From: Folkert Rienstra on 23 Nov 2006 10:49 "mm" <NOPSAMmm2005(a)bigfoot.com> wrote in message news:mq8am29arbko4qf0aqo36huutamda7u7a5(a)4ax.com > On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 01:23:33 GMT, Andy <1(a)2.3> wrote: > > > About $44 for either: > > <http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php/masterid=2002172/search=WD800> > > wow. I see 2 possibilities. That site that wants 160 dollars is > mucho overcharging. > > Or, it's a webpage from years ago. I haven't knowingly found any > sales sites like that, but once when I was looking for a particular > hamfest, I got many hits 6 of which were the announcment page, and all > gave a different day of the month. Only by looking at the calendar > and seeing which of those dates was a Sunday that year was I able to > tell which was that year's announcment. > > No one puts dates on webpages, except news sources on some occasions, > and I was surprised to find out that even in the source code there is > no date. I thought the software would put it in automatcially. > > And people don't include dates within the emails they write. They > rely entirely on the dates in the headers, even though many times > their text is copied and pasted with no headers. Often with no > attributionn lines, which could contain dates and times, but again, > many people don't set it up that way. > > Still, I'm not convinced that I was looking at an old webpage. Uhuh. And the reason you must rely on only 2 results exactly, is? > > > > > > On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 17:48:18 -0500, mm NOPSAMmm2005(a)bigfoot.com wrote: > > > On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 15:04:39 -0600, chrisv chrisv(a)nospam.invalid wrote: > > > > mm wrote: > > > > > The SATA drive is 3 times the price of EIDE at 80gigs. It must be > > > > > good. :) > > > > > > > > SATA drives are generally no more expensive than "EIDE" drives. > > > > > > Well, I found an online ad for a refurbished SATA WD800 for 164 > > > dollars, and I think I saw an ad for a new non-SATA WD800 for about 60 > > > dollars. > > > > > > Did I get one of the prices wrong? > > > > > > (BTW that is part of what stumped me, that they use the same first 5 > > > characterss of the name for both. Mine has a suffix in small print > > > WD800JD, but I didn't think something that important (in that they're > > > not interchangeable) would be in the suffix. > > > > > > If you are inclined to email me > > > for some reason, remove NOPSAM :-) > > > If you are inclined to email me > for some reason, remove NOPSAM :-)
From: mm on 25 Nov 2006 01:38 On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 16:49:40 +0100, "Folkert Rienstra" <see_reply-to(a)myweb.nl> wrote: >"mm" <NOPSAMmm2005(a)bigfoot.com> wrote in message news:mq8am29arbko4qf0aqo36huutamda7u7a5(a)4ax.com >> On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 01:23:33 GMT, Andy <1(a)2.3> wrote: >> >> > About $44 for either: >> > <http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php/masterid=2002172/search=WD800> >> >> wow. I see 2 possibilities. That site that wants 160 dollars is >> mucho overcharging. >> >> Or, it's a webpage from years ago. I haven't knowingly found any >> sales sites like that, but once when I was looking for a particular >> hamfest, I got many hits 6 of which were the announcment page, and all >> gave a different day of the month. Only by looking at the calendar >> and seeing which of those dates was a Sunday that year was I able to >> tell which was that year's announcment. >> >> No one puts dates on webpages, except news sources on some occasions, >> and I was surprised to find out that even in the source code there is >> no date. I thought the software would put it in automatcially. >> >> And people don't include dates within the emails they write. They >> rely entirely on the dates in the headers, even though many times >> their text is copied and pasted with no headers. Often with no >> attributionn lines, which could contain dates and times, but again, >> many people don't set it up that way. >> >> Still, I'm not convinced that I was looking at an old webpage. > >Uhuh. And the reason you must rely on only 2 results exactly, is? To annoy you. > If you are inclined to email me for some reason, remove NOPSAM :-)
From: Shelly K. on 27 Nov 2006 16:43 mm wrote: > On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 01:23:33 GMT, Andy <1(a)2.3> wrote: > > >>About $44 for either: >><http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php/m > > > wow. I see 2 possibilities. That site that wants 160 dollars is > mucho overcharging. > > Or, it's a webpage from years ago. I haven't knowingly found any > sales sites like that, but once when I was looking for a particular > hamfest, I got many hits 6 of which were the announcment page, and all > gave a different day of the month. Only by looking at the calendar > and seeing which of those dates was a Sunday that year was I able to > tell which was that year's announcment. > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822144122 IDE $43.99 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822135106 SATA $43.99
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