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$258 for 7mm 256GB Corsair SSD w/ 5 Year Warranty

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$258 for 7mm 256GB Corsair SSD w/ 5 Year Warranty
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LSteveOh on 10/05/2013 - 13:13 bttech.com.au (108 clicks)

Note that this is the 7mm thick SSD that fits into thinner notebooks. I got it for my Thinkpad X220 which, like many newer/thinner notebooks, will not fit a 9.5mm SSD.

I asked them if they would match $259 (the lowest price I could find on shopbot) and they beat it by a dollar :-) I always ask them because I've bought products from them before with good results such as my ReadyNAS Duo and WD 3TB reds.

Although they do charge shipping and credit card fees on request they will send you a quote with their BSB for deposit.

I work in Melbourne and they are always happy to let me pick up thereby avoiding shipping charges. However, they don't keep stock at their small CBD office so they'll let you know by e-mail that they've brought the item from their warehouse to their office and it's ready for pick up.

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  • netbies on 10/05/2013 - 13:15

    Wasn't $239 for Sandisk 840 Pro a better deal? Though it may have expired.

    It is now $245
    http://www.shoppingexpress.com.au/buy/samsung-ssd-pro-840-se…

    • Letrico on 10/05/2013 - 13:33

      *Samsung

      • netbies on 10/05/2013 - 13:56

        oops… ;-)

  • SteveOh on 10/05/2013 - 13:23

    Do you mean Samsung? (Samsung 840 Pro)

    Sandisk is good but a few people had issues with Sandisk's controllers.

    I personally wanted a Corsair from their top quality product line because I read good reviews (both user and paid/expert media) about them but YMMV. I guess I'm saying that it's a different product and this is the best deal I've seen for the Corsair product.

  • SteveOh on 10/05/2013 - 13:30
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    I bought from shoppingexpress once (trading as Topbuy). They sold me a Nokia E7-00 which turned out to be gray market goods with chinese characters on the keyboard and no Nokia warranty. I had to fight with my credit card company for months to get a refund.

    • ZRXS12 on 10/05/2013 - 13:35

      Shopping Express trading as Top Buy?
      Are you sure?

      • mily on 10/05/2013 - 13:44
        +2

        Two stores with totally different reputation (to me).

    • ShoppingExpress on 10/05/2013 - 14:03
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      Hi SteveOh,

      ShoppingExpress has never traded as Topbuy or have any association with Topbuy. We also do not sell Grey Market Goods - all our products are Genuine Australia Product with Manufacturer Warranty.
      Perhaps you remember wrongly?

      Kind Regards
      Shopping Express
      www.shoppingexpress.com.au

      • SteveOh on 10/05/2013 - 14:47
        +1

        Yikes, I'm really sorry about that. I was thinking of Dutyfreecentral which also trades as Topbuy (and also as Target media Australia Pty Ltd not to be confused with the bricks and mortar Target chain)and goodness knows who else. They are the ones I had trouble with.

        shoppingexpress is definitely different from these guys, I've never had any trouble with shoppingexpress and AFAIK shoppingexpress is a great company.

        • ShoppingExpress on 10/05/2013 - 15:10

          Hi SteveOh,

          It's all cool here :).

          Kind Regards
          Shopping Express

    • [Deactivated] on 10/05/2013 - 14:04

      .

    • meroveus on 10/05/2013 - 14:11

      You're in the wrong thread, dude. ;)

      • [Deactivated] on 10/05/2013 - 14:17

        @meroveus Well, SteveOh did post the bargain to begin with, so I do think it's his thread. ;)

  • CH on 10/05/2013 - 13:54
    +1

    Have you heard of Staticice? $254~$260 is the pickup price at a bunch of stores.

    • meroveus on 10/05/2013 - 14:29

      Yep. Totally not a deal. Even pccasegear prices the neutrons in that price range.
      They need to offer free shipping to stand out from the rest.

  • shungyiu on 10/05/2013 - 16:58

    Just want to remind fellow ozbargainers to read a vendor's terms carefully before buying.

    A few years back in late 2009, I purchased 2 x Corsair P128 from Blacktea Tech, the performance of both SSDs was way below what Corsair claimed, even slower than my WD 7200 rpm drives, they did past the 7 days return period for around a week, I paid my price for not opening and testing them immediately upon receiving the SSDs, Blacktea Tech of course stated the return period is over and said that another condition for return is the item to be unopened and resell-able. Now although this seems a bit nonsense for the customers because the only way to test it is to open it, but I am fine with that, because after all I learned a lesson for being slack not to look at the terms and conditions.

    So in the end I spent a lot of time getting RMA from Corsair and paid very expensive shipping for shipping the faulty SSDs to Corsair in Taiwan.

    A few months ago I purchased 4 x 3TB WD Green Drives from Megabuy, again I have not opened them until I needed to use them, and then incredibly 3 out of 4 drives failed over a very short period of time, maybe a few days between each other. It was also past the DOA return period, but Megabuy was very kind to simply send me replacements within a week, assuring me they have enough in stock, they really gave me a peace of mind that there will be good after sales service.

    I also had experience with GoComp, I bought a hard drive from them and it was DOA, sent back within the return period, but instead of a straight replacement they sent it to the manufacturer for warranty for 2 months and shipped it back to me without charging the shipping only after I complained, when they wanted me to pay the shipping as well.

    The above are my 2 cents, hope it helps.

  • SteveOh on 28/05/2013 - 13:10
    +1

    You're correct. bttech Blacktea Tech has really lousy terms/return policies. I only buy from them when it's something where I'm sure there's no way I'd want to return it other than for warranty service. For example, I would never purchase something like a laptop where I might want to return it just because I wasn't happy with the screen brightness or something.

    Did they refuse to take it back even if it was defective (not just because you weren't 'satisfied'?) If so that is really, really dodgy and probably illegal because goods must be fit for purpose.

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