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AMD Socket 939 X2 4600 back in stock at only £119.99+VAT !!
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Gibbo said:Hi there
Just found another 500 and took them. Seems nowhere in Europe has any now, shall start looking in the far east next to see if I can grab more. Damn these are popular and its gotta be to do with the release of Vista in the pipeline so everybody is going dual core to enhance Vista performance.
oh if your only looking in europe i can understand why your coming up empty lol, USA markets have ample supply of 939 chips.
locutus12 said:oh if your only looking in europe i can understand why your coming up empty lol, USA markets have ample supply of 939 chips.
Hi there
The US prices are substancially higher than I am paying for the ones in the EU. Our website price is cheaper than practically every US etailor selling these chips and my buy price is a different story. The deals that AMD are giving to their European Distributors and customers are not the same deals as the USA are getting.
Hence why in the US you can get an FX60 for peanuts as its a deal done over there, however from speaking to AMD this morning a price request has been done and hopefully AMD will give us a deal that allows us to sell the FX60 for £200-£250+VAT.
Hades said:
Yup, especially when you can get it for that price inclusive of vat. For something like £240 inclusive of vat its probably worthwhile for those on a last ditch 939 upgrade, dont think its worth anymore than that though.
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Price is up £5 plus VAT from the start of this thread. Glad I bought mine on Saturday. Hopefully Citylink will be knocking on the door today!
The news thread says price is £129.99 plus VAT, the item description says £124.99, someone got their wires crossed?
The news thread says price is £129.99 plus VAT, the item description says £124.99, someone got their wires crossed?
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man_from_uncle said:
I completely agree with this without a doubt (even though I heard it was more like a 200mhz increase but it depends on what apps are running)
man_from_uncle said:
Completely illogical though (unless you got the cpu's the wrong way round)
a 2.8Ghz 4400 (with 1mb cache) is more than likely to be equal or faster than a 3Ghz 4600 in the majority of cases......however whether its worth the additional cost is another matter (I wouldnt personally think it would be worth the extra £££)
just my opinion though (and through testing X2's with and without the additional cache)
Gibbo said:
thats very strange of them gibbo, i dont understand how the US distributors could be substantially more expensive than EU suppliers given the sliding dollar and the fact that the Retail price for AMD 939 CPU`s in the USA is ridiculously cheap, Quick example of US retail X2 price converted using today's exchange rate from $ to £
these are taken from the Largest and most well known US E-tailer, with five and a half million registered customers and more than 1200 employees globally they are probably the largest PC parts E-tailer in existence.
X2 4400 OEM £102.66
X2 4600 £119.94
X2 4800 £149.10
Opteron 165 £79.44
Opteron 170 £97.50
Opteron 175 OEM £92.86
now true in the USA they dont pay VAT but these prices are US RETAIL prices, buying in bulk from a US distributor or direct from AMD America gets you these for cheaper still, i.e. 3 to 5 hundred pcs, factoring in transport and VAT costs and youd still be able to sell these with a small profit and give a little customer satisfaction too as youd be the only guys in England with stock apart from 1 large e-tailer here in Coventry, but there service is abysmal
and they are selling opteron 170`s for £263!.failing this just get your ass over there on a plane, buy a suitcase full and tell customs its full of socks
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locutus12 said:thats very strange of them gibbo, i dont understand how the US distributors could be substantially more expensive than EU suppliers given the sliding dollar and the fact that the Retail price for AMD 939 CPU`s in the USA is ridiculously cheap, Quick example of US retail X2 price converted using today's exchange rate from $ to £
these are taken from the Largest and most well known US E-tailer, with five and a half million registered customers and more than 1200 employees globally they are probably the largest PC parts E-tailer in existence.
X2 4400 OEM £102.66
X2 4600 £119.94
X2 4800 £149.10
Opteron 165 £79.44
Opteron 170 £97.50
Opteron 175 OEM £92.86
now true in the USA they dont pay VAT but these prices are US RETAIL prices, buying in bulk from a US distributor or direct from AMD America gets you these for cheaper still, i.e. 3 to 5 hundred pcs, factoring in transport and VAT costs and youd still be able to sell these with a small profit and give a little customer satisfaction too as youd be the only guys in England with stock apart from 1 large e-tailer here in Coventry, but there service is abysmal
failing this just get your ass over there on a plane, buy a suitcase full and tell customs its full of socks
Your referring to Newegg, Tiger and Zipzoomfly I would image, as Newegg is the largest US Etailor by a vast amount.
Let me just say they operate on far lower margins than OcUK do. Hence my buy price is a lot cheaper than I could buy from the US at and thats before shipping charges.
Afterall Newegg is not a competitor of OcUK, were not competing with the US, were competing with the UK. If we really wanted to we could undercut those Newegg prices vastly but we have no need to due to the huge demand for the products.
Newegg sell the X2 4600 Socket 939 for $232.49 I see your using a dollar rate of roughly 1.95 but you have to remember a bank will always be quite a bit lower than the exchange rate on www.xe.com and therefor its more realistic to expect a rate of 1.89-1.91 from the bank.
In wich case makes the price for the CPU from Newegg around £122 + Taxes. Also Newegg will be operating on a margin in the area of 4-8% depending on how good buy-in price they got.
Fact is my buy price on these is incredible and our margin is far higher than newegg, but our sell price is market value and the demand is high, so its pointless us say selling them for £99 which we could do but that will never happen.
So I have no need to get on a plane, I can just sit behind my desk and get them a lot cheaper from using the contacts I have.
Cobra said:Gibbo:
Those are some very good points.
But
You forgot to say "Hi there".
Anyways, any idea how long stock will last? As a rough estimate? Are we talking days, or weeks? Would you be getting more in?
Hi there
Its as long as a piece of string really, demand is very high and sourcing product at the price were paying is not so easy. For the moment I would say 1-2 weeks.
As I could hold my pricing and sell a steady 200ish pc's per week. Or I could put them on This Week Only at a small reduction and no doubt smash 500pcs out over a weekend.
Gibbo said:Hi there
Its as long as a piece of string really, demand is very high and sourcing product at the price were paying is not so easy. For the moment I would say 1-2 weeks.
As I could hold my pricing and sell a steady 200ish pc's per week. Or I could put them on This Week Only at a small reduction and no doubt smash 500pcs out over a weekend.
Well...What are you waiting for
The sooner you shift them the sooner you can get the Opterons in
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well apparently retailers have until the end of the month to order 939s. So this is it with the looks of it. I know this because i have contacts with a few industry insiders (people who have EOL for AMD's CPU's). I'll post the EOL up here later, even though it's like 4-5 months old.