I'm not worried about the price point, I'm sure even at $36 I'm paying 10x the manufacturing cost. What I am worried about was the fact that the outer layer of packaging was a cardboard box, then a layer of foam peanuts, then bubble wrap, then a plasitc bag, and then the drive itself. No asus box, nothing. No manual, wires, registration card, anything. All I got was a box that they threw some basic packaging materials in and a drive. Like it was just pulled out of a system they had lying around. I guess that's probably better packaging than dell receives at their assembly plants, but still. Not what I'm used to.
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/25/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brian Wood</b> <<a href="mailto:beww@beww.org">beww@beww.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Josh White wrote:<br>> I was just about to say that....I just happend to by an Asus DVD-burner<br>> for $36 today on Newegg. It didn't even come in a box (to my surprise)<br>> but it was $36. We'll see if it works when I install it tonight...
<br><br>I have bought many such drives in that price range and never had any<br>trouble. In fact, the only DVD drive I've ever had fail was a high-cost<br>Plextor (they did replace it promptly however).<br><br>beww<br>
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