What has happened to pricing?

Kemik

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I priced up the below spec in February for £1,100. Now the same spec is at least 15% more... The graphics card in particular has shot up in price. The RAM was £69 and is now £100!

NZXT H510
EVGA Supernova P2 650W 80 Plus Platinum Modular
AMD 3700X
MSI NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER
Patriot Viper Steel 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-28800C17 3600MHz
Crucial MX500 1TB
MSI B450 TOMAHAWK MAX

Was thinking of building this weekend but I'm not willing to pay an extra £200 as it isn't something I desperately need.
 
Begbie said:
No idea how the prices of hardware could've increased?

The world shutting down maybe?
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Availability doesn't seem to be an issue on the consumer side as I can find multiple sources with lots in stock. Are graphics cards the new toilet rolls?
 
Kemik said:
Availability doesn't seem to be an issue on the consumer side as I can find multiple sources with lots in stock. Are graphics cards the new toilet rolls?
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Prices of everything will increase, especially if it's coming from Asia which will be most PC components. Gibbo said this the other week too.

They'll have stock now, but the prices will have increase at factories etc.
 
The value of the pound against the dollar is all over the place too. A little while ago it was down to the lowest point since the 80s. It's recovered a bit now (1GBP=1.24USD, it was at 1.15USD not too long ago) but it was around 1.3USD before all this started. I suspect it's at least partly down to stock purchased at a price with a lower exchange rate.
 
Most PC gear is sold in dollars so as Phemo has said above there's been some currency fluctuations. Also nearly all of it is made in China or Taiwan. Usually production tails off or even stops completely for Chinese New Year and them ramps back up again but that hasn't happened. Stock levels are dropping and not being replenished so prices will edge up as supply dwindles.
 
Everyone (except me) is stuck at home wanting to play games, so will be buying stuff up... High demand, higher prices.
Wait six months, for when no-one has any money left and prices drop.
 
Pound is low, tech bought in dollars, even if they had bought loads of stock before currency change, smart move is to adjust pricing to newer stock to make extra profit
EU stock is lower then US and Asia
 
RAM has always been like a stock market commodity, you need to pick your buying times well and use price guides that graph how things are moving.
 
ttaskmaster said:
Everyone (except me) is stuck at home wanting to play games, so will be buying stuff up... High demand, higher prices.
Wait six months, for when no-one has any money left and prices drop.
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The higher demand is because a lot of people are now working from home, and in order for people who can work from to be able to work from home, they need a PC.

A week and a half I waited for a next day delivery to be sent from a store in Bolton before I gave up and cancelled the order and brought the kit from somewhere else to build my Dad a new PC, still waiting for the one part I ordered from OCuk, its been a week so far, thankfully its only a basic external memory card reader, so im not in any hurry.
 
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ttaskmaster said:
Everyone (except me) is stuck at home wanting to play games, so will be buying stuff up... High demand, higher prices.
Wait six months, for when no-one has any money left and prices drop.
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My money is on this. Wait a few months, watch retailers and suppliers slash prices to try and keep sales moving.
It’ll be the same in the supermarkets - for example all, those stockpiles of bog roll a lot of folk have, they won’t be buying, stores will have to practically give it away to get sales.
Some retailers are making a killing in the currently climate but unlike groceries and other goods with sell by dates, those who plumped to buy a new monitor/gpu/cpu now won’t need, want or maybe even be able to buy again in a few months. Prices will have to come down or sales, especially of pc hardware, will stagnate for quite a while.
 
Thekwango said:
My money is on this. Wait a few months, watch retailers and suppliers slash prices to try and keep sales moving.
It’ll be the same in the supermarkets - for example all, those stockpiles of bog roll a lot of folk have, they won’t be buying, stores will have to practically give it away to get sales.
Some retailers are making a killing in the currently climate but unlike groceries and other goods with sell by dates, those who plumped to buy a new monitor/gpu/cpu now won’t need, want or maybe even be able to buy again in a few months. Prices will have to come down or sales, especially of pc hardware, will stagnate for quite a while.
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Why big Navi and Next Nvidia can be delayed . Clear stocks quicker unlike Pascal and Maxwell .
Prices already going up , Nvidia should be able to get supply chain very low before rolling out Next Gen, and with global recovery in progress .
 
orbitalwalsh said:
Why big Navi and Next Nvidia can be delayed . Clear stocks quicker unlike Pascal and Maxwell .
Prices already going up , Nvidia should be able to get supply chain very low before rolling out Next Gen, and with global recovery in progress .
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They can delay all they want. Prices on gpu’s were only going up because - and let’s be honest here - nv and amd know gpu customers are probably the biggest gob****** on the planet. Granted the ultra high end will probably keep on rising but there’s going to be a huge sales hole in the mid to mid/high gpu market due to those work from home/furloughed customers who have recently splurged and won’t or can’t buy a new release in 3-6 months time. If there’s not price cut sales will collapse in that bracket. Retailers can’t afford that, maybe nv and amd can but the retailers can’t. When the global recovery begins buyers will have other priorities, retailers will need something to grab at least some sales and the only way I see that is with good, attractive pricing. OCUK and the rest won’t survive on the sales of 3080ti’s or whatever they’ll be called.
Obviously that’s only my opinion but it’s one I firmly believe.
 
@Thekwango

What AIB and resellers like gibbo fear the most, Nvidia and AMD producing reference designs and locking them down for longer or exclusive. Gibbo use to make good money on Titan sales, now it's Nvidia directly. Same with workstation cards.
AMD with Vega held out soooo long on reference PCB .
Will be a day Nvidia locks down Ti models.. then people will be paying more :(
 
orbitalwalsh said:
@Thekwango

What AIB and resellers like gibbo fear the most, Nvidia and AMD producing reference designs and locking them down for longer or exclusive. Gibbo use to make good money on Titan sales, now it's Nvidia directly. Same with workstation cards.
AMD with Vega held out soooo long on reference PCB .
Will be a day Nvidia locks down Ti models.. then people will be paying more :(
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Oh no doubt the long term plan for amd and nv will be to push prices as high as they can (but hey that’s every businesses model) but short to medium term when the world starts settling down they will have to do something to push sales and high prices isn’t going to be a winner. I’d genuinely be very surprised if there’s not some very tasty deals appear once the dust settles and production starts to scale back up.
They and the retailers will need to coax that low, mid and mid/high customer to part with cash. Of course after that, well we know the upward trend will just start all over again.
 
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