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Another Round of Price Increases ?

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With the £ falling ever lower today, can we expect higher GPU prices by tomorrow?:D Get your order in right now peeps ;)
 
lol the £ dropped by less than 1p

Not exactly world ending. But I'm sure some retailers will decide they "need" to increase prices by 20%, freeze wages and give themselves ever increasing million pound bonuses at the end of the year ;)
 
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Well I must say bring a Brit living abroad, that we have been ripped a new one in Scandinavia for PC part prices for a long while and now it's more to do with GBP catching up. Things have been cheap in the UK because of the currencies power, the truth is prices are now simply normalising. We are all being ripped a new one together!
 
MSI GTX 1070 Gaming X I bought 2 weeks ago went up from £419.99 to £488.99 probably as it was bought when the currency was higher is the usual reason given!
 
dits said:
With the £ falling ever lower today, can we expect higher GPU prices by tomorrow?:D Get your order in right now peeps ;)
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Possibly. Will depend on next stock etc probably. I fear that come March next year and onwards whilst the deals are struck, GBP might be nearing parity with USD.

Next year will be an expensive time to by gpu's I reckon.
 
my games play "fine" at the moment with no issues really, when a card comes along under £300 offering the performance I'm looking for then i'll buy probably. Saying that though if the 1080Ti is a well priced card I may buy it but I don't expect it will be so I'll see you all in 4 years when the 1460 will be out lol :)
 
I almost clicked buy on an Inno 1070 saturday morning but at the back of my mind was that my cars brakes need new pads all round and that I had a fluid leak so I reluctantly held fire, did some work on the car came back in to have another look and the price had risen by 20 quid and I think it's gone up another fiver since then, I could have kicked myself even though as it turns out I need to spend a load more on my car so couldnt really have afforded the card.
 
Why bother complaining about pricing when everyone is going to buy the stuff at the new higher prices anyway? Most people will do so, just like they did with the 1000 series cards. I remember the hilarious threads complaining about pricing of the 1080/1070 at release and look at how many people have already bought em. I'm more disappointed in the consumers that the retailers lol.
 
easyrider said:
Oh dear :( another thread on pricing :( :(

Go play some games ...
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People are free to talk about what they want to talk about and a thread is easily ignored if it's a topic of no interest to someone. The thread title is hardly misleading.

Back on topic, margins on CPUs and graphics cards are pretty small, I think. So there's not a lot of capacity to absorb falls in currency.
 
Jono8 said:
Possibly. Will depend on next stock etc probably. I fear that come March next year and onwards whilst the deals are struck, GBP might be nearing parity with USD.

Next year will be an expensive time to by gpu's I reckon.
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Yet parts are a lot cheaper in the US, so how does that work :/

It's all made in Asia so it's not even like it's easier to import.
 
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