Ordered an external h/d from Tesco on Sunday evening. ?3 delivery charge. To be delivered 3-5 days. A bloke in a white van delivered it this morning. Not bad is that.
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Feb 21, 2017
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their hdd prices are a bit steep.
NT
relative to neverhearofthem from China perhaps
but not relative to anyone I would trust to deliver something as critical as a hard disk
tim
I tend to get computer stuff from uk outlets on amazon nowadays. I've found reliability to be fine, but am not doing it on a commercial scale. Tesco a re very uncompetitive on hdds.
NT
How steep is steep?
Internals? - for some reason they are more expensive than externals, not checked elsewhere so I have no idea if that's normal
Externals, best price at Tesco for 1TB 52.00, best other price I could find - 48.00, both with shipping to be added - but for Tesco I always click and collect at my local store
tim
Pretty much exactly my experience.
Currys and Tescos were only marginally worse than online, a difference absorbed by shipping costs.
It looks like they are cost competitive with internals too.
Argos is also worth a look. Currently at £52.99 for 1TB. Delivery (often same day) for £3.95.
I got a 3TB from Argos for £89.99. Click and collected within 30 minutes.
always assuming your closest Argos is less than 30 minutes away
tim
Is it any good though? Brian
I live in a city. My nearest hospital is 10 minutes drive (and I have walked there in an hour) away. We have 2 convenience stores a minutes walk away, and a doctor/dentist/pharmacy 3 minutes walk away. We're on a bus route that's 25 minutes into town, and I have 3 Argos within 3 miles.
(That's if I need to go anywhere - we're within a same-day-delivery zone for Amazon.
I've never understood why people are willing to pay considerably more for a house, to avoid the above ?
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