From: Folkert Rienstra on
"mm" <NOPSAMmm2005(a)bigfoot.com> wrote in message news:mq8am29arbko4qf0aqo36huutamda7u7a5(a)4ax.com
> On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 01:23:33 GMT, Andy <1(a)2.3> wrote:
>
> > About $44 for either:
> > <http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php/masterid=2002172/search=WD800>
>
> wow. I see 2 possibilities. That site that wants 160 dollars is
> mucho overcharging.
>
> Or, it's a webpage from years ago. I haven't knowingly found any
> sales sites like that, but once when I was looking for a particular
> hamfest, I got many hits 6 of which were the announcment page, and all
> gave a different day of the month. Only by looking at the calendar
> and seeing which of those dates was a Sunday that year was I able to
> tell which was that year's announcment.
>
> No one puts dates on webpages, except news sources on some occasions,
> and I was surprised to find out that even in the source code there is
> no date. I thought the software would put it in automatcially.
>
> And people don't include dates within the emails they write. They
> rely entirely on the dates in the headers, even though many times
> their text is copied and pasted with no headers. Often with no
> attributionn lines, which could contain dates and times, but again,
> many people don't set it up that way.
>
> Still, I'm not convinced that I was looking at an old webpage.

Uhuh. And the reason you must rely on only 2 results exactly, is?

>
>
> >
> > On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 17:48:18 -0500, mm NOPSAMmm2005(a)bigfoot.com wrote:
> > > On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 15:04:39 -0600, chrisv chrisv(a)nospam.invalid wrote:
> > > > mm wrote:
> > > > > The SATA drive is 3 times the price of EIDE at 80gigs. It must be
> > > > > good. :)
> > > >
> > > > SATA drives are generally no more expensive than "EIDE" drives.
> > >
> > > Well, I found an online ad for a refurbished SATA WD800 for 164
> > > dollars, and I think I saw an ad for a new non-SATA WD800 for about 60
> > > dollars.
> > >
> > > Did I get one of the prices wrong?
> > >
> > > (BTW that is part of what stumped me, that they use the same first 5
> > > characterss of the name for both. Mine has a suffix in small print
> > > WD800JD, but I didn't think something that important (in that they're
> > > not interchangeable) would be in the suffix.
> > >
> > > If you are inclined to email me
> > > for some reason, remove NOPSAM :-)
>
>
> If you are inclined to email me
> for some reason, remove NOPSAM :-)
From: mm on
On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 16:49:40 +0100, "Folkert Rienstra"
<see_reply-to(a)myweb.nl> wrote:

>"mm" <NOPSAMmm2005(a)bigfoot.com> wrote in message news:mq8am29arbko4qf0aqo36huutamda7u7a5(a)4ax.com
>> On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 01:23:33 GMT, Andy <1(a)2.3> wrote:
>>
>> > About $44 for either:
>> > <http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php/masterid=2002172/search=WD800>
>>
>> wow. I see 2 possibilities. That site that wants 160 dollars is
>> mucho overcharging.
>>
>> Or, it's a webpage from years ago. I haven't knowingly found any
>> sales sites like that, but once when I was looking for a particular
>> hamfest, I got many hits 6 of which were the announcment page, and all
>> gave a different day of the month. Only by looking at the calendar
>> and seeing which of those dates was a Sunday that year was I able to
>> tell which was that year's announcment.
>>
>> No one puts dates on webpages, except news sources on some occasions,
>> and I was surprised to find out that even in the source code there is
>> no date. I thought the software would put it in automatcially.
>>
>> And people don't include dates within the emails they write. They
>> rely entirely on the dates in the headers, even though many times
>> their text is copied and pasted with no headers. Often with no
>> attributionn lines, which could contain dates and times, but again,
>> many people don't set it up that way.
>>
>> Still, I'm not convinced that I was looking at an old webpage.
>
>Uhuh. And the reason you must rely on only 2 results exactly, is?

To annoy you.
>

If you are inclined to email me
for some reason, remove NOPSAM :-)
From: Shelly K. on
mm wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 01:23:33 GMT, Andy <1(a)2.3> wrote:
>
>
>>About $44 for either:
>><http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php/m
>
>
> wow. I see 2 possibilities. That site that wants 160 dollars is
> mucho overcharging.
>
> Or, it's a webpage from years ago. I haven't knowingly found any
> sales sites like that, but once when I was looking for a particular
> hamfest, I got many hits 6 of which were the announcment page, and all
> gave a different day of the month. Only by looking at the calendar
> and seeing which of those dates was a Sunday that year was I able to
> tell which was that year's announcment.
>




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