expired 16GB Nexus 7 from EBGames for $297.97 - Includes FREE Transformers 3 (+$25 Google Play Credit)
This was posted 10 months 17 days ago, and might be an out-dated deal
Nexus 7 16GB is currently selling for $299 from Google Store + $19.99 shipping for a total of $318.99. You can get the 16GB version from EBGames for $297.97 with a free copy of Transformer 3 and $25 of Google Play Credit. Only marginally cheaper but if you had any trouble with the device, bringing it to EbGames would be easier than shipping it back to Google I guess.
EBGames also charges for shipping but you can pick it up.
NOTE: This is a PreOrder. EBGames says that tablet will be available on 27th July.
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superforever on 06/07/2012 - 10:16 ¶I think you can get the same movie and credit if direct from Google play.
But I don't know you can order from local store that is nice.
Whats strange? the fact that the australian nexus 7 is marked up by $50 leaves no room for profit even after taking out the GST?
To begin with the 16gb cost $50 more than the 8gb. it doesnt cost the manufacturer $50 for an extra 8gb. so there is already some profit to be made there.
What makes you think that the retail price has anything to do with the cost of the hardware?
Perhaps that 8gb of ram is only worth $2 to them, but they sell the 8gb model less than cost and the 16gb model a bit higher to create greater differentiation between the models.
What if both models are being sold far below cost as a loss leader just to try and get into the market or recoup costs on app sales?
Your assumptions about profit margins are purely that.
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please check the facts before commenting. In the US the nexus 7 is being sold at cost. in Australia at $50 more there is a slight profit.
http://www.dailytech.com/Nexus+7+Sold+at+Cost+Went+from+Desi...
yamumma on 06/07/2012 - 13:31 Comment score below threshold (-4).
+9 votesPlease check your facts! there isnt a $50 markup in Australia, you don't under the USA pricing model that everything is quoted price + tax, the true walk out of the shop in the US for a 16GB model is $249 + $25-30 taxes = $275-280 dollars, compared to Australia of $299 walk out of shop price. Yes how dare they treat us like cash cows and charge us extra!! /s
- yamumma on 06/07/2012 - 14:16 Comment score below threshold (-5).
- How would selling something below cost help then recoup costs?
- It's not the 16GB figure their quoting is not RAM - it's the size of the storage space.
- What Level380 said about tax is exactly right and nobody seems to understand this. If you've ever been to the US will realise that advertised prices, unlike here in Aus, very rarely include tax. So slap 10% or so onto any US price you see THEN convert.
+2 votesFact: the Nexus 7 sells for a higher price in Australia than in the US based on current exchange rates.
Most things sell for a higher price in Australia compared to the US, not just this tablet. This is just a fact of life.
Retailers and distributors see us Aussies as dolts willing to pay more for everything, and when we start importing instead they cry foul that online shopping is putting B&M retailers out of business and contributing to unemployment which will hurt our economy even worse in the long run.
I'm going to try and source one imported when this thing releases.
+5 votesMost things sell for a higher price in Australia compared to the US, not just this tablet. This is just a fact of life.
This is true, but it's not always a function of avarice; sometimes it really is that we are a smaller market with different shipping, tax & infrastructure costs! A little paranoia is good, but too much time in the tinfoil hat can be counterproductive! ;)
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I did? Oooohhhh "recoup costs on app sales", right. Granted it wasn't the most elegantly formed sentence, could have done with a bit more punctuation, but "barely literate" is a bit harsh. You've hurt my feelings now.
Sorry, are my comments prohibiting you from taking advantage of this amazing bargain?
Sounds like we could both do with some cake.
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There isnt a $50 markup in Australia, you don't under the USA pricing model that everything is quote price + tax.
In Australia is $299 for the 16GB inc GST, in the USA its $249 + TAXES, which is about $25-30 dollars, so the real price increase is about $25 over the US model, allowing a few extra dollars 'fat' as our dollar moves up and down a bit lately, this would be about right.
+1 voteOnly a "handful" hey? You sir, are an idiot;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sales_taxes_in_the_United_State...
+1 voteStrand0410 on 06/07/2012 - 16:22 ¶"Only a handful of US states have tax on goods"
Bullshit. Only a handful of US states DON'T have sales tax, the most prominent of which is Oregon. Have you ever been shopping in America? It's sales tax in virtually every state between coasts.
You're also conveniently forgetting that you're only counting local 4-7%, you haven't thrown in the general/federal tax that effectively doubles it. He's right, 10% is standard.
garratt torlesse on 06/07/2012 - 22:30 ¶It's actually on a city by city county by county basis as well. E.g Miami dade is 7 percent, Broward which is still in the Miami metropolitan area is 6.5 percent.
- +4 votessuperforever on 06/07/2012 - 10:36 ¶
GT 7.7, dual core and don't know when will receive ICS 4.1.
I would not go for it.
- +1 votesuperforever on 06/07/2012 - 10:54 ¶
Depends on what you want to store on it.
My 16GB Nexus phone I still have 10GB left because apps are not that big as iPad.
If you travel a bit and you put on a movie or two or some music that will go nowhere.
The storage is a dealbreaker for me.. but for the price I ordered one anyway as it would be a nice tablet just to have around the house in the living room lol. I cant resist anything thats good value.
I dunno about the Nexus, but the 7.7 can output via to monitors/TVs via HDMI. That makes putting 1080p content on the tab a desirable thing. Guess how big the average 1080p movie is these days?
My 1080p TV is a smart TV. I just plug in a USB stick/HDD to it and it will play the 1080p movies on the TV. What's the point in playing it on the tablet and draining extra battery power when the TV can already handle those file formats on its own?
BTW, my TV's playback of 8GB+ 1080p MKVs are very smooth and flawless. No choppiness or dropped frames. I don't know if a tablet will be able to handle that. The new iPad doesn't, and that's more powerful than the GT7.7. Some 10" Android tablets I've tried can't handle it smoothly either, even 720p.
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Even dumb TVs have USB slots. I'm pretty sure all HDTVs these days can play movie files on a USB stick. It's only a question of whether they handle MKV or not. Some do, some may not. I think newer ones should.
I don't live in a hotel. If you're rich enough to do that, most of this discussion is moot.
Probably about 5 years old. It's a Samsung Kblablabablasomethingsomething.
You're missing the point. I won't be carrying my TV with me on holiday when I might want to watch something in a hotel room. Not all my friends TVs can play back video files either. Having a tablet with HDMI out provides flexibility.
What's the cheapest GT7.7 you can find?
$359 delivered for local stock along with a pouch, book cover case, and dock, all genuine Samsung accessories. You'll definitely want at least a case for your Nexus 7, so that'll make it maybe $320. The price difference will then be just $40, and you've still got another case and a dock with the 7.7. The screen is a bit larger too, and is Super AMOLED Plus. And the microSD slot, of course. :)
lostn - not every TV can playback MKVs. Certainly my Series 8 Samsung LED cannot, although it probably is about 5 years old now.
There is also no guarantee that whatever TV you get in your hotel when you're traveling can playback mkvs.
Funny you should mention the maximum file size point. Mine is limited by the NTFS file system, so I believe the maximum is approximately 16TB i believe. But I'd probably be more limited by my 64gig micro-sd card.
Can your TV read NTFS usb drives?
By the way, the Galaxy Tab 7.7 is not crippled like the iPad in terms of GPU acceleration. The 7.7 can playback 1080p with DTS audio flawlessly, thanks to the GPU acceleration. iPads don't allow access to the GPU except for Apple file formats like mp4/quicktime thus any 3rd party video player will depend solely on the CPU to play a mkv file. I expect the Nexus will also have hardware video acceleration just like the Samsung.
- superforever on 06/07/2012 - 10:52 ¶
You will need both 7" and 10" tablet :)
7" on the road and 10" at home.
I recommend a 7in tablet to someone who reads books a lot and likes portability.
I recommend a 10in tablet to someone who likes "coffee table" style books - large and combersome, but beautiful … or if you like to keep up with the Jones'I own an iPad, so i'm speaking from my own personal experience :)
I've ordered one of the Nexus 7s for my wife.
There was talk of it being more expensive at retail but I can see everyone trying to undercut each other on it
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2012/07/nexus-7-tablet-coming-to-r...
- -1 voteonebutters on 06/07/2012 - 10:59 ¶
Ah yes, is there an expansion slot?
Edit: omg no expansion, that sux….
- superforever on 06/07/2012 - 11:34 ¶
Only peoples want to store large amount of movies will need external storage and I think Nexus 7 doesn't have HDMI output to TV, right?
But if only for apps 16GB is quite a lot because Android apps are smaller than iPad.
+1 voteAccording to this source roughly 50% of people use their tablets for watching video.
That's a significant amount. I don't think Google might have taken usage patterns into account when they introduced the 8GB Nexus. It might just be that they're thinking everyone has high speed internet and has access to fast cloud storage, but that isn't the case for Australians where we pay through the nose just to have cable internet.
+2 votesIt's a pretty damn serious problem for most people.
16GB of storage is what, 4 720p feature length movies?
Sure you can get movies on the Play store, but again, you can cache like 4 of those, then you'll have to use 2GB of mobile data to watch another one on the train.
- superforever on 06/07/2012 - 11:50 ¶
So far I found Android games are a lot smaller than on iPad.
For example: Need for Speed™ Hot Pursuit only 7.6M and Angry Bird Space is 23M.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.eamobile.nfshp_row_wf&feature=apps_topselling_paid#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLG51bGwsImNvbS5lYW1vYmlsZS5uZnNocF9yb3dfd2YiXQ..
Storing HD movies is another issues but for apps 16GB in most case is enough.
+2 votesPersonally, I prefer to watch movies on a tablet via wireless streaming, rather than putting on microSD card. I like 720p or 1080p movies and some of them I ripped from my blu-ray originals. Even 32GB microSD won't be enough.
Wireless streaming is one of the cool features of Android tablet (assuming you have a tablet with a decent GPU). iPad has the hardware to do it, but I am not able to find a player software that can take advantage of iPad hardware properly.
As for no USB-OTG (for storage) and lack of expansion. This can be easily fix by using a pocket wifi device (since a lot of them have microSD support anyway). Really don't get the big fuss about no expansion slot. I am more concerned about lack of HDMI support.
- superforever on 06/07/2012 - 12:17 ¶
Is that the case? I didn't know that.
I am wondering why they can make it so much smaller than on ipad.
I agreed if comes with expansion of course it is good but I think Google needs to leave some room for third party manufacturers. Otherwise how Acer, ASUS, Samsung develop their products to make it some difference from Google.
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The device is meant to compete with Amazon Kindle Fire. Also, with the Nexus series, external microSD support is generally lacking.
Amazon, Google, Apple all prefer you to watch contents wirelessly (from the cloud). In the US, unlimited Internet access is generally the norm. Also, Amazon, Google and Apple can sell you contents this way.
If you have a NAS, with Tegra 3 CPU/GPU, you can stream pretty much everything to Nexus 7. If you must have the contents with you, get a pocket wifi (since they normally have microSD support). App installs - let's face it, installing things on SD card will cause your tablet to take longer to get ready.
On Android devices with lack of phone memory, I have installed apps onto SD, when the microSD card got corrupted, it is a nightmare.
That's why there is no HDMI on Nexus 7. That's why USB OTG is limited to input device (no USB OTG for storage devices). No camera at the back.
This device is to take on Amazon Kindle Fire.
Other manufacturers, honestly, Acer more or less gave up on Android tablets (not making enough to even cover costs). Samsung targets high end market. Asus… well Nexus 7 is made by Asus.
i prefer wireless streaming too.
it is feasible on the ipad as well - i use buzzplayer. or XBMC if you have it jailbroken, but it is slower loading.
so it doesn't support USB-OTG?? not even flash drives with adapter?
cause that would be useful.
other tablets like i think the acer or asus one can support portable HDD.Wireless streaming is fine - even dual core cpu tablets can do that. For iPads there is an app called AirVideo which streams nicely.
But one of the reasons for getting a 7" tablet is the portability. If you're sitting at home you may as well get a 10" tablet because chances are you're not taking it anywhere anyway.
And if you're on the road, having content residing on your device I think is very handy. For example on the train to/from work or on an airplane for in-flight use. You'll remember that radio transmitters are not permitted to be used on airplanes so wifi devices may not be allowed. I also don't see the point of spending extra on a pocket wifi device when you can get a device with the functionality built-in.
Re apps and things on the micro-sd card: the point of having micro-sd storage is to free up the internal memory for app and game data. Historically you only put apps/games on the micro-sd card when your device's internal memory was limited, such as the HTC Desire.
But each to their own. The Nexus is obviously built to a price with a specific audience in mind. In my opinion, if the 7.7 drops further in price, which it undoubtedly will as it comes to the end of its product lifecycle, then it provides a compelling alternative to the Nexus.
So you gonna store 64 gb of movies in a microsd card if it does support external storage. The tablet only has 9hrs battery life, and it's not like you can watch all movies in one go…. I'm not sure why people would wanna keep that many movies in a tablet.. I'd rather put it in a usb stick. Use it when needed.
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Don't forget that you also get $25 store credit/voucher as well.