Shocked at price increase!

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Been 6 weeks since I've ordered and for once I think I actually bought at the right time. Below is what I ordered -

OCZ 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-8500C5 1066MHz Reaper HPC Edition Dual Channel DDR2 (OCZ2RPR10664GK) £0.00 1 £57.99
Akasa AK-TK-02 Cable Tidy Kit £0.00 1 £2.49
Scythe S-FLEX 1600RPM Ultra Quiet 120mm Fan - 3/4 Pin £0.00 1 £10.99
Akasa AK-TK-01 Cable Tidy Kit £0.00 1 £3.99
Corsair HX 1000W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-1000HXUK) £0.00 1 £117.99
Antec Twelve Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case £0.00 1 £89.99
Asus P5E Intel X38 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £0.00 1 £114.99
Intel Core 2 Duo E8600 LGA775 'Wolfdale' "Overclocking E0 Stepping" 3.33GHz (1333FSB) - Retail £0.00 1 £154.99
Western Digital VelociRaptor 300GB 10000RPM SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (WD3000GLFS) £0.00 1 £158.99
FREE SHIPPING (City LinkNext Day): £0.00
VAT: £124.67
Order Total: £837.08


Total to order today, 6 weeks on is £889.96!! £52.88 MORE!!

Not often you get to buy new hardware and watch the price of it go up :D
 
Probably due to the pound dropping against the dollar. It was 2 dollars to the pound a while ago, now it's around 1.77 (I think).
 
I don't quite get why the pound is ending up worse compared to the dollar. I know our economy is in a mess, but that's due to their economy being in an even bigger mess, so surely the pound would get stronger (albeit whilst becoming weaker compared to other currencies - its just that our would get less weak)
 
Crashgate3 said:
I don't quite get why the pound is ending up worse compared to the dollar. I know our economy is in a mess, but that's due to their economy being in an even bigger mess, so surely the pound would get stronger (albeit whilst becoming weaker compared to other currencies - its just that our would get less weak)
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Because Gordon in his infinite wisdom sold all the gold when he was chancellor. The Americans at least have something backing their currency. We don't. At least, that's what I've heard anyway - feel free to correct me.
 
O FFS this week only has already changed, thought it used to be afternoon.

No Grid for me or buying the HDD, off to order from someone else :(
 
SlyReaper said:
Because Gordon in his infinite wisdom sold all the gold when he was chancellor. The Americans at least have something backing their currency. We don't. At least, that's what I've heard anyway - feel free to correct me.
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The Americans have nothing backing their currency, and never have. It is backed by good faith, and the biggest global economy and currency by a long, long way; which is why they can print out $1.5t of notes and it be a drop in the water with regard to inflation. Ours used to be backed by gold, bonds and good faith, now it is backed by bonds and good faith/

It was wise to sell the gold; because we don't need to worry about people ever questioning the value of the GBP. It is not like we are a random African or Eastern state who has no implicit backing to whatever they print. Anyway, we'll be using the Euro long before we are ever able to deteriorate to the stage where people would question our value.

What was unwise was to announce he was selling it, and then trickle it out. We sold so much it devalued the gold as we trickled it out. Not to mention, he sold it for $200, and it is now trading at $850. However, there was no way to predict the credit crunch and the money pouring into safe gold, so he can't be blamed for not forseeing that. However, he can be blamed for selling it all so quickly.
 
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konam4 said:
Did seperate bits of hardware go up or just one item?
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Most things went up in price! Memory by quite a bit, case by a tenner, HD by a few quid etc

Went for the 1KW Corsair though as it was a cracking deal on TWO at the time :)

And I will be going for crossfire when needs be. Possibly 2 x 4870x's in the future!
 
At 1.77 I see it as back to normal.

We've only had it good at 2.0 for the last 2 years because they thought the UK pound was a safer place for money than the dollar. I'm more worried about its curent trend vs the €.
 
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