15 Pack of Maxell at Staples for $11.94

[pete2828]

I saw today ... July 25 ... in the Fresno Sunday Paper ... that CompUSA has their brand of DVD-Rs on sale ... 50 Pack ... for $20 dollars. They work fine in my Panasonic DMR E50S DVD Recorder for recording TV Shows.

I don't want to say that this post is not relevant to the topic but those CompUSA disks which are princos are AWFULL. I have like 15 or so remaining I only use them when what I am burning is not important for long term storage. I also found very BAD after the 3GB point. I would not skip a few $$$ on stuff you care about. Those disks are landfill fill ( totally unreadable) after 6 months if they burn right. Those disks gave me so many burn errors (near the end of disks) that I though my burner was trash. There are MUCH better media types for less than you think.

[lacywest]

yes and thanks for getting back to the MAXELL DVD media @ STAPLES topic.

Your Welcome

[smearbrick1]

Went to my local Staples (Harrisburg, PA) to check out this deal. They had plenty of DVD+R taiwanese crap but no DVD-R. I asked the manager about substitutions. He came back to me after about ten minutes and said there was a substitution. A 20-pack of Maxell DVD-Rs with jewel cases in place of the 15 Maxells without jewel cases. These 20 packs retail at their store for 39.98. I was pretty sure they weren't going to let me have them for 11.94, but low and behold... they did... 40 DVD-Rs with jewel cases for 25.00 at Staples.... All Ty's!!!!!

[HyperYagami]

Went to my local Staples (Harrisburg, PA) to check out this deal. They had plenty of DVD+R taiwanese crap but no DVD-R. I asked the manager about substitutions. He came back to me after about ten minutes and said there was a substitution. A 20-pack of Maxell DVD-Rs with jewel cases in place of the 15 Maxells without jewel cases. These 20 packs retail at their store for 39.98. I was pretty sure they weren't going to let me have them for 11.94, but low and behold... they did... 40 DVD-Rs with jewel cases for 25.00 at Staples.... All Ty's!!!!!

I hate you.

[Thwiipp]

I picked up a pack from the staples here in NYC and they have the MXL media code, not TY but still great and im happy.

[smearbrick1]

Gotta love the sweet deals. Of course, 90 percent of the time, they are out of stock with no substitute. So, one in a million shot.

[Mythos2002]

I picked up a pack of 15 -R's from Staples today. I'm worried about something. I noticed that most of them had a sticker placed over the reorder code that said made in Taiwan, so I sifted through them until I found one that said made in Japan.

I checked them with DVDInfoPro and the media code is TYG01. I searched the forum and it appears that that is a Japanese code, so hopefully, these will be ok.

On a side note, I checked Wal-Mart and they dropped their 15 packs of Maxell to $18.83. They all said "Made in Japan" when I looked at them.

So, if you pick up this pack at Staples, I would look carefully at the packaging. I don't know how good or bad made in Taiwan discs are, but I would rather have made in Japan ones myself.

Mythos

[budz]

Well you're all lucky to have a STAPLES store because living here in paradise, "HAWAII", we don't have one. As for the spindles reading off "MADE IN TAIWAN", I'm not surprised. See my thread on this "MADE IN TAIWAN" on MAXELL DVD-R 50 PACK SPINDLES.

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=230736
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[Mythos2002]

budz,

Cool. My girlfriend is from Hawaii and is visiting her family this Summer while I'm stuck here.

This may be a basic question, but I'm not a media expert. Are these same DVD's the type you can print on?

Does this same $11.94 for 15 deal apply for Staples.com as well? That may be a way to get them as long as they don't send the Taiwan ones. Maybe OfficeMax or one of their other competitors in your area will have a similar sale.

Mythos

[troyvcd1]

You can print on these dvds as long as your printer is a sharpie.

[budz]

Does this same $11.94 for 15 deal apply for Staples.com as well? That may be a way to get them as long as they don't send the Taiwan ones. Maybe OfficeMax or one of their other competitors in your area will have a similar sale.

Thanks for the thought but nah I get them when they're on sale at OFFICE DEPOT. I buy in bulk and probably have like 200 MAXELL DVD-R 4x speed discs. Call me a DVD MEDIA WHORE! Shipping to Hawaii is too expensive so I have to take advantage of the sales at OFFICE DEPOT & OFFICE MAX. I probably got like 80 FUJI DVD-R 4x speed discs too! The local COSTCO has the TDK DVD+/- on sale buy one for $25.00 get the second one free. I'll have to take a look at the spindles because another thread said the guy found MADE IN JAPAN on some of the spindles. So far I've had friends go down to COSTCO and call me to say all of the spindles say MADE IN TAIWAN. The discs are probably CMC. Ack!
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