Usually we only bin oem system assigned chips. This time and only while the shortage exists will we bin retail. These cpu then either go for sale as binned or into systems and bundles.
THIS.... JUST WOW!!
What an
awful way to treat your customers, it's not good enough you make profit by selling the damn things in the first place at RRP?
Whilst the shortage exists, you are capitalising by opening retail boxes, testing them and selling them for an extra £440 (£799) for a 5.2Ghz CPU, which
should by all rights have landed in the lap of a customer for £359. I'm genuinely shocked that OCUK are milking their customers this way.
Sell Retail CPU's at RRP. Your literally slapping on hundreds of pounds because there is a shortage - It's like ticket touts buying up concert tickets to make a few hundred quid profit and robbing a fan of the opportunity to see their favourite band.
Retail boxed CPU's should be for retail customers to take the silicon lottery, sometimes win and sometime lose, that's our choice. Taking this away from us you may as well band every single CPU up and charge and become as low as silicon lottery pre binned sites.
Tinker all you want with OEM as long as it doesn't effect customers abilities to buy a CPU or any other hardware for that matter.
Ethically its wrong. I'm going to make a complaint.