Western Digital to offer hard drive discounts.

[twisted5]

Western Digital now offers an upgrade discount on hard drives. Take a look here.

[FarFarAway]

Nice thats a great offer

[dave87]

Great until you realise that dabs or the like are still probably cheaper - as it is discounted off the retail price, not the prices of online stores. Oh, and the warrenty on the drive whos serial code you used is now null & void. Nice.....

....also, on a completely unrelated note, I don't own any western digital drives so cant take part in the offer. damn.

EDIT - sorry if the above sounds moany, it just seems that manufacturers are offering these great sounding schemes, that on the face of it are great news for us, when if you then look into them the offers crumble into something thats worth very little.

[Ham]

IMO what it looks like is theyre trying to cut out the middle man and persaude people to buy nothing more than WDs.

[Raven]

hhmm wonder if it works if a old caviar 850mb

[twisted5]

Originally Posted by name='Raven'

hhmm wonder if it works if a old caviar 850mb

That would rock. I have a whole bunch of old WD hard drives laying around the house that I wouldn't even think of running anymore.

[Raven]

lol my old wd should still work, im a bit of a collector and tend to keep things aslong as they work.

[twisted5]

You don't have to get rid of the drive, it just voids the warranty on that drive. So as it looks I think they still have to be within their warranty period.

[NickS]

Originally Posted by name='Ham'

IMO what it looks like is theyre trying to cut out the middle man and persaude people to buy nothing more than WDs.

That's a bad thing why? That's how it works, Ham.

Nick

[twisted5]

Originally Posted by NickS

That's a bad thing why? That's how it works, Ham.

Nick

That is a really good thing. It cuts down on prices alot more than you would think