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Does this deal/dealer look fishy? us-depot.com

Maetryx

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Maetryx here, 😎

I'm shopping for my Christmas present (our household tradition as it is for a lot of geeks, I assume) and I'm looking hard at a Plextor PX-708A 8x DVD-R/W drive. It's featured in Maximum PC "Gear of the Year" issue this month. Anyway, I did a quick search on Pricewatch and one of the cheapest deals is here:
http://us-depot.com/pldvrwdvdreb.html.
But it is a weird looking page. Scroll to the bottom and there are about 10 optional items that are selected yes by default.

But what is making me buy-shy is that the "optional" items look like the contents of a retail drive. Like cables, software etc. Now the item is described as the retail product, but with all those options I wonder if they're stripping the retail unit bare and making you buy back the nomally included accessories.

Let me know what you think of that site. Thanks.
 
Yeah, I just checked http://www.resellerratings.com/ for us-depot.com and it doesn't look very reassuring. People were rating it "very disappointing" just last month with horror stories about receiving OEM or even USED products when ordering retail. Not tempting.
 
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