Ryzen 5 3600 price going up?

Kelt · 8 Aug 2020 at 02:22

dragos1977 said:
As i said on facebook...i made a basket ready from overclockers,but then i said i can wait a few more weeks....in 5 weeks basket shoot up 125£.I will definitely shop elsewhere.

Yeh, OCUK aren't what they used to be.

I specced a PC for my brother a few weeks ago, wanted to get it from OCUK, but they weren't even close.

Don't know what's happened to them recently.

dragos1977 · 8 Aug 2020 at 02:25

i buy my stuff from mainland Europe..better prices and roughly same delivery time with good rma deals.

clv101 · 8 Aug 2020 at 07:16

Doobedoo said:
...No doubt you make money but...

Which is the main point of the business? They've been around long enough to know what they are doing.

Doobedoo · 8 Aug 2020 at 08:39

clv101 said:
Which is the main point of the business? They've been around long enough to know what they are doing.

No doubt but how many have brought elsewhere because of it? Quite a few in this thread alone.

That’s money out of there pocket and straight into a competitor. I brought my cpu from here at launch and mobo, ram and m2 drive from elsewhere because they were quite a bit cheaper. Someone else made a fair bit more.

dragos1977 · 8 Aug 2020 at 10:16

i have saved 293£ last week by buying from elsewhere the same basket I've had here.

Sparx · 8 Aug 2020 at 10:41

It's very rare I spend my money with OcUK these days unfortunately. The community is great, but the pricing is often far off from the competition with some products.

Now I don't mind an extra few quid over here, but when talking £20-80 odd on a lot of items, I'm going elsewhere unfortunately.

Like CPU prices atm...
3600 - OcUK £200 - Competitor £170
3700X - OcUK £320 - Competitor £280
3900X - OcUK £459 - Competitor £396

So if they ever wonder why sales ever go down... lol

Smiffy-UK · 8 Aug 2020 at 10:55

Sparx said:
3600 - Competitor £170

Still a bit overpriced imo lol. I paid 177 from a Competitor 7 months ago lol 150 should be the highest and 120 or so a good price.

Sparx · 8 Aug 2020 at 11:51

I agree I'd say £150 is a fair price, but I imagine with the high demand of the chip they've afforded to hike the cost a little. This seems all round and likely from AMD possibly changing RRP.

Also likely a slight marketing trick so when Ryzen 4000 launches, it looks like it gets a price drop, when in reality it's just what it should cost anyway...

dragos1977 · 8 Aug 2020 at 11:54

got my 3700x with 252£ 4 days ago

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Smiffy-UK · 8 Aug 2020 at 11:58

dragos1977 said:
got my 3700x with 252£ 4 days ago))

That's not bad if I'm honest, especially if you need the 2 extra cores. But for either a stop gap to zen3 and/or gaming only 3600 is definitely a better buy, if you can get one for 120 to 150 quid, I wonder what the historical lowest price was on a 3700x, I wanted one at in January but I only game, are you planning on upgrading to zen3? I'll probably go 8 cores myself

dragos1977 · 8 Aug 2020 at 12:13

i do play some android emulator while browsing and streaming so a few extra cores are handy

heatonpkmassive · 8 Aug 2020 at 12:56

dragos1977 said:
got my 3700x with 252£ 4 days ago))

I paid slightly more at 261 quid, but I'm very happy with that still.

wellibob · 8 Aug 2020 at 14:13

£199 for this 3600 @ OCUK. Nah. Overpriced and not by a tenner either. Can't see any place charging £199 except for one.....

Cyber-Mav · 8 Aug 2020 at 20:15

matt_griff said:
Hi All,

I'm in the market for a new cpu and I'm waiting for the right price of a 3600.
Prices seem to be going up not down though, any reason for this?

Currently £200 on overclockers.

just pay the 200. if your not smart enough to know that ocuk is not the only retailer then pay the higher prices. im smarter than the average human so i know how to shop around.

Journey · 8 Aug 2020 at 20:32

It isn't smarts you are measuring, it is laziness and people thinking they get better CS, which maybe sometimes they do but it depends on the alternate.

matt_griff · 8 Aug 2020 at 21:08

Cyber-Mav said:
just pay the 200. if your not smart enough to know that ocuk is not the only retailer then pay the higher prices. im smarter than the average human so i know how to shop around.

Cool story!!

I was just pointing out that OC had priced the 3600 at £200, dont you think I have looked around everywhere? Or shall I start naming the prices of all other competitors to keep you happy?

Every other online shop has the 3600 priced at over £170+, i was asking a simple question of why the 3600 was priced so high!!!!

Maybe you need to re read my question as you are so "smart"

Cyber-Mav · 8 Aug 2020 at 21:24

Its priced high to make more profit. Guess business economics is above you

matt_griff · 8 Aug 2020 at 21:29

Cyber-Mav said:
Its priced high to make more profit. Guess business economics is above you

Oh OK makes complete sense now

Cyber-Mav · 8 Aug 2020 at 21:40

matt_griff said:
Oh OK makes complete sense now

Somehow i doubt it

Alex h · 8 Aug 2020 at 21:45

matt_griff said:
Cool story!!

I was just pointing out that OC had priced the 3600 at £200, dont you think I have looked around everywhere? Or shall I start naming the prices of all other competitors to keep you happy?

Every other online shop has the 3600 priced at over £170+, i was asking a simple question of why the 3600 was priced so high!!!!

Maybe you need to re read my question as you are so "smart"

Not everyone is 170 plus some are under by a couple of quid but yeh majority are 170 and above