Big mistake - you will have a countless numpties ordering it and then emailing them to ask them if the price is a mistake and whether they will honour it. Look, I am doing it right... now :confused:

Have put my title as Professor rather than Mr so hopefully that shows the c@%!s I'm priority!

Seagate, so still overpriced :wink:

Seriously, they won't honour, so why waste time.

Worth a punt.

No chance of getting it I'm afraid :disappointed:

Voted hot but doubt they will honour

Place holder price to attract clicks.

Seagate, so still overpriced :wink:

Seriously, they won't honour, so why waste time.

Big mistake - you will have a countless numpties ordering it and then emailing them to ask them if the price is a mistake and whether they will honour it. Look, I am doing it right... now :confused:

Maybe I should have stayed quite :-( oh well all part of the fun.

Trustworthy company? Payment taken on despatch or on order?

i like how they spell maxtor

expire this deal if you want even a chance of honoring

Please let me be one of the 49

it's Maxtor or Matrox ? see their page.

Did Frank give you 50 codes?

It's because of you and Buzz I need to sell... I mean 'gift' these so badly. You made me spend the baby's medicine money, dammit!

On sister site CPC they are in stock at £94.45

I like how they have also got the brand name wrong :laughing: have it down as Matrox instead of Maxtor

Showing £46.33 with free delivery

​lmao could be Chinese knock off. then we're all screwed

Didn't you Know Matrox is a cheapo copy of Maxtor, all second user drives. LOL

:smile:

As RS are a distributor they may have an information portal where links/info/pics are updated by suppliers rather than by themselves.

Isn't Matrox that Chinese boy in Hong Kong who knocks out cheap drives 10 for a quid? :wink:

​No deal for me then, voting cold

hehe

This is definitely not maxtor http://uk.rs-online.com/web/b/matrox/

I had a matrox millennium graphics card back in 2000. It could be the same company.

Ordered 5

Seems to be that

I had a matrox mystique in one PC and a millennium in the other boo yeah back in the day. Wow they made those Duke Nukem 3D sprites look awesome.

It's actually a suitcase stuffed with floppy disks.

Heated great price. Well worth putting an order in. Small chance they might honour with some limitations e.g. one per customer. Very good price but still not like they giving it away for nothing either, at £55.60 they might break even or make just a small loss that might be worth it for the potential repeat custom you never know....

For flip sake, so will I have to blow the dust out when I get read error like I had to when using traditional floppy disks. Think it was always disk 3 of Window 3.11 that always needed a good blow....

Just ordered 1002 for ebay

Worth a try at this price !

Isn't Maxtor Seagate's budget range... and yes Matrox did produce good graphics cards back in the day, they were miles better than the S3 Virge that was the other major card at the time back then. Then Nvidia and ATI (now AMD) upped their game, and the rest pretty much died out.

Will they charge when placing order or dispatch?

got my solicitor on standby

Have put my title as Professor rather than Mr so hopefully that shows the c@%!s I'm priority!

rs are mainly an engineering company we use them at work so worth a try from my experience send them def not a placeholder to attract clicks

Will give it a go, already have CPC sending me loads of leaflets so may as well get some from RS as well. :stuck_out_tongue:

Wow, look at those prices. I wouldn't pay that for a Matrox

Man, you are bringing back some memories. Wasn't there like 26 disk in total to install?

RS and CPC are not related, CPC and Farnell are though.

Think 6-8 for 3.11 Windows 95 was a beast - over 10 I think.

never thought about it, but it sounds like a great idea, Thanks :smiley:

Really? That's all? I seem to recall having to carry them all up the hill both ways to work. Always seemed more than that. Maybe it was office which had more.

The good old days!

Do what my boss does, he puts a M Eng after his name.

I always make fun though. It's not like he's got a Master's in Engineering. Oh wait.....

Matrox's niche ended up being very, very good analog output as the had by far the cleanest VGA signal for those driving expensive CRTs with BNC connectors. ATI were a distant second and all the others were way behind. Before digital displays and ports like DVI, having a clean analog signal was really important for the resolution junkies (2048x1536 @ 85Hz, or lower resolutions at far higher refresh rates). It's only recently that digital LCD panels have been able to approach that and since 4:3 has almost disappeared 1536 vertical is almost still leading edge - although a CRT monitor to that justice would weigh a ton, cost a fortune and produce a lot heat.

boooooooooobsss!!!! me likey!

Pah, that's nothing. OS/2 2.1 (and 3.0 Warp) had about 20 disks. Then you had to install LAN Server on top for network connectivity.

Users today, they don't know they're born...

Thanks just ordered 70

Well pricing is totally screwed up whether they are Maxtor or Matrox!!
1TB @ £114.77....2TB @ £140.62.......3TB @ £132.50..........and the 4TB @ £46.33

Unless this is some fake website, it's a no brainer bargain basement!!

I remember 'backing' up multiple tape games on to my external floppy drive for my Commodore 128. It was like comparing HDD to SSD for load times way back when.

This reindeer game is a fail i have 10 of the same one!

Anyway my WD external died a death yesterday after sitting in the draw doing sweet FA! I bought a Seagate to copy from the other disk AND WHO would believe it Seagate failed on the same day I start using it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Can somebody give me a better way of backing up that does not cost the earth PLEASE!

going by that TB pricing structures it looks like its meant to be 146 & not 46

Lol, gonna give this a miss but do report back if you guys get it!

The fact this has got so hot and the fact they will have hundreds, if not thousands of orders means this won't be happening. They aren't going to order thousands of 4tb drives and sell them all below cost....

If it was in stock then I would say it is definitely worth a punt, with an eta of 23rd January. No chance.

DL-RW's bought in bulk are mega cheap! Sounds like you'd best stick with those!!

Legally what can they do though? Surely they have to honour the price?

worth a punt, put it on the credit card so money is safe :wink:

It's certainly not worth risking putting your card detail through...........yet!!

Legally any online retailer worth their salt would have the T&Cs adjusted for this so that the contract is only completed and legally binding upon delivery. They have got wise to having to make large losses honouring co*k ups. So at any point even if money is taken and you have an order confirmation they can cancel or amend ect and you have not got a leg to stand on.

Just order one. It will not be accepted. However no harm in trying. The worse case scenario is that they will not honor it and i am not going to lose anything. Thanks OP for sharing. Heat added.

Email received saying 'We'll email you again to confirm prices and delivery dates.'

Not sure they're gonna honour this...:disappointed:

But heat added anyway!

Whether we get this or not but at least you get this as of now. Lol.



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I've reported this too RS, merry xmas cheap skates.

You are surely going to get at this price after your generous action

3. Ordering

RS reserves the right to decline to trade with any company or person. In addition, RS may decline to accept any order, whether or not payment has been received, by giving notice of non-acceptance to the Customer by telephone or facsimile within a reasonable period of receipt by RS of the order.


So remember to unplug your phone and fax and they can't cancel on you :stuck_out_tongue:

So they will email and let you know it should be £146 and not £46!! Not such a "bargain" after all!!

this is bs. deal should have expired a long time ago.

I went for branch collection just to be sure...0 reviews

https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/uk.rs-online.com

Not necessarily. Look and see that the 3TB is cheaper than the 2TB.

4TB's of storage seems to be the most cost-effective purchase right now.



Of course they do :smile:

(Cue the armchair lawyers coming out of the woodwork)

They may give you a miss pick. And you could end up with a USB thumb drive :confused:
Install one of these bad boys if you have a spare 8k

Why would they do such a thing?

No chance I am wasting my time on it (xmas prezzies to buy)

But good luck guys

Was just joking :smile:

Will this work for Xbox or ps4?

Will work with Xbone as its USB3 which is what I am looking for.

It says in the first post did not honour misprice. Or could have been Mrs. Price

ordered this a few days ago, initially got a delivery date end Jan, then moved forward to Dec and then to Jan again. have to admit was going to post it but the selfishly decided that doing so would kill any chance of me getting one.

Sorry :-)

You will no doubt receive your reward in heaven.

Good point. Now where did I leave my fax machine?

No, because you'll never actually receive it.

lol was only posted within the last hour. Could be completely fake.

Risked it for a biscuit - thanks op

Any idea if it will work with ps4?

PS4 supports up to 2TB

You have done the right thing IMO. Still, even it is posted here later on and possibly all orders going to be cancelled, they would consider the time difference I think and probably honour yours. Do they accept paypal BTW?

Anyone else notice the order does not show up in their "My Orders" section?

For the latter only to back up saves, data and games.

EDIT: Do these guys charge NOW or on despatch?

A good deal after a long time

:smile:

Is this 3.5 or 2.5? PS4??

It's now even lower in price - £46.33!

That's before VAT. Still 55.60 after VAT is added.

Ordered 1 on the off chance price is honoured.

they will not honour the sale as this is not a misprice and they will say they do not sell a

Matrox M3 Black 4 TB External Hard Drive

even the Mfr. Part No. HX-M401TCB/GM comes up as a Maxtor so ordering will be a waste of time.

if they had under-priced (or misprice) a

MaxtorM3 Black 4 TB External Hard Drive
(http://maxtor.seagate.com/files/maxtor-content/homepage/content/pdf/DS1879_1_1512US_M3Portable.pdf)

then they may have to honour the sale.

now if you walk into RS store and buy it at that price then that's a different story :smile:

I got a silver bearded instead browsing this deal

+VAT

162 on irish site....hmm

Waste of time I fear :disappointed:

It's a typo. Doesn't mean they won't honour.

Whenever I've found a pricing error, I've kept it to myself for this reason alone.

Well this definitely won't be honoured now

they don't have to honour anything.

Ordered, worth a go!

Has anyone had payment taken yet?

we will see :smiley:

I don't need one but heated as it's a very good price and a hot deal.

ordered 6000

You seriously think that somebody sits there, looking at each purchase, considering whether or not the buyer is just taking advantage of a misprice?

OOS now, but available for back order!

I had ordered yesterday, payment was taken out this morning and I got a confirmation from them this morning when payment was taken out! So I think they will honour

What the heck :wink:

Tried it, worth a shot

With the latest firmware it will take 4tb but the problem is the caddy that will only take up to 9.5mm height without modification and most (maybe all?) 4tb drives are 12mm plus...

It says maxtor on the case.

It was never in stock...

They don't have to even if payment is taken

"RS reserves the right to decline to trade with any company or person. In addition, RS may decline to accept any order, whether or not payment has been received, by giving notice of non-acceptance to the Customer by telephone or facsimile within a reasonable period of receipt by RS of the order."

I won't be holding out much hope of these actually being delivered.


edit: just had an order confirmation come through on email.

the part number matches maxtor documentation Mfr. Part No. HX-M401TCB/GM
Documentation

You obviously not been following this thread. It was oos for back order from the beginning. Sadly means they have tonnes of time to spot the blunder and cancel all orders. If this had only lasted an hour or two i think they might have honoured it on a small scale one per customer basis but there will have been far too many orders by now...

got email of order acceptance

Anyone know if you can crack this open and use them as a SATA drive? Know it is 2.5" but that should still be possible right?

I suspect the drive has the usb port built onto the board in place of the sata connector. Like this one (albeit an older usb connector)

http://i1275.photobucket.com/albums/y444/butterfingers110/photo3_zpsdf0f5118.jpg

Lol, I gave them my phone number of 0333 88888888 which is an automated message telling them to email me. Somehow I expect they would email a cancellation anyway.

Like others I have been sent an order confirmation this morning for £46.33 and a delivery date of 31/1/17, so just to check I called them and RS confirmed that is the new price and nothing wrong with it.

I may be wrong
http://www.techradar.com/reviews/pc-mac/pc-components/storage/disk-drives-hdd-ssd/samsung-m3-portable-4tb-1301619/review

sems to imply it's a ST4000LM016 disk which is a SATA interface.

4TB Seagate ST4000LM016, 2.5" HDD, SATA III 6Gbs, 128MB Cache, 15mm Height, 5400RPM

Sweet its been expired even though its still available for 'pre order', sweet though. Hopefully this means they wont get many more orders and will honour them!

Sweet if it gets honoured and is that, a bit too high for PS4 but it might fit without the frame.

Got this from RS apparently.

"We tried to carry out a name and address check on the above card transaction as part of our normal checking procedure but I am advised that your card issuer does not support this facility.

As we cannot obtain the basic security check we must ask for a bank transfer instead, which your bank should be able to arrange if you do not have online banking.
I have attached our bank details – if you could email me a copy of the bank confirmation of the transaction I will then use this to trace receipt through our central finance department.

Many thanks for your assistance & apologies for any inconvenience."

Wow, I don't think I'll be doing that

I received a email confirmation but it said the following,
Thank you for placing your order. We'll email you again to confirm prices and delivery dates.

did people get this first?

I don't blame you, RS are a legitimate business, but I wouldn't even do that to Amazon. You might want to try another card if you have one.

they said my card was blocked, I'm now trying with another card, we will see

Ordered a few hours ago and got confirmation email but no order in 'My Orders'. Same for anyone else?

Yep!

Ordered last night and just received an email saying 'We are emailing you to confirm your order details'. Delivery date is 31/1/2017. here's hoping.

Same as well got a delivery date of 31/01/2017 so fingers crossed as order has been accepted

Good luck everyone! :smile:

I got the same, sadly doesn't mean a thing, like 99.9% of retailers they will have a clause that states no contract till dispatch.

Also has anyone had payment taken for their order? It isn't showing anything from my card but my online banking typically takes at least 24 hours to show transactions so it probably hasn't updated....

Thanks, looks like I can stick it in a desktop then. Know its 5400 RPM and not the fastest drive, but needed one for Archival storage.

I also got the confirmation of the order however did not get any delivery date. Lest see what happens now whether they will honor or not.

Surely this is a good sign then - if they've actually confirmed the price then we're onto a bargin?

When I contacted them after the email they said they take the money when dispatched

Think they have finally pulled it. Seems to let you add it to basket but then when you try to view basket it says "There appears to be a problem with some of the information you have provided. Please review the page and make the appropriate amends before proceeding. If you need any help, please contact our Customer Services team on 01536 201201." and won't let you proceed.

Not a limit on how many you can order either as I tried signed in and as guest and same message.

Looks like this is officially over, only question looming is can and will they honour any of the existing orders?

Good Afternoon,

You recently placed an order with us for Matrox M3 Black 4TB External Hard Drive Info on Hardrive. I’m afraid this particular product has proved very popular and we’ve sold out.

As a result we’ve had to cancel your order. You have not been charged.

We’ve got lots of alternative products that might be of interest. The range is available to view at rswww.com .

I’m really sorry for any inconvenience that this may have caused you.

Emma Botfield
Head of Customer Services, Northern Europe

Weird since I've ordered within minutes of posting

It may be one of those screwups where those who ordered first became last and those who ordered last, became first.

I hate it when companies do that, but they generally couldn't care less as long as they are getting paid.

No its gone!

my first order was rejected as they said my card was blocked. my second order is still going at the mo. I have since used the first card

Well only a month until we see if something turns up. Good luck my friends.

Good to see you partaking in the spirit of the HUKD community, in a past life you probably worked in a WW2 POW camp reporting holes in the fences, and that was what made your day.... :-)

I had a message too stating there were issues with taking payment from my card. Very strange as I used earlier in the day with no problems. Will call them tomorrow.

I got a message this morning confirming order and stating delivery will be 31/01/2017.

They've taken the money from my account so we can only hope!!

One big ****

Yep, surprised they not killed all the orders yet. Good luck.

So many words could be hidden behind your ****. Maybe an opportunity for a game of hangman.

First guess is U?

One big bull S H I T

***King ruin it! Game of hangman wasted! At least I know now so it won't keep me awake tonight....

To be fair, it would have been a very quick game of hangman, vowels until you got the I, then you only have a handful of likely options.

I've only got an email confirming the order doesn't say when they will dispatch it

Give them a chance - they need to change the lettering on the caddy from "Maxtor" to "Matrox" first.

I love these will they or won't they deals. I guess it must be how gamblers feel.

Yep, except this is a win or draw situation, there is no lose as you won't be out of pocket with it in the end.

It will be a loss for some who feel they should get it :smile:

Yeah, but that is not a real loss. If you bet £50 on a game but had a money back if you lost deal, that is a win/draw too but even of they 'lost' the bet and got their money back, people would feel they should have won as they bet on the outcome they expected.

Have to say I tend to fall into that category quite a lot with these miss prices. Sometimes end up wishing I'd never seen them when they get cancelled as I find you sometimes feel as if you 'lost' something, even though you technically haven't where as if you remained blissfully unaware it wouldn't affect your mood cos you would never know it even happened.

I find I tend to feel more entitled to it as time passes too, which I think is at least somewhat understandable, as reasonably they should inform us within a reasonable time frame if they aren't going to fulfil the orders. So I'll be royally ticked off if they email me on 29th January to tell me they won't be delivering my hard drive on the 30th! :laughing:

Still no email after the first confirmation, but no cancellation notice either...

Order still isn't showing under My Orders

Spot on, thats why I could have, but didnt bother this time, good luck all...

What's a 'reasonable period'? If it were not for the backorder it should be maximum a few days... I'm still hopeful! :smiley:

Just got an email saying theyve changed the dispatch date to 29/12 :smiley:

They changed the price to £171.14.

They seem to have pulled it altogether now "111-3498 Currently not available for sale" They probably have more orders than they can handle already, though I'm very uncertain we will get anything. My order does show up on the site at least but has a incorrect order value of £0 and if I click the order number for more details it says "No valid data found for this order" so doesn't look great, unless they don't add in the details till it comes back in but looks fishy....

I still have their email confirmations that do show all the correct info but doubt they would help much if they decide to blanket cancel. Also no money taken so i suspect they don't charge on order, someone said they had been charged earlier but suspect they were either fibbing or used a payment method that always charges in advance like Paypal (if they even take it).

​Lying? Lying on HUKD? Well I never...

I just emphasize in what direction a seller would act if he had mispriced item to deal with, considering he has certain trading ethic. Thats all. Tnx.

Just got cancellation email from a Debbie McClintock from RS. :disappointed: I was charged on my card on Wednesday so hopefully the money will go back on soon. Good luck for everyone else.

Same here :laughing:

Just got that cancellation email too.

Was anyone else charged and got the cancellation email?

Got it too, from Emma Botfield, the Botfield is right as it's such a generic message it could well have been from a chat bot. Aparently "this particular product has proved very popular and we’ve sold out"

Of course that is a total lie as the product was on back order so they never actually had it in stock it was to order for when it came in stock. Hate it when companies treat their customers like morons and so blatantly lie to them. If they had been honest and said sorry we screwed up and miss priced it so we had to cancel I would have more respect for them.

I'm going to complain to them about it and tell them I am more than happy to wait as long as needed for it and ask if they can therefore reinstate my back order for it. They almost certainly won't but i want to complain in any event as I hate big companies screwing up and blatantly lying about it....

​yeah I was charged and I just got email too.

poor practice to take money THEN cancel...but oh well.... sh*t happens!!

Got the cancellation (see my other post) but not charged for it. Strangely seems some are getting charged and others not, can only guess some payment methods require immediate payment but others don't...

​This is why I never deal with companies who charge before dispatch.

Just got the cancellation from the "Botter"

Emma Bottyfield also cancelled my order. lol

We're really sorry

Dear Customer,

You recently placed an order with us for Matrox M3 Black 4TB External Hard Drive. I’m afraid this particular product has proved very popular and we’ve sold out.


As a result we’ve had to cancel your order. You have not been charged.
We’ve got lots of alternative products that might be of interest.

I’m really sorry for any inconvenience that this may have caused you.

Emma Botfield
Head of Customer Service

Same message from botfield, oh well :disappointed:

I want my Matrox Emma!!!!

I knew they would not support. Have a look at the price on the link I supplied :smile:

I ordered two using the same card but two different email addresses. The first order has received the same above email, the second has not.

Mine was cancelled too, but credit card was not charged

Lucky sod. When did you place your order?

cancelled too now sadly :disappointed:

I've got the email from Emma saying my order is cancelled and I have not been charged. But I have been charged so now I've got to try & get a refund.

my second order was canceled due to no stock left, didn't get charged

​Bad company to charge before dispatch.

Did anyone actually get this?

I Never even though it looked hopeful at the time

I know, but some of the comments here made it appear as if the retailer would let this one happen.

So did you (or others) end up getting the item?

Only one of my two orders using different email addresses got cancelled... but no payment has been taken and I have not received anything in the post.

Just got the cancellation email ..

So instead of refunding everyone ASAP after they realised it was an error, they held on people's money like a hostage for weeks for no apparent reason...

That's one company I wouldn't trust my money with.

As far as I'm aware they never took any money from anyone, they say they only take money on despatch and as no one got one you can only assume no money was taken, I certainly never had money taken

Oh alright, then I take what I said back.

Note that I never made an order myself, but I thought that money was taken and the price might be honoured based on some of the comments here.

Non-honoured misprice is a waste of everyone's time though.