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[–] 45 points 10 months ago

anakin-padme-1 Temporary pricing changes on RAM

anakin-padme-2 So the pricing will return to normal after a few months, right?

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  • [–] 41 points 10 months ago

    "increased by 20-40%"

    It's more like 200-300%, all of it price gouging by vendors after hearing OpenAI wanted to buy a lot.

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  • [–] 32 points 10 months ago*

    glasses-off "market prices"

    glasses-on "price gouging"

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  • [–] 20 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    i want to see how chuds spin this as a result of wokeness or "socialism"

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  • [–] 19 points 10 months ago

    Makes sense, you never know how much or what kind of RAM the fishermen are going to catch that day.

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  • [–] 18 points 10 months ago (7 children)

    Don't they always sale it at market prices? Do they normally subsidize it or sell it at state set price?

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  • [–] 32 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    Yes but normally the “price” isn’t so “volatile” that they can’t put it on the fucking sticker

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  • [–] 13 points 10 months ago* (3 children)

    I don't think the ram manufacturers (like corsair, kingston etc) buy it at spot price, they have contracts and all for fixed price. since that's the case, shouldn't prices be sticky at least for the day?

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago*

    It's less about the market and more about increasing prices as stock goes down during the day. With other products people would be pissed, but they have their excuse created for them by the bubble and being a slightly niche product.

    The usual word for this is just price gouging. It's a shortage.

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  • [–] 17 points 10 months ago*

    "RAM is cheap" reddit commenters in shambles

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  • [–] 13 points 10 months ago

    Upgrade your ram, okay reddit, let me head over to amazon and check the price...oh, $1,000 for a stick, oh okay.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago

    OK, but then I want all the RAM in a tank at the front of the store so I can pick the RAM that I want by loudly tapping on the glass.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago

    Running older hardware has benefits sometimes, my local e-thrift shop has DDR3 sticks for days... for now at least

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  • simply do not game. skill issue

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  • [+] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 14 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Nope. It's because there are thousands of C suites that are trying to get in on the hype train (money train), with varying levels of actually believing the BS. Getting on the hype train means a ton of compute so that grandma can be given wrong answers like being able to substitute ammonia for butter in cookies.

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