*COMPLAINT* (Pre-binning and charging insane prices)

[Maximus_Fleximus]

Hello guys,

I'm a little worried about this trend. The trend that shops are now taking away your chance of a "good chip" , and pre-selecting the good from the bad, while of course charging insane amounts of money for a decent chip.

Example, 899 (!) pounds for an i7700K that clocks well, instead of 329 pounds. That's a 300% markup .

Buying from oc.co.uk basically means you HAVE to pay a lot more, because if you don't , you KNOW you get a DUD.

In the process customers get shafted, our overclock chances reduced to zero because shops are buying chips in large quantities and pre-selecting them themselves in order to price gauge.

Even a chip that will barely overclock will cost you 100 pound extra ! (a measly 0.5 ghz OC = 100 pound extra)
Again i say, what if i buy a normal chip for normal price ?
I can be certain it's a DUD !

I am worried about this trend. Stop taking away overclocking from us (and price gauge us in the process)

I also can not imagine Intel would be very happy about this development. I understand the high end chips are not that important for them in the grand scheme of things, however i wonder, is it even legal what overclockers.co.uk is doing ?

NOT TO MENTION PRE-SELECTING CHIPS ON BATCH/STEPPING and basically charging **** tons extra for a good batch/stepping !!!!

 

[chanjy]

Think about it, if you order a bare CPU from OcUK, you will get a brand new CPU. There is no binning of that CPU because it is BRAND NEW.

If OcUK have tested it for binning, it is no longer sold to a consumer as a CPU because they would be breaking the law selling used goods as new - maybe as part of a system, but not to you who is buying only a CPU.

So your claim is completely invalid.

 

[gavinh87]

Here we go again

 

[RJC]

This has already answered in various threads, I will close this.