Asked MSI for detailed shipment report will update when I get it.
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** OcUK HAS 21 CUSTOM GTX 1080 MODELS READY FOR PRE-ORDER !! **
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Asked MSI for detailed shipment report will update when I get it.
We've had lots arrive but sales are into thousands, the Asus Strix OC alone is not at 1000 plus sold.
Any day now!
Pushing MSI for both awaiting their feedback on what is shipping next week.
They shipped so down to courier and customs now.
Checked with Gigabyte again today and they say they shipped.
They did give me bad news though the Xtreme shipment they sent they recalled due to a packaging issue causing the fan to touch and make noise. So those are being redone and reshipped end of next week now.
Seems their twitter was correct then, how did they manage to overlook something as obvious as that? Nobody thought to spin the fans to see if there was enough clearance?
Caused by packaging so new packaging and then they won't break.
Down to couriers and customs.
Yes we shall only move sooner if rate goes sub 1.35 and if it recovers to over 1.40 then we can maybe hold off or increases will be minor.
It's out of our hands.
It's 8am lol I can assure you many places will be, but step back to reality and check the time, companies are not open yet, so let's see if your comment stands this afternoon when businesses open and have time to react.
But if your shopping buy now, as one thing is for sure reducing anything in price won't be so easy now.
Yeah so no stock items definitely are first effected price wise! Am sure you realise why?
Yes we buy in USD and that prices stays same but if we pay $600 for something and we set our prices using a 1.45 rate our cost is £413, but if rate drops a lot to say 1.30 our new cost is £461 so a near £50 increase excluding vat.
So web prices would go up, those who pre-ordered get the original price however.
This is why we have made no changes yet, infact I reduced our prices on some FE cards yesterday due to rate being 1.49 !!!!!
We have loads of 10 series stock but everyone buys on credit unless they are a **** kicker and can't get credit. So all places with stock will increase prices if pound weakens more as they would not have paid for the stock yet and it's only 8am so most places are not open yet so cannot make adjustments.
We are holding off unless rate goes sub 1.35
That was the plan!
I am back on UK soil, just landed, I am going to head to office and sort the pricing properly so bear with us guys as my aim is to pretty much restore the prices where I can, just be patient all shall be sorted in a few hours.
and just like that, prices are back to normal. Good move OC
Ah good I did say just revert until I am in and let's wait until 15:00 and I shall then review of very single product manually yes all 1500 of them and adjust those I absolutely have too but my plan is to try and hold all VGA card prices.
As the last thing I want is to increase any pricing and if the wait does not recovery I can check out a huge product manually and see that f we can soak it up or not before moving price.
Hi there
So the prices!
I had every price reverted back on graphics, I have then gone through all our prices, some I have being able to keep at the original price because the stock had landed and I also purchased them in GBP currency (UK suppliers) so thankfully even when we pay for those goods in 30-60 days the price shall be the same.
Then on the pre-order lines mainly where stock is incoming and not paid for I have gone 50/50 essentially, so where minimum increases should have being at least £20-£30 and higher, I have actually tried to keep these increases to around £10 sacrificing some of our margin.
This does mean however the prices will not get back down to their original pricing until the rate reaches 1.43, of course we may fine tune in between some prices down if rate improves.
Unfortunately if the rate does go sub 1.35 then I shall have to make further increases to graphics, thankfully Maxwell stock is un-affected by this as it was all paid for so I shall remain very aggressive on these SKU's and I have additional support to go even lower.
AMD's new launch unfortunately is effected, I have stock, but again it is not paid for and I booked the stock at an original rate of 1.43-1.44 whereas now we have re-adjusted this down to 1.36 but again I am going to sacrifice some OcUK margin to try and hit price points. I shall push AMD for some additional support to see if they can help us hit original target MSRP's I had in mind.
However I have being able to obtain more support for old gen from both AMD and NVIDIA so now we have GPU's from the following price points which puts us the lowest in the UK by miles:
R9 Fury @ £341.99
R9 390X 8G @ £259.99
R9 390 8G @ £209.99
GTX 980Ti @ £359.99
GTX 980 @ £275.99
GTX 970 @ £209.99
GTX 960 4G @ £149.99
GTX 960 2G @ £139.99
I shall be keeping a close eye on rates and adjusting products accordingly both up and down if the rate shifts by substantial amount.
Our pricing in general on graphics is the cheapest in the UK at present and we have FREE shipping enabled pretty much on every GPU!!!
So the prices!
I had every price reverted back on graphics, I have then gone through all our prices, some I have being able to keep at the original price because the stock had landed and I also purchased them in GBP currency (UK suppliers) so thankfully even when we pay for those goods in 30-60 days the price shall be the same.
Then on the pre-order lines mainly where stock is incoming and not paid for I have gone 50/50 essentially, so where minimum increases should have being at least £20-£30 and higher, I have actually tried to keep these increases to around £10 sacrificing some of our margin.
This does mean however the prices will not get back down to their original pricing until the rate reaches 1.43, of course we may fine tune in between some prices down if rate improves.
Unfortunately if the rate does go sub 1.35 then I shall have to make further increases to graphics, thankfully Maxwell stock is un-affected by this as it was all paid for so I shall remain very aggressive on these SKU's and I have additional support to go even lower.
AMD's new launch unfortunately is effected, I have stock, but again it is not paid for and I booked the stock at an original rate of 1.43-1.44 whereas now we have re-adjusted this down to 1.36 but again I am going to sacrifice some OcUK margin to try and hit price points. I shall push AMD for some additional support to see if they can help us hit original target MSRP's I had in mind.
However I have being able to obtain more support for old gen from both AMD and NVIDIA so now we have GPU's from the following price points which puts us the lowest in the UK by miles:
R9 Fury @ £341.99
R9 390X 8G @ £259.99
R9 390 8G @ £209.99
GTX 980Ti @ £359.99
GTX 980 @ £275.99
GTX 970 @ £209.99
GTX 960 4G @ £149.99
GTX 960 2G @ £139.99
I shall be keeping a close eye on rates and adjusting products accordingly both up and down if the rate shifts by substantial amount.
Our pricing in general on graphics is the cheapest in the UK at present and we have FREE shipping enabled pretty much on every GPU!!!
We'd need a lot more than 100 to clear orders and yes stronger means more volume shipping.