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5950X £960? Nah mate
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Price dropped a 2nd time since I bought one a week ago - and now about £90 less too. What's going on with prices at the moment?? 
Not buying a radeon 6800xt anytime soon since will probably halve in price just after knowing my luck.
Not buying a radeon 6800xt anytime soon since will probably halve in price just after knowing my luck.
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£707.69 for most people with delivery. Where are you getting that the MSRP is £659? I saw it posted on HUKD and remarkably most of the comments were saying it's a no buy from "Overscalpers", and would wait for other retailers to drop prices. Overclockers probably made so much money that they don't care though£698.99 now and that isn't the cheapest, should hit the new 'MSRP' soon £659.
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£698.99 now and that isn't the cheapest, should hit the new 'MSRP' soon £659.
Not sure what you're saying, MSRP on the 5950x is £750, even if the US pricing is lower.
Can you imagine if the one of the supermarkets did this with all the goods in the store, their would be a national outcry and the other supermarkets would slate them to a ridiculous amount.
But in the home built PC space most of the major stores do the same. Are they colluding ?
Now OCUK will tell us that it is the distributors that keep changing the prices, which causes the fluctuations. But that would have to mean that OCUK has had several different shipments of the Ryzen 9 CPU's over just the last 2 weeks alone.
There should be laws against this sort of behavior.
Is it worth me posting in the customer service section, about asking for a refund of the difference as I paid £599 for a 5900x only 10 days ago?
But in the home built PC space most of the major stores do the same. Are they colluding ?
Now OCUK will tell us that it is the distributors that keep changing the prices, which causes the fluctuations. But that would have to mean that OCUK has had several different shipments of the Ryzen 9 CPU's over just the last 2 weeks alone.
There should be laws against this sort of behavior.
Is it worth me posting in the customer service section, about asking for a refund of the difference as I paid £599 for a 5900x only 10 days ago?
MSRP is set in $ not £, it is the same for Intel/Motherboards/GPU's they all work in $$$'s, it is then converted to local currency either at distributor level or retailer level. Most distribution places will let you pay in $ if you have a $ account, it depends how you are balancing the risk for currency fluctuations. As for the MSRP it was set at $799, but disti level prices are showing ~$749 (after margin), and this is reflected in the price being paid at that level, even some of the grey market sellers are below that price now. The pricing lower down the chain takes a while to come through (unless there are shortages), hence why there has been such a big shift in pricing now that stock is free flowing for the most part.
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I have been informed that people waiting months for Ryzen 9 5900X/5950X stock was a figment of our imaginations. Or companies which had stock didn't jack the price up due to the shortages. Apparently the Ryzen 5 5600X and Ryzen 7 5800X were not easier to get.