Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site opus.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hao!cires!nbires!opus!rcd From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn) Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: DAK tapes - some bargain Message-ID: <702@opus.UUCP> Date: Thu, 16-Aug-84 04:28:48 EDT Article-I.D.: opus.702 Posted: Thu Aug 16 04:28:48 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 19-Aug-84 01:29:22 EDT References: <1739@tekig1.UUCP> Organization: NBI, Boulder Lines: 13 On tapes available from DAK: > All their tapes have the advantage of CHEAP - they sell only in lots of 10 >and they go for about $24 for FeO and $26 for CrO2. They save money by making >you insert the box labels, etc. The shells are cheap,... (and the parent article notes a few other minor drawbacks...) OK, around here I can buy Maxell UD XL-II cassettes (CrO2 type) for $2.19 to $2.25. The labels are already in the box, the shells are good, and I've NEVER had problems with one. So why are the DAK cassettes at $2.60 a good buy? -- Dick Dunn {hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd (303)444-5710 x3086 ...Never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity.