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the "orange" retailer, assuming im thinking of the right place, has the most atrocious customer services i've ever had the displeasure of coming into contact with, i'd rather pay £30 more from OcUK or it's blue/white competitior than buy from that shambles of a company (just felt like a rant)

EDIT: £182.70 and claiming as in stock at the blue/white competitor
 
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mrbios said:
the "orange" retailer, assuming im thinking of the right place, has the most atrocious customer services i've ever had the displeasure of coming into contact with, i'd rather pay £30 more from OcUK or it's blue/white competitior than buy from that shambles of a company (just felt like a rant)

EDIT: £182.70 and claiming as in stock at the blue/white competitor
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Odd, i've only ever heard of good reviews from the moderately orange retailers. Had them delivery a router on Saturday 8am, pretty good. Unfortunately I gave them the wrong address so someone else got it :(
 
Just checked my word doc that I was keeping my possible build spec on an it was £184.99. However checking the previous build spec I made it was £189.98.

So went down and back up.
 
The blue/white place have actually increased their prices more inline with OCUK since release, probably working together to keep prices high.

I've not used the purely orange place but monopolies on stock is not what we want as customers, we need competition to keep prices down.
 
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mmj_uk said:
The blue/white place have actually increased their prices more inline with OCUK since release, they're probably working together to milk their customers... I don't know how Gibbo can brag on here about having a monopoly on stock when the end result is massive price hikes.
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Just been doing some comparisons, to buy an Asus P8P67 + i5 2500k...

Blue/white: £307.10 + shipping - processor in stock / motherboard not in stock
Orange: £303.94 + shipping - neither processor or motherboard in stock
OcUK: £321.97 + shipping - both in stock
GibbosOldhome: £309 + shipping (around that anyway, silly basket) - motherboard in stock / processor not in stock
blue/orange/white place £292.98 + shipping - motherboard in stock / processor on preorder (motherboard at £119.99!)

Now personally i get free shipping from 3 of those places, so those are pretty much the costs BUT only two currently have stock of the processors and only one has stock of both the processors and motherboard...ocuk

I'm not sure i'd be willing to pay nigh on £20 extra purely to get it a week earlier though, I'd imagin ocuk prices will drop as others start getting stock as you currently appear to pay a premium for the sheer fact they have them ready to ship
 
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There are plenty of smaller retailers not trying to rip off their customers just gota wait a few days. Ocuk are just ripping off the people who really quite frankly probably need to get out more if they are willing to pay that much just to get a cpu a few days earlier when they probably didn't need it anyway.
 
This is a joke with the prices. Going up and down by the day is the most ridiculous thing. Not because they are changing, but because they are going up, and by how much.

My local in London was doing them for £172 - They are out of stock now, I wish I bought one when I had the chance.
 
mrbios said:
Just been doing some comparisons, to buy an Asus P8P67 + i5 2500k...

Blue/white: £307.10 + shipping
Orange: £303.94 + shipping
OcUK: £321.97 + shipping
GibbosOldhome: £309 + shipping (around that anyway, silly basket)

Now personally i get free shipping from 3 of those places, so those are pretty much the costs BUT only two currently have stock of the processors and only one has stock of both the processors and motherboard...ocuk

I'm not sure i'd be willing to pay nigh on £20 extra purely to get it a week earlier though
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With 20% off msi boards at gibbo's pals you could go cheaper if you wanted.
 
Intel Core i5 2500K 3.30GHz Sandy Bridge Unlocked (Socket LGA1155) Processor - Retail
Model Number: BX80623I52500K
£184.50 inc. VAT
(£153.75 ex. VAT)

Asus P8P67 Intel P67 (Socket LGA1155) USB3.0 DDR3 ATX Motherboard
Model Number: P8P67
£119.99 inc. VAT
(£99.99 ex. VAT)

both in stock now total=£304.49 free delivery on orders over £99
 
Come on gibbo stomp everyone and do an asus P8P67 + i5 2500K bundle for £299 including VAT and shipping :p seems the majority are JUST above that £300 mark without shipping apart from one which is £301 inc shipping
 
8igdave said:
Meh, considering there was a £30 mark up on the asus delux last time I checked I doubt the 20% back cuts it. Though I guess its good to see that ocuk are at least giving it too. Be interested to see which company put it up first ;)
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OcUK were first, clearly evident from time stamp on the threads, infact I think OcuK was first by almost 24hrs, the other competitor followed.....
 
mrbios said:
Come on gibbo stomp everyone and do an asus P8P67 + i5 2500K bundle for £299 including VAT and shipping :p seems the majority are JUST above that £300 mark without shipping apart from one which is £301 inc shipping
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Hi mate

What is it your after as bundle?

P8P67 normal or Pro?
2500k yes?
Heatsink?

If so I shall setup a home & office bundle tomorrow and put it in the CPU section with the other office and home bundles, these are not overclocked or pre-configured, so no surcharge, infact they tend to have discounts and I could probably put a £10 discount on such a bundle. :)

Prices have been moving around for 2 reasons:-

Our first batch was booked into our stock using an exchange rate of 1.57, this batch sold through over the weekend, our second batch was sold to us by another distributor who was using an exchange rate of 1.54, hence a much higher cost to ourselves. Our price went up due to this.

Our price then rose again due to supply and demand, out of the 1200 CPU's we got, we've got less than 600 left, we've sold more than half the stock and Intel have informed us the parts are in constraint. So we need to make them last and hence the price increases.

Were a business and due to business effects we sell a product based on what it will sell for in a timely manner before it is replenished, its better we have stock at a higher price then sell out and have no stock even if our price is low. Looking at our competitors, there is only one other with stock and were within £10 of their price but we are supplying Lost Planet 2 game wheras they are not. :)

I shall see what I can do on bundle tomorrow, just let me know if you mean P8P67 standard or the Pro?
 
I mean the standard, going by various prices it'd be far too hopeful to get a pro + 2500k for under £300 :p

If you can do a P8P67 + 2500K for Less than £302inc VAT though then you've beaten all competition, as those are the two most popular parts currently (going by reviews and polls, you may be able to tell my differently by sales) you'd probably get a fair few buyers on that too! (most likely including me :D)

The cheapest i found anywhere else, inclusive of VAT and shipping was £301.32 BUT they didn't have the processors in stock.
 
I think there would be more demand for the pro rather than the standard at least I thought most were going for the pro? Would be a pretty nice deal you go going there if you put it up. Be nice to see deals like that more oftern, possibly with ram too.

Being that I am also looking to buy i'd probably be interested. Though I think I'll be going for the 2600k and definitely won't pay more than 250 for it so I guess I'll probably have to wait till later this week before I splash out.
 
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mrbios said:
I mean the standard, going by various prices it'd be far too hopeful to get a pro + 2500k for under £300 :p

If you can do a P8P67 + 2500K for Less than £302inc VAT though then you've beaten all competition, as those are the two most popular parts currently (going by reviews and polls, you may be able to tell my differently by sales) you'd probably get a fair few buyers on that too! (most likely including me :D)

The cheapest i found anywhere else, inclusive of VAT and shipping was £301.32 BUT they didn't have the processors in stock.
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Our best selling mainboard has been the P8P67 Pro, done 200 since Saturday. :D
The standard one we've sold about 80. :)

I shall see what kind of bundle deal I can do it on it tomorrow and put it live on website. :)
 
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