Consumer Electronics costs going up

Caged said:
Farmers pre-empting the culling of their subsidies presumably
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This was the international markets, i.e. If the price has gone up by more than the drop of the value the pound was just to do with other reasons on top of Brexit, but the article was laying the blame purely at the feet of Brexit.
 
Jokester said:
Can't remember what it was but it was an article on the BBC, stuff like grain and other food stuffs.
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Cost of raw materials don't actually make up that much of a processed or manufactured good. Labour, equipment and profit margin make up a far larger proportion. If those are denominated in currencies other than sterling, then the exchange rate has a massive impact.

Besides, not many sectors see raw material costs go up 50% within months.
 
[TW]Fox;30115249 said:
Which UK made graphics card would you suggest he buys?
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close... a monitor. My hazro hz27wc is still working perfectly but have recently sold my rift so need something new to replace it :)
 
Bought something the other day (not an OcUK product) and I had to buy elsewhere, overnight the price had changed from £134 to £173.

The online support said stock had ran out and brexit was to blame for the increase. :eek:
 
itchy said:
Am trying to remember but cannot for the life of me.

In 2008 or 2009 I was in Tenerife and the pound was like for like with the euro.
We could buy drinks with English money, but I do not recall any prices increasing in the UK at the time. I maybe wrong. ;)
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You are quite wrong, the prices of products in tescos has rocketted over the past number of years, following the economic crisis and the collapse of the pound, everything went up. It was just stabilizing when we brexitted, and now the pound gets trounced again, cost of everything will bolt up again.

Simple items, dramatically more then, and now will be again.
 
I had no idea Vertu were still around. The last I heard of them they were busy gluing bits of expensive cars onto Nokias.
 
Had a few of my suppliers (non tech related) email to say prices will be going up in the new year due to the weak pound.

Only so far they can go though before people look elsewhere.

We'll start seeing the Christmas tax being applied to products soon (black friday might have some good deals), just have to see how things pan out next year.
 
Jokester said:
This was the international markets, i.e. If the price has gone up by more than the drop of the value the pound was just to do with other reasons on top of Brexit, but the article was laying the blame purely at the feet of Brexit.
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Could it be that the harvest was poor?
 
Pound goes down; pound goes up.
Pound goes down & likely stays there for medium term due to Brexit - worth renegotiating contracts.
Business being business.

Majority of consumer price rises seen immediately post Brexit vote were opportunistic profiteering

I wouldn't worry about trying to second guess anything - the next worldly disaster is just around the corner:
Putin invading Estonia
Hilary collapsing on stage, Trump victory
Ex-Jihadist EU asylum invasion
Deutsche Bank collapse
etc
etc :D
 
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