Newegg deals on some OCZ SSDs (like 480gb=2x240gb for $110AR)

[Roland00Address]

I do not recommend OCZ drives due to their past unreliability, these may be good ones (Toshiba now owns OCZ) and unrelated to the past OCZ misdeeds.
These drives have a 3 year warranty which Toshiba will continue.
See link below for table of which drives Toshiba will support vs calling legacy.


Now while I personally would not recommend OCZ for this price it is a good deal and thus I am posting it for the brave and the bold. Effectively 25 cents per GB is a very good deal if you can handle things like rebates and credit card cash back.

There are numerous various deals so I am going to post the slickdeals frontpage thread for example motherboard rebate deals instead of pdf software.

Here is the main frontpage deal
1) Click Here and sync your Amex card to your Twitter account
2) Add the American Express $25 Statement Credit offer to your card via Twitter by tweeting #AmexNewegg
Note, be sure that you receive an "@ reply" message from @AmexSync stating that this offer has been added to your synced Card.
For more information, refer to this terms and condition page

3) Click Here and add 2x 240GB OCZ ARC 100 2.5" SATA III Solid State Drives to cart
4) Click Here and add Nuance PDF Create 8.0 to cart
5) Apply $25 off promo code VCOJAN25
6) Checkout with Visa Checkout


Final Result
Total should be
$239.98
- $25 off Visa Checkout
- 2x $20 OCZ rebates
- $40 Nuance Rebate
- $25 American Express Statement Credit via Twitter
= $109.98 After Rebates assuming everything goes right.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Mother of god...

 

[Roland00Address]

Anandtech review of these drives

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8407/ocz-arc-100-240gb-review

Mother of god...

Just make sure to back up

But just imagine how much faster your steam games will be for $110 or so after rebate.

 

[SunnyD]

Pardon my ignorance here, but how exactly are you getting an Amex statement credit with Visa Checkout?

 

[Roland00Address]

Pardon my ignorance here, but how exactly are you getting an Amex statement credit with Visa Checkout?

Visa Checkout has nothing to do with Visa credit cards or debit cards. Because of this you can stack them.

Some Background:

With Visa Checkout instead of Newegg storing your online information (or whatever store) Visa is storing your online information, which then gives Newegg Select Information like where to mail the box. Visa Checkout is storing your credit card regardless if its a discover, american express, or a visa. In return Visa gets paid a fee, but also takes over the liability instead of the merchant. It also speeds up purchasing speed on the user part which has been tied to large sales volumes by internet resellers (fill 3 pages of information and you may decide to see if amazon has it for cheaper instead of an impulse buy).

Visa wants this to happen regardless of which credit card you use for they make money by expanding their markets.

This is kinda like what Apple is doing with Apple Pay. With Apple Pay, Apple gets a fee for being the middle man. They confirm it is you, but they never give your credit card number to walgreens, instead walgreens gives apple the bill, and apple gives the bill to whoever you tie with apple pay such as the credit card companies.

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Yes the name implies you are going to use a visa card, but that is because they use the same name visa and most people are not familiar with anything visa does besides credit and debit cards.

 

[DesiPower]

Mother of god...

+1

I used Amex + Visa to get Samsung 850 Evo 500gb for $185, that's an awesome deal imo. I know its way more expensive than yours but reliably performance and bragging rights will make up for it

 

[DesiPower]

Pardon my ignorance here, but how exactly are you getting an Amex statement credit with Visa Checkout?

You have to go to twitter and tweet their deal keyword, then they tweet back their acknowledgement, after that you use the card and... $$. Its pretty awesome actually, I have Costco AMEX card and do it all the time. I do not use twitter otherwise, this is the only thing I use it for. Its like a mail-in-rebate though, take a long time to get the statement credit.

 

[SunnyD]

Visa Checkout has nothing to do with Visa credit cards or debit cards. Because of this you can stack them.
*snip*

huh. I swear last time I logged into Visa Checkout it told me I could only put in Visa cards. Learn something new every day.

 

[gibster]

OP, thanks on the heads up on all the deals that can be added - tried to do something similar with a pair of 250GB Samsung EVO 850 - unfortunately the Visa Checkout deal just expired. But, with the AE/Twitter deal and a $15 off each drive (EMCAKNV22), I scored 2 x 250GB Samsung EVO 850 for $270 - $30 - $25 = $215 (as well as 1% off with Ebates). Not too shabby, $0.43/GB, not as good pricewise as the OD, but not bad for 850s.

 

[Samus]

ARC100 drives are very reliable in my experience. I have about a dozen out in the field. So far I haven't had a single barefoot drive fail. It's a good controller, and since its introduction, virtually all of the drives have high quality Toshiba NAND.