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Everything Else => General Support and Discussion => Zaurus General Forums => Archived Forums => Deals and Great Z Buys => Topic started by: davidspitzer on September 16, 2004, 12:51:01 pm
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I ordered a brand new sl-c860 from www.pricejapan.com, and they shipped it out the same day and sent me the tracking number -- Brand new unit with shipping for $563!
cant wait!
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PriceJapan does indeed rock. I ordered mine on a Monday @ 8:30pm EST and got it Wed, before 10AM!
WOOT WOOT
-Mookid
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I ordered my C860 for $552 (all inclusive). Should have it next week (or hopefully before). $200 - 300 cheaper than dynamism.com, but of course, you have to pay your own shipping when it breaks and needs repair, which is covered by Dynamism. Still -- worth the savings to me. Also got a 1GB Kingmax SD card for about $90, free 2nd day UPS from zipzoomfly, although I've seen cheaper prices posted before.
-Daniel
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Ordered a SL-C860 too last night from PriceJapan, shipping to AU for AU$784; still yet to hear back from them until my payment goes through. Getting some accessories for it from conics.net; both seemed to have good feedback from searching on these forums.
Fingers crossed I get it next week. Ignoring the geek factor, I need a PDA at the moment badly to organise myself :-)
What do people think the resell value of the units will be like in 6-12 months (esp. considering they're not sold in AU)? It'd be nice to keep updating to later units and only losing a couple of hundred bucks in the process.
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I'm in Australia and got through pricejapan. Ordered it friday, got it tuesday.
Check ebay for what the C760's went for to get an idea for resell maybe? If a clamshell came out with Wifi I'd changeover in a second (the CF wireless card just spoils the look ;-).
Fingers crossed I get it next week. Ignoring the geek factor, I need a PDA at the moment badly to organise myself :-)
Good luck. I'm STILL using my Palm for organizing myself as I'm yet to get an environment that I'm totally happy with on the C860 (Plus of course I keep flashing between OpenZaurus and pdaXrom... so hard to decide, though I think I'm definately leaning towards an X environment). Actually carrying around both a palm and a C860 is really tiring (In two pockets)... pulls down on my neck. I'm definately going to look at getting a belt pouch for the C860.
If you put on OZ, don't be disapointed by the following: -
- The date will reset to 1970 on each restart. I'm fairly certain this is fixable, and next time I flash on OZ I'm going to play around with slutils.ipk, otherwise I'll just write a script that stores the date on halt, and restores on boot (how often do you really need to boot anyway).
- Bundabrg
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I'm in Australia too. Ordered Friday, had it Tuesday; quite impressed. Kaneda answers emails promptly, which is great - he also put a lower amount on the invoice so I wouldn't have any problems with customs. Still waiting on a real amount invoice, though, but I trust he'll send one soon.
Customs here f*cking suck though; not only did they rip open the case to 'inspect' the goods (and now the cardboard case looks like crap - reselling it is going to be harder now; the Zaurus itself is in perfect nick however), but I got another bill today for AU$100 for 'GST' and 'goverment fees' - this Zaurus adventure is turning out to be rather expensive.
Happy with my Z, though; certainly better then previous Palm and Pocket PC PDA's I've owned. Will be using it more though when I recieve the accessories/wireless card/etc from other places - it's taking forever to ship. DHL shipping rocks.
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I am another Australian user of SL-C860, and very happy with Pricejapan.com's service and price.
Next time I will probably try shipping via EMS instead of DHL, that may get rid of the extra bill.
Regards,
Ata
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How much was your bill?
I get the impression this will happen with any international shipping.