Argosy 320GB Divx Harddrive - €182.45 delivered

peckerhead

From iBood, for the next 23 hours, or until stocks run out. Looks very much like the European version of the MeDrive, which means it should display DivX subtitles.

If you like that kind of thing. :cool:

MisterAnarchy

Looks gr8 ,could do with one of them ,pity I just bought a new internal 320gb the other day.

godtabh

Just ordered one.

My Existing external Hard drive is full of mainly videos and what not so this will come in handy

panman

peckerhead wrote:

From iBood, for the next 23 hours, or until stocks run out. Looks very much like the European version of the MeDrive, which means it should display DivX subtitles.

If you like that kind of thing. :cool:

Do you think this would be Mac compatible? The ibood site doesn't mention it but the link the the MeDrive does say its compatible. They're the same hard drive just rebranded arent they?

Raiser

Just ordered one of these - as did 6 of the lads here in work

- Thanks for letting us know OP

P.S. How are Ibood for shipping - wondering when it will arrive now.........[?]

godtabh

Raiser wrote:

Just ordered one of these - as did 6 of the lads here in work

- Thanks for letting us know OP

P.S. How are Ibood for shipping - wondering when it will arrive now.........[?]

Search boards. There is a few threads on them. Seem ok

deadl0ck

Good deal - thanks OP !!

godtabh

has any one got an email yet?

I have an order reference but no email

BendiBus

The credit card page appears to be insecure!

There's no lock symbol on the bottom right of my browser.

thefinalstage

BendiBus wrote:

The credit card page appears to be insecure!

There's no lock symbol on the bottom right of my browser.

Does the url on the page say https?

SickBoy

thelastangryman wrote:

Does the url on the page say https?

Yes

BendiBus

OK, I've just ordered one. I hope that WAS a secure transaction. Haven't got a confirmation email

This seems to be the exact same as an ATMT badged drive that I tried to buy in Maplins on Saturday, except they were selling it for about €290! Fortunately they were sold out at the time

kaizersoze

This isn't one of their exploding hard drives is?:D
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=52419047&postcount=10

the corpo

got one for the tv in the bedroom

don't yet have a tv in the bedroom of course, not that it matters

BendiBus

I've finally managed to log in to my ibood account.

There is no order on file! I have a confirmation number and they got my CC details!

This is not a good start. :mad:

godtabh

BendiBus wrote:

I've finally managed to log in to my ibood account.

There is no order on file! I have a confirmation number and they got my CC details!

This is not a good start. :mad:

At least you could log on to your account

godtabh

My credit card has been charged.

Dunno if thats a good sign!

Beelzebub

I can't log on to my account...

BendiBus

I've mailed customerservice@ibood.com

Let's see what happens. Ideally I'd like not to miss this offer as I actually wanted this product and was prepared to pay €100 more for it in Maplins yesterday.

godtabh

BendiBus wrote:

I've mailed customerservice@ibood.com

Let's see what happens. Ideally I'd like not to miss this offer as I actually wanted this product and was prepared to pay €100 more for it in Maplins yesterday.

I emailed them at 9 this morning and still awaiting a reply

getoffthepot

got one too - any idea how long it takes for delivery

cosgrove80

Would be perfect if it could play files from a USB memory key.

Am I right in assuming it won't?

chump

WHat exact compatability will this have, would I be better off buying a regular ext HD and playing items through my laptop for comprehensive codec support?

amby666

chump wrote:

WHat exact compatability will this have, would I be better off buying a regular ext HD and playing items through my laptop for comprehensive codec support?

Full spec and manual:

http://www.argosy.com.tw/product-detial.php?prod_id=80


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beanhead

peckerhead wrote:

From iBood, for the next 23 hours, or until stocks run out. Looks very much like the European version of the MeDrive, which means it should display DivX subtitles.

If you like that kind of thing. :cool:

FOR THE LAZY TYPES!

1. Does HV355 support subtitle files for DIVX?
A: Yes, HV355 supports SRT, PSB, SMI, ASS, SSA, SUB 2.0 (text) and IDX/SUB (picture).
To support IDX/SUB picture subtitle file, both IDX and SUB files need to be present.

This device supports DIVX version 3/4/5 and XVID version 3/4/5
2. DivX or XivD file in the format of Q-PEL, GMC is not supported by this device.

5. Does HV355 support Divx DRM (Digital Rights Management)?
A: Yes. HV355 does support Divx DRM.

9. Does HV355 support WMV and WMA format files?
A: HV355 does not support WMV and WMA format files. You will need to transfer them to other file formats supported by HV355.

godtabh

cosgrove80 wrote:

Would be perfect if it could play files from a USB memory key.

Am I right in assuming it won't?

If you copy whats on the USB stick to the HD it will.

But why would you want something like this if you want to play it from a memory stick?

cosgrove80

kearnsr wrote:

If you copy whats on the USB stick to the HD it will.

But why would you want something like this if you want to play it from a memory stick?

It's just if I have the drive plugged in and connected to the TV in a different room, it would be easier to just put a file on the stick. Then I could just slot that in to the HD rather than unhooking the drive and hooking it up to the PC again.

godtabh

cosgrove80 wrote:

It's just if I have the drive plugged in and connected to the TV in a different room, it would be easier to just put a file on the stick. Then I could just slot that in to the HD rather than unhooking the drive and hooking it up to the PC again.

Oh right yeah. I thought youw anted to hook the USB key to the tv

Basq

Ordered this but did a bit "arse-ways" (to put it mildly)..

Ordered it via an international bank transfer as opposed to credit card (don't ask me why!) last night about 1am. They sent me an e-mail with order details and a order number. Then afterwards, i regretted ordering it and sent them an e-mail cancelling it.

And then, the indecisive fecker that i am had a change of heart and sent the money this morning (using that same order number from the one i cancelled, but they never got back to me and the product is still down as 'in progress'). So i hope my order is put through.

Also, the way the e-mail address was formatted with bank details was a bit confusing so i'm not positive i got the Reciever's Name & Address correct but i definitely got the SWIFT code and IBAN right so i hope this is enough (anyone put my mind at ease?)

PS - the USB key thing would suit me too as my 4GB key could store my latest stuff i've just acquired from the PC, and then just plug it in when ready to watch in the other room.

Basq

Oh... and today's offer just put up:

Cutlery - Sola set of containing 90 pieces - €59.95

(think i'll skip it!)

irelandjoe

Any one get one of these working out at about €185 delievered
http://cgi.ebay.ie/External-Portable-320GB-Media-Centre-Hard-Drive_W0QQitemZ300071272581QQihZ020QQcategoryZ16178QQtcZphotoQQcmdZViewItem

Xaniaj

basquille wrote:

Also, the way the e-mail address was formatted with bank details was a bit confusing so i'm not positive i got the Reciever's Name & Address correct but i definitely got the SWIFT code and IBAN right so i hope this is enough (anyone put my mind at ease?)

Assuming you have the correct SWIFT and IBAN, there shouldn't be a problem (there might be an issue if the Beneficiary Name is different than that linked to the account...) Should be grand though!

deadl0ck

So did anybody actually get their confirmation email or any reply from customer services ???

amby666

irelandjoe wrote:

Any one get one of these working out at about €185 delievered
http://cgi.ebay.ie/External-Portable-320GB-Media-Centre-Hard-Drive_W0QQitemZ300071272581QQihZ020QQcategoryZ16178QQtcZphotoQQcmdZViewItem

It's the Sumvision that I was looking at on SVP http://svp.co.uk/products-solo.php?pid=1627

I've bought from Envisage before and they were fine. It's a few quid cheaper to buy direct from their own site http://www.envizage.com/ instead of ebay.
A few quid cheaper again to buy drive and case from SVP.

Couple of reviews on the SVP site.

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Basq

MuiriosaB wrote:

Assuming you have the correct SWIFT and IBAN, there shouldn't be a problem (there might be an issue if the Beneficiary Name is different than that linked to the account...) Should be grand though!

Cheers for that... let's hope there's no problem!

Regarding customer service, e-mailed the orders@ibood.com e-mail address 3 - 4 times yesterday and customerservice@ibood.com twice. Nothing off them since.. but apparently their customer service isn't the best.

PS - good looking flashy site but misspelled 'amount' as 'ammount' in the 'View Orders' section, and their e-mail address formatting is terrible.

loyatemu

amby666 wrote:

It's the Sumvision that I was looking at on SVP http://svp.co.uk/products-solo.php?pid=1627

I've bought from Envisage before and they were fine. It's a few quid cheaper to buy direct from their own site http://www.envizage.com/ instead of ebay.
A few quid cheaper again to buy drive and case from SVP.

Couple of reviews on the SVP site.

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also available from Maplin
http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=97124&&source=14&doy=19m1

price works out the same - about €75 delivered (without a disk)

godtabh

Just emailed orders@ibood.com and got this

This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification

Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:

orders@ibood.com

Technical details of permanent failure:
PERM_FAILURE: SMTP Error (state 9): 550 Recipient unknown/invalid

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Original message

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Received: by 10.70.69.11 with SMTP id r11mr3461935wxa.1169197736264;
Fri, 19 Jan 2007 01:08:56 -0800 (PST)
Received: by 10.70.61.14 with HTTP; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 01:08:56 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <xxxxxxxxxx@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 09:08:56 +0000
From: "Kearnsr" <xxxxxxxxxx@gmail.com>
To: orders@ibood.com
Subject: Order Number 62640
Cc: customerservice@ibood.com
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="----=_Part_130092_15717593.1169197736236"

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Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline

As of yet I haven't received my order confirmation but my credit card has
been charged.

Can you send me on the order confirmation asap?

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I've seven days to cancel the order so I'll give them 5

Beelzebub

I may go for the MeDrive (Thanks for that information, peckerhead)
It says that it has a Scart socket! Got good friends in the States so I can get them to get that for me. Hopefully all I'll need is a new powercord.

deadl0ck

I've just e-mailed cust services too.
When I log in there is no record of my order - the money hasn't been taken from my credit card yet, but if it is I'll be contesting it, unless they get me an order confirmation and details. :mad:

Basq

Got a reply back from customer services saying:

Dear Mr. XXX,

We don't have received your payment yet. But when we received your money, we
will send you your order as soon as possible.

Kind regards,
Customer Support
iBOOD.com

Poorer English than i'd have hoped.. but just hoping they recieve my payment with what i think is the incorrect Receiver Name and / or Receiver Address but correct IBAN / SWIFT. Otherwise, i'm pretty much out €182!

The even more unsettling thing is that it's status is complete in my International Payment Log..

godtabh

Apparently they take the money straight away.

The are a Dutch based company so they may not have perfect English.

I'd love any email once is said I had got it

zod

anyone hear of this dodgy crowd called "pixmania" ??

http://www.pixmania.com/ie/uk/410883/art/memup/media-disk-3-5-320-gb-ext.html#

Beelzebub

Well spotted Zod!!!

I have indeed heard and have experience of this 'dodgy crowd' but I have placed my order and am hoping for the best.

irelandjoe

amby666 wrote:

It's the Sumvision that I was looking at on SVP http://svp.co.uk/products-solo.php?pid=1627

I've bought from Envisage before and they were fine. It's a few quid cheaper to buy direct from their own site http://www.envizage.com/ instead of ebay.
A few quid cheaper again to buy drive and case from SVP.

Couple of reviews on the SVP site.

.

I bought the 400GB from envizage coming in at about €201 delivered

Beelzebub

irelandjoe wrote:

I bought the 400GB from envizage coming in at about €201 delivered

You have me doing a rethink now!

The mem card reader and the external controls are nice extra features to have.

I wouldn't be a big fan of Maxtor drives, so I may opt for just getting one of the enclosures and the drive separately from SVP when they get them in stock again.

zod

off topic slightly .. but looking for one of these http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055043990

godtabh

Dear Mr. Kearnsr,



I can confirm that your order has been received correctly and I shall try to send you the official confirmation as soon as possible.

We expect your order to arrive at the end of this week.





Kind regards,



Customer Service iBOOD.com

Just got this reply. So maybe its on the way

Basq

I recieved this (from klantenservice@ibood.com) on Friday:

Dear Mr. Basquille,

We don't have received your payment yet. But when we received your money, we will send you your order as soon as possible.

Kind regards,
Customer Support
iBOOD.com

I e-mailed back as i was unsure if i got the reciever's name and address correct in the bank transfer so i asked them to confirm. Got this first thing this morning (from klantenservice@ibood.com):

Dear Mr. Basquille,

Thank you for informing us this way. The details are correct, so we don't
see any problems.

When we receive the amount, we will sent you the product as soon as
possible.

Met vriendelijke groeten,
Klantenservice iBOOD.com

But got this around lunch-time - from a different e-mail domain (klantenservice@ikwilgratisbellen.nl)

Dear Mr. Basquille,

We cancelled your order this morning, but I've been able to change the
status back to 'in progress'. We will check if the payment was received correctly and then ship it as soon as possible.

I expect the order to arrive at the end of this week.

Kind regards,

Customer service iBOOD.com

Am extremely confused! Just hope it arrives and they're not messing me about. Rang AIB Internet Banking on Friday who were very helpful in explaining that if they say they didn't recieve it, they can run a trace and ensured me that i'm well covered.

EDIT: Just sent this back to them:

Dear Sir / Madam,

I've had 2 e-mails from customer service (klantenservice@ibood.com) before i even recieved yours saying they're waiting on payment before they'll ship it with no mention of cancellation so it seems odd that it was cancelled in the first place.

Am hoping you have a better CRM system than this.

Would appreciate if you could let me know when you recieve payment and / or when it's shipped. If i hear no word from you before tomorrow afternoon, i'm gonna get it touch with my bank who'll presumably get in touch with your bank as my transfer was instantaneous and waiting 3 business days on a simple confirmation is definitely reason to take action.

Regards,

XX

BendiBus

kearnsr wrote:

Just got this reply. So maybe its on the way

I got much the same this morning.

Dear Mr. Bus

The order confirmation wasn't sent correctly. We are investigating how this could have happened.
However your order was placed and received correctly, so we expect your order to arrive at the end of this week.

Our apologies for the inconvenience.

Kind regards,

Customer service iBOOD.com

Basq

After i sent the e-mail above... got this back soon after:

Dear Mr. Basquille,

Our apologies for the purhaps somewhat confusing e-mail. If you have made
the payment instantaneous I'm sure we will be able to find it tomorrow and
ship it immediately.
That way your order will arrive at the end of the week.

I'll get back to you tomorrow to keep you informed on your order.

Kind regards,

Customer Service iBOOD.com

Love the spelling of "perhaps"! Fastest response to a customer service e-mail EVER!

godtabh

ibood has the best customer service ever!