Update: 2/29... NEC drives are now being widely reported, as well as the Lite-On and BTC oem's. $10 drop in OTD price this week at OM but same AR price. Staples also has PD's on sale and can be PM'd to OM but AR pricing a bit higher.
Update: While YMMV hopefully... Saturday afternoon I was allowed into my closest local OM's lockup room to examine the 15 PD 8x's they had, and ALL were BTC's based on the SN beginning with a letter "P".
OK... While purchasing one of the Minolta PagePro printers earlier in the week, I asked the OM mgr about whether they might have any of the Pacific Digital 8x DVD burners in stock as I've had a raincheck for one since mid January - waiting for a chance for a Lite-On.
He tell me that he's got a pallet load of them out back and they go on sale Sunday at what he said was going to be a much better price than last time they sold them. I mentioned I had a raincheck but he insisted that these PD 8x's had new software and thus a new UPC. I had him bring out a box so I could examine for any differences.
Guess what? Was he right?
Same box, same model, same upc, same, same, same. BUT I noted that it appeared to be one of the BTC oem's.
Anyway he said he had over 200 of them on hand, so it looks like it might be raining PD 8x's this coming weekend in SoCal if not nationwide at your local OM.
So start looking to see if there's an even better PM offering that posted and quoted from IRC5 last month
oh... and leave one for me. I called the mgr back today, but he wouldn't give the price details, only said he'd hold one for me. But I didn't want him to become aware of the BTC/PD oem differences, so I said thanks anyways since 200 won't go that fast.
...russ
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Ok guys,, just got back from Staples and i picked up yet another PD (Liteon of course) and i showed the manager the sales receipt from OM, verified that it was the same item, and w/o any problems, sold me the 8x burner.. here is the breakdown on the whole transaction:
PD INTERNAL 8X DVD
644405302019 154.94
110% Price Guarantee $79.99 -$82.45
Reason 01
Form Proof 03
Subtotal $72.48
standard tax 8.25% $ 5.98
TOTAL $78.47
REBATE OFFER NUMBER 03-70328
$25.00 REBATE ON PACIFIC DIGITAL (SKU 556595)
FINAL PRICE AFTER M.I.R $53.47 with 8.25% local Tax ( No tax = $47.49)
Yet another good way to save an additional $30.00 compared from OM
Jan post 1 by ICR5
Jan post 2
Also see concurrent MysticMan's thread on this deal
Update: Corrected link to Icr5's January thread. He also host's a link to the "black" Lite-On with photos, albeit it now takes a bit of looking around to find access to them.
...russ
Update: While YMMV hopefully... Saturday afternoon I was allowed into my closest local OM's lockup room to examine the 15 PD 8x's they had, and ALL were BTC's based on the SN beginning with a letter "P".
OK... While purchasing one of the Minolta PagePro printers earlier in the week, I asked the OM mgr about whether they might have any of the Pacific Digital 8x DVD burners in stock as I've had a raincheck for one since mid January - waiting for a chance for a Lite-On.
He tell me that he's got a pallet load of them out back and they go on sale Sunday at what he said was going to be a much better price than last time they sold them. I mentioned I had a raincheck but he insisted that these PD 8x's had new software and thus a new UPC. I had him bring out a box so I could examine for any differences.
Guess what? Was he right?
Same box, same model, same upc, same, same, same. BUT I noted that it appeared to be one of the BTC oem's.
Anyway he said he had over 200 of them on hand, so it looks like it might be raining PD 8x's this coming weekend in SoCal if not nationwide at your local OM.
So start looking to see if there's an even better PM offering that posted and quoted from IRC5 last month
oh... and leave one for me. I called the mgr back today, but he wouldn't give the price details, only said he'd hold one for me. But I didn't want him to become aware of the BTC/PD oem differences, so I said thanks anyways since 200 won't go that fast.
...russ
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Ok guys,, just got back from Staples and i picked up yet another PD (Liteon of course) and i showed the manager the sales receipt from OM, verified that it was the same item, and w/o any problems, sold me the 8x burner.. here is the breakdown on the whole transaction:
PD INTERNAL 8X DVD
644405302019 154.94
110% Price Guarantee $79.99 -$82.45
Reason 01
Form Proof 03
Subtotal $72.48
standard tax 8.25% $ 5.98
TOTAL $78.47
REBATE OFFER NUMBER 03-70328
$25.00 REBATE ON PACIFIC DIGITAL (SKU 556595)
FINAL PRICE AFTER M.I.R $53.47 with 8.25% local Tax ( No tax = $47.49)
Yet another good way to save an additional $30.00 compared from OM
Jan post 1 by ICR5
Jan post 2
Also see concurrent MysticMan's thread on this deal
Update: Corrected link to Icr5's January thread. He also host's a link to the "black" Lite-On with photos, albeit it now takes a bit of looking around to find access to them.
...russ