Ebuyer pricing

[Max Tractor]

Anybody else noted the almost seemingly constant price changing going on at the minute at ebuyer?

Started to check after this http://forums.hexus.net/showthread.php?t=117701 thread had the wd external in my basket, the n it vanished, out ot stock, now £69.99 showing out of stock but 155 in stock http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...uct_uid=128465


Yesterday 11pm £ 51.80Memory OCZ 2GB Kit (2x1GB) DDR2

Today £70.03 http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...uct_uid=114728



Western Digital WD5000AAKS 500GB SATA II 7200RPM 16MB Cache - OEM £61.05 Yesterday

today £64 out of stock but showing 1063 in stock

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...uct_uid=124228

[OriginalDon]

Yep, being going on for months now.

[wja96]

They run 3 or 4 warehouses and their prices are live and fluctuate with the exchange rates. Bottom line - if you see a bargain - grab it.

[Funkstar]

Ah the joys of Just In Time deliveries, virtual warehousing, electronic data interchange between supplier and retailer and real time stock systems

Here's and explanation. Ebuyer have a batch of OCZ ram they are selling at £70.03 because they buy it at one price and apply a standard markup for that item. Then then get a bargain batch (of 100 as an example) in that can be sold at £51.80 with the same standard markup applied. So the real time stock and pricing software changes the website price to £51.80 until 100 items have been old. The price then reverts automatically to the next best price they can offer without loosing money.

When you consider the quantities that Ebuyer are dealing with, along with constant replenishing of stocks and acquiring stock from multiple distributors, pricing can quite easily change on a regular basis.