your post scared the cr*p out of methought you were going to announce a price jump inline with the April 20th 65nm price cuts or something
I'm getting ever so tempted by a e8400...but no matter how tempted some one is whos going to pay £200 for a £120 chip
I will never shop with OcUK again because of things like this as they are just ripping people off but more fool anybody who pays that. I got mine for £130 from scan and dropped my Q6600 as I like overclocking these new chips.
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Meh. The price is silly yet does it really matter any more than a £600 8800GTX?
I understand that some people have had poor experience with OcUK, but I think that pricing is a poor reason to jump on them. I am sure every e-tailers have priced their items grossly high at some point. Seems sensible to just ignore them.
On second thought I suppose this could be a game for the extremely bored: find the most overpriced PC components in the UK.
As it happens, its not the fact its OCUK...its the fact that the chip has a MASSIVE mark up. I dodnt look around all these places for high prices. I was comparing when deciding whether to go wolfdale or quad.Originally Posted by TooNice
(BTW...What does 'meh' mean? Is that some kind of extreme tech talk you have made up)
All I will say is if a supermarket charges too much for things the government has to look into it. This seems to be the same thing but on a smaller scale. If everywhere behaved in this manner inflation would surely be high. Intel can't be that pleased.
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They're available at Ebuyer for £132 delivered.
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Socket 775 (3.0GHz) 1333FSB 6MB L2 Cache Retail Boxed Processor - Ebuyer
24 in stock at time of writing
Thats a bit more like the price they should be (maybe £15 cheaper)
Well, they are £139 at scan now XD.
CCL still have them at £129 (pre-order ofc), not sure how much delivery is on there, but I have used CCL before and they are good. They just dont have a decent range.
It was nice moving onto scan from OCUK. The amount of money I saved was crazy.
In the past I always used to buy from overclockers unless the item I wanted was cheaper elsewhere, but overclockers past prices and reputation used to be very good and competitive.
They are burying themselves into a big hole now.
Urban Dictionary: Meh. I just don't see anything unusual about this price difference, I can pick two identical graphics card sold between two e-tailers (and that's ignoring the small shops that typically overprice goods) and find a price gap of £20 with relative ease. The same thing happened with some of the Opteron as I recall. Well do explain if I am missing something of great importance here - as it is, it looks like either another jab at OcUK, or items that are stupidly priced in general.
Your first post was clearly aimed at OcUK: I only see OcUK do what you call 'massive mark up" and "breaks £200". The price otherwise averages at around £130: the lowest I've seen is about £126.60, highest excluding OcUK is £140. Considering that they are usually out of stock either way the 'average mark up' is not high enough deter people from buying it seems (unlike the £200 8400). Not that I would complain if they came in any cheaper, but it wouldn't make sense from an e-tailer perspective would it?
Either way, OcUK must be much bigger than I thought if they were capable of "snapping them all up" - I would've would've expected them to be just another e-tailer from Intel's perspective.
Last edited by TooNice; 18-02-2008 at 07:15 PM.
Maybe if you thought for a minute you would see that it 'just so happened' to be OCUK. THe post wouldve been the same if it was Ebuyer/Scan/Dabs/etc.
If you want to be the OCUK Police then go for it. I pointed out a VERY HIGH mark up as opposed to the usual mark-ups.
Have you been employed as their new nanny or something?
BTW...if the post bores you then dont bore everyone back with your retorts. Just ignore the post. Your urban kiddie words are better served in bus bus shelters whilst smoking dog-ends and drinking cider.
Being indifferent does not necessarily mean that I was bored. Merely that I don't feel strongly about the subject. This can change one way or another through further explanations. But feel free to take your own advice if I am boring you.
I just thought that that there might have been something more intriguing behind the thread (that I've missed), other than pointing out another poorly priced item which is one of a dozen (for instance, if you could show that there was some price fixing going on, or that OcUK really did have the capability of snapping all the CPUs). If I was to make a thread every time I see a 'massive'/'very high' mark up, I'd expect people to get pretty indifferent too.
As to the word that offended you so much, it is commonly used around here, so I see no reason why I should stop using it just because you dislike it. Nor do I see the need to pick up smoking/drinking cider for that matter or whatever stereotype you care to associate from the use of a single word.
Last edited by TooNice; 19-02-2008 at 10:19 AM.
Sorry, there is no justifying charging £205 for the E8400.
£150 maximum is absolutely fine, anything above that is a joke, regardless of who is selling it.
It doesn't make sense, I wholly agree but it's pretty much their loss if it doesn't sell because it's priced too high. Just like all those 640MB 8800 GTS selling for a lot more than the 512MB version. And if it does sell, well, good for them. It's worth noting that places I've seen selling the chip at slightly above £150 are also out of stock, so it seems that people are willing to pay that much, and probably some, irrespective of what we think. I am probably one of the fussier member when it comes to Bang4Buck, but that doesn't mean I can't understand why e-tailers would like to price items as high as they think they can get away with.
Hear hear, just done similar. RMA'd/refund for the e8400 and gone back to my e6600, not worth the hassle with the shady readings and lack of "hands up, it's us" from vendors.
The only thing I'm worried about now is the new quads suffering the same fate a) the dodgy temps and b) exorbitantly inflated prices because the of the view that blind bulging-walleted fan boys will fork out whatever asked for them.
So AMD...
I would still only pay £129 for an E8400. If I still had to buy one I would order from Dabs and wait.
Its definately the CPU I wanted, just as much as its the PU that everyone else wants. Thats the problem, too many people ordering them
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