C2D price gone UP 30% in the past month!?!?

[blyndy]

Hi all,

I've been waiting over half a year for the prices of the E8400 'wolfdale' cpu to come down and it did, a month ago it was down to AU $200 at the cheapest seller and averaging around AU $220 (comparing prices at www.shopbot.com.au). However, in the past four weeks or so, the price gradually climbed up to a minimum of AU $260, and with and average of AU $300!!!

I don't understand this and I am very angry. Why has the price gone UP!?!? There's plenty of stock, and it's now not the latest or greatest (never was actually). Is this something that always happens when a new platform gets released, and if so why, and will the price go down again within 3 months for me to buy on??

Can someone please explain to me what on earth is going on?

Thanks a lot,
blyndy

(As a reference, the cheapest i7 is AU $590)

 

[Markfw]

Must be an exchange rate or something. Its $165 here (newegg) seems lower than I remember a month ago.

 

[Janooo]

It could be related to the currency conversion rate. USD goes up.

 

[Mr Fox]

Originally posted by: Janooo
It could be related to the currency conversion rate. USD goes up.

USD has strengthened..... alot in a very short time..

 

[nerp]

In the USA, the E8400 seems to have dropped by $5 in recent weeks. I bought mine for $169 and it's $164 or $165 at most places now.

 

[n7]

Prices of most PC hardware is very much tied to the USD.

Same thing has happened here in Canada :frown:

It was cheaper for nearly everything this summer than it is now...

 

[Idontcare]

Originally posted by: blyndy
Can someone please explain to me what on earth is going on?

http://i272.photobucket.com/al...hoto_bucket/audusd.gif

The AUDUSD exchange rate has collapsed nearly 40% since Aug and nearly 25% since Oct.

(the AUDUSD exchange rate tells you how many US dollars one Australian dollar will buy, in Aug one Australian dollar would buy you almost 0.98 US dollars, now that same Australian dollar will only buy 0.65 US dollars, hence we say the US dollar has strengthened)

 

[Ichigo]

Lol Econ 101 class is in session.

 

[Liet]

I prefer a handy chart to show the devaluation.

http://finance.yahoo.com/echar...le=on;source=undefined

 

[Idontcare]

Originally posted by: Liet
I prefer a handy chart to show the devaluation.

http://finance.yahoo.com/echar...le=on;source=undefined

I wonder why that chart looks so different from the one I posted above...

 

[Liet]

Doh, didn't see your chart! Sorry.

Hrm, that is odd. Makes you wonder what the sources are for each... I have a hunch yours is more accurate.

 

[Idontcare]

Originally posted by: Liet
Doh, didn't see your chart! Sorry.

Hrm, that is odd. Makes you wonder what the sources are for each... I have a hunch yours is more accurate.

Relax, just poking at you I didn't know yahoo graphed forex pairs nowadays. No doubt the data are identical, its all based of the same interbank exchange rate price feed.

I like the yahoo link you gave because it is user-configurable unlike my static image grab, but my black background and green candlesticks looks more matrix'ee don't it?

 

[aigomorla]

Originally posted by: Markfw900
Must be an exchange rate or something. Its $165 here (newegg) seems lower than I remember a month ago.

definitely exchange rate.

things in the us has gotten cheaper.

 

[Tempered81]

it went to $149 + tax for a bit at buy.com, microcenter, newegg, fry's & ewiz.

q6600 also hit special price of 149 @ frys & microcenter for a while.

Currently $155.98 for OEM here: http://www.ewiz.com/detail.php...ad2bd84d2c846d3b256d7d

 

[theprodigalrebel]

Yeah, I noticed this as well. Back in May, 1 USD equaled 39 INR (Indian Rupees). Now, it's more like 50 INR. It kinda bummed me out as I was planning to buy a crapload of stuff around this time of the year.

 

[blyndy]

Well, it really seems like the exchange rate is the cause ...damn! If only I had known!

Well I am just going to have to wait and hope the prices come back down even just a little bit...

 

[twjr]

Yeah its that bloody exchange rate. Same thing is happening in New Zealand. On EVERYTHING!!!

 

[aigomorla]

Originally posted by: blyndy
Well, it really seems like the exchange rate is the cause ...damn! If only I had known!

Well I am just going to have to wait and hope the prices come back down even just a little bit...

LOL...

be prepared to wait a very long time. This financial crysis is no longer within just our boarders.

 

[StinkyPinky]

Originally posted by: blyndy
Well, it really seems like the exchange rate is the cause ...damn! If only I had known!

Well I am just going to have to wait and hope the prices come back down even just a little bit...

I very much doubt that they will come down anytime soon. The worlds economy is in the crapper, and in uncertain times people will be buying US Dollars.

 

[jaggerwild]

We can thank GWB for that one as he exits the arena................. I'm sure the C2D's will come down in price after the I7 release.

 

[Idontcare]

Originally posted by: jaggerwild
We can thank GWB for that one as he exits the arena................. I'm sure the C2D's will come down in price after the I7 release.

The AUD is considered to be a commodity currency...meaning as goes the prices of the commodities (oil, gold, copper, etc) so to goes the strength/weakness of the AUD. (as well as the Canadian dollar, another so-called commodity currency)

http://au.biz.yahoo.com/forex-...australian-dollar.html

The primary reason the Australian dollar (AUD) has depreciated relative to the US dollar (USD) is because of the price of oil declining by nearly 60% in the past 6 months in addition to sharp declines in copper.

Just another bubble burst, you can't really blame GWB for this one any more than you would try and blame Clinton for the dot-com bubble burst of 2000.

 

[coreyb]

I was told the the reason the USD is so high right now is because of the bail out?

 

[Borealis7]

We're in a global economic cry...crisis. things are gonna get worse. companies will shut down, prices will go up. we'll have to get used to a new reality. no more cheap anything.

but i read just the other day that PC hardware companies were doing fine in spite of the crisis. specially in the GPU market.