Samsung 860 EVO 1TB SSD SATA Solid State Drive discounted for eBay Plus members.
Use the coupon.
That's the undiscounted price. Code worked for me to get $164.32 ($208 with 21% discount)
Did you enter the code PARTY21 at the checkout?
Does anyone know if this is a better deal than the Crucial or WD Blue?
Samsung suppose more reliable brand.
I wouldn't say more reliable. Samsung have just traditionally been cheaper for the features you get.
The Samsung SSDs tend to have higher TBW warranties. Whether or not that means they're more durable or just willing to warranty more durability though is anyone's guess.
Wd blue $133 at futu=shopping express
This store is a bunch of jacking scum bags, the X570 Tomahawk was $435 for a few hours into the PARTY21 sale before being jacked to $455.
Understand how you feel but if they don't they will lose money because eBay didn't cover all 21% off.
$164.32 is like the ex GST price from supplier.
Then refuse to be in the sale and boycott the practice.. It's blantently misleading to people who are unaware of the practice.
Some do, namely Computer Alliance who participate in few smaller eBay sales because they don't want to jack for the "big discount" sales so that they don't lose money. I buy from them when I can for that reason, but I do think it's more on eBay than those other sellers.
@ethan961: Yeah, I think that may be the reason why "Selected Items", seller can put only those items they want to instead of everything from their store.
It's not as easy as it seems. Most marketplaces lure sellers by promising them higher visibility, better product ranks and even seller credits in return for participating in these sales. A seller will always do the math and figure out how much of a commercial dent the sale actually is, after subtracting the going value for these inclusions, and then jack up the price to maintain profitable. Another big draw for sellers is visibility vis-a-vis larger sellers, so it becomes almost essential for them to participate. Blame eBay if you will, but it's a valid business model.
So, you are saying that if the seller is unwilling to fund their portion completely, but willing to fund 50% of their portion of the discount, then they should NOT participate in these?
We all know most items probably won't actually get 21% real discount.
It's not ideal, but having some items at effectively 15% discount is better than nothing.
@netsurfer: The problem is really how it's marketed as '21% off'. If they just said 'up to 21% off' and showed the discount off the previous selling price it would be fine.
I know having worked with a large Australian retailer that took the letter of the law more seriously it absolutely did happen that they couldn't participate in some of these sales as they were running their own sales before/after that meant one of the advertised discounts wouldn't have been legitimate (and they couldn't go that far below cost to make them legitimate). Practically some discount is better than nothing, but it's still false advertising, some people will purchases on the basis that the discount is bigger than it actually is compared with the typical selling price. Maybe not as much people here that know what typical prices are, but the laws are there for the average person.
@[Deactivated]: I feel the same. I don't mind paying whatever the asking price is - including ones without "discount". (Often enough, often undiscounted goods are cheap thank " discounted" goods). At the end of the day, it's a two way relationship between the seller/buyer. Price is right, people, otherwise not.
These practice is treading the gray area of the law (until ACCC tests such in court, similar to what's done with Kogan) that it is almost black. Personally think it dishonest/misleading.
These practice is treading the gray area of the law (until ACCC tests such in court, similar to what's done with Kogan) that it is almost black. Personally think it dishonest/misleading.
Used to work at the ACCC, discussed this very particular issue with some of my colleagues there.
There is no case. There are some differences with the Kogan case:
(1) The sale is an eBay sale, not provided by the stores themselves.
(2) The issue with Kogan was that they were advertising RRPs which they never actually sold at. The issue here is that the listed prices are actually the prices being sold right now and you can buy at that particular listed price without applying the coupon.
Basically, the long and short of it is that the nature of the sales, particularly because it is coupon-based, it's very difficult to pick a bone with it. The issue with Kogan is that they said "20% off" some price they never actually sold at, whereas the coupons are simply offering 20% off the current listed price, whatever that may be.
The long and short of it is that there's no legal case. My personal opinion is that this is all moot, because what matters is the final price. You like the final price, you buy, you don't like the final price, you don't buy. The "percentage off" is meaningless ultimately.
Okay, then you go and buy it for $435, I'll take it for $359.
Or just don't buy.
Because they sold it for $360 on another eBay account before this promo, so with this promo code at $435 , it'll come to $343 and every that bought a few days will all return and rebuy since return is free. I know I did and that's why they have to increase the price
I hope this "free return" policy will teach fleabay a financial lesson.
It's only free if you're an ebay Plus member and why is everyone so salty, if you take into account delivery fee, eBay is cheaper like 90% of the time beside Amazon
@ln28909: Oh yea. No doubt fleabay is cheaper. Prob 50% of the time during their "sale".
As a consumer, i vote with my wallet on actual pricing instead of focusing on "discounts" .
I feel for those got tricked by fleabay (Kogan etc).
I believe with a cash back offer only a few months ago this was a good bit cheaper, and was basically the same price a week ago at computer alliance. Just for reference.
Would this, Crucial MX500 or the T7 be better for putting iPhone Videos backups on the SSD to watch them on TV?
My WD passport seems slow to load videos and was looking at a better and reasonably priced alternative.
Not sure of your actual setup from your brief description, but if you're already using an SSD it's likely the issue is with something else in your chain, such as your tv or using USB 1.0 or something. As for comparing Samsung to Crucial, they are both adequately fast, but Samsung has a better track record with reliability and longer warranties.
Traditional hard drive needs to spin up initially and it does need to seek for files. You can try an SSD first. However, if you simply want to go for the best right now, get T7.
Are you sure the issue has nothing to do with your TV? Make sure your TV supports USB 3.0, otherwise you are simply wasting money.
I found something from Amazon. You can have more options
https://www.amazon.com.au/Crucial-2-5-inch-Adapter-Internal-…
https://www.amazon.com.au/Crucial-BX500-1TB-2-5-SATA3/dp/B07…
BX500 is DRAMless and not in the same performance or price class as MX500 & 860 Evo.
How about for storing/loading Steam games & such? Would the DRAM make any difference?
The lack of a DRAM cache for an SSD significantly degrades its sustained write speed (multi-GB writes), while reads will be marginally slower. The BX500 may slow down to below HDD speed for game restore operations (depending on the size of the games). Loading the game, loading cut scenes, and saving checkpoints should be much faster than a HDD.
I suggest the MX500 as well but not the BX500
I've been watching the MX500 for a while now via Amazon and that's a very tempting price!
Wouldn't mind the EVO at a similar tax though and probably why I've held off pulling the trigger.
I've the EVO 500gb in a PC running the OS for the past few months and its been flawless.
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