Price question

Dicehunter

Dicehunter

Dicehunter

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Before i start i got this info from my brother who works in the IT industry and a major game developer.
Im just wondering but why do components cost so much, an 8800 ultra costs about £20 to make and they sell it for £400, a quad extreme costs £600
yet only costs about £1 to make as they come in sheets of a thousand, most expensive parts is the packing.
Point is why dont they drop prices by 3/4, they would still make 100 times what it cost to make and there would be a lot of happy people out there, shouldnt we as awhole stop bickering amongst our selves and tell the people who make these items to lower the price as they are far to expensive for normal people.
 
wow you really dont know sarcasm when you see it, apart from the packing thing which was slight humour a bit too slight for some the rest is true, i just think its wrong that we as consumers get ripped off this badly when the products in question cost so little to make, within a few weeks they more than make back there profits as i said i just think its wrong that the working people of the wrold have to spend so much on items that cost pennies to make, id really love it if the working man/woman didnt always stick up for the fat cats.
You see on 1 ultra theres about 500% profit, on a quad 45nm extreme theres 1000% profit, doesnt anyone else think this is wrong ?
 
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yay Shadez thank you for sort of going along with me, im just trying to stick up for the normal people who get ripped off on a daily basis, but obviously there a a few fat cat lovers out there.
 
did i say it was a conspiracy theory, no, the only reason it bothers me is that r+d is over rated and they shouldnt charge the prices they do, jesus christ im only trying to outline something but people on here are so nasty its unbelievable
 
Ok since im being barked at left right and center how about this, after 6 months of the pc component being launched they bring the price down by 3/4, as they have made there costs back and a decent amount of profit so they dont need to sell at the ludicrous prices anymore and theyd still make a profit.
 
i just dont get why things cost so much in the UK, my bro who works over here and in germany says stuff over there is like half the price, he came over a while ago with a q6600 go for me and said it was like £80 new and over here £170'ish with vat, why ?
And it doesnt stop at pc parts its everything, why do we pay so much for everything, answer is greedy fat cat masons, they can charge that much so they will, if they did the same in another country thats actually got a population with balls they will say, ''erm excuse me put the price down now or we'll have an uprising'', but no we are in england home of the cowering masses.

Oh and i order all my stuff from other countries were its cheaper UK prices are a rip off, do the same and save your hard earned money.
 
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