Kingston Pro Elite - 4GB card - $99.95

[24Peter]

For anyone shopping for a 4GB card. I use the 2GB version and they're quite good.
http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=10396032&adid=17070&dcaid=17070

[cdifoto]

And to think just last summer I paid $215 for mine! :eek:

EDIT: Says currently unavailable :(

[KurtB]

I just checked, and it is in stock.

$120 price - $20 rebate = $100 Great deal.

Free shipping as well (if you can wait a week or 2 for it to arrive).

[cdifoto]

I just checked, and it is in stock.

$120 price - $20 rebate = $100 Great deal.

Free shipping as well (if you can wait a week or 2 for it to arrive).

Buy.com is fast. You're thinking of Dell. lol.

[Rhys]

Hmm. I have 2x 1GB and 1x 512MB cards. It's all I really need - especially since I have a hyperdrive with 40GB space to transfer it all to.

At $100 for 4GB the cards would have to drop to $20 to equal my investment in my hyperdrive.

[cdifoto]

Hmm. I have 2x 1GB and 1x 512MB cards. It's all I really need - especially since I have a hyperdrive with 40GB space to transfer it all to.

At $100 for 4GB the cards would have to drop to $20 to equal my investment in my hyperdrive.


That's nice. Don't buy one then. ;)

[DFish]

That's nice. Don't buy one then. ;)

LOL! That just made my day.

[KurtB]

I have found that Buy.com is fast, if you pay for shipping. They have a warehouse 10 miles west of my office. When I PAY for any type of shipping, it ends up going out UPS or FedEx, and shows up in 1 day. If I elect the free shipping option, it always seems to sit at the warehouse for an extra couple of days before it even gets shipped, and then it gets sent USPS (aka "the 1000 mile round trip"). The last 2 times that I used the "free" shipping, it took the full 10 business days that they claim it can take.

Either way, they are still faster then Dell (and the price does not change to the new price at the time of shipping...:mad: ).

Rhys - I keep thinking about getting a hyperdrive...but the holiday's are too far away, and there are more important things on the wish list:D

[noyjimi]

Thanks for the tip, Peter.

Going off-tangent, but IIRC, buy.com was (is) a dot net that had a war chest in the billions and planned to outlast its competitors (like Amazon) by selling under cost if necessary. I don't think it's still the same business model, though.

[cdifoto]

Thanks for the tip, Peter.

Going off-tangent, but IIRC, buy.com was (is) a dot net that had a war chest in the billions and planned to outlast its competitors (like Amazon) by selling under cost if necessary. I don't think it's still the same business model, though.

I don't know if they still sell under cost but it's still owned by Scott Blum...the founder. The idea was to allow advertising to pay for the lost profits from underselling.

[Clyde]

And to think just last summer I paid $215 for mine! :eek:


Someone told me awhile ago that the best strategy for buying memory of most any variety, hard drive, flash, maybe even RAM... is to buy the minimum you need. Since the price keeps on dropping, you can always buy more later for less money.

I bought a 160gb portable drive last year. Had someone pointed out the undeniable fact that memory drops so dramatically so quickly, I would have been satisfied with 80gb. As it is, the 160gb drive cost less than the 2gb I have in compact flash. It also cost around a quarter of the 40mb removable drive I had years ago... In a few years, you will probably be able to buy 750gb for $100?

When you think of things that way, it doesn't make sense to throw out photos, or to buy more flash memory than you think you will go through in one session.

Clyde

[cdifoto]

Someone told me awhile ago that the best strategy for buying memory of most any variety, hard drive, flash, maybe even RAM... is to buy the minimum you need. Since the price keeps on dropping, you can always buy more later for less money.

I bought a 160gb portable drive last year. Had someone pointed out the undeniable fact that memory drops so dramatically so quickly, I would have been satisfied with 80gb. As it is, the 160gb drive cost less than the 2gb I have in compact flash. It also cost around a quarter of the 40mb removable drive I had years ago... In a few years, you will probably be able to buy 750gb for $100?

When you think of things that way, it doesn't make sense to throw out photos, or to buy more flash memory than you think you will go through in one session.

Clyde


No doubt. If I wasn't trigger happy and shooting from the inside of the barrier-less track last year, I woulda gotten smaller cards.