Western Digital My Passport 250GB USB Portable Hard Drive

xp90

As the title says: €39.99


www.gruupy.com

Rojo

Anyone ordered from this site before? Is it alright?

xp90

Yep gruupy is sound, and Irish!

Rojo

Awesome! :-) Thanks for the heads up!

Jayd0g

Great brand of hardrive too. Thanks OP, I've ordered.

RolandIRL

do Gruupy accept Laser? can't see anything on their website

xp90

AFAIK they dont take laser just yet

fish fingers

whiteman19 wrote: »

do Gruupy accept Laser? can't see anything on their website

No:( just tried

jaykay2

Thanks very much OP. Hav been looking for a cheap hard drive for a while.

peckerhead

+1

Rooy

thanks OP! , been looking for a half decent drive at a half decent price for a while.
I say some text when I was purchasing about 'not been charged until target number of buyers reached' , do they have to reach a target before they sell at that price ?

kcb

Had a WD portable drive earlier in the year, brand new, and it died. Lost a load of data.

heard of two similar WD stories since then.

CiaranP

I have one of these (cost €99 last year), and have ordered one from here - Thanks OP!

to kcb - I'm always wary of backup drives dying and backup my backups - Seems like overkill, but I don't want to lose all my photos.

to Rooy - not sure about the number of buyers, but by the 'the deal is on' text, it looks like they'll be shipped.
Thanks again.

Archangel.Nexus

Wow - 40 quid for 250Gb ... I think I'll walk into Peats and get an Iomega 1TB for 80 quid thanks... ok, I won't really as I already did - I have to lovely Iomega drives - both 1Tb each - both from Peats - both 79.99 each...

Can't find the exact ones on their site but here's some thing similar...

http://www.peats.com/cgi-bin/catalog.cgi?view_product=1&id=25122&sid=14&cid=116&scid=305

Keith186

Archangel.Nexus wrote: »

Wow - 40 quid for 250Gb ... I think I'll walk into Peats and get an Iomega 1TB for 80 quid thanks... ok, I won't really as I already did - I have to lovely Iomega drives - both 1Tb each - both from Peats - both 79.99 each...

Can't find the exact ones on their site but here's some thing similar...

http://www.peats.com/cgi-bin/catalog.cgi?view_product=1&id=25122&sid=14&cid=116&scid=305

Heard they are sh1t. You'll have to get your shoes on and walk back when it breaks.

biebiebie

What are these like for plugging into TV USB? Read somewhere that they need power from USB to work (5v?). Will that render it less useful?

Rojo

Yeah I prefer WD to Iomega by a long shot!

xp90

Archangel.Nexus wrote: »

Wow - 40 quid for 250Gb ... I think I'll walk into Peats and get an Iomega 1TB for 80 quid thanks... ok, I won't really as I already did - I have to lovely Iomega drives - both 1Tb each - both from Peats - both 79.99 each...

Can't find the exact ones on their site but here's some thing similar...

http://www.peats.com/cgi-bin/catalog.cgi?view_product=1&id=25122&sid=14&cid=116&scid=305

Sorry, wouldnt trust Iomega with even my least favourable pornography

Raiser

Archangel.Nexus wrote: »

Wow - 40 quid for 250Gb ... I think I'll walk into Peats and get an Iomega 1TB for 80 quid thanks... ok, I won't really as I already did - I have to lovely Iomega drives - both 1Tb each - both from Peats - both 79.99 each...

Can't find the exact ones on their site but here's some thing similar...

http://www.peats.com/cgi-bin/catalog.cgi?view_product=1&id=25122&sid=14&cid=116&scid=305

I hope you somehow accidentally swallow them and almost get resuscitated in ER

- Only joking! Iomega have been shít ever since the dawn of the Zip drive & it should have ended there, sorry......

inforfun

Archangel.Nexus wrote: »

Wow - 40 quid for 250Gb ... I think I'll walk into Peats and get an Iomega 1TB for 80 quid thanks... ok, I won't really as I already did - I have to lovely Iomega drives - both 1Tb each - both from Peats - both 79.99 each...

Can't find the exact ones on their site but here's some thing similar...

http://www.peats.com/cgi-bin/catalog.cgi?view_product=1&id=25122&sid=14&cid=116&scid=305

This is not exactly the same, is it?

The WD is 2,5" portable with no power adaptor, which makes them prefect for travelling with your laptop.

The Iomega comes with a nice heavy power adaptor which makes them perfect to dump on your desk and leave them there.

Jonny7

Archangel.Nexus wrote: »

Wow - 40 quid for 250Gb ... I think I'll walk into Peats and get an Iomega 1TB for 80 quid thanks... ok, I won't really as I already did - I have to lovely Iomega drives - both 1Tb each - both from Peats - both 79.99 each...

Can't find the exact ones on their site but here's some thing similar...

http://www.peats.com/cgi-bin/catalog.cgi?view_product=1&id=25122&sid=14&cid=116&scid=305

Shhh.. thats for a big clunky thing

This is 39 euros for a portable usb powered 250 gig, decent little bargain

RolandIRL

WD >>> Iomega

Besides 1TB desktop drives are always cheaper per GB. the main attraction of this is that it's portable.

*hugs WD Elements 1TB drive*

TheDoc

Are these still in stock, cant get onto their site from work.

Sounds interesting, not the biggest in storage when you think of what you can get these days for slightly more money, but 250gb would be perfect for backing up some games I have like WoW, SC2 and obviously loading some movies etc on it

RolandIRL

There's 51 left in stock and 7 hours 25mins left on the clock. about half sold, so i'd say no danger of selling out yet.

Redisle

This is about 6euro cheaper than amazon. Not an amazing deal but not bad nonetheless.

TheDoc

Ordered there, cheers lads

boobar

Just ordered one...

A very good deal...but you only get it if they manage to sell 100 of them at the 39.99 price.

There's 2 hours 20 minutes left, so get on board if you want this deal.

Boobar

g0g

Have googled around and it seems like a decent deal. Is that defo a good price for one of these? Would be very useful for movies and music backup.

K.C

Ordered one of these last night, Exactly what I'm looking for. Does anyone know if the deal went through? Cheers OP

TheDoc

boobar wrote: »

Just ordered one...

A very good deal...but you only get it if they manage to sell 100 of them at the 39.99 price.

There's 2 hours 20 minutes left, so get on board if you want this deal.

Boobar

You only get it if 100 are sold? Whats this now, doesnt say that anywhere at time of purchase, and I had a nosey at the T&C's

seventyeight

boobar wrote: »

Just ordered one...

A very good deal...but you only get it if they manage to sell 100 of them at the 39.99 price.

There's 2 hours 20 minutes left, so get on board if you want this deal.

Boobar

thought they just had to sell 20 of them for of it to be on

slave1

From their FAQ

How does it work?
We sell one electronic item a day for as cheap as possible. Generally it’s stuff which we’d actually like to buy ourselves or steal from someone’s desk. HOWEVER, to activate each daily item, a minimum number of people must purchase it within the twenty four hour period (you can see all this info in a big friendly section on the left hand side of the page).

We’re not complete criminals-you ONLY get charged when the deal becomes active. If you’ve signed up to purchase and the minimum number of people isn’t reached, you simply don’t get charged. Easy

TheDoc

nightmare, thought that was bought

Sure its wet my taste for one, so if its not coming from here its coming from somewhere else.

Cheers for the information though

K.C

seventyeight wrote: »

thought they just had to sell 20 of them for of it to be on

yeah, me too! Oh, the confusion!

Jayd0g

The deal had a green "Deal is on" under it last night around 11. My card was charged this morning so it looks like it's all good so far

Rooy

when i bought yesterday , im sure the totals on the left were SOLD/AVAILABLE , so I believe it had already passed the/any minimum.
The deal for today still shows BOUGHT/NEEDED , so I guess once it passes the minimum it removes any reference to minimum needed.
But ya ,they should make that a bit clearer.

Aceform

also saw the WD 1TB portable hard drive in Currys for 119.99 last weekend(reduced from 219.99). think it is a decent value

GruupyLove

Heya Lads and Ladies,

I work for Gruupy, and we just wanted to be clear on the whole "Minimum Purchase" thing. We don't have to sell all of the stock for you guys to get your stuff, but there is a minimum amount needed before people will get their products (although if that minimum isn't reached, obviously no one's credit card is charged). In the case of the WD hard drives, we had to sell 20 (out of a total stock of 100) of them for the deal to be on, so once we hit 20 sales, everyone gets their hard drive.

If the deal isn't active yet, there'll be a yellow sign saying "Come on! X more buyers needed for the deal to be on", and if the deal's active then it turns green and tells you the deal's on.

So, if you ordered a hard drive from us yesterday, you will definitely be getting one. Hope that clears up any confusion

K.C

GruupyLove wrote: »

Heya Lads and Ladies,

I work for Gruupy, and we just wanted to be clear on the whole "Minimum Purchase" thing. We don't have to sell all of the stock for you guys to get your stuff, but there is a minimum amount needed before people will get their products (although if that minimum isn't reached, obviously no one's credit card is charged). In the case of the WD hard drives, we had to sell 20 (out of a total stock of 100) of them for the deal to be on, so once we hit 20 sales, everyone gets their hard drive.

If the deal isn't active yet, there'll be a yellow sign saying "Come on! X more buyers needed for the deal to be on", and if the deal's active then it turns green and tells you the deal's on.

So, if you ordered a hard drive from us yesterday, you will definitely be getting one. Hope that clears up any confusion

Thanks for clearing that up. Looking forward to getting my hard drive! Great site btw.

dubmick

Aceform wrote: »

also saw the WD 1TB portable hard drive in Currys for 119.99 last weekend(reduced from 219.99). think it is a decent value

yeah that's decent. Roughly the same price with free delivery on Amazon.

TheDoc

Excellent look forward to getting it, nice to see intervention from someone from the company too, must keep more of an eye on that site

*cough*Steelseries Siberia V2's *cough* *cough*

Do you guys have a twitter that I can follow to see new product offers, site blokced in work

EDIT

Got it

GruupyLove

Just in case anyone else is looking for our twitter feed, it's @GruupyLove

xp90

GruupyLove wrote: »

Just in case anyone else is looking for our twitter feed, it's @GruupyLove

Do i get any free stuff for bringing it to peoples attention?

GruupyLove

xp90 wrote: »

Do i get any free stuff for bringing it to peoples attention?

You get free love! And a gruup hug.

boobar

seventyeight wrote: »

thought they just had to sell 20 of them for of it to be on

Sorry SeventyEight....you're dead right, my apologies.

K.C

Anyone receive it yet??

Jayd0g

Got mine this morning, delivered by DHL

Rooy

havent received mine yet.
That was Wednesday's offer i think ,i persume i will get it by mon/tue

K.C

Jayd0g wrote: »

Got mine this morning, delivered by DHL

Result!
I'm still waiting.

TheDoc

Father text me there saying mine is at home for me

davehey79

got mine this mornign too. well pleased with my bargain