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chaotic_uk said:
prices have gone up on certain things , is this to cover this ?
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Nope, but many prices have gone up today due to our cost on items going up, a lot of CPU's have been effected.

Plus 69xx ATi series have now gone up considerably as AMD has now withdrawn its rebate offer to etailors, but I did say in December that 69xx pricing would go up in January.

However I have put some prices down today as well, but I change pricing daily in both directions, so nope its not to cover everything its just pretty much what happens everyday irrelevent of what offer is in place or not.
 
Gibbo said:
Nope, but many prices have gone up today due to our cost on items going up, a lot of CPU's have been effected.

Plus 69xx ATi series have now gone up considerably as AMD has now withdrawn its rebate offer to etailors, but I did say in December that 69xx pricing would go up in January.

However I have put some prices down today as well, but I change pricing daily in both directions, so nope its not to cover everything its just pretty much what happens everyday irrelevent of what offer is in place or not.
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but the 6970's was already instock so why have these gone up , have you not paid for them yet ?
 
Gibbo, ill prefix this by saying I think OCUK are great...

However there have been some huge price rises accross the board, many by much more than VAT...

GTX 460 Talon, was around 155, now its almost 180..

I bought a 1050 sapphire PSU 1 week ago for 132, its now 143...

I could go on... And its fair enough, you guys need to make a profit, I think you should just admit that maybe you have used the "VAT" rise to bash prices up accross the board..

Happy new year :)
 
littlepuppy said:
Gibbo, ill prefix this by saying I think OCUK are great...

However there have been some huge price rises accross the board, many by much more than VAT...

GTX 460 Talon, was around 155, now its almost 180..

I bought a 1050 sapphire PSU 1 week ago for 132, its now 143...

I could go on... And its fair enough, you guys need to make a profit, I think you should just admit that maybe you have used the "VAT" rise to bash prices up accross the board..

Happy new year :)
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Yep I increase the MSI 460 pricing massively, we were making peanuts on them as we were giving them away before Christmas. Now stock is nearly gone and pricing has gone up, plus 460's will be phasing out in the next 4 weeks or so for 560 replacement. Yes some of those cards increased as much as £20.

We get through huge volumes of stock here, already this morning I've given Corsair a $390,000 order, that will only last us 2-3 weeks and thats just memory.

Due to the volumes we move prices constantly move all over the place, sometimes cheaper, sometimes they go up, but its always been that way and always will be.

It has nothing to do with any voucher codes or offers in place because even when there is no promotions active prices still constantly moving on a daily basis, but that is the nature of this industry and is no different anywhere else and I've got quite a bit of experience now. ;)
 
littlepuppy said:
I could go on... And its fair enough, you guys need to make a profit, I think you should just admit that maybe you have used the "VAT" rise to bash prices up accross the board..

Happy new year :)
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Also, it just happens to be that when Gibbo has had to make the order, its in the new year, when the VAT rise has also taken place! Since stocks are very low. Every market is volatile, PC equipment especially! How many shops have you been in that state memory prices: ask for pricing.
 
Gibbo, your 580 and 570 prices are quite a bit more expensive here compared to the Etailers in Bolton and Sheffield.

I know supply and demand is tight for the Nvdia 5 series but your prices are so much more than your competitors

For example,the 580 i bought here is £30 more now.
 
kmufc77 said:
Gibbo, your 580 and 570 prices are quite a bit more expensive here compared to the Etailers in Bolton and Sheffield.

I know supply and demand is tight for the Nvdia 5 series but your prices are so much more than your competitors

The 580 i bought here is £30 more now.
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Until supply improves our prices stay as they are simply because whatever we get sells out in days if not hours. Blame NVIDIA!
 
Gibbo said:
Yep I increase the MSI 460 pricing massively, we were making peanuts on them as we were giving them away before Christmas. Now stock is nearly gone and pricing has gone up, plus 460's will be phasing out in the next 4 weeks or so for 560 replacement. Yes some of those cards increased as much as £20.

We get through huge volumes of stock here, already this morning I've given Corsair a $390,000 order, that will only last us 2-3 weeks and thats just memory.

Due to the volumes we move prices constantly move all over the place, sometimes cheaper, sometimes they go up, but its always been that way and always will be.

It has nothing to do with any voucher codes or offers in place because even when there is no promotions active prices still constantly moving on a daily basis, but that is the nature of this industry and is no different anywhere else and I've got quite a bit of experience now. ;)
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Fair do's matey, cheers for the detailed reply...

And I do go along with what you are saying... and in reverse, when the GTX 470's were circa 170 there were a load of really, really great deals flying around... Now you have to look a bit harder, and as you say things change for the better and worse....

We seem to be in a "leaner" time at the moment bar Memory..
 
littlepuppy said:
Fair do's matey, cheers for the detailed reply...

And I do go along with what you are saying... and in reverse, when the GTX 470's were circa 170 there were a load of really, really great deals flying around... Now you have to look a bit harder, and as you say things change for the better and worse....

We seem to be in a "leaner" time at the moment bar Memory..
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Yeah last year was a bit different as from September - December last year many manufacturers, NVIDIA a prime example ran some truly staggering campaigns which meant not only mental prices but great free games too.

But most people are like nah, shall wait for Jan Sales etc. but if the manufacturer is promoting before Jan then unfortunately thats when the deals are, these guys don't wait for a specific date to arrive, they had to get sales volumes up and they more than suceeded.

What this means though now is the industry has been on a constant increase since September, all manufacturers are much better off and as such they don't need to give away margin/profits to shift stock and they don't have old stock to clear.

Its like GTX 470 is now upto £50 more expensive than it was when it dropped as low as £160, but they are still flying.

The recession has eased off, most are in a much better state, so I guess it will depend on what deals there will be to come, lets just say December was epic for deals, its like January sales were a month earlier and than factor in cheaper VAT, December was the time to buy.

Still saying that we've seen no slow down since the VAT increase and our pre and after XMAS weeks were record breakers. :)
 
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