Went in to see if the by off chance had an old IDE laptop drive to repair an old laptop for a friend.
They offered me a new 160gb drive for $60 which wasn't a bad deal but being a 5 year old laptop I wasn't willing to spend that much out of pocket.
I told them my price point was $20. All I needed was a small 20 - 30 GB drive. They hemmed and hawed for a few minutes with two people giving me answers back and forth and too each other.
Finally they told me they had one just needed to wait 10 minutes while the cleaned off the drive. 10 minutes turned in 20 minutes with the techs walking around in the backroom but not giving me any updates.
After my wait a 3rd person came out took my information then told me the price for the 30 GB drive would be $40 + Tax
Hard drives havn't been priced at the $1 per GB mark in 10 years and they wanted to charge more than that?
I'm only asking for the drive, not the labor to install it. Sorry your simply trying to take advantage of someone at that point.
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