Cheap 512 MB SD SanDisk - What is the catch?

Greetings!Best Buy is selling 512 MB SD card made by SanDisk at $99.99
after rebates. What is the catch? Why other manufacturers of SD memory
cards are not selling at that price? It seems SanDisk memory cards are
cheaper than others. Has any one is using 512 MB SD card? I want to
buy one if there is no catch? With thanks.

 

Check Ebay

Kass
: Greetings!Best Buy is selling 512 MB SD card made by SanDisk at $99.99
: after rebates. What is the catch? Why other manufacturers of SD memory
: cards are not selling at that price? It seems SanDisk memory cards are
: cheaper than others. Has any one is using 512 MB SD card? I want to
: buy one if there is no catch? With thanks.

 

I checked shopper.com they show prices from $70.00 on up 99.00 is no big
deal I have a sandisk ultra II 256MB and a Lexmark 40X 512. Both work well
but the Lexmark comes with a USB reader and recovery software


Wayne

 

The prices certainly are getting better. Just since Feb. when I bought
the new camera that uses SD cards, the price has fallen so that I
actually paid less for a 256meg card last month than I did for the 128
meg cards in Feb.

 

Check Amazon, I recently got a Sandisk Ultra II 256M for $52 - $15 rebate
net $37 . . seems fair.

Rick

 

The $52 is a deal, the rebate makes it a steal.

 

There is no catch as such but all of the cheap memory cards are
SLOOOOOWWWW. I find that a good tradeoff. You may not. The time to
download the pictures is the problem here. If you buy a fast card
(read expensive) at Ritz camera tit will be as much as 20 times faster
than the cheap ones.


For some cameras the fast one is a requirement or the camera cannot
perform. This is mostly high end digital SLR cameras in fast repeat
shooting modes.

 

I've got a couple of SanDisk Memory Sticks which have worked perfectly from
Day 1. I'm sure the SDs are of similar quality and you can trust them to
fulfill their purpose. (I don't work for SanDisk)