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Core 9000 series

Gibbo said:
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. :)
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On anything new early adaptors (The Rich) always buy them first with low stock. Of course they'll sell out. I bet you have trouble selling them after the (The Rich) have bought them at those insane prices.
 
Gibbo said:
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.
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I like it, the high prices benefit the customers. :lol:
 
To be fair to Gibbo is they can sell OEM chips for £600 with one year warranty, go for it. I think anyone here would do the same. He could probably sell for more as he actually has stock now.
 
I like it, the high prices benefit the customers. :lol:

Exactly look after the customers my ass try with the truth you can rip people off so you will
You couldn't give a dam about customers that is getting more and more obviouse .
 
Just received an email saying no retail 9900k available until atleast 3-4 weeks. Says i can swap to an oem chip which will be available at release, however the oem only has 1 yr warranty.
 
Forgive me but that seems to be very short term "bonus" driven economics. Which history teaches us is not sustainable or healthy. Bleed and hurt your customers for bonus short term gain...
If you rape wallets for a CPU, surely you run the risk of putting people off PC all together? And indeed said people won't have any money left for peripherals and accessories. I dunno just seems a very dangerous game to play. People remember things.
I already spent money elsewhere (Drone and Nintendo Switch) rather than pay the ridiculous prices for Nvidias 20xx cards. If Nvidia hadn't been so damn greedy then they could have had that money.
 
Sc00p007 said:
Just received an email saying no retail 9900k available until atleast 3-4 weeks. Says i can swap to an oem chip which will be available at release, however the oem only has 1 yr warranty.
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Was this from OcUK, another UK retailer, or international? Same price for less doesn't sound like a good deal.
 
IT Troll said:
Was this from OcUK, another UK retailer, or international? Same price for less doesn't sound like a good deal.
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Email was from Ocuk. Also i was thinking about the good overclocking chips to be taken out of the equation? Although they say chips that dont make the grade during binning go into system builds, not back into retail. Think i will pass on the oem and see what happens with my USA order.
 
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beany_bot said:
If you rape wallets for a CPU, surely you run the risk of putting people off PC all together?
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It wont as thanks to Ryzen people now have a choice.

It's like when I was originally looking to invest in a HEDT system - at the time I only had one choice, so I didn't. Then Threadripper came along and improved the choice, so I did.
 
I actually think what @Gibbo is saying is spot on... Would they rather risk selling low and being unable to fulfil orders and then gain a bad rep as an unreliable supplier (****** for instance is the very essence of this, bunch of scam artists). Or sell them higher so only those that are happy to drop that amount of cash are biting, the type of people happy to wait for the premium product, and most likely to know what they are buying, why and for how much etc.

The fact you can get them from the US imported for cheaper is almost irrelevant to OCUK, some people will pay the premium with this site for them to handle the RMA issues etc, that kinda peace of mind is often invaluable to some people.

And like @Gibbo says if you can get them in stock from the USA for cheaper go for it, i trust his judgement as this is the business he has been in for many years, over some armchair enthuisiasts who can google "cheapest 9900k price* and then make a buying decision off the back of that. And yeah Amazon has the biggest buying power in the world, so its understandable they can a) get hold of stock before other vendors and b) knock it out cheaper as their buy price is probably the lowest of any vendor.

End of the day, if your happy to chance your arm buying overseas and it works out cheaper go for it, you may have to wait, you may not, if not, if your happy to pay the UK prices do that instead..

Arguing constantly on forums about the price of the chips wont change the price of the chips, either pay up or shut up really, it is what it is, and it will probably get worse especially if there is delays into next year.

Blame Intel if you want to blame anyone, of course it looks outwardly like the UK vendors have consorted to artificially inflate the prices, that may well or may not have any truth or merit, only those vendors will know. But ultimately its Intel's screw up that has caused this situation, nobody else.

Oh and also AMD shouldnt be blamed at all in this, they have shown you can buy a competitive product at a reasonable price, only Intel with their arrogance believe a similiar product should be twice as much.
 
SiDeards73 said:
Blame Intel if you want to blame anyone, of course it looks outwardly like the UK vendors have consorted to artificially inflate the prices, that may well or may not have any truth or merit, only those vendors will know. But ultimately its Intel's screw up that has caused this situation, nobody else.
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Why should I blame Intel? I happen to think $530 / £400 is a fair price for the 9900k.

It's the £600 that we are expected to pay in the UK that vexes me.

So no, I don't blame Intel in this instance. I blame UK retailers. Because ultimately it's the UK vendors that have priced it at £600, no one else.
 
beany_bot said:
Why should I blame Intel? I happen to think $530 / £400 is a fair price for the 9900k.

It's the £600 that we are expected to pay in the UK that vexes me.

So no, I don't blame Intel in this instance. I blame UK retailers. Because ultimately it's the UK vendors that have priced it at £600, no one else.
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Really? so Intels arrogance in pricing the chips so high has nothing to do with and their incompetence in not being able to mass produce chips that are in such high demand also doesnt speak of incompetence?

I understand what you are saying about the UK pricing vs the US, but that has been the case for how long now? we all know that the UK pays well over the odds for these types of goods, so im surprised that your upset about it. I say ages ago i expected these chips to land between £500 and £600 and it seems i was on the money, and if anything i can see these chips even increasing a bit in price shortly especially when the shortages really star to hit home.

In reality i dont know where the blame actually lays, there is a reason we are being artificially fleeced for goods in the UK, maybe its because our assumed disposable income is higher than other countries? who knows, what i do know is that it is a fact of life and has been for a while, so rather than vent at the UK vendors, just accept it is what it is and that the UK is ripoff Britain and has and we be for the foreseeable future.

If you can buy it elsewhere for cheaper imported then i'd do that, i know i certainly would if it was going to save me a few ££ to put elsewhere. Just boycot UK vendors for products that are overpriced. Simples.
 
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