** SSD + OHER FLASH/DRAM PRICES GOING UP!! ** BUY NOW!

Andrew Moore

Andrew Moore

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As you may be aware the strength of the british Pound against the American Dollar has fallen. Not only this but the price of DRAM, NAND and any other flash based product is on the way up. This unforunately means DRAM, SSDs and Flash drives will be on the way up!

You may7 have noticed that certain lines have already had the odd few £££s added to them and this is looking as though it is likelt to continue.

If your in the market for buying one of the above products you need to buy NOW or run the risk of paying a little or even a lot more!
 
As above, come next week pricing shall be going up across the board, fill your boots this weekend, especially on NAND/RAM related products but the with exchange rates weakening everything will gradually move up.

So fill your boots and if you see something that looks suspiciously cheap even if on a competitors site get it purchased as they have probably just not re-evaluated their re-buy price.

Prices will be a lot higher next weekend. :(
 
How much are we likely to see prices gain by?

I guess we have no idea of the timescale either.

Is everyone going to start running RAID configs and WD Raptors, again, instead of SSDs?
 
JAGRocks09 said:
How much are we likely to see prices gain by?

I guess we have no idea of the timescale either.

Is everyone going to start running RAID configs and WD Raptors, again, instead of SSDs?
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Not crazy, probably circa 10-15%, but if NAND/RAM rockets more so then could be more, the market is volatile however, nothing to say next week exchange rates won't improve and DRAM market won't fall again. Though its quite common at this time of year prices start shooting up due to supposedly shortages.....
 
JAGRocks09 said:
How much are we likely to see prices gain by?

I guess we have no idea of the timescale either.

Is everyone going to start running RAID configs and WD Raptors, again, instead of SSDs?
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I wouldnt be suprised to see 10% increase in price if not more. Gibbo has mentioned at £39.99 kit wmay increase by atleast £10 in another thread so thats a 25% increase alone!

I couldnt say whats going on with SSD but as said, I wouldnt be suprised if we started to see prices up by as much as 10% or more over the coming weeks. :(
 
Gibbo said:
Not crazy, probably circa 10-15%, but if NAND/RAM rockets more so then could be more, the market is volatile however, nothing to say next week exchange rates won't improve and DRAM market won't fall again. Though its quite common at this time of year prices start shooting up due to supposedly shortages.....
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Andrew Moore said:
I wouldnt be suprised to see 10% increase in price if not more. Gibbo has mentioned at £39.99 kit wmay increase by atleast £10 in another thread so thats a 25% increase alone!

I couldnt say whats going on with SSD but as said, I wouldnt be suprised if we started to see prices up by as much as 10% or more over the coming weeks. :(
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It's a real shame RAM prices are pretty damn good as it is.

I'm glad I filled all my RAM slots whilst they where cheaper.

Just think I will have to order an SSD today instead of leaving it for a few months time.

Hopefully the economy will level off again before too long.
 
This Weekend only Memory megaspecial?

Come on you know it makes sense :p

Might actually grab a coupla 8Gb DDR3 kits for my build later in the year, get some nice GSkill kits or summit at the magic £40 mark hopefully :)
 
Andrew Moore said:
Not only this but the price of DRAM, NAND and any other flash based product is on the way up. This unforunately means DRAM, SSDs and Flash drives will be on the way up!

If your in the market for buying one of the above products you need to buy NOW or run the risk of paying a little or even a lot more!
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I really hate you right now...

Was looking at RAM and SSDs ...

I assume this week only prices will not change until Wednesday morning?
 
Sorry not buying it, according to the news, newspapers, stock exchange, travel agents and post office, the pound is on the way up versus the dollar and euro, unless overclockers staff can see the future i just see this as a way to put up prices and dupe eveyone into paying more.
 
Trifid said:
I really hate you right now...

Was looking at RAM and SSDs ...

I assume this week only prices will not change until Wednesday morning?
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I was looking at getting a 128gb M4 that is on TWO. Went to order it this afternoon and it has gone from £133.99 on Wed to £139.99 today.
 
prices will probably go up one bf3 is out and hyping specs to get people to upgrade also nearly holiday season the biggest sales period of the year ;)

sales are down by a good margin on the whole sales industry they need our custom a lot more than last year so i say wont go up by much but might be increase but not enough to go out panic buying :D

from what iseen ssd drives are going down not up :p
 
Atom said:
I was looking at getting a 128gb M4 that is on TWO. Went to order it this afternoon and it has gone from £133.99 on Wed to £139.99 today.
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:( Don't happen to know what the 256GB was before do you?

Edit: £8 by the looks of it. :(
 
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120 Day exchange rage graph here: http://www.x-rates.com/d/USD/GBP/graph120.html

Pretty obvious that the £ has weakened vs the US$ in recent weeks (i.e 1 pound buys you fewer dollars) and it's about 9% down from its' 4-month high. If your running tight margins, which everyone seems to be doing on DRAM and NAND right now a price hike isn't all that unwarranted. As for how much... who can say, I'm not privy to OCUK sourcing purchasing ;)
 
Ive been monitoring the spot price of DRAM which is a good forward indicator of memory prices, from what I can glean movements in the spot price take 4 - 8 weeks to filter through to the end user. I have noted a circa 40% increase in the DDR3 spot price last 2 weeks.
 
DF1986 said:
Sorry not buying it, according to the news, newspapers, stock exchange, travel agents and post office, the pound is on the way up versus the dollar and euro, unless overclockers staff can see the future i just see this as a way to put up prices and dupe eveyone into paying more.
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www.xe.com

Follow the stock market and the real time dollar rate. Look at the crash over the past few weeks (from mid august onwards) and then have a look at..

dramexchange.com

Your wrong in this case. Prices are increasing and unfortunately it is for everyone.
 
littlepuppy said:
Ive been monitoring the spot price of DRAM which is a good forward indicator of memory prices, from what I can glean movements in the spot price take 4 - 8 weeks to filter through to the end user. I have noted a circa 40% increase in the DDR3 spot price last 2 weeks.
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Exactly.

The $ to £ has dropped from 1.653 to 1.541 in a matter for a couple of weeks. If something is £200 it will mean it will cost £214.54 base on exchange rate.

Thats 7.3%

The SSDs as you have noticed have gone up by a few £££s. The 128GB was £133.99 and now is £139.99. Thats an increase of £6. If I put it up by the exchange rate it would be £143.77 so by that maths OcUK are actually losing out on profit and keeping to an even tighter margin. Add to this the price of NAND increasing as well as DRAM and its plain to see that OcUK are actually swallowing some of the increases themselves and giving the savings to the customer. This cant happen for long though as its not cost effective so as the origina post says, its probably better to buy now than wait as costs will increase considerably oever the next few weeks.
 
glad i got my RAM order in tonight then , ive been reading over the last few weeks that prices will increase so best to upgrade for bf3 NOW rather than when its released,it might save you a tenner or more on most kits
 
I know your following the general trends at the moment, and completely understand that you have to meet your own requirements for profit by increasing price, but frankly with the current instability of the Stock markets, especially in Europe with the Greek crisis I wonder whether this will continue...

I must admit, it may well do, but there's also a chance that it may not...

kd
 
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