Toshiba 320gb external hd - PC World

Loobz

160 euros.

Tasty fish.

fletch

Hhmmmm good price!

ADSLUSER

Loobz wrote:

160 euros.

Tasty fish.

Do you still have a receipt and how large is it? Can you provide the model number?

fletch

I think he's actually advertising this bargain to be had in PC World....although I could be wrong?

commited

Thats very decent - PC world in acceptable price shocker

Saruman

nice... Think i will get that...
actually PC world while overpriced a lot of the time can and does have bargains too.

ADSLUSER

Saruman wrote:

nice... Think i will get that...
actually PC world while overpriced a lot of the time can and does have bargains too.

Just checked with PC World - they said they had no such offer. The price is 319 EUR for this model. Was in PC Worlds in Airside today

kc66

319 is a bit dear. I got the lidl one (250gb) for 130 as far as I remember

forbairt

kc66 wrote:

319 is a bit dear. I got the lidl one (250gb) for 130 as far as I remember

lidl one I think is 149 ... as I was thinking about one of them ...

can the original poster please confirm where and when they saw and priced the 320gb and if they bought one ?

Creamy Goodness

error9 wrote:

lidl one I think is 149 ... as I was thinking about one of them ...

can the original poster please confirm where and when they saw and priced the 320gb and if they bought one ?

i saw it in the sunday world and the star (both oddly enough printed on saturday)

TempestSabre

PC World offers usually end up in the hands of their staff and friends and family of such. Any of the PC World offers I've seen posted here never seem to be obtainable.

Loobz

can the original poster please confirm where and when they saw and priced the 320gb and if they bought one ?

I sh!t you not my friend. I didnt get one myself. Its a 2 day special starting today, and at that price its more like a one day special.

forbairt

Loobz wrote:

I sh!t you not my friend. I didnt get one myself. Its a 2 day special starting today, and at that price its more like a one day special.

good stuff .. will head out there tomorrow I think and see about getting me one .. does anyone have a model type for it ? really does sound too good to be true

I was just curious as someone else mentioned having been out there looking for one ... and its a bit of a trip to get there for me ..

TempestSabre

Loobz wrote:

I sh!t you not my friend. I didnt get one myself. Its a 2 day special starting today, and at that price its more like a one day special.

Managers mates special, going on previous threads.

munzab

in uk its 114.99 pounds at the moment, so i think that 160 euros is the real deal...

forbairt

munzab wrote:

in uk its 114.99 pounds at the moment, so i think that 160 euros is the real deal...

on conversions before I was taking ... 1 : 1.5 ... so thats around 170~

DingChavez

hmm.... I'll go up and see tomorrow

cormie

Found this while browsing. I don't know anything about the make and how it compares to Toshiba etc but pricewise it looks ok compared??

Aquos76

I was in pcworld in waterford yesterday morning and a guy came in looking for one of these, he was told that they were all gone at that price but when he questioned as to how they could be all gone at 10.05am when they only opened, the supervisor suddenly appeared with 7 of them and I can confirm that he paid €160 for it. They were not advertising the pricedrop in store though.

I myself also had an bit of a discussion in there over there ad in the Sunday world over the weekend. They were advertising 512mb flash drives for half price down to 29.99 from 59.99 also for 2 days only. I picked up 3 of them and went to pay for them. They tried to charge me the full price for them. I explained to the girl about the ad in the paper and she proceeded to show me there in store brochere which had all the items in it that were reduced, but the memory stick has an * beside it indicitating that this offer was only available when purchased with a laptop or pc. There was no mention of this in the paper.

So off to the shop I went to purchase yesterday's Sun which also had the same ad. Back to the shop I went and threw down the ad from the paper and asked the assistant where the * was in the paper. There was none. I eventually got them for the 29.99.

Irishpimpdude

Good one leonard!! dumb idiots!

gs39t

Typical PC World. My dad bought a laptop there recently, and instore and aswell as the papers - and even staff members - said "EVERY" laptop comes with Works. Oh, except the one he bought. :rolleyes:

kc66

I was buying a wireless network card in Blanchardstown PC world recently. There was a sign up- 1/2 price sale 80 reduced to 40 (I think). Brought it to the counter and they wanted 80. Girl at the counter went to one of the guys on the floor and asked him. He took down the sign and they still wanted 80 for it. I told them they are obliged to sell it at the advertised price and they had to give in.

Creamy Goodness

kc66 wrote:

I was buying a wireless network card in Blanchardstown PC world recently. There was a sign up- 1/2 price sale 80 reduced to 40 (I think). Brought it to the counter and they wanted 80. Girl at the counter went to one of the guys on the floor and asked him. He took down the sign and they still wanted 80 for it. I told them they are obliged to sell it at the advertised price and they had to give in.

but they aren't obliged to sell it at that price, no harm in trying though

DingChavez

Well, they were no where to be seen in Liffey Valley PC world.

I found the same Toshiba one in Dixions but when I asked they said it was €320, so meh.:v:

kc66

Cremo wrote:

but they aren't obliged to sell it at that price, no harm in trying though

Are you sure? I think I remember in my business studies all those years ago something about having to sell a product at the displayed price.

alastair

kc66 wrote:

Are you sure? I think I remember in my business studies all those years ago something about having to sell a product at the displayed price.

'Fraid not. There's no obligation on the retailer to sell at any price. The advertised price (even if on a sign in the shop) is an 'invitation to treat', rather than a sales contract, so they don't have to adhere to the price, be it a mistake, or otherwise.

http://www.odca.ie/cfmdocs/c_query/ad_mislead.cfm

Creamy Goodness

yeh, it reminds me of the "deal" dell were doing online, they mistakely offered servers worth like over 1000 euros for about 200 euros. there was a huge thread here about it if i remember correctly.

kc66

You sound like you know what you are talking about

cormie

So what would be false advertising and is there any legal implementations on it?

Jammer

It scans as 320, but the teller must discount it down to the price advertised in the paper. There are some left in Blanchardstown , Carrickmines and Galway.

Just refer to the ad if they ask for €320...

Jammer

cormie wrote:

So what would be false advertising and is there any legal implementations on it?

It makes sense though. cos you could come up, take a €5.99 sticker off a thing of software, and put it on a €80 wireless card.

There are so many variations of wireless cards that prices can get mixed up. Netgear, for example, have a good few 54G cards, seperated only by model codes and the such.

alastair

The link above explains the legal position.

Even if the drive is advertised at a lower price, the shop doesn't have to sell it to you at that price. They can choose to, but there's no legal obligation. All they are required to do is point out that the pricing is in error, and let you decide if you still want to buy.

If they are knowingly advertising at a false price, then you can fall back on the Consumer Information Act to get their wrist slapped, but they still won't have to sell to you at the advertised price if they choose not to.

TempestSabre

Leonard wrote:

I was in pcworld in waterford yesterday morning and a guy came in looking for one of these, he was told that they were all gone at that price but when he questioned as to how they could be all gone at 10.05am when they only opened, the supervisor suddenly appeared with 7 of them and I can confirm that he paid €160 for it....

TempestSabre wrote:

Managers mates special, going on previous threads.

Need I say more.

bombidol

I was just in PC WORLD Blanch and there was no such offer when i went in.

gaui3d0pnbz86o

Well, they were no where to be seen in Liffey Valley PC world.

they all went on the first day before 12.

Lawnkiller

i got one - it was a head office special as far as i heard so some of the regular staff didn't know about it. had they checked it out tho, they would have known. i can confirm that it was €160 and works quite well

Jammer

bombidol wrote:

I was just in PC WORLD Blanch and there was no such offer when i went in.

Should grabbed one of the (many thousand) leaflets on the way in. It was on that.

Kristok

cormie wrote:

So what would be false advertising and is there any legal implementations on it?

It all depends how they advertise it. If its an instoor ad then afaik its all bets off they can ask for whatever price they want to at the till.

If you see an ad in the paper saying its for such a price and you go in they have to sell it for that price cause otherwise its false advertising but the only thing with that is they usually advertise it as an "offer" ie special offer 14.99 etc which is not saying they will sell it at that price but are offering to. Generally if the manager is anyway human they will sell it for the price of the offer no matter what but some wont and are fully entitled to stick to the law.

richie.c

I got a 250GB one before Christmas in PC World Blanch for 129.99, but the price wasn't advertised. The guy in the shop told me they reduced them that morning and they hadn't had time to put the special offer signs up. It wasn't Toshiba though, it was Freecom.

EIN

just picked up a toshiba 320gb drive in pc world for eur169 looks like a nice drive, good price too

coug01

just log onto www.pcworld.ie and you guessed it

Deal of the week .....................................................

TOSHIBA 320 EXT USB HARD DRIVE
€169.99

HungryJoey

Aye these are selling like hot cakes. They are selling for 169.99 for the 320GB Toshiba again lads. Well they have for the last 2 weeks now, Running low on stocks so if ya want one, Go get one soon. Blanch have a good few left in stock.

Hj

junglecliff

Ye Theres Loads In Blanch.
Got One Taday..

Fantastic Little Drive.

TempestSabre

Whats so great about this drive that you couldn't make yourself with a normal drive and enclosure? Do you even know the spec of the drive inside? 8/16 cache etc?

Doodlebug

From www.pcworld.ie :
TOSHIBA 320 EXT USB HARD DRIVE

€169.99



* Toshiba PX1223E-1G32
* 320GB 3.5" External USB Hard Drive
* 8MB Buffer Cache
* 7200rpm High Speed
* High Speed USB 2.0 Interface
* Horizontal or Vertical Placement
* Optimised for Digital Video, Pics&Music
* Fanless Design for Near Silent Operation
* Power Requirement: +5VDC (+/-5%) + 12VDC
* Start up Current (MAX AO:2.0) (12V)

daveg

Picked one up today in Galway. Told me they had 45 in store. Transferring all my MP3/DivX as I type.

TempestSabre

TempestSabre wrote:

Whats so great about this drive that you couldn't make yourself with a normal drive and enclosure? Do you even know the spec of the drive inside? 8/16 cache etc?

So the answer is nothing...

daveg

TempestSabre wrote:

So the answer is nothing...

7200rpm
Seek 8.9ms
buffer 8MB
USB 2.0
480MPS

TempestSabre

daveg wrote:

7200rpm
Seek 8.9ms
buffer 8MB
USB 2.0
480MPS

Exactly, nothing special about it at all.

Keep an eye on the temps of that drive. Any of my external drives in fanless enclosures get very hot if left on for any length of time. I've had one or two case of data corruption which I suspect were caused by it. The enclosures I have with fans run a lot cooler, (obviously).

daveg

TempestSabre wrote:

nothing special about it at all.

€169.99 for a 320GB external drive (and a good looking one too) is pretty special imo.

TempestSabre

http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.asp?sku=318906