The perils of living in Hawaii

[adrian]

I wanted a 128mb thumb drive, and I only have $20 in my debit card. I proceeded to complete the order, but then I got hit with a massive shipping/handling:

http://photobucket.com/albums/v457/hithreads/th_adriorder.jpg (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v457/hithreads/adriorder.jpg)

:doh: :doh: At least we have good weather 340 days a year. (there was some showers that caused flooding here, but atleast we have boats).

[craigwatanabe]

I share your pain Adrian, I too today went online to NewEgg.com to purchase a PCI Fax/Modem card for $5.65. After shipping and handline (FedEx 2nd day only to Hawaii) the total came out to just over $25.00.

When you buy from New Egg you should combine purchases as the "handling" portion goes down significantly. Some of their deals are really good though. I just purchased from them yesterday a Pentium 4 2.4Ghz socket 478 processor, soyo motherboard combo for $110. That's cheaper than the processor itself! Along with that 512mb of Roswill DDR3300 182-pin memory modules (2) for $20 after rebates, a Mitsumi 52x CD-RW/DVD combo drive for $38, Maxtor 80gb ATA/133 7200rpm hard drive for $55 and 256mb of DDR3300 ram for my boy's Dell Laptop computer for $36.

For comparison I tried buying everything separately then again as one order. The difference in "Handling" charges amounted to a savings of over $80 when combining your order. I just forgot to order the fax/modem card so I'm waiting to combine another order for another build.

But one good thing about NewEgg.com is I should be expecting the order to arrive at my doorstep Monday morning when FedEx arrives as they have done so on Friday afternoon orders.

I know I need the modem card so I'll probably eat the handling charge but I'm so tempted to get that 15" CTX LCD flat panel display for $195 (no rebates) they've been advertising as their daily special that's been going on for the last three days.


http://img82.exs.cx/img82/3075/n9w2410316706.jpg
http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproductdesc.asp?description=24-103-167&DEPA=1

to combine orders and lower my overall shipping and handling costs.

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[adrian]

<snip> 512mb of Roswill DDR3300 </snip>
Don't you mean 3200 RAM?
(sorry, I had to do that.)

[craigwatanabe]

Nope it's actually DDR333 which is PC2700.

After posting that thread I ended up buying a higher priced 17" LCD monitor for $257.40, no rebates plus a cheap 56k ver 92 fax modem card for $5.67. The total with shipping and handling came out to $300.05

http://img106.exs.cx/img106/5656/j1g2419800110.jpg
NU QL-711V 17" LCD Monitor with Speakers -RETAIL

Model# QL-711V
Item # N82E16824198001

Specifications:
Panel Type: TFT Active Matrix LCD
Native Resolution: 1280 x 1024
Pixel Pitch: 0.264 mm
Brightness: 320 cd/m2
Contrast Ratio: 500:1
Response Time: 16 ms
View Angle: 160° / 135° (Horizontal / Vertical)
Input Connectors: 15-pin D-sub
Features: Built-in 2 x 1W Speakers
Dimensions & Weight: 15.7" × 15.9" × 7.5" (W x H x D), 9.0 lbs




Isn't a 3200 RAM a Dodge pickup truck?

[adrian]

Nope it's actually DDR333 which is PC2700.
<snip>

Oh. The extra digits threw me off.

Isn't a 3200 RAM a Dodge pickup truck?
I have no idea.