-=PCTechTalk=- Re: SanDisk question

  • From: "Lois Yaw" <jyaw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 11:46:34 -0400

Thanks for the info. I had better get a few more, I paid  12.88 for the 4GB.
Lois Yaw

Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: SanDisk question 


>I think it is due more to changing costs.  As cost to make larger 
> capacity drives goes down so does the retail price.  This means that 
> pretty soon there will be no profit in anything smaller than an 8 or 
> 16GB thumb drive.  Back to school is the perfect time to unload the 
> smaller capacity drives and SanDisk is taking advantage of it.
> 
> Our local district requires students submit much of their work on 
> thumb drives instead of paper.  Thumb drives are a great loss leader 
> to get you into the store.
> 
> Unless your store has better pricing than mine the 2GB should be 
> $12.88 and the 4GB $19.88.  The 1GB was 10.88 but they are all gone. 
> Other brands are not as desperate to unload stock as SanDisk is.  At 
> least not yet.  By the end of the year the smallest you will find will 
> probably be 4GB and maybe even 8GB.  Prices will probably be in the 
> $15 and $30 range respectively.
> 
> Don


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