I really can’t stand it when people pay too much money for stuff, especially geeky stuff. In this economy, let alone the Internet Era there’s just no good reason for people to pay any more than they should.

Case in point, as people already know I never ever NEVER pay more than $20 for a 100 pack of best-quality DVD media (Verbatim 16x DVD-Rs). Well, what happens if one of your DVD burner drives goes on the fritz? Or your old one is too slow and needs to be replaced because slow burn times are driving you crazy? So now that you’re in the market for a new one, how much do you think you should pay for a good DVD burner?

Would you believe almost the same amount I pay for that 100 pack of DVDs?

Seriously, if you look on the Net, especially at popular sites like Newegg or ZipZoomFly they usually have plenty of good, state-of-the-art, fast name-brand DVD drives for about $22-25 shipped on sale. There are drives that are more, of course but really all you have to do is check the review or user comments on the drive in question and you’ll easily find out if it’s a good drive or not. And most of the time it’s a pretty decent drive so it’s all good and time to place that order!

So now that we stopped you for paying too much for those DVDs and the drive that burns them, we’ll probably start letting you know about how not to pay too much for CD/DVD storage cases before too long…