Slight forum drift - apologies SD.
Apologies for the very fine connection with the forum, SD - ship it out if you wish, but whilst I fully understand that mass production reduces prices, I just bought a 4GB SD card for US$5.99 - including courier 3 day shipping.
How do they do that?
How can they buy the components, pay staff to make it, pay staff to work out the pay for the staff that made it, run the factory that they made it in, box it up, deliver it to a ship, ship it from wherever to the USA, pay for customs, pay a driver to truck it to the distributor, stock it, run the building that it is stocked in, advertise it, process my order and ship it to my home within three days for $5.99?
To get closer to the forum, is this a rare deal, or is this standard now for storage media?
As an aside, I bought a DVD burner from the same company recently. $22 (same questions apply) but, on delivery, I realised I had mistakenly ordered an IDE version. I needed SATA, so called the company.
Was advised that I would have to pay return shipping and a 15% restocking fee. We both agreed that it wasn't worth the hassle.
When I ordered the correct item, sales lady (same conversation) said, "The SATA version is the same price, I'll credit your account with the $22 for the incorrect order, so there will be no charge for this item" - which included free shipping.
"Then I'll send you the other one back then", says I. "No", she says, "Not worth it, just keep it or give it away".
How?