As you may be aware, VAT returns to its standard rate of 17½% after being at the reduced rate of 15% for a year. As with most retailers, we regret that our standard prices on most items will rise slightly to reflect this.

You can avoid this small rise by ordering on or before the 31st of December 2009. All orders placed before the 1st of January will be charged at the lower 15% VAT rate, regardless of when they’re processed and dispatched- so it makes sense to get your order in now!

Here are the scheduled dispatch and delivery dates for Christmas and New Year 2009. We regret that the cutoff time for placing orders for expected delivery in time for Christmas has now passed. (Please note that this time has been brought forward slightly due to delays caused by adverse weather).   [Read More]

We recently had some trouble finding the drivers for a Virgin Media “Freedom” netbook (small notebook/laptop computer), so when we did eventually find them, we figured it would be worth keeping them on the website to save everyone else the hassle!   [Read More]

If you’re worried about ordering due to the Royal Mail industrial action… good news!

All strikes have been called off until New Year at the very earliest, so Disk Depot deliveries via Royal Mail over the Christmas season will not be affected.

(This was only ever a problem with small parcels where the optional low-cost Royal Mail first and second class options were available- the majority of orders placed with Disk Depot use CityLink courier services and were not affected in the first place).

In other words- order with confidence, you have nothing to worry about!

If you own an inkjet printer, you’re probably well aware that the ink for most models (especially the “cheap” ones) is horribly expensive- at least if you stick to the manufacturer’s original cartridges.

You’ve probably also noticed that “compatible” inks are available at much lower prices. In some cases, you can be talking about £1 for a compatible cartridge instead of £8 or more for its official equivalent. Too good to be true? After all, there’s surely no way anyone can sell decent ink that much cheaper and still make a reasonable profit- right? Wrong.   [Read More]

You may have noticed the additions of some tiny icons to the bottom of most product pages- if you’re wondering what they are, read on!   [Read More]

If you’ve been keeping an eye on the website, you’ll notice that we’ve recently started a new range of products under the DDDeal name. What is it?   [Read More]

Here are firmware upgrades for many of the optical drives that we sell (or have sold in the past). At the time of writing, these are believed to be the latest versions of the firmware for the drives in question.   [Read More]

Depending on the model of the CISS system there are a few ways to reset them.   [Read More]

Here are some of the questions we sometimes get asked, or that pop up commonly on search queries for our site. If you have any more, feel free to email them to us!   [Read More]