20GB MP3 player for €120?

John R

Rio Riot for €120 (possibly inc postage from Hong Kong) here

Not in the market for one myself ATM so I haven't researched it but that seems very cheap, also selling the player for about €70 without the HDD.

blobert

This seems like a fantastic deal.

I'd be a little worried about ordering from Hong Kong though. Has anyone else ordered from these folk???

And there seems to be no warenty either...

Raskolnikov

From the FAQ

'2. How can you avoid import taxes?
There are several methods I do to avoid import taxes. Firstly, I will always mark all parcels as gifts. This is good enough for most of the countries to avoid taxes. If that doesn't work I will have to go a little farther and slip in a personal letter and make the parcel look as personal as possible. I will make up the contents of the letter. The last method I will use is by decorating the parcel with stickers and maybe a ribbon to really, really look like a present. With a packaging like this you are almost guaranteed to be 100% exempt from taxes.

I usually do not fill in the parcel value declaration, so far there has not been any problems.'

Heh.

Lenny

" Supports Global Multiple Language No"
Wondering would it be in english or not..

PowerHouseDan

Seems very like a scam site like WebElectronix as discuessed in the techo tread, looks the same site,really cheap prices and the same number of visitors in april 2004,and they dont except credit cards

cormie

They are onbiously not risking very much with their shipping method (I think a birthday card works best) If they were a big company, they wouldn't want to ruin their reputation or get caught with that kind of method but I have ordered from companies before who have marked things as gift.

elvis2002

seems like an okay website to me, looks professional enough, I think i'll buy that mp3 player without the case.

Raskolnikov

http://www.gadgets-online.com/robertriot.jpg

I asked him to prove that he actually has some of this gear. He put the above pic up on his website and yes, that is my ICQ number. This goes against my better judgement but I'm going to buy one. If you guys want to hold on for awhile, I'll let you know if this is actually genuine.

John R

No idea about the legitamacy of that guy but I did get the link from a reputable site
http://www.minidisc.org/ (frontpage on the left)

Kazu

If anyone buys anything from this site let us all know how it goes

besty

hmmm,looks like a good deal.pity i just forked out €130 for a 256mb creative rhomba.wil def consider this if its legit

Raskolnikov

I'm going to pay for one of these tomorrow, he also said that he's going to throw in a Rio Volt cd/mp3 player for $15. Postage to Ireland is $13 by the way. I suggest you guys hold on to your money for the moment, no point in all of us getting scammed!

Lenny

Originally posted by Raskolnikov
http://www.gadgets-online.com/robertriot.jpg

I asked him to prove that he actually has some of this gear. He put the above pic up on his website and yes, that is my ICQ number. This goes against my better judgement but I'm going to buy one. If you guys want to hold on for awhile, I'll let you know if this is actually genuine.

haha, madness how he did that.
so seems very reputable..
Let us know how it goes, how long did he say shipping would take?
and do they accept creditcards?

Our man in Havana

No Lenny,

No Credit cards. Money orders, Bank deposit, Paypal or western union only.

Smells like a scam!

beware

segadreamcast

No credit cards = no real comeback if scammed.

I'd advise everyone else to hold off until Deco (:)) actually receives the gear. It's great that this man has the gear - but whether the paying people actually receive it is an entirely different matter.

OfflerCrocGod

I've come across one or two HK sites like this the dudes always get their goods from the warehouses - one of the sites was very bad looking BUT he was for real - I can't find it in my bookmarks I may have deleted it. Brit living in HK.

Lenny

paypal is ok for me.. but isee what you mean
cause with a cc if you don't recieve an item you can just tell the bank you never recieved anything and you're not going to pay them and they don't pay the person..

positron

Warranty No, since this is a warehouse clearance product

???

What does that mean? A refurb?

seamus

Originally posted by positron
???

What does that mean? A refurb?

More like a discontinued line, so spare parts for it will be unavailable.

MisterAnarchy

However, our least-favorite feature is its USB connection for transferring music from the PC. While USB has become ubiquitous for both Mac and Windows users and is relatively fast, it's not a great solution for transferring large amounts of data. We did an initial transfer of 5 GB of music (one-fourth the Riot's capacity), and it took well over seven hours

From Amazon .
Would take 28 hours to fill it !!

toil

Thats because it is USB 1.1
This is what turned me off of it....iriver!

SteM

Originally posted by toil
Thats because it is USB 1.1
This is what turned me off of it....iriver!

This is the one I want........

http://www.advancedmp3players.co.uk/shop/product_info.php?products_id=72

bk

For those of you thinking of getting an iRiver, I can't recommend it enough. I've got a iHP-120 (H120), as does my sister and friend.

All of us agree that it is one of the best pieces of technology we have ever bought and is almost a life changing experience!!!

No really, it is just amazing having your entire music collection in your pocket at all times.

IMHO and after much research, the iRiver is the best DAP on the market, much better then iPod.

Altheus

Have to say, the guy looks as reputable as any trader, probably gonna buy from him something small to check it out.

daveyjoe

Originally posted by bk
IMHO and after much research, the iRiver is the best DAP on the market, much better then iPod.

As off topic as this may be, I refute your humble opinion. The iPod wins for me, just for its pure sexiness.

Back on topic: Raskolnikov have you paid for the stuff? Did you get a tracking number off him? Is the package insured? I might be up for a digital camera if all goes well.

SteM

Originally posted by daveyjoe
As off topic as this may be, I refute your humble opinion. The iPod wins for me, just for its pure sexiness.

Again OT, if your read any comparison reviews in mags most seem to rate the iRiver as being a better product than the iPod.

The iPod does look great but seems to have become popular for it's looks rather than it's performance.

seamus

My Creatuve Muvo^2 does the trick for me. Far more discreet than an iPod or iRiver. Before anyone complains about space, I have my entire collection in it, and it's only half full. I have no need for more space (yet). A 20GB iPod would be completely wasted on me.

daveyjoe

Originally posted by SteM
Again OT, if your read any comparison reviews in mags most seem to rate the iRiver as being a better product than the iPod.

The iPod does look great but seems to have become popular for it's looks rather than it's performance.

Okay this is my last off-topic post, but whats all this about performance, I want an MP3 player that is small, good looking and sounds good. Alright I'll concede that the iPod has useless earphones, but you can buy new ones. In terms of performance the hard disk access time is reportedly excellent and the iPod has an intelligent cache which means that it's not accessing the hard dive and vibrating like a mofo every 2 seconds. It does everything I need it to do, FM tuner and all that would be overkill for me. Most importantly, can you use the back of your iRiver as a mirror? I think not!

Davey Devil

Originally posted by SteM
This is the one I want........

http://www.advancedmp3players.co.uk/shop/product_info.php?products_id=72

I got it at this site for a few quid less too, http://www.mx2.co.uk/acatalog/MX2_co_uk_MP3_Players_50.html


I ordered this little beauty yesterday. I also did loads of research and not one I read said the iPod is better. What is it with everyone saying the iPod looks nicer? I think it's bland and boring, the iRiver looks much better to me. The battery kicks the hell out of the iPod too. 16 hour playback instead of the iPod's 8 hrs.

Seamus I was interested in the Muvo 2 aswell but the size of the LCD was a big drawback for me. Other than that it looks like a very good player.

SteM

Cheers Davey Devil, I was going to order one in the next week or 2 from the link I posted but yours is even cheaper.

Is shipping free to Ireland as well as the UK?

Davey Devil

Yeah it's free postage, everything seems in order. I've never bought anything of this site before now so if it goes tits up don't blame me.

From site:

Shipping And Handling
Free Post & Packing on all orders within the UK & Republic of Ireland. All other countries P&P is Charged at Cost.

Tax Charges
For the UK and the Republic of Ireland, All Prices displayed are the Prices you Pay. There are No further Duties or Taxes to Add. Some of our products have VAT included where applicable and some Items are Vat exempt.

SteM

Would you do me a favour and post back here when you get yours from them? No point in us both being stung

Davey Devil

Haha sure, got an email confirming my order, all looks good so far, only ordered yesterday.

Davey Devil

There's a poster over on the computers forum that's uded them and says he's happy with them.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=163151&perpage=20&pagenumber=2

Originally posted by Explosive_Cornflake
Yeah, i used them, was very happy. Ordered on a thursday and it arrivied on the monday(last monday)

chess

any one hear how John R got on with that buy?

BluE-WinG

Im very curious... Have you received the rio yet?

Evil Phil

I'd like to know too. I reckon half of boards is waiting with baited breath.

cormie

Welcome to the Iriver club! hehe. I have it with me every time I go to the Fitz.

By the way, after 5 months research Iriver is definitely the best player out there. Anyone who would buy somehting to listen to music on for the "look" of it, then it obviously doesn't matter about performace or anything so enjoy your style. I would consider yourself lucky that you have stumbled across a post mentioning iRiver, most people just know, and buy Ipod. iRiver is cheaper for a better thing, now thats not including the price the Ipod would cost to match to iRiver feature wise (if you were to buy fm receiver, external batter pack etc)

by the way, iRiver users, you can get a perfect external battery pack (if the 16 hours ever runs out when you don't want it to, it's happened to me once since I bought it back in feb, and I use it every day. EVERY DAY) in Maplin Electronics for about €4. Product is L33AK. It says 6v which is too much but it's actually not because if you put 4x 1.2 volt batteries in it, then it is only giving out 4.8volts (power is 5v on plug). But you can find 1.25v batteries to get the perfect 5v.

Anyway, get iRiver IHP-140. It's the best of its kind. No doubt. Ipod is purely for fasion and as with all "branded items" ipod is a rip off. It would be like buying a pair of CK socks compared to St. Bernard, sure, they may look better especially with CK on them (some people huh?) but nobody is ever going to see them anyway, and they are gonna cost you so much more and probably not be as good as a pair of socks you can get in dunnes.

Ring Harvey Norman in Swords for latest price.

besty

as good as the iriver looks the whole appeal of this thread was the €120 bit

cormie

hehe, kinda went ot there alright, the RIO deal seems cool. Please let us know how it works out for ya!

daveyjoe

Yeah sorry about the off-topicness.
€120 is indeed a great deal for a 20gb player.

Kazu

I'd like to know too. I reckon half of boards is waiting with baited breath. This thread was about the 20gb mp3 player

please will some mod sort this thread out and delete any non 20gb mp3 player info

SLIM19198

Rio Riot 20GB MP3 player with built in FM Tuner***

Products marked with *** dont exist in desired quantity in our stock.
You can buy them anyway and check the quantity we have in stock for immediate deliver in the checkout process.

No more left?

neonitrix

Hi Guys,

I have been using my Rio Riot for the past year or so since buying 2 of them on amazon.co.uk for £99 Sterling each, I am very happy with them and it is well worth the price.

Only drawback is that Rio dont make this product anymore and are no longer working on future firmware updates the last update that was released was version 1.25 which fixed bugs like a battery drain problem. But the player still has a few other quirks and only being about to transfer files via usb isnt the nicest due to speed limitations but you can live with them.

Sound Quality is considered to be better than the ipod and having owned an ipod in the past I would agree with this.

Here are some usefull links info updates etc I have collected over the past year

Rio Riot Instruction Manual

Reviews:

http://gear.ign.com/articles/356/356405p1.html?fromint=1
http://www.web-user.co.uk/products/prod_rev.php?rid=548&cid=211
http://reviews.cnet.com/Sonicblue_Rio_Riot/4505-6496_7-8530672-2.html

Rio Riot Support:

http://www.digitalnetworksna.com/support/rio/product.asp?prodID=2

Rio Related Forums:

http://www.riovolution.com/
http://www.rioworld.org/

Windows Media Player Thingy:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/plus/dme/PortableDevices.asp have a read about the thing called powertoys at bottom of page.

File Transfer Software:

I personally have been using a rio package called Rio Music Manager to transfer mp3's to my riot.

Rio Music Manager version 2.0

There are higher versions of this program I think upto ver 3 or 4 I think but this version works just fine. It isnt designed by rio to support the Riot and they dont claim anywhere on there site that it will work, but it does work fine.

There are other file transfer packages that will work with the Riot but I have tested them and am happy with Rio Music Manager.

Here are some of the other programs:
Sveta Portable Audio
Red Chair Software

Hope the above helps


Neonitrix

chess

again..anyone hear from John R???

Kazu

looks like our Guinny pig got scammed poor bastard

chess

well bugger that!
looked to damnd good to be true!

Some great stuff on that site!

oh well, looks like its back to the back o trucks for my purchases!

Davey Devil

Originally posted by SteM
Would you do me a favour and post back here when you get yours from them? No point in us both being stung

Got it on Thursday after ordering on Monday, no problems all is good - no hidden charges - one happy customer.

daveyjoe

Originally posted by Davey Devil
Got it on Thursday after ordering on Monday, no problems all is good - no hidden charges - one happy customer.

good, good, glad you didn't get scammed.

Davey Devil

That was for my iRiver not this €120 deal, just so you understand.

Lenny

But you ordered the iRiver off that site though, ye?