06-21-2005, 02:30 PM
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Thoughts Media Pricegrabber Store Launched
We've teamed up with Pricegrabber and launched a new low-price shopping portal that can be found at thoughtsmedia.pricegrabber.com. We've had a Pocket PC Thoughts-branded Pricegrabber store for a couple of years, but we wanted to centralize it for all our Web sites. When you look up a product, say Kingston SD cards, and you click on the product link you'll be presented with a list of vendors selling that product and their prices. When you click on one of the prices and are taken to that vendor's site, Thoughts Media gets a tiny payment from Pricegrabber. Just by browsing around you can support us - you don't even need to buy anything. ;-) Thanks for your support!
Here's a listing of Pricegrabber's top five Secure Digital memory cards to get you started:
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06-21-2005, 02:52 PM
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Mystic
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Cool.  Maybe there should be another link under the "Shop" menu above? I don't see any other way to get to there except for in this topic, and I'm sure I'll forget after a few days and just type in pricegrabber.com instead.
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06-21-2005, 04:48 PM
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Originally Posted by OSUKid7
Cool. Maybe there should be another link under the "Shop" menu above? I don't see any other way to get to there except for in this topic, and I'm sure I'll forget after a few days and just type in pricegrabber.com instead. |
Yup, working on it. ;-)
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06-21-2005, 05:02 PM
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Thinker
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Re: Thoughts Media Pricegrabber Store Launched
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...Thanks for your support!...
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A pleasure and I'll use the link whenever possible.
As a twist to what OSUKid7 mentioned maybe you can create a page with the latest and greatest PPC stuff (that we love) that could always be online and updated regularly (if not too much trouble) and all we would have to do is click on the shop menu go to that page and do some clicking. You might get some serious traffic flowing. I know I would love to browse something like that.
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06-21-2005, 05:03 PM
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Intellectual
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Awesome! This should be useful for getting the best prices on everything... For example, that 1GB SD card is a whole lot cheaper than Future Shop is selling it for... :wink: I can't wait to see some other good prices on everything in the future... 
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06-21-2005, 05:25 PM
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At these prices for SD cards, I don't have to go Ebay-ing for cards. I can't imagine paying $69 for a 512 Sandisk card as some retailers charge. I just got one off ebay last week for a price within $1 of the Pricegrabber price above.
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06-21-2005, 05:28 PM
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Oracle
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Awesome thanks Jason. I've been waiting for the SanDisk 2GB Ultra II SD card for the longest time (most recently not even a week ago), but they were out of stock everywhere, and the only couple of places supposedly in stock were selling them for like close to $300 instead of under $200! IIRC eCost was such a vendor who'd really marked up their price when no one else had it in stock (unless my memory is mistaken)...
In fact NewEgg had eventually dropped this card from their listing after its ETA was repeatedly pushed back...
Edit: Wait a sec, the cheapest couple of places from the PriceGrabber listing that proclaim to have this card in stock, in actuality don't (as shown if you click the link to their website)  And I'm a bit leery about trusting the last couple of vendors from the PriceGrabber page also proclaiming to have in stock, since I'm not too familiar with those vendors...
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06-21-2005, 05:40 PM
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Originally Posted by bitequator
Edit: Wait a sec, the cheapest couple of places from the PriceGrabber listing that proclaim to have this card in stock, in actuality don't (as shown if you click the link to their website) And I'm a bit leery about trusting the last couple of vendors from the PriceGrabber page also proclaiming to have in stock, since I'm not too familiar with those vendors... |
Yeah, ultimately the data we display is whatever Pricegrabber gets from the vendor, and not all vendors are accurate/honest/competent. So, as with all things in life, take it with a grain of salt. ;-)
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06-21-2005, 05:43 PM
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Originally Posted by marcm
Awesome! This should be useful for getting the best prices on everything... For example, that 1GB SD card is a whole lot cheaper than Future Shop is selling it for... :wink: I can't wait to see some other good prices on everything in the future... |
Would everyone like to see a weekly posting like the one above showing prices on memory cards? Every Wednesday we do the Pocket PC listing, but we have the ability to do the same type of thing with any other type of product. On Mondays we could do SD cards for instance, and Fridays would be CompactFlash cards. Would that interest some of you?
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06-21-2005, 06:31 PM
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Thinker
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IMHO I think that people should really look at using the high speed cards rather than the regular ones. I've been using the Lexar 1gb 80x CF and 32x SD cards for around a year (I think) and use it for everything. I've given up backing up to ZIP and Jazz drives and carry them around in my pocket. I do my daily backups of my local development folders to them. I install all my PPC stuff to them (SD really) and running the apps from the SD is just fine. The only problem with installing to the card is that sometimes an apps look for their resources in memory (not nice).
I've seen a big difference in writing to the faster cards as opposed to the slower ones and that difference would also be very noticable in a camera writing to the card. It is definately well worth the extra money to go the faster card route. I save all my old cards to send to my parents with pictures of their grandchidren (which they pop into their SanDisk TV - card viewer since they're allergic to technology).
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