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Can someone explain to me why the exchange rate ONLY affects the new GPUs and not every other computer component made in the East? Don't see the CPU prices fluctuating daily......
 
oFliPo said:
I don't think I've ever pre-ordered something without knowing expected date. but there we go.

Fed up of fighting against the instant sell outs everywhere else as soon as stock is loaded.

Pre-ordering a card hopefully secures me actually getting one at some point.
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I kinda did when I pre-ordered cyberpunk :p
 
r00ty said:
I remember quite some years ago. My bank had an option on the internet banking to say which country you were visiting to cut down the automated fraud systems. I visited Namibia, put all the details into the system. Went to an ATM once there and instantly declined.. 10 minutes later I get a call. The guy says "You should have told us you were going to Namibia", I said I did... "Oh, yeah... OK it's all good now".

Automated systems also are weird and unpredictable. Spend 10k on a car on the card for the first time ever? Sure we won't even manually approve it, just take the money. Spend £50 at a retailer you've used regularly for over a decade? Yeah, we're going to decline that. Yes, this really happened. I mean, I'm sure there was some really good logic going on there to do that. But, I can't fathom it.
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This is actually common. I do web design for ecommerce, so I know how the payment card industry operates. This happens a lot if that etailer (or regular retailer in some cases) has had a pattern of card fraud against them. It isn't always cause for concern, because the fraud could have happened somewhere else, but then the same shoppers who were defrauded also shopped at the etailer where the decline happened. This means any etailers who fit that same pattern of spending are flagged temporarily.
 
thecremeegg said:
Can someone explain to me why the exchange rate ONLY affects the new GPUs and not every other computer component made in the East? Don't see the CPU prices fluctuating daily......
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because reasons, basically ocuk and everyone else buys stuff is batches so at that time they buy them in at say $1.30=£1 and gibbo generally sells them at this rate until that specific stock runs out, with this launch though im not sure how its working out but seems either ocuk or the manufactuers are playing silly sods with with the prices or the batches of gpu's being bought are so small the prices change daily.

again this is how it has worked in the past, but the last week its more the huge swing in prices verses the actual swing in exhcnage rats have been trippled and even quadrupled to get the price rises. so someone is adding more to the price somewhere.

plus you know, supply and demand price gouging.
 
Biggest thing that boils my p**s is the fact paying customers cant get a crad yet every freeloading celebrity p***k gets sent them for free there are literally tens of thousands going to rich people for free

Even the tiniest of youtubers seem to get them too.....

I understand its publicity but whats the point publicising something you don't even have the bloody stock to sell?

(This is aimed at nvidia and aib companys btw not ocuk)
 
thecremeegg said:
Can someone explain to me why the exchange rate ONLY affects the new GPUs and not every other computer component made in the East? Don't see the CPU prices fluctuating daily......
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Because its a PR lie and they are price gouging like all other UK retailers. Manufacereurs are not putting up prices just because of demand.....
 
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