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Staples Maxtor 80Gig 8mb Cache "Quiet" $80, no Rebate

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Come on guys, stop complaining, this is an excellent deal if you do it in the store 🙂 There are many printable, legitimate 30 of 150 coupons, and you get it for $90 after taxes and rebates for the TaxCut and Money. My MS Money rebate came in two weeks! You can probably sell those (if you don't need them) for another $15-$20, so you're getting a 8MB cache drive with fluid bearings for like $70!

And by the way, this drive comes with a 3-yr warranty, says so right on the box!
 
best buy will pm
better deal was to buy them at BB last week at 129 plus 40 MIR
then PM today get back 22 bucks a drive..
makes drive about 70 bucks
 
1 yrs warranty because they know their drive is not going to last more then a year due to heavy uses...also this forces you to buy a new one so they can make $$$ and not have to service you for free... most of us are really cheap, we wouldn't spend a another dime if something works for a long long time.
anyway i dont mind this is actually good thing, if they sell more harddrive this way their prices will come down alot... i'm constantly buying new harddrive anyway, let not be so cheap and spend some money on newer hd, so they can use it to further their research and keep making bigger hd. making what you have now obsolete in no time.
at one time i spend all my money on harddrive and i have no regret, this certainly helped them alot...but if everyone would at least upgrade every 6 month... this would not be neccessary.

Originally posted by: Tazan007
Another bad thing I don't like about the new maxtor, ibm, and seagate drives is the crappy 1 year warranty. How sad is that ? I for one don't like the idea of my harddrive dieing on me every 18 months or so. I am either going to get a western digital drive from newegg that still have the 3 year warranties or a samsung drive with 3 year warranty.
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Originally posted by: RobCur
1 yrs warranty because they know their drive is not going to last more then a year due to heavy uses...also this forces you to buy a new one so they can make $$$ and not have to service you for free
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come on i that were true everyone would stop buying from them and they would go out of business. personally i have had the least trouble with maxtor drives.
 
This is still around, I just got the following last night:

MAXTOR® 80GB 7200 RPM INTERNAL HARD DRIVE #499949 - $109.98
SANDISK 128MB MEMORY CARDS #463438 - $49.94 (-$10 MIR)
PNY 256MB SDRAM PC133 MEMORY #457395 - $34.94 (-$15 MIR)
Filler Items up to $200

Take the floating $50 off $200 coupon, then the MIRs, it ends up being: $194.86-$50-$10-$15=$119.86, free shipping for order over $50. Not too shabby if you ask me. I just called in the order so I could avoid the whole non-stackable coupon fiasco (so that may make this YMMV)
 
Originally posted by: RobCur
1 yrs warranty because they know their drive is not going to last more then a year due to heavy uses...also this forces you to buy a new one so they can make $$$ and not have to service you for free... most of us are really cheap, we wouldn't spend a another dime if something works for a long long time.
anyway i dont mind this is actually good thing, if they sell more harddrive this way their prices will come down alot... i'm constantly buying new harddrive anyway, let not be so cheap and spend some money on newer hd, so they can use it to further their research and keep making bigger hd. making what you have now obsolete in no time.
at one time i spend all my money on harddrive and i have no regret, this certainly helped them alot...but if everyone would at least upgrade every 6 month... this would not be neccessary.

Originally posted by: Tazan007
Another bad thing I don't like about the new maxtor, ibm, and seagate drives is the crappy 1 year warranty. How sad is that ? I for one don't like the idea of my harddrive dieing on me every 18 months or so. I am either going to get a western digital drive from newegg that still have the 3 year warranties or a samsung drive with 3 year warranty.
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What are you donkeys talking about???

These are the DiamondMax 9+ Ultra series...they have 3 year warranties. I have 2 x 120GB Ultras and 1 x 80GB Ultra and they are ALL 3 YEAR WARRANTIES . I've never had a Maxtor drive die on me, but have had an IBM lose it (my bro lost 3 "DeathStars").

Chiz
 
you are kidding right? can you printscreen for us?

Anyway, the coupon works now, but I can't get another coupon to combine with it.
 
the $30 instant rebate code is listed on the description.
I don't think there is any working $20 off coupon to go with it though...
109+ tax is not that bad, but certainly not hot.
I think it's better to just go B&M and hope they will take the $20 off coupon.
Check Fatsomething for coupon.
 
I've been at it longer than 20 mins and now my eyes are crossed. The enter text on my keypad button has worn off too!

Any deal on keyboards? 😉

Ugh...congrats on the $100 if you really did it...lotta work m'friend. Keepin' on keepin at it...99599....99598....99597....zzzz
 
Originally posted by: chizow
Originally posted by: RobCur
1 yrs warranty because they know their drive is not going to last more then a year due to heavy uses...also this forces you to buy a new one so they can make $$$ and not have to service you for free... most of us are really cheap, we wouldn't spend a another dime if something works for a long long time.
anyway i dont mind this is actually good thing, if they sell more harddrive this way their prices will come down alot... i'm constantly buying new harddrive anyway, let not be so cheap and spend some money on newer hd, so they can use it to further their research and keep making bigger hd. making what you have now obsolete in no time.
at one time i spend all my money on harddrive and i have no regret, this certainly helped them alot...but if everyone would at least upgrade every 6 month... this would not be neccessary.

Originally posted by: Tazan007
Another bad thing I don't like about the new maxtor, ibm, and seagate drives is the crappy 1 year warranty. How sad is that ? I for one don't like the idea of my harddrive dieing on me every 18 months or so. I am either going to get a western digital drive from newegg that still have the 3 year warranties or a samsung drive with 3 year warranty.
Click to expand...
Click to expand...

What are you donkeys talking about???

These are the DiamondMax 9+ Ultra series...they have 3 year warranties. I have 2 x 120GB Ultras and 1 x 80GB Ultra and they are ALL 3 YEAR WARRANTIES . I've never had a Maxtor drive die on me, but have had an IBM lose it (my bro lost 3 "DeathStars").

Chiz
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Maxtor Ultra series does come with 3 years warranty. I just bought 1 last week and the warranty status from the Maxtor website show it's in warranty until Feb 2006
 
Man, I spent 4 hours typing coupon codes, but now I'm getting a $150.00 credit and 3 free 80GB Maxtor drives. Sweet!

So let's figure this out: 1 x $150.00 plus 3 x $109.99 = $479.97, which comes to $119.99 per hour. Beat that, sucka!
 
Originally posted by: lobadobadingdong
I got board so I just put the hard drive in the cart and started counting down from 99999 until I got a code that worked. The first one that worked turned out to be the 100 off 100 rebate(took about 20min of counting down). God was definatly smiling, after tax it came to $48.43 🙂, confirmation e-mail said I'll get it sometime Wed. How do you beat an 80GB hard drive(w/8MB cache for that matter) for <$50? funny thing was the code on thier web site never did work, could be an even better deal for those that it worked with. because I fooled around with some of the other codes and it's stackable w/ the $50 off 200 code too, as long as your total was $300 or better, I coulda got $300 worth of stuff for $150.

I figured if they're online codes where 5 digits or 16 digits I'd just see which ones worked though the whole 100,000 possible combinations of the 5 digit codes. needless to say, your fingers get tired pretty quick. There where a bunch that were expired that I passed though before hitting the "jackpot".😎
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Soon as I get back home from school, I will try this....and if i do find it, I will umm...spread the savings. Darnit, see what you've done...now everyone's gonna try this!

 
Please PM me the codes. I've tried 99600+ and didn't come up with anything except for a 30 of 150.
 
Maxtor drives come with acoustic management enabled. Disable them for increased performance. You can se the Maxtor AMSET utility or even better the IBM utility. IBM's will work on maxtor drives and even on those attached to other IDE controllers like the highpoint.
 
Guys,

I think we have been had!

I have gone UP from 99600 to currently 99928 and have found NOTHING!!

Unless there were some SPECIAL conditions for the 100 off 100 then we are all wasting our time.

If someone wants to prove this wrong then PM me the code and I will try it, together with any special conditions. Otherwise, if it too good to be true....."

Speedy
 
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