1 gig mini SD cards NOW available from the MoDaCo shop!

[Guest squall]

Im very pleased to announce that the MoDaCo shop are now selling 1gig mini SD cards!

The website will be updated on Thursday 02 Dec 04 to include the cards

http://www.smesolutions.co.uk/modaco/orange.htm

Priced at around £149 this could be the perfect christmas prezzie!

The shop also have stock of SPV C500s at the fantastic price of £148.99!

[Guest Vector]

Nice!

Think i may have to wait for the price to come down before buying one though :lol:

[Guest mavisdavis]

Dint think I'll make much on my 512 minsd to aise enough to get either. Oh well I may give in if I can sell my 512 :wink:

[Guest Johnny Yen]

Santa ! :lol:

[Guest nickcornaglia]

Nice!

Think i may have to wait for the price to come down before buying one though :lol:

I'm thinking the same thing! (Unless I get one as a gift!)

[Guest sn1p3t]

I just bought a 512MB one 2 weeks ago! :lol:

Hopefully eBay will be my pal.

[Guest chucky.egg]

The Shop don't actually have them yet AFAICT (waiting for confirmation), so there's no great rush to sell your 512's

[Guest chucky.egg]

They say that they will have stock for sales around the middle of next week

[Guest Microsoft]

I have been wating for 1 GB Mini-SD since i bought my Qtek 7070 :lol:

When they are at 900 sek i will buy one ! I hate my 256 MB mini sd so much! I who thought it was enought when i bought it becuse i had the same size in my 7070! But well i have disvoerd that the cams video is fanstic!

[Guest FAZZA]

Will the 1gb cards work in the Orange C500?

I'm sure I remember reading that it only takes 512mb as part of the phone specs (or did they only say that as that was the max size out at the time?)??

Sorry for the nooby question :lol:

~FAZ~

[Guest awarner [MVP]]

That was the max size released at the time.

there should not be a problem with the 1Gb card.

[Guest FAZZA]

Yay :lol: I'll be getting one as soon as the shop has them

[Guest Confucious]

It's tempting, but as I'm out of work at the moment I think I'll have to wait until they come down in price.

On the other hand.....

[Guest Tarff]

I'm thinking the same thing! (Unless I get one as a gift!)

what they said ^^

[Guest chucky.egg]

A guy at another company (www.mobymemory.com) has told me that he's tested the 1Gb cards they have with the C500 and it works fine

[Guest yoos]

too bad we can't have stuff shipped to the USA from the shop :lol:

[Guest robertchinneck]

Hi there

I've been in contact with the Richard Chung guy from Teravit, and will order my own 1GB SD card soon via SWIFT transfer to their bank account. The cost on my proforma invoice is $135/106 Euro. The SWIFT charges for a SINGLE unit (that my bank smile charge) are between £22 and £48.

Unless the price quoted on my proforma has shot up, which should not be the case (Teravit confirmed the dollars price today) or my charges are wrong (the charges should be OK as smile emailed me this afternoon to confirm them), this means around £70 for the unit + a max of £48 charges.

So, how can Modaco Shop justify their £149 price?! Is there something I've missed? Can someone from Modaco please answer this? Or is the extra cash just their surcharge for taking the risk and doing all the work?

thanks,

Rob.

[Guest Confucious]

Ok- the charges are for your end - what about bank chrges their end -will Terravit absorb them or charge you? Then when it comes into this country will you pay VAT? Import Duty?

Let us know what it actually cost you when you get it then tell us if you still think MoDaCo are overcharginng - bering in mind that they do have to ,make a profit too AFAIK they are not a charity for our benefit (although I know iot does seem like that at times :lol:)

[Guest robertchinneck]

Here are the charges that smile told me about:

I'll be charged 0.25% of the sterling value (minimum fee 13.00 pounds, maximum fee of 35.00 pounds). So for this £70 mini SD it'll be the min. £13.

With SWIFT transfers, the receiving bank can also make a charge. I've been told that foreign banks charge about 9.00 pounds - 35.00 pounds (estimated).

I'm assuming I'll have to pay the maximum.

So the £13 and the £35 is where I got my worst case figure of £48.

Apparently there can also be other possible agents fees (ie yet more charges made by the korean bank for receiving the transfer). If further agents fees do get charged do I assume I'm gonna have to pay these.

I'll keep you posted....

Rob.

[Guest Confucious]

You forgot to mention the cost of shiping to the UK of $20

My bank was going to charge £18 for a TT

Unless you are very lucky you will be charged at least the 17 1/2% VAT and probably duty on top.

I hope you're not but it could work out more expensive than you think.

[Guest RazorD]

Unless you are very lucky you will be charged at least the 17 1/2% VAT and probably duty on top.

I gave up on the idea of importing things when i found out that import tax is around 25-30% (cant remember exactly, read the hm customs site)

-Raz

[Guest ProphetX]

how much will it cost for us customers and how long would it take to get here?

[Guest Microsoft]

A guy at another company (www.mobymemory.com) has told me that he's tested the 1Gb cards they have with the C500 and it works fine

sounds gr8t !! ;)/ [-o< =D> =p~ :lol: :D :shock:

[Guest Shop @ MoDaCo]

Hi there  

 

I've been in contact with the Richard Chung guy from Teravit, and will order my own 1GB SD card soon via SWIFT transfer to their bank account. The cost on my proforma invoice is $135/106 Euro. The SWIFT charges for a SINGLE unit (that my bank smile charge) are between £22 and £48.  

 

Unless the price quoted on my proforma has shot up, which should not be the case (Teravit confirmed the dollars price today) or my charges are wrong (the charges should be OK as smile emailed me this afternoon to confirm them), this means around £70 for the unit  + a max of £48 charges.  

 

So, how can Modaco Shop justify their £149 price?!  Is there something I've missed? Can someone from Modaco please answer this? Or is the extra cash just their surcharge for taking the risk and doing all the work?  

 

thanks,  

Rob.

Please don't forget our final price £149.99 (estimated !!) must also include VAT @ 17.5% which works out at £127.00 ex VAT :wink:

[Guest Shop @ MoDaCo]

too bad we can't have stuff shipped to the USA from the shop :(

But you can :)

email the shop with your requests, they will able to help you :wink: