[DEAD] (up to) 25% off WD and Sandisk products @ Amazon

[VirtualLarry]

https://www.amazon.com/deal/181260d5/

I hope that link resolves.

Amazon's deal of the day has (up to?) 25% off WD and Sandisk products.

They have a Sandisk 2TB SSD Plus for 159.99.

https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-SSD-PLUS-Internal-SDSSDA-2T00-G26/dp/B07YFFJK2Q

 

[UsandThem]

They also are matching other retailer's price on the Sandisk Ultra 3D Nand 2 TB version for $183.99, which comes with a 5 year warranty (and higher performance) than the Plus version linked above: https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Ultra-NAND-Internal-SDSSDH3-4T00-G25/dp/B071KGS72Q?r

Some like the longer warranties, some want the lowest price. So choose your poison.

 

[SamirD]

I wonder how many people will end up getting fake drives from amazon--they've been pretty bad about this lately whenever you read up on the deal threads...

 

[UsandThem]

I wonder how many people will end up getting fake drives from amazon--they've been pretty bad about this lately whenever you read up on the deal threads...

If people buy them from Amazon, it shouldn't be an issue. It's when people buy the drives from 3rd party retailers (fulfilled by Amazon or shipped by the seller) when I think the issues begins.

I've always bought my drives directly from Amazon, Newegg, Best Buy, Walmart, etc. for 20+ years online, and I've never had a counterfeit (or grey market) drive.

 

[SamirD]

If people buy them from Amazon, it shouldn't be an issue. It's when people buy the drives from 3rd party retailers (fulfilled by Amazon or shipped by the seller) when I think the issues begins.

I've always bought my drives directly from Amazon, Newegg, Best Buy, Walmart, etc. for 20+ years online, and I've never had a counterfeit (or grey market) drive.

That used to be the case until they start comingling inventory. Almost any sdcard deal thread you read about how half of them got fakes even via amazon.

So far newegg hasn't followed suit, yet. But I see them doing it next.

Best Buy would be stupid to allow 3rd party sellers on their site as one of their strengths is that the products you buy will 100% be genuine.

Walmart has their marketplace but I don't think it's as developed as newegg or amazon, and they have their core customers trust they don't want to betray since most of their business is traditional retail.

And it was the absence of traditional retail that started this problem. Because online sellers were skirting sales tax laws for decades, driving competing retailers out of business and dominating the market, they got bold to doing even more shady tactics. This should never have happened--the federal government whose duty it was to regulate interstate commerce should have recognized that the quill ruling on mail order no longer applied since state had even implemented use tax laws--clearly the states wanted their tax money. And since it is the federal government's job to 'regulate interstate commerce' (from my 12th grade civics class), they should have implemented computer-based systems that made this easy to implement for online retailers. So many more traditional retailers would have been able to compete and still be around--circuit city, compusa, et al.

And having more local places to buy goods would have kept fake imports and sales at bay since a local customer getting a fake is coming right back to yell in your face--mail order allows companies to skirt responsibility. Very much like how the recent 'video everything' has allowed people of all sorts to skip school, skirt laws, and generally have no repercussions for doing wrong.