=== LAST DAY Left Before VAT Rises to 17.5% ===

Yewen · 28 Dec 2009 at 09:56

=== LAST DAY Left Before VAT Rises to 17.5% ===

There is just 1 shopping day left before VAT increases from 15% to 17.5%, buy now for massive savings on Components & Full Systems.

DrMekon · 28 Dec 2009 at 12:21

ooOOOOOOOO........... wow.. so I can save a whole £2.50 for every £100 spent... whoooppppeeeee!!!!! :rolleyes:

Best empty my wallet quick....

w1llyg · 28 Dec 2009 at 12:22

Arent you goin to have any big sales in january????

Cold Fusion · 28 Dec 2009 at 13:22

I don't think OCUK do January sales really, all the older stock is sold through clearance and B-grade throughout the year.

The best we can hope for is some good deals on "this week only" which will be changed on Wednesday I believe

hux · 28 Dec 2009 at 13:57

DrMekon said:
ooOOOOOOOO........... wow.. so I can save a whole £2.50 for every £100 spent... whoooppppeeeee!!!!!

Best empty my wallet quick....

Id imagine it'll be more than this, can you honestly say retailers won't milk it?

pjansell · 28 Dec 2009 at 16:26

w1llyg said:
Arent you goin to have any big sales in january????

I've been waiting for this since the run up to xmas, i've got money burning a hole in my pocket i'm waiting for someone (doesn't matter who) to put on a stellar deal on a new graphics card - disappointing all round so far.

mrfun1981 · 28 Dec 2009 at 16:28

pjansell said:
I've been waiting for this since the run up to xmas, i've got money burning a hole in my pocket i'm waiting for someone (doesn't matter who) to put on a stellar deal on a new graphics card - disappointing all round so far.

The way things are going at the mo, i think you will be having a long wait

Braka · 28 Dec 2009 at 17:17

w1llyg said:
Arent you goin to have any big sales in january????

im hoping for some 4gb ddr2 memory back at the 40 quid mark pls

roll on January

Simon42 · 28 Dec 2009 at 17:39

A couple of items I want to purchase went up by more than 15% during December and I expect them to reduce in January so the 2.5% VAT increase isn't much in comparison.

izzop · 28 Dec 2009 at 17:49

Yewen said:
=== Just 4 Days Left Before VAT Rises to 17.5% ===

There are just 4 shopping days left before VAT increases from 15% to 17.5%, buy now for massive savings on Components & Full Systems.

Please.....!!! your point is??

DrMekon said:
ooOOOOOOOO........... wow.. so I can save a whole £2.50 for every £100 spent... whoooppppeeeee!!!!!

Best empty my wallet quick....

LOL, I agree...

Audigex · 28 Dec 2009 at 18:58

Braka said:
im hoping for some 4gb ddr2 memory back at the 40 quid mark pls

roll on January

DDR2 is only going to get more expensive IMO. They're scaling back production now that i5/7 and AM3 are the mainstream segments, which makes it that much more expensive.

AMG · 28 Dec 2009 at 20:23

that annoying as I want to keep this system going for as long as possible, and my RAM is dodgy

Infam0us · 28 Dec 2009 at 21:43

Time to break out the credit cards Gents

conibear · 28 Dec 2009 at 21:45

Don't see all the fuss. Waw, we are going to lose out if we don't buy now!! lol

pumaz · 28 Dec 2009 at 22:00

I can see it going like this at most retailers.

Currently the AMD Athlon II X4 Quad Core is £99.99 after VAT rise it will be £102.49 then after a little while it will be rounded up to £104.99 maybe even straight away at some places.

There's no way it's going to be a straight 2.5% rise, most places will round up to the nearest round figure.

HangTime · 28 Dec 2009 at 23:13

It shouldn't be a straight 2.5% rise anyway, as it's only the VAT proportion of the price which will rise anyway, not the whole price.
So that £99.99 CPU including 15% VAT should be £102.17 including 17.5% VAT, not £102.49 as you suggest.
The actual rise in price inclusive of VAT should be just over ~2.17%

Going back to the general topic of jumping in to beat the rise, it's only really worthwhile if there's an expensive item you've been thinking of getting (say a large TV, full computer system, sofa, Car etc). As a general rule with the price of IT hardware I'd expect that 2.17% increase to be quickly swallowed up by the natural depreciation we typically see in the industry (volatile RAM markets aside).

budwozza · 29 Dec 2009 at 13:20

HangTime said:
It shouldn't be a straight 2.5% rise anyway, as it's only the VAT proportion of the price which will rise anyway, not the whole price.
So that £99.99 CPU including 15% VAT should be £102.17 including 17.5% VAT, not £102.49 as you suggest.
The actual rise in price inclusive of VAT should be just over ~2.17%

Going back to the general topic of jumping in to beat the rise, it's only really worthwhile if there's an expensive item you've been thinking of getting (say a large TV, full computer system, sofa, Car etc). As a general rule with the price of IT hardware I'd expect that 2.17% increase to be quickly swallowed up by the natural depreciation we typically see in the industry (volatile RAM markets aside).

Am I missing something, or is your math flawed ? By my calculations:

£99.99 + vat @ 15% = £114.98
£99.99 + vat @ 17.5% = £117.48

So the difference in price on a £99.99 item will be £2.50.

TonyM19 · 29 Dec 2009 at 13:23

The Titan Goliath has gone up from £790 yesterday to £825 today. Any connection?

PhillyDee · 29 Dec 2009 at 13:29

budwozza said:
Am I missing something, or is your math flawed ? By my calculations:

£99.99 + vat @ 15% = £114.98
£99.99 + vat @ 17.5% = £117.48

So the difference in price on a £99.99 item will be £2.50.

But the price has not gone up by 2.5%

clocka · 29 Dec 2009 at 15:23

only thing i'm after is 12x pioneer bluray writer BDR-205, not on sale in uk yet but has been for a while in japan/u.s