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beany_bot said:
What if it ships after I am home? Also I don't have a personal contact where I am going, it's a business conference. I could next-day it to the hotel when I arrive I guess. Assuming stock is OK.
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That's probably your safest bet. Rainforest site in the US is much better in stock than the UK. You can always test out the chicken and egg store of B*H photo also.
 
Drollic said:
£500 can't be the long term price of the new 8 core i7 can it? It's almost impossible to ignore ryzen at that price point.
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Until Intel sort the supply issues, yes it most likely shall be, everything I am seeing says Intel shortage shall remain into next year......
 
Gibbo said:
Until Intel sort the supply issues, yes it most likely shall be, everything I am seeing says Intel shortage shall remain into next year......
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I don't understand. I (as Joe public) can legally import as many 9700ks as I would like for well well under £500. (£372 to be exact) So..... surely you can too? Even if you just bought them from a retailer you could still turn a healthy profit selling at £400/£450. Seems odd.
 
Gibbo said:
Until Intel sort the supply issues, yes it most likely shall be, everything I am seeing says Intel shortage shall remain into next year......
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The issue is that why does this happen in the computer retail industry? It doesn't happen anywhere else. Camera, TV, car retailers etc do not increase prices just because there is a shortage. The retailer I bought my TV from this year didn't increase the price while they were awaiting more stock because it was so popular.
 
B1gbeard said:
The issue is that why does this happen in the computer retail industry? It doesn't happen anywhere else. Camera, TV, car retailers etc do not increase prices just because there is a shortage. The retailer I bought my TV from this year didn't increase the price while they were awaiting more stock because it was so popular.
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Yes they do. cars go up in value when in demand as do other thing, that is commerce, supply and demand.
 
sandys said:
Yes they do. cars go up in value when in demand as do other thing, that is commerce, supply and demand.
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Any examples? My last two TV's for example were bought when there was high demand. One I had to wait a couple of weeks to come back into stock. The price never changed. Our electric car we had to wait for as supply was slow/low and the price never changed at all during that time.
 
beany_bot said:
I don't understand. I (as Joe public) can legally import as many 9700ks as I would like for well well under £500. (£372 to be exact) So..... surely you can too? Even if you just bought them from a retailer you could still turn a healthy profit selling at £400/£450. Seems odd.
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The Intel shortage is worldwide, I suspect you can order, might be waiting a very long time though.
Stock is king and to be frank were selling 100's at the prices listed and can hardly keep up with demand, selling for cheaper would mean we would simply have a situation of where we cannot meet demand.

We'd rather sell high, supply our customers with stock than sell cheap and not be able to fulfill the orders really creating a lot of upset customers as we can't supply them the stock.

We have to control demand, only way to do that is with pricing, lack of supply price it high, lots of supply price it low and smash it out and right now Intel don't have one single CPU they can supply in volume, the fact I am also doing big deals on 6th gen, shows how crazy the shortage is that I need to buy volumes of 6th gen and can still sell it all. Intel situation is terrible, 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th gen are all in massive constraint.

I say to anyone see it cheap, buy it and keep your fingers crossed. :)
 
Not sure why any one is confused at the price being high. New product, low stock availability and some business will gouge as much as they can out of customers as, if you aren't willing to pay the price someone else will buy it until supply eases and the high prices force the customers elsewhere.

Any company can sell the product for cost + normal margin, but instead they are using the opportunity to make more margin - that is why customer loyalty is dumb these days, buy where it is cheapest, especially if it's a retail boxed Intel CPU with an international worldwide warranty. Nobody is forcing anyone to pay these prices, and no amount of marketing speak/excuses makes up for the gouging, just make the statement and buy elsewhere, or better still something else from elsewhere.
 
B1gbeard said:
Any examples? My last two TV's for example were bought when there was high demand. One I had to wait a couple of weeks to come back into stock. The price never changed. Our electric car we had to wait for as supply was slow/low and the price never changed at all during that time.
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On the electric car front Nissan has increased the price of battery replacement of old Leafs by a few thousand due to demand and lack of supply, price of the electric cars have not risen considerably because they are already too expensive for most, you are essentially paying a high price for a budget car, look at the Kona or Leaf , these are low quality ~15-20k vehicles with a normal engine, I know the leaf does not have the option, but pop in electric drivetrain and the price is ~30k needing subsidized by Gov for adoption, it's a hard sell to consumer as the cost of ownership is very front loaded and the infrastructure and convemniemnce is not there so the market is tiny in UK, raising prices would kill the market dead, and in fact many manufacturers are ignoring this market because of this as demand is in China.

For something that people want, like really want, they pay, Focus RS were going thousands over list, every Porsche special edition has gone thousands over list when demand is high. A TV not so much because many people just want to buy a £300 special and you are waiting because a manufacturer hasn't anticipated demand, not that they can't physically make them.
 
sandys said:
On the electric car front Nissan has increased the price of battery replacement of old Leafs by a few thousand due to demand and lack of supply, price of the electric cars have not risen considerably because they are already too expensive for most, you are essentially paying a high price for a budget car, look at the Kona or Leaf , these are low quality ~15-20k vehicles with a normal engine, I know the leaf does not have the option, but pop in electric drivetrain and the price is ~30k needing subsidized by Gov for adoption, it's a hard sell to consumer as the cost of ownership is very front loaded and the infrastructure and convemniemnce is not there so the market is tiny in UK, raising prices would kill the market dead, and in fact many manufacturers are ignoring this market because of this as demand is in China.

For something that people want, like really want, they pay, Focus RS were going thousands over list, every Porsche special edition has gone thousands over list when demand is high. A TV not so much because many people just want to buy a £300 special and you are waiting because a manufacturer hasn't anticipated demand, not that they can't physically make them.
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The Leaf battery issue, which is what we have, was increased in price because there was very little uptake on the replacements and so they made less and thus the price of each unit went up to produce. This increase was from Nissan, not from gouging. Car stayed the same though irrespective of wait.

Whether the shortage of TV's was them not anticipated demand or not being able to physically make them is irrelevant. There was low supply, high demand, thus supply and demand. Price stayed the same.
 
just have to be smart with shopping around for parts - antecs new B-Die for £140 is damn good, should easily hit 3200hz but will take some user brains and time , might get lucky and push higher .
some basic z390 boards smash middle end + z370 boards as well . Hopefully soldering means you dont have to drop a lot of cash on cooling

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