by welding/glueing some nuts in. diabolical lol

    • bugman on 24/01/2012 - 15:44

      Yep this is a very popular scam at the moment, they also set it up so it reads as 2tb. Also they put it in a loop, so if you transfer a 40 gig file/s, it will seem to work but it will only be the last 36 gig and the first 4 will be over written.

  • Lord Fart Bucket on 24/01/2012 - 15:41
    +1

    I am going to go a no deal here. This piece of plastic with nothing in it can be bought cheaper from hot deals: http://www.hotdeals.com.au/daily-deal/20/01/2012/external-ha…

    If you're going to get scammed, why pay more?

  • mudguppy1 on 24/01/2012 - 16:00

    Its over I missed it.

    • CyberMurning on 24/01/2012 - 16:28
      +1

      you should say its over im lucky didnt get scammed

  • KevCol on 01/02/2012 - 20:27

    Spreets gave me a refund via PayPal which was welcome.

    I did see evidence of a drive with a similar description on Alibaba but I can not see how a Chinese company could manufacture such a drive.

    It will be interesting to see what is delivered to those who stuck with their order

  • aacheney on 03/02/2012 - 17:16

    Dear Spreeter,

    Thank you for your recent purchase of "Tancel 2TB Desktop External
    Hard Drive (USB 3.0) for Just $79 - Including Delivery! Valued at
    $299! Don't Lose Your Files to a Computer Demon"

    Unfortunately we have been advised by the manufacturer that due
    to issues beyond our control they cannot confirm delivery of the
    product within 28 days as specified. As a result we are today
    refunding you the full $79 for each unit purchased. These funds
    should clear with you mid next week.

    Rather than have you wait indefinitely for a delivery, Spreets
    will continue to liaise with the manufacturer as to when stock
    will become available. When we can confirm a specific date we will
    likely run a future deal with this product, so be sure to keep
    your eyes on Spreets for this and similar deals.

    We apologise for any inconvenience caused and hope you understand
    this is a unique situation. We look forward to providing you more
    great deals in future.

    Regards,
    The Spreets Team

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