[MacDV] DVD-R Media

[Thubten Kunga]

No not meritline. I found those prices among the choices when you do a 
DVD-R search at http://www.pricewatch.com

k

On Tuesday, January 28, 2003, at 12:29  PM, Ian Tucker wrote:

>> Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 16:21:53 -0800
>> Subject: [MacDV] Re: DVD-R Media
>> From: Thubten Kunga <Kunga at FutureMedia.org>
>> Message-Id: <804AE136-3256-11D7-B905-003065E5AA00 at FutureMedia.org>
>>
>> If you buy a spindle of 200 DVD-R discs for $110 and add the $42=20
>> shipping charge, it's still only $77=A2 each instead of $3 
>> australian=20
>> (what is that American?).
>>
>
> Are you quoting from the meritline address for which Erica provided 
> the URL , or some other?    I cannot find any quote for $110 in the 
> meritline web pages.  They have spindles of "Accu" brand DVD-R's and 
> the price for 200 discs is $US158  .    When  international freight  
> of $42 is added the unit price becomes  $US1.00.   You are quite right 
>  ie. when buying in these quantities there is quite a savings on the 
> Australian price of $3 which equates to around $US1.80.  A spindle of 
> 100 discs would work out to be around $A2.10 each (85c + 42c = 
> $US1.27) and is certainly still worth it.
>
> It turns out the Canberra warehouse is out of stock anyway due to the 
> Asian slowdown for their Chinese New Year and it is not expected that 
> fresh supplies will be to hand for several weeks.
>
> Thanks for your input. Much appreciated.
>
> Ian Tucker