Acer first PC vendor to confirm price hike Acer has become the first major PC vendor to confirm a price rise in response to flooding in Thailand, which it says has led to a 20 per cent hike in the cost of disk drives. This comes just days after Acer described the outlook for HDD supplies as uncertain, while rivals firms agreed drive component prices would head north, …
that had a metric fuckton of excess stock sitting around doing nothing and now it's more expensive due to the misfortunes of the disk makers in Thailand?
I'd honestly have more respect for them if they just scrapped the crap overpriced PC's they couldnt sell and just flogged off the hard disks, they will probably be worth more than the PC's that house them, shortly anyway!
I find that any excuse to raise prices is taken and any overstocking or any related reason to lower prices seems to take a slow painful process akin to no sudden price drops.
Had HD's suddenly become 20% cheaper to make then you can garantee that would not of been passed on, but an excusee to raise your margins and blame somebody else - every company takes that option.
Still, can only help to promote SSD's even further.
Price of oil goes up, price of fuel spikes. Price of oil goes down, price of fuel goes up to recoup losses. Oil supplies shrink, price of fuel goes up. Oil supplies excessive, price of fuel MAY stay the same.
Sounds just like the hard drive market. Does anyone know if the prices of hard drives also increase just before long weekends?
This being one of the OEMs that have raped the supply chain to the extent that the likes of Scan, eBuyer, Aria etc etc etc have at least doubled their prices.
Panic buying has caused the massive price rises - panic buying by OEMs so that their prices aren't overly afftected.
This is profiteering of the worst kind.
Ntech have doubled prices in roughly two weeks. I was considering packing a 6way box with a heap of F4EG but **double** prices is just insane. I will wait until after new year when they will drop back below the 70UKP mark as buyers dry up until the new financial year...
Jacqui
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