INSANE Office Depot Ext. Hard drive Clearance [Archive]

TheGreatSatan

01-16-2009, 12:04 PM

Seriously, this is insane!! Call your local Office Depot and give them the item numbers shown below. They WILL hold the drives for you. I bought 5 drives total equaling over 2TB's for $156!! The external drives I'm going to crack open and use an internal drives.

ITEM #
111325 simpletech 500GB external $37.93
605975 WD My Book 500GB $32.93
420340 Simpletech 320GB external $24.93
420205 Simpletech 250GB mini $32.93
435725 Simpletech 160GB mini $24.93
613890 WD My Book World Edition 500GB $44.93
399305 Toshiba external 160GB $24.93
435010 Simpletech mini 320GB $39.93
396855 Toshiba external 250GB $34.93
138615 WD passport 320GB $42.93
466215 WD passport 250GB $32.93
469100 WD Passport 160GB $24.93

billygoat333

01-16-2009, 01:20 PM

wow wish we had an office depot around where I live... :( closest one is 2-3 hours away.

FuzzyPlushroom

01-16-2009, 05:56 PM

Yeah, we don't have one either, or else I'd get a couple WD 500s...

aintnothang

01-16-2009, 06:29 PM

woah!

BuzzKillington

01-16-2009, 06:30 PM

Awesome man, I bought their last two deals!(I wanted to get about 10 of them dammit) A toshiba 250gig portable and a orange simpletech 250gig portable.

+reppp

$32.93 and $34.93 totaled $73.12

Some funky numbers :oP

NightrainSrt4

01-16-2009, 10:45 PM

Ughhhh, wish I could grab up some of these =(. I've got an Office Depot right down the street too.

But, just got a sick deal on a eVGA GTX280, and grabbed a Corsair TX750W to compliment, so I've officially spent all my xmas and selling laptop funds, aside from a Tigerdirect gift certificate.

Nice deal though, +rep.

aintnothang

01-16-2009, 11:03 PM

The employee told me only a 500gb internal was on sale for 129.99....=(

nevermind1534

01-16-2009, 11:22 PM

The employee told me only the 500gb internal was on sale for 129.99....=(

Buy the external, pull it out of its casing, then you have an internal drive, plus an enclosure.

aintnothang

01-16-2009, 11:27 PM

Buy the external, pull it out of its casing, then you have an internal drive, plus an enclosure.
Yes, but I want the external, they didn't seem to have the slightest clue what I was inquiring about.

nevermind1534

01-16-2009, 11:29 PM

say USB drive? What about giving them the model number, or just go to the store, find it on the shelf, and buy it

TheGreatSatan

01-16-2009, 11:32 PM

That's why I supplied item numbers

aintnothang

01-17-2009, 01:13 AM

I will try tomorrow. Its a long drive.=(

TheGreatSatan

01-17-2009, 01:48 AM

Call first and they will hold them for you!

aintnothang

01-17-2009, 02:30 AM

I'm gonna hit up circuit city if I do. There having a huge liquidation sale.

BuzzKillington

01-17-2009, 02:00 PM

Buy the external, pull it out of its casing, then you have an internal drive, plus an enclosure.

NOOOO, that is not a deal. They had a 500gig external there for 35 bucks yesterday... then mybook 500gigs for like 40 bucks. I went right next door to bestbuy and they had one of the exact drives for 93 dollars.

The thing that pisses me off most is if I would have made it to Office Depot in time and scored a passport, I could have taken the receipt to Best Buy and they would have price matched it. :'o(
(at least that's what one of the geeksquad guys said... we all know how stupid many of them are.)

EDIT: Almost forgot, the dude that helped me said they were selling 250 3.5's for 17 dollars...:banghead:

SXRguyinMA

01-17-2009, 03:20 PM

I'm gon monday to get one or three and see what other kind of goodies they have :)

TheGreatSatan

01-17-2009, 04:46 PM

426055 - Simpletech 1TB External $64!!

aintnothang

01-17-2009, 05:48 PM

Sold Out! Its disappointing, well...hope you guys can get your hands on these.

BuzzKillington

01-17-2009, 06:25 PM

I'm gon monday to get one or three and see what other kind of goodies they have :)

Probably none by then haha. Good luck though!

I put one of my drives up on ebay and it's already at 70 bucks. I shouldn't be spending money really so I figured if I sold one I basically got the other for free... plus it matches my laptop! :)

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aintnothang

01-17-2009, 06:30 PM

Probably none by then haha. Good luck though!

I put one of my drives up on ebay and it's already at 70 bucks. I shouldn't be spending money really so I figured if I sold one I basically got the other for free... plus it matches my laptop! :)
Good idea!

rendermandan

01-17-2009, 07:35 PM

I called them and they had no idea what I was talking about. They said they were closing around 100 stores. SO the deals might be localized.

BuzzKillington

01-17-2009, 08:28 PM

Hopefully you didn't just get ahold of a moron or some prick that wanted to keep the deals for himself.

If that's so then I'm going to have to make frequent pit stops to my local Office Depot in case they decide not to advertise their liquidation/closing.

TheGreatSatan

01-17-2009, 08:57 PM

Every store has these drives whether they're closing or not. Both stores in my area have them and they aren't closing. Note: These drives WILL NOT be on the sales floor. You have to ask for them. BTW, new item #138650 - WD Passport (Red) 250GB - $32.93

TheGreatSatan

01-18-2009, 12:21 AM

I picked up the 1TB drives about an hour ago.

Proof:

SXRguyinMA

01-18-2009, 11:34 AM

yea I'm definitely goin tomorrow, it'll be one trip though, as its a good 30-40 mins from me

TheGreatSatan

01-18-2009, 03:19 PM

Like I said call ahead and have them held for you

THRASHER2

01-18-2009, 07:53 PM

I called all the store in my Hood ;)

They are all gone from my area .................................

nevermind1534

01-18-2009, 07:54 PM

Same here. But I didn't get any.

TheGreatSatan

01-18-2009, 10:11 PM

I called all the store in my Hood ;)

They are all gone from my area .................................

And you scored some!

THRASHER2

01-18-2009, 10:31 PM

And you scored some!
Yes I did :banana::up:
Western Digital 500GB My Book Office Edition External Hard Disk Drive WDH1B5000N for $37

And A BIG THANKS!!! to you TheGreatSatan :D

SXRguyinMA

01-19-2009, 10:28 AM

nevermind1534

01-19-2009, 11:51 AM

I'm wondering if those sales were only good last week.

TheGreatSatan

01-19-2009, 12:46 PM

just called my local store...the :good deals" they had were a Seagate 1TB for $139, a Seagate 320GB for $99 :think:

I'm just going to take a ride down there, he said they have some on the clearance table still but wasnt sure

Print the list out and ask them to look each item number up. It will only take them a few seconds

---------------------------EDIT

I totally got robbed. When I had bought the two 1TB Simpletech drives, one box was already opened because it had been returned. Opening the box shows you a Simpletech drive, since they all look the same. Well today I have been cracking them open to use as internal drives when I realized that one of the TB drives was actually a 320GB drive. So someone bought a 320 and a TB, reboxed the 320 as a TB, returned it and received the cost of a TB!

For the huge savings I made I'm still cool with it.

Tally:

2x 500GB
2x 1TB
1x 320GB
1x 250GB
1x 160GB

All for about $270

SXRguyinMA

01-19-2009, 05:39 PM

I drove all the way out there (40) mins and noone knew what I was talkin about. brought the #s with me as well, said they had no sales goin on on those :think:

nevermind1534

01-19-2009, 06:37 PM

I drove all the way out there (40) mins and noone knew what I was talkin about. brought the #s with me as well, said they had no sales goin on on those :think:

The sale must have been last week only.

aintnothang

01-19-2009, 08:14 PM

The sale must have been last week only.
Thats what I'm thinking.

TheGreatSatan

01-19-2009, 10:28 PM

Nope. The clearance is till they're gone as they will not be resold at regular price

nevermind1534

01-19-2009, 11:40 PM

This is only in-store? All of the stores in my area are sold out. THey have the normal price advertised for all of them online.

TheGreatSatan

01-20-2009, 02:49 PM

Online is different. They have near limitless warehouse inventories. The warehouses that are tied to stores have limited stock

BuzzKillington

01-26-2009, 10:16 AM

Just for ****s and giggles I broke open the 250GB external I picked up and it was SATA! WOOO! It's now sitting pretty next to a 320gig in my laptop. This will hold me off until I can pick up another WD 320 Scopio to run in raid.

TGS... I owe you a few more reps man...

TheGreatSatan

01-26-2009, 09:40 PM

They usually are SATA. What did you wind up paying?

BuzzKillington

01-27-2009, 02:06 AM

They usually are SATA. What did you wind up paying?

I paid around 32 dollar I believe for this one. I picked up a different model as well for a couple dollars more then sold it for 70 bucks so technically I made a couple bucks from the deal. :banana: