Hmms, not the cheapest deal around
It appears to be to me for a 128gb ssd at this spec.
EDIT: Actually no maybe not.
** Samsung 830 series 128GB SSD ** - IN STOCK!
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It appears to be to me for a 128gb ssd at this spec.
EDIT: Actually no maybe not.
Bit of an arbitrary price rise Andrew and saying ur selling them fast isn't really justification but screams "greedy company". I didn't know OCUK jacked up prices once they saw that people were buying!! Maybe I'm being naive, it's not like it costs u more to get rid of them more quickly does it??
You are a business I know but these price fluctuations make people reluctant to part with their money, always expecting it to go up and down with the tide.
You are a business I know but these price fluctuations make people reluctant to part with their money, always expecting it to go up and down with the tide.
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I was just about to order a 256gb instead of the 128 as it was better value. This is now cheaper everywhere else too.
C'mon ocuk stop being greedy
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This I would have usually have done however over selling 100units as an example to not be able to honour them would cause many issues that i would rather avoid
OK but surely current stock could be honoured at the price advertised then once out of stock you make people aware (don't know how accurate your live stock count is) then put price up to their original price. It just doesn't look good imo.
"oh these are selling well...let's increase the price."
Either way it's still a reasonablely competitive price but as others have said not the cheapest. Still tempted by the 256GB version even though it may cost slightly more for the excellent customer services and next day delivery for ocuk forum members.
Bought mine the other day from elsewhere as couldn't see it on here and glad i did as was cheaper then the first offer price. Sadly that's been the tale of.my upgrade this time round wanted to buy from ocuk they were out of stock on a couple of things had to.look around and found ocuk were not competitive have saved over £120 by shopping around.
Ocuk's stock system is very accurate compared to the other people I use. However, the other people don't put their prices up for no reason.
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I have 2 choices... 1, over sell and annoy many customers who won't get the drive if I can't get more at that price or 2, up the price on the remaining units which have a cost price of £78.xx (yes I am making a loss on those) but avoid many unhappy customers.
The issue is you as a customer have no idea how much items cost the company to purchase. There are situations where X amount of stock may be £100 as an example and the rest at £120... If I sell at £110 I make money for the company on all stock except for the higher priced stock which makes a loss.
Sometimes there are situations where by a deal is so popular that you cannot begin to predict the run rate. When this happens the deal either has to come off (i.e. go up in price) or the company has to let it sell out to pre-order stage and buy more. If you can't get more then there is only one option.
That is how it is and sometimes these things happen. The Agility 3 240GB is fast approaching selling out however I have secured more so the price is still sat at a nice and healthy low of £134.99inc. Some you win, others you lose and the fact of the matter remains that if I could provide the price of £79.99inc to you I would. If I can get more stock then £79.99inc will be back in business again.
The issue is you as a customer have no idea how much items cost the company to purchase. There are situations where X amount of stock may be £100 as an example and the rest at £120... If I sell at £110 I make money for the company on all stock except for the higher priced stock which makes a loss.
Sometimes there are situations where by a deal is so popular that you cannot begin to predict the run rate. When this happens the deal either has to come off (i.e. go up in price) or the company has to let it sell out to pre-order stage and buy more. If you can't get more then there is only one option.
That is how it is and sometimes these things happen. The Agility 3 240GB is fast approaching selling out however I have secured more so the price is still sat at a nice and healthy low of £134.99inc. Some you win, others you lose and the fact of the matter remains that if I could provide the price of £79.99inc to you I would. If I can get more stock then £79.99inc will be back in business again.
You obviously have the capability to secure stock at good prices AM - thats what makes you good at your job....
Go and get some more! If the 256gb is back to 140 tomorrow you get my order, otherwise I will order it from another place that takes paypal even though their standard price is £2 more than yours (its on offer for £142 currently!)
PS mate - my laptop kit certainly didn't come with a tray as per your description of the 128?
Go and get some more! If the 256gb is back to 140 tomorrow you get my order, otherwise I will order it from another place that takes paypal even though their standard price is £2 more than yours (its on offer for £142 currently!)
PS mate - my laptop kit certainly didn't come with a tray as per your description of the 128?
The stock system updates in realtime as stock leaves. Which is why a 10+ can drop to 5 or even out of stock if you watch the item often enough. This however doesn't stop someone ordering say 20 units when it says 10+ and at that point we may only have 15 in... The end result is - 5 units and an out of stock line.
I have potentially secured more of these drives and once I have a confirm on shipment I will reduce the price again, if not then the price may have to creep back up again as the re-buy is even higher than the current sell price
Why can it not be as simple as this:
1: OCUK put something up for sale at £79.99
2: It sells very fast due to popularity at that price.
3: They consequently sell out.
4: Done.
Why is that so hard? You have stock levels to show customers if something is in stock or not. If your stock system is pap that's not the customers fault. If I order something when it says it is in stock and then I don't get it yes I will be disappointed, but based on the above I do not understand why that could even happen...are you saying that WILL happen if you do not rise the price? How? Why?
1: OCUK put something up for sale at £79.99
2: It sells very fast due to popularity at that price.
3: They consequently sell out.
4: Done.
Why is that so hard? You have stock levels to show customers if something is in stock or not. If your stock system is pap that's not the customers fault. If I order something when it says it is in stock and then I don't get it yes I will be disappointed, but based on the above I do not understand why that could even happen...are you saying that WILL happen if you do not rise the price? How? Why?
That is what has happened. Cheap stock sold, now on the more expensive hence the price going up and even up its still making a slight loss. I dont understand why the concept or more expensive stock = higher price seems difficult to take in by a small portion of our forum members. New stock will land thats cheaper hopefully next week, when it does the price will drop again so long as the more expensive stock has sold through otherwise it wont until it has.
As for the How and Why..
If it stays at price X and it OVER SELLS then we run the risk of disappointing customers if we cant get more.
We have got more stock but it costs more, end result is price goes up. There is a big difference between running out of stock and running out of cheap stock. We ran out of the cheap stock, its a popular drive, it happens.
To me Andrew you are waffling on about long term and largely irrelevant business practises. We don't as customers care why/how you operate as a buyer. I simply want to see as a customer the following:
1: If a deal is posted. Don't raise the price just before it all sells out. This looks bad on OCUK and annoys customers. We do not care if you bought 50 at price X and 100 at price Y. That's up to you/OCUK to sort out.
2: If prices have to fluctuate in that way then don't do the deal in the first place if there is only enough stock to sustain the deal for a matter of hours. Surely you should just keep the deal on until it sells out and make a loss on some of the lines you bought for more, or don't do the deal at all. Or adjust the price to a middle ground. Doing it for hours at a time at supposedly rock bottom prices for headlines, only for customers to come on and see a thread and realize they are too late becomes frustrating for us.
3: Stock levels that are true and real time. Apparently OCUK are very accurate and one of the best at this. Despite this, above in your comments you are almost putting down your stock level indicators on the website defending price rises and such practices based on stock levels updating too slowly. Am I reading this correctly? Why does a system allow orders to be accepted for items that are out of stock. When someone checks out, surely there either is or isn't stock, even if by seconds, it's still a queue and the system knows if there is stock or not?
My comments above will come across really harsh. You obviously do your best to give us great deals and I appreciate that. Just saying how I feel on this though.
1: If a deal is posted. Don't raise the price just before it all sells out. This looks bad on OCUK and annoys customers. We do not care if you bought 50 at price X and 100 at price Y. That's up to you/OCUK to sort out.
2: If prices have to fluctuate in that way then don't do the deal in the first place if there is only enough stock to sustain the deal for a matter of hours. Surely you should just keep the deal on until it sells out and make a loss on some of the lines you bought for more, or don't do the deal at all. Or adjust the price to a middle ground. Doing it for hours at a time at supposedly rock bottom prices for headlines, only for customers to come on and see a thread and realize they are too late becomes frustrating for us.
3: Stock levels that are true and real time. Apparently OCUK are very accurate and one of the best at this. Despite this, above in your comments you are almost putting down your stock level indicators on the website defending price rises and such practices based on stock levels updating too slowly. Am I reading this correctly? Why does a system allow orders to be accepted for items that are out of stock. When someone checks out, surely there either is or isn't stock, even if by seconds, it's still a queue and the system knows if there is stock or not?
My comments above will come across really harsh. You obviously do your best to give us great deals and I appreciate that. Just saying how I feel on this though.
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Might I make a suggestion that you restrict the amount any one person can purchase of these big deals, or you say from the beginning only x amount on offer at this price, first come first served, you do it with your daily deals with no issues so why would it be a problem here?
I think most people here are intelligent enough to understand your points Andrew but how this was handled was somewhat lacking in tact. It appeared from your wording that the drive was selling well, so you bump up the price by £10. And such was the case with the 256gb drive as well.
I think most people here are intelligent enough to understand your points Andrew but how this was handled was somewhat lacking in tact. It appeared from your wording that the drive was selling well, so you bump up the price by £10. And such was the case with the 256gb drive as well.
Promo stock, promo price
Standard stock, standard price
Why is that so hard to understand?
150 promo stock bought in
100 standard stock bought in
Last order for promo stock lets say 2 left was for 5 units.
There 3 units gone out of standard stock allocation, which depending on overhead (and if honoured) would likely be a loss on 3 units.
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Standard stock, standard price
Why is that so hard to understand?
150 promo stock bought in
100 standard stock bought in
Last order for promo stock lets say 2 left was for 5 units.
There 3 units gone out of standard stock allocation, which depending on overhead (and if honoured) would likely be a loss on 3 units.
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Seems like a sensible idea, and it's effectively how the Today Only works. I think people would then understand you only have say "50" stock that will be at the offer price, when they are sold the price on the rest of the stock is the standard price. I understood AM's explanation but it might help avoid some of the confusion/disappointment