Agreed, but they are also not purchasing 1, they will be buying in bulk so that should compensate for the dollar excuse.
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nVidia announce the Titan X at GDC 2015
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Agreed, but they are also not purchasing 1, they will be buying in bulk so that should compensate for the dollar excuse.
It isn't an excuse and they mostly always buy in bulk anyway. The dollar price of stock can affect what the retailer is able to sell individual cards for by quite a bit. We seen it with the 970's where they were actually cheaper on release because the pound was stronger against the dollar.
My point being, they buy in bulk but sell each individually, they dont sell at the bulk price. So if the dollar price is affecting the bulk purchase, what you buy in bulk would even itself out and probably still make the retailer profit.
Not when that bulk of stock is sometimes costing you a couple of thousand more than it did previously.
Gibbo has said it himself that stock price can have a big effect on individual pricing and that was on cards they were getting huge amounts of stock for.
They aren't going to be buying in anywhere near the same amount of Titan X's as they did 970's.
Gibbo has said it himself that stock price can have a big effect on individual pricing and that was on cards they were getting huge amounts of stock for.
They aren't going to be buying in anywhere near the same amount of Titan X's as they did 970's.
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That's true re: 970's.
Without knowing exact figures (which we will never have the luxury of knowing) its hard to tell exactly what the differences are.
What I am aware of more is that the dollar 'excuse' as i call it, will affect etailers next bulk purchase order, but the hike always seems to apply to current stock which has already been bought. Right or wrong, I'm always quite cynical about it.
That wasn't the case with the 970s. Gibbo made a post saying if you want a 970, then get one now because next week when the new stock lands, the price will go up, and that was what happened.
So when the new stock lands, has all the current stock been sold ?
That's not how it works, it's on a stock count basis, you know how much of that stock is left at the lower price you paid, then you up the price once that number has depleted.
Thats basically what I said previously, it shouldn't matter if new stock is bought the week after or the month after, only when current stock is sold should the price rise, not what new boy stated earlier. re: price will go up next week when new stock arrives due to dollar changes.
What if when the new stock arrives next week and the prices goes up as stated and the current stock is not all sold ?
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That's all very well but it doesn't make much sense when you look at the £ against the $ over the past 6 months. The £ has been steadily growing stronger, not by much, but it is on the rise against the $.
On that very simple premise, we should have seen prices dropping on everything NVidia GPU. This obviously isn't the case being that both 970s and 980s have increased in price since their release in Nov / Dec, whenever it was.
Part of the reason why I haven't invested in anything yet. Despite good intentions.
On that very simple premise, we should have seen prices dropping on everything NVidia GPU. This obviously isn't the case being that both 970s and 980s have increased in price since their release in Nov / Dec, whenever it was.
Part of the reason why I haven't invested in anything yet. Despite good intentions.
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I dont know where you've been looking, but as of right now the mid market rate is 1.4935, which is the lowest its been in months, before christmas it was around 1.6
Last summer it was around 1.68 and it has been steadily falling
Exchange rates now are dog dirt
The euro is even worse off though so if euroland retailers manage to eek out a deal to keep euro prices down you might be able to bag a deal
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I don't think OCUK actually buy stock they sell shelf space as it were for commission based on units sold.
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One reason I call it the dollar excuse. Its a perfect 'excuse' to charge more or not drop a price.I do understand trends but you cant know for sure what is going to sell to the exact amount, so lets say hypothetically there's 20 units left over, you and I both know those 20 units will go up to the new price. There wont be a time you have a perfect last one sold with the courier arriving 5 mins later with more.
I've not been able to follow this thread for the last few days. Is $999 a confirmed price or a new rumoured price?
How do you know that? If anything they would probably overshoot on old stock into new stock at the older price before upping it.
Everything is tracked electronically, it's easy to see when the last one has sold at your old price and we've seen before where prices have changed on the site mid day.
Even so they definitely don't do what you originally said and just hike the price on old stock straight away.
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You are spot on, I take back what I said, I was using XE.com and I've rechecked - for whatever reason the chart I was referring to was displaying the ratio of $/£ rather than £/$ with the axis labelled in sterling rather than dollars.
Good job on calling out my BS.