Around $70 Shipped for Sony 64MB Memory Stick... Hot or Not?

[daid]

I haven't priced these, but I need one now. Does this sond like a good price?

Staples - $139.99
Computers4Sure - $89.99
PM Staples - $25 coupon + $5.50 Shipping = roughly $70 + Tax

Hot or not?

 

[Harrald]

*EDIT*
I stand (sit) corrected. Never mind the rest of this post.





It seems that there is a 128 for around the same price.

posted not that long ago.



Linky to thread

 

[DocYahoo]

Not a good price. You can get a stick of PC133 128Meg RAM from Kingston at Outpost.com for $69.99 with FREE shipping and No Tax for most states.

And with a $20 MIR from Kingston, it makes a PC133 128 Mrg RAM from kingston for ONLY $49.99 ....

 

[kingalien8]

I think this is a good deal. I bought 2 64MB sticks during the holidays and used the Amazon $50 coupon and they came out to about $75 each.

 

[deras]

I think some of you are confused this is a sony memory stick for sticking in sony cameras, camcorders, and mp3 players... looks like a fat blue stick of gum....

 

[jAcKeL]

i can safely say i was definately confused... sorry i don't know anything about the 'fat blue stick of gum' type memory sticks from sony...

 

[allen]

The memory "sticks" are Sony's answer to CompactFlash and SmartMedia cards; they're using it in all of their cameras, mp3 players, their palm pilot equivalent... I think that's a pretty good price.


Now I wonder if you could really have a Palm Pilot with 72MB.....

 

[DugnDog]

I'd grab it. Best price I've seen.

I posted a similar deal a few days ago but this beats mine.

This price is even better than Lexar Media brand (at least based on the techbargain low price scan I just did)

You can make this even better if you just bought a Sony Cyber-shot DCC-S30, S50 or S70 and you can qualify for the $50 combined purchase rebate. (look up your camera on the Sony web-site to see the "promo" rebate)

 

[immortalis]

I wonder if they introduce the 128MB verison at CES?
But to me this stick seems like Betamax.
CF is much faster/cheaper etc.

 

[MYKnyte]

Some of you folks are a little confused.

SMARTMEDIA 64MB cards are used for Digital Cameras and MP3 Players such as the NOMAD II that was a hot deal on this board last year.
Any other memory -aside from a Compact Flash card or the SONY Stick- are for your pc's.

Another deal matching this is at your B&M FRY's Electronics.
64MB Smartmedia cards are selling there for $70 bucks..
Do a search on shopper.com for 64mb smart media cards and the best price on the net is over $100.

Ciao

 

[Mysterie]

Actually compact flash and sony sticks are also in MP3 players, digital cameras, etc. Most Windows CEs use Compact flash (the iPaq uses the newer MMC card similar to smartmedia but better protected and smaller and the Sony Clie uses the stick). I think digital camera-wise it's split between smartmedia and compact flash. Only sony cameras use the stick. Some higher end sony laptops even use the stick (like the ones with no floppy or CD-rom, kinda silly no?). MP3 players use the smartmedia and compactflash but a few of the new ones are using the Clik!s which is more cost effective (about $10 or less for a 40MB clik! disk).

Costs now equate to about $1 per mb. And even better with the Microdrive (itty bity harddrive, using the CFII size, a bit larger than regular compact flash) and it's storage up to 1GB it can be less than a $1 per mb.

 

[AndrewR]

Ok, to further remove the confusion, the Sony Memory Stick is a flashable memory module very similar to CompactFlash and SmartMedia. It is used for all recent Sony portable devices such as digital camcorders (still picture storage, I guess), digital cameras, MP3 players, handhelds/PDAs (the Clie), and whatever else they have made. There's an even an adapter for older Sony Mavicas which allows the memory sticks to be used in the floppy drives that those cameras use.

Neat technology, I think. I prefer CompactFlash to SmartMedia and have only had limited exposure to the Memory Stick, but it's rather nice.

I just wish they'd standardize already.

 

[dealferret]

I dunno, kind of weird to have a memory stick that only 1 company uses 8^P hehe

 

[bcoombs]

I have recently bought a Sony camcorder which uses the memory stick. Yes, the memory stick stores still photos, only, and frees up the tape for Digital8 recording. As for being like betamax, that's what they said about the 8mm format in general when the handicams appeared on the market. Just because a format is an oddball, doesn't mean it's not better, like 8mm, beta, etc. Sony has put out some very good products/formats in the past, many superior to the competition. Some (betamax) have died out, as the public has accepted an inferior product (VHS). Oh well. That just shows you how most consumers are followers, and buy things because everyone else is buying them (VHS, Furby, Beenie Babies, etc.). But this certainly does not apply to the people on this board...

 

[TonDef]

I don't believe any manufacturers other than Sony even support the MemoryStick in their products. Only reason I'd personally ever buy one is if I absolutely had to have it for digital stills in a Sony camcorder. Otherwise, I'd avoid Sony's MemoryStick products like the plague.

 

[Term2]

I think it is a hot deal. What is PM Staples ? Where can I buy this at 70+ USD ?

 

[TuOni]

COLD!

 

[daid]

Brilliant post TuOni, but can you back up why this is a cold deal, since your input is appreciated, as long as it is helpful! Thanks!

 

[DongTran]

How do you go about pricematching that? The 64mb memory stick on computers4sure.com for $89.99 is the Lexar brand one. Sony brand 64mb is 103.99. Staples doesn't sell the Lexar memory stick.

 

[DugnDog]

Not quite as good a deal but Onvia has the Sony 64mb for 94.99.

 

[daid]

Computers4sure had the Sony stick for $89.99, but now it's $103.99... Not as hot.