30 free 8GB (or 16GB) USB pens

December 18, 2011 4:49 PM

30 free 8GB (or 16GB) USB pens. Is this possible to find? We're filling them with our movies and giving them as a reward for our project donors, but 30 x $$ is a lot of money. Other than online surveys which we could fill out for one free one, does anyone know how I can get 30 for free? Or as a bulk deal?

Bonus question: another reward is a pen that looks like a sheep for a specific donor. But you know what comes up when I search for a "sheep pen". If you've seen something that looks like this, a link would be lovely. Thanks!

posted by omnigut to Computers & Internet (7 answers total)

Is this what you had in mind for the latter? I searched for "office sheep pen" and that seemed to help the results.
posted by Tomorrowful at 4:55 PM on December 18, 2011

How about a USB pen with a sheep on top?

http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/260282524/USB_pen_drive_with_pleasant_sheep.html

It's kind of an export-import link, but at least you know they're out there.

You could search for "novelty pen" +sheep and see what that gets you ...
posted by carter at 4:57 PM on December 18, 2011

Are you looking for ones with logos or something.

In my experience, anything under 100 logoed drives is going to be prohibitively expensive.

Otherwise, buying some on Amazon is probably your best bet.
posted by k8t at 5:14 PM on December 18, 2011

Response by poster: I'm just looking for cheapest option. Amazon's showing roughly $4 to $10 for the flash drives:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001T9CTRS/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&m=A3KCG0NFGFK0O0

So 30 should come to roughly $120. That's not terrible, but $4 is 16% of the donation. Plus postage... well, whatever I can do to get them for free would be great.

I found a great sheep pen. Thank you!
posted by omnigut at 5:26 PM on December 18, 2011 [1 favorite]

That's $4 plus $5 shipping at the Amazon link.

For super cheap commodity electronics, I usually think of dealextreme.com or tigerdirect.com. The best deal I see there is 4GB, $5, free shipping at Tiger Direct.
posted by kprincehouse at 10:40 PM on December 18, 2011

Maybe find out if a business in your area would be interested in sponsoring you by supplying flash drives with their logo? (It's cheap, as advertising goes, but expensive if you are trying to buy 30 of them without spending any money, since the standard minimum for bulk pricing is 50, and since the real promo prices are for the little drives, not the big boys.)
posted by gingerest at 11:29 PM on December 18, 2011

You can get 4Gb on a DVD (8Gb on a dual-layer, but the media will be a little more expensive) which will be a lot cheaper than the flash memory sticks.
posted by pharm at 4:21 AM on December 19, 2011