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Will We Start Seeing 1080 Prices Getting Sensible Again Soon..?
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Just a phrase to placate the tards. Will wiggle out of it and come to some compromise.
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Can we just star out the words Brexit, May, Farage, Johnson, Gove and any other political nonsense in the graphics card forum?
Back to 1080 prices, it's going to take a steady flow of stock to really help prices drop. And while the likes of Inno, Asus and EVGA are dragging their heels, that won't happen.
Back to 1080 prices, it's going to take a steady flow of stock to really help prices drop. And while the likes of Inno, Asus and EVGA are dragging their heels, that won't happen.
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I'm gutted to say the least. Saved up to purchase a 1070 EVGA. Only to see the price has jumped from £399 to £469. I'm sorry but what the actual f.... I don't even know where to begin. Our pound has dropped a maybe 10%? Ish, how does that account for a £70 increase. I can't even begin.
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yup, know exactly what you mean and it sucks. I wasn't quite convinced I wanted to buy a 1080, felt quite expensive so I decided to wait. Then Brexit happened so I had to throw any kind of waiting out the door and bought the card I wanted. It went up in price almost £80 after that.
Guys, sterling tanked over the last couple of weeks. In the context of electronic devices manufactured outside of the UK, there's only one way for prices to go. The Inno3d 1080 that I bought here on OCUK is now listed a full £45 over what I paid for it 10 days ago.
No.
1) They're going to have very limited supply (not enough wafers for them at TSMC), on a low yield product, until at least Q1 '17.
2) £ Sterling
Um ... it's down from 1.5 on the eve of the referendum. In what world would it not rise? The longer it stays low, the more the price will rise ... and, news flash, it isn't going to go back up.
Even if 'Brexit' is kicked into the grass fairly soon, we're not going to avoid a recession (too late), and serious damage will have been inflicted on Sterling / $ anyway.
If 'Brexit' is followed through and it looks like we're going to leave, £ will fall to parity with the $ very quickly. At that point you can probably expect a 1080 to cost ~£900 with current pricing schemes.
1) They're going to have very limited supply (not enough wafers for them at TSMC), on a low yield product, until at least Q1 '17.
2) £ Sterling
Um ... it's down from 1.5 on the eve of the referendum. In what world would it not rise? The longer it stays low, the more the price will rise ... and, news flash, it isn't going to go back up.
Even if 'Brexit' is kicked into the grass fairly soon, we're not going to avoid a recession (too late), and serious damage will have been inflicted on Sterling / $ anyway.
If 'Brexit' is followed through and it looks like we're going to leave, £ will fall to parity with the $ very quickly. At that point you can probably expect a 1080 to cost ~£900 with current pricing schemes.
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It depends on what the exchange rate was at the time the products moved into the UK supply chain. That's the point at which the goods were paid for in dollars. Things are considerably less favourable now than they were a month ago. Exchange rates are a factor in buying goods produced abroad. It is what it is. It might get worse, it might not. There's a very real possibility you guys could be paying duty for certain imports in a couple of years, we don't know. It depends on what trade agreements you can trash out over the coming years. I suspect things will straighten out after a period of uncertainty, but for now, those 1080s are only going one way in price.
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No.
1) They're going to have very limited supply (not enough wafers for them at TSMC), on a low yield product, until at least Q1 '17.
2) £ Sterling
Um ... it's down from 1.5 on the eve of the referendum. In what world would it not rise? The longer it stays low, the more the price will rise ... and, news flash, it isn't going to go back up.
Even if 'Brexit' is kicked into the grass fairly soon, we're not going to avoid a recession (too late), and serious damage will have been inflicted on Sterling / $ anyway.
If 'Brexit' is followed through and it looks like we're going to leave, £ will fall to parity with the $ very quickly. At that point you can probably expect a 1080 to cost ~£900 with current pricing schemes.
Well if that happens then nobody in the UK will buy them and then this will effect the US exports etc etc
a small percentage of a worldwide market of only 1 to 2%?
I dont think that is going to hurt Nvidia's share price somehow.
Ocuk already have one 1080 at £900..........................
It has a little to do with the exchange rate but a lot to do with supply and demand. OCUK are never going to say you cannot order an item even if there are hundreds of them on preorder and all of those cannot be fulfilled until Christmas.
A tactic to lower the demand for the units that are in short supply is to increase the price massively to deter people ordering them. This saves having to disappoint people on long wait times and at the same time if someone is insistent that they want that particularly massively overpriced card they can still order it and they make a huge amount of money.
The STRIX is a perfect example of this.
And to those of you that think that the Brexit has a huge affect on these prices are just wrong and still sour about the fact that we are not going to be part of the EU anymore after having a nationwide democratic vote on the subject.
Shame on you for 1. continuing to drag you heels in after being out voted fair and square and 2. Bringing such a subject into a graphics card forum.
A tactic to lower the demand for the units that are in short supply is to increase the price massively to deter people ordering them. This saves having to disappoint people on long wait times and at the same time if someone is insistent that they want that particularly massively overpriced card they can still order it and they make a huge amount of money.
The STRIX is a perfect example of this.
And to those of you that think that the Brexit has a huge affect on these prices are just wrong and still sour about the fact that we are not going to be part of the EU anymore after having a nationwide democratic vote on the subject.
Shame on you for 1. continuing to drag you heels in after being out voted fair and square and 2. Bringing such a subject into a graphics card forum.
If that were Amazon I might agree, but I think Gibbo is very good about communicating supply problems. There are a lot of very open comments about how many cards are on their way, what they don't have stock of. I actually think that if they knew they wouldn't be able to fulfil an order for the next six months, they would communicate that. Have you actually asked?
Well that's convincing. The fact that the pound plummets the moment Leave look to be winning is coincidence and the basic fact that when your currency falls foreign goods become more expensive to buy is apparently just a common misconception.
It's a thread on GPU prices. You can't really discuss that without mentioning the cause of recent price rises - the plummeting pound. And given that the plummeting pound is a direct result of the Leave vote, then people such as yourself take that as political commentary. But it is what it is! If someone asks about why GPU prices have gone up recently, the answer to that is because of a big drop in the value of our currency as a result of the Leave vote. You can complain about people "bringing the subject into a graphics card forum" but it remains the reason.
People going on about politics in a discussion on DX12 uptake fair enough to complain. A topic on GPU price rises? You can't ignore the elephant in the room.
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I ordered mine two days after you guys voted yourselves out. I knew full well it was a great chance to get a great deal, because the exchange rate movement meant I got considerably more £s for my €s. I also new prices would rise over the following weeks as the current stock was bought up, and new stock is imported. Sure enough, the card I bought from this store, an inno3d Herculez 1080 is now listed as £45 more than the day I bought mine.
It's not my place to say to anyone here whether brexit is right or wrong. As far as I'm concerned it's the business of the British people how you want to run you country, and no one else's, and you've made your choice. But there's absolutely no denying the event will cause your imports get a little more expensive, and it's breathtaking how you are accusing your peers of shame when the circumstances are as obvious as the noses on out faces!
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Although 1080 prices are un-changed, yes still very high.
The rate has improved slightly and we have taken the gamble and improved our pricing on a couple of 1080 FE cards and most of the 1070 range.
I get that you might have improved individual card prices gibbo but how has the zotac fe card ended up being nearly the cheapest option? There was a 100 pound gap between the zotac and the cheapest 1080 now its 20 pounds
I just dont get how pretty much all the 1080's have increased in price by 14% or more with some of them now costing or approching titan price which is just insane.
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