There are some genuine bargains to be had amongst the 'B grade' stuff, though.
True.
You need to be patient and ready to buy when the bargain appears.
I got a couple of USB HDs for the same price as bare drives.

There are some genuine bargains to be had amongst the 'B grade' stuff, though.
I'm back from the Bgrade and I can report that there are a couple of decent savings, most noteably in my opinion the Asus strike 680i mobo with about £100 in which case I would most likely be happy with a bare board.
There's also a couple of was/nows where it was cheaper before but we'll let that go, they're only human.
Ish.