WD 1TB Caviar Black

[hondaf17]

Use your 10% ebay coupon that arrived today (also expires today) and 30% Microsoft CashBack to purchase the Western Digital 1TB Caviar Black edition for about $88 final price from buy.com's ebay store. I just got one - CashBack yet to show up in my account but I'm confident I will. Comparably you can get the Seagate 7200.11 1TB for $85 shipped from TigerDirect using CashBack, but this seems hotter since it's a substantially better drives and goes for about $120 on Newegg.





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[leglez]

How do we go about getting this 10% coupon?

 

[hondaf17]

Originally posted by: leglez
How do we go about getting this 10% coupon?

It should've been sent to your MyMessage Inbox in Ebay...not sure that it went to all members though.

 

[randomlinh]

Originally posted by: hondaf17

Originally posted by: leglez
How do we go about getting this 10% coupon?

It should've been sent to your MyMessage Inbox in Ebay...not sure that it went to all members though.

it doesn't go to everyone. I've never seen on unfortuantely

 

[Gibson486]

I think its the saem code as the one that ended yesterday....

I saw it today, but it says 10% instead of 15%, and it says ends Nov. 30...but the email says ends Dec 1. I am guessing that it is a cut and paste error on their part.

 

[Adam8281]

I don't get those coupon messages - I wonder how active a user you have to be to get them?

 

[sgrinavi]

Originally posted by: Adam8281
I don't get those coupon messages - I wonder how active a user you have to be to get them?

I've spent $32,000 on ebay in the last month and no coupons... go figure.

 

[hondaf17]

Even without the coupon it'd be $98 just using Live CashBack. Still a solid deal compared to $120 at Newegg.

 

[Fallengod]

Originally posted by: sgrinavi

Originally posted by: Adam8281
I don't get those coupon messages - I wonder how active a user you have to be to get them?

I've spent $32,000 on ebay in the last month and no coupons... go figure.

The fack?

 

[Phew]

Since when does Buy.com's eBay store work with Live cashback? Every time I've tried it, I get the 'this seller uses an outside checkout system so no cashback" message.

 

[sgrinavi]

Originally posted by: Fallengod

Originally posted by: sgrinavi

Originally posted by: Adam8281
I don't get those coupon messages - I wonder how active a user you have to be to get them?

I've spent $32,000 on ebay in the last month and no coupons... go figure.

The fack?

And nuttin but the facks

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: Phew
Since when does Buy.com's eBay store work with Live cashback? Every time I've tried it, I get the 'this seller uses an outside checkout system so no cashback" message.

Buy.com is supposed to work as long as you pay through PayPal. Unfortunately, I tried this today and it didn't work. There are reports over in the CAG thread about it not working either.

 

[Basilisk]

Originally posted by: Queasy

Originally posted by: Phew
Since when does Buy.com's eBay store work with Live cashback? Every time I've tried it, I get the 'this seller uses an outside checkout system so no cashback" message.

Buy.com is supposed to work as long as you pay through PayPal. Unfortunately, I tried this today and it didn't work. There are reports over in the CAG thread about it not working either.

I think it worked until a couple of months ago -- 'fairly certain I saw the CashBack percent on the penultimate page before confirming around 1 October. About a week later, I decided to complete an order and it was gone: henceforth, that "no cashback" msg always warned me off.


Sadness... I depleted my 12th CB this weekend.

 

[Blain]

Originally posted by: hondaf17

Link to Ebay

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[Kwint Sommer]

Originally posted by: Adam8281
I don't get those coupon messages - I wonder how active a user you have to be to get them?

I've probably spent $10k on there including ~$1500 in the last month and I've never gotten a coupon.

A friend who's bought too low value things and nothing else got one. Guess who used his account.

 

[Jpark]

I would go for the seagate 1.5tb external from buy.com's ebay store for $128 after live's 20%. Of course two days ago you could have gotten it for less than $100.

 

[imported_Lothar]

Originally posted by: Adam8281
I don't get those coupon messages - I wonder how active a user you have to be to get them?

Let me tell you my story.

I registered for a half.com account (but didn't finish) in 2002 because I wanted to buy some "used" textbooks on the cheap.
I never came back or ordered anything.

I wanted to register for an eBay account for the first time ever to get Live cashback on a GPS.
It says I can't take that name. I thought WTF??? I'm the only person that uses that name, that can't be possible!!!
I did an account recovery(I also had to re-activate my old hotmail address to get the recovery information as well), and finished registering the old 2002 account and saw a 15% coupon in the account email that was apparently sent on November 20.
I wonder how there was a coupon sent on Nov. 20, but yet it was on Nov. 28th that I finished registering my account and added paypal.

I don't know how active one has to be but as you can see, I wasn't active at all.
Last week's purchase on eBay was the 1st purchase I ever did, period. I never purchased anything on half.com either.

Also, I don't know where people are getting the 10% off coupon from. Mine was "15% off (up to $100)".

Does eBay automatically delete old unopened emails? Because I didn't see any old emails/expired coupons from 2002-October 2008 in the account email.
Maybe this was just a one time thing? Luck of the draw? Was I a lotto winner?

 

[t3ch]

Originally posted by: Jpark
I would go for the seagate 1.5tb external from buy.com's ebay store for $128 after live's 20%. Of course two days ago you could have gotten it for less than $100.

From everything I've read, those drives pose a HIGH risk for failure, not to mention heat, noise, and performance issues. I'll take a smaller, better drive for the same amount.

 

[Old Hippie]

Luck of the draw?

Yep.

If there were any qualifications/criteria, Ebay's not telling and I can't see a pattern.

I've gotten two 10% coupons and I'm not a heavy user....@ 200 purchases since July '98.

 

[imported_browsing]

What about the hard drives themselves, reliable?

 

[Lurker1]

wrong drive - these are supposed to be reliable.

 

[California Roll]

Regarding the Ebay coupons, if I were them, I'd be sending them to the people who don't purchase a lot as opposed to people who spend thousands of dollars a month there.

 

[hondaf17]

Originally posted by: California Roll
Regarding the Ebay coupons, if I were them, I'd be sending them to the people who don't purchase a lot as opposed to people who spend thousands of dollars a month there.

That's my situation - I've got a couple the last couple months and I've only bought or sold 15 items in my 5-6 years of being an ebay member.

EDIT: And yes, for those wondering, I can confirm that cashback with buy.com through Ebay worked fine - my $40+ is in my account and pending!

 

[imported_Lothar]

Originally posted by: Old Hippie

Luck of the draw?

Yep.

If there were any qualifications/criteria, Ebay's not telling and I can't see a pattern.

I've gotten two 10% coupons and I'm not a heavy user....@ 200 purchases since July '98.

200 purchases? Wow. :Q
I consider that to be a heavy user.

 

[Blain]

Originally posted by: Blain

Originally posted by: hondaf17

Link to Ebay

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