1TB Western Digital WD Elements SE USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive $60 + Free Shipping

how can you tell how many are left?

I think this is the one you can not take the drive out and put inside laptop as main drive. Just FYI

CA TAX sucks!

Quote from calistyle : And this will probably get Frontpaged, and the TigerDirect deal won't.

Quote from fcmem : I seriously doubt it will last long enough to get to FP. it says limited quantity and they've already sold over 100 in the middle of the night. how many could they have? on the other hand they set the limit to 5 per customer so.. maybe they got a whole semi trailer full of them or something. Either way I feel really sour having gotten in on the TD deal just hours ago. same price in the end but I gotta deal with the rebate no way to cancel until 8am est, i'll either be asleep, they'll have shipped (or said they shipped) or newegg will be sold out by then.

And they ignored the other deal that's been going on for two days and Frontpaged this one as predicted.

Sorry you got caught in between the two, but it is Sunday, so hopefully you can reverse that one if you call early on. Good luck!

The good: $59.99, pretty good reviews online.

The "eh. . .": 1 yr warranty, Micro-USB connector soldered onto board inside the drive (i.e., not native SATA connector inside).

Quote from calistyle : And this will probably get Frontpaged, and the TigerDirect deal won't.

In all fairness I personally think that the lack of a rebate does make this a much slicker deal than the $60 Tiger Direct deals that have been floating around here for the last week or so.

Rebates suck, especially rebates that equate to half of the products price (post rebate). I've personally had really good luck with rebates, but it generally takes me about half an hour of my time to process and log my rebates......it's just a huge pain in the ass. For the record, I'm currently waiting on two separate $30 rebates from Tiger on these drives, fortunately I lucked out and got mine for $50 each (after rebate).

Quote from jse7en : dammit. bought the $65 toshiba one from buy.com a couple days ago. would've rather had this! knew i should've waited!

Toshiba makes the best externals in my experience. I paid $65 after tax for one about 1 month ago for one from Wal-mart. Couldn't be happier. In fact, almost all portable externals I have kept for myself in the last 2 or 3 years have been Toshiba. Still, I am so freaking tempted by this deal. I always am by HD and SSD deals even though I have plenty on hand for customer builds already and have 18 in use in my computers.

Quote from jaydubya : The "eh. . .": 1 yr warranty, Micro-USB connector soldered onto board inside the drive (i.e., not native SATA connector inside).

Exactly. That's my biggest concern with these drives, it'll really make it hard to recover your data when the usb adapter fails.

Quote from coltrane69 : In all fairness I personally think that the lack of a rebate does make this a much slicker deal than the $60 Tiger Direct deals that have been floating around here for the last week or so. Rebates suck, especially rebates that equate to half of the products price (post rebate). I've personally had really good luck with rebates, but it generally takes me about half an hour of my time to process and log my rebates......it's just a huge pain in the ass. For the record, I'm currently waiting on two separate $30 rebates from Tiger on these drives, fortunately I lucked out and got mine for $50 each (after rebate).

I completely agree that the lack of a rebate makes this slicker. But I still think the pre-existing deal was slick too. And both of the previous Frontpage deals had a rebate. So now that this deal is here, yeah, it's slicker. But that doesn't really explain why the other one was ignored for two days. That's all.

Can anyone explain the business theory behind companies, such as, in this case, Newegg, using Ebay to sell stuff?

In situations where there's no hiding who the real seller is, why aren't they just selling via their regular website? Logically (to me, at least), they wouldn't do this unless there was a good reason. I only wonder if the reason isn't to hide something. Is this secretly a refurb? Or is this a "special" model that's inferior somehow?

Long story short, what's the deal?

More people shop at eBay than Newegg. It's all about market penetration.

Quote from goboilers : Can anyone explain the business theory behind companies, such as, in this case, Newegg, using Ebay to sell stuff? In situations where there's no hiding who the real seller is, why aren't they just selling via their regular website? Logically (to me, at least), they wouldn't do this unless there was a good reason. I only wonder if the reason isn't to hide something. Is this secretly a refurb? Or is this a "special" model that's inferior somehow? Long story short, what's the deal?

I would have jumped on this. But I got the $40 Seagates at Target.

Quote from jjdpw : I would have jumped on this. But I got the $40 Seagates at Target.

They were 750GB, right?

Quote from goboilers : Can anyone explain the business theory behind companies, such as, in this case, Newegg, using Ebay to sell stuff? In situations where there's no hiding who the real seller is, why aren't they just selling via their regular website? Logically (to me, at least), they wouldn't do this unless there was a good reason. I only wonder if the reason isn't to hide something. Is this secretly a refurb? Or is this a "special" model that's inferior somehow? Long story short, what's the deal?

It's a promotion by eBay. Basically eBay pays Newegg to sell through eBay. Newegg also in theory gets new customers.

Quote from satanslover : They were 750GB, right?

Yes, the 750GB Expansion just before Thanksgiving