Gadgets

Friday, April 21, 2006

95% of the time, I trash out hypermarkets' promotion leaflets put into my mailbox, without looking at them. Last night I was clearing up my pile of mails and tossed aside Carrefour's leaflet.

Later, while my TV show took a commercial break, I picked up the leaflet and flipped.

Nothing in the grocery, toiletries and garment sections caught my eye. The 1-pager that did was the gadgets page.

A 1GB pendrive now costs RM135. Some years back, I bought my first pendrive of 128MB for RM120 and thought it was a steal. How the times have changed.

Not only are computer related peripherals are dropping in prices, but the digital camera market is getting stiff too. Look at these.

If you don't mind the brand, this is very affordable camera at RM299 and it goes up to 6.6 mega pixel! For fellow bloggers who never leave home without a camera so that you have snapshots for your posts, this is definitely a good deal.

If you are particular about brands or at least a brand that is heard of, then these Samsung and Kodak ones are pretty cheap and cheerful too.





Now that this has caught my attention, maybe future leaflets won't go straight to the trash. And, by the way, I'm not working for Carrefour. Just thought the deals are worth sharing :)

11 comments:

benauhc said...

Yeah, know how you feel. I cringe when I recall paying almost RM400 for my camera's 512 MB CF card 3 years ago. And I bought 2 of them. Now I guess it's selling at only one third of that price.

Have fun shopping for new tech gadgets !

FooDcrazEE said...

same here...i thought my IXY 3.2 was a steal 5 yrs ago at RM1,500..now...for that price I CAN get a much much better one..what to do..

Nick said...

the 1GB pendrive looks juicy ...

Bkworm said...

I saw the same promotion from Tesco (for the 1GB pendrive) but all sold out by the time I went over. Sigh! Would have been useful!

Eternity said...

hi ben. probably won't buy any tech gadgets for now. wait for the prices to come down some more! hahaha...

foodcrazee, yeah our new toy back then are now becoming obsolete :(

nick, go buy a few and be a santa claus. especially to the person who posted this. :D

bkworm, did you try carrefour then? hurry, hurry!

DebtSurvivor said...

hey..cheers for sharing. I best check in my "trash drawer" for these promo stuffs... :)

Anonymous said...

i paid rm120 for my 1GB kingston thumbdrive! woo-hoo!

Eternity said...

from where?? low yatt? ok, you win hands down :)

Eternity said...

evs, not just handbag shopping eh? ;)

Anonymous said...

Rm120 for a 1GB thumb ? Wait till you see Rm109 pendrive brand at hypermarket.

But nothing beats Eternity's 40GB portable drive !!

Wooooooooooo..Hooooooooooo !!

Eternity said...

ray, where selling for RM109 for 1GB?? not that i'm gonna buy la but just curious who's beating whom in the hypermarket price wars. about the 40GB, kiasu la....