Has the cost of CD-R media gone up?

[Siddhartha]

Do you remember the story that the cost of CD-R media was going to double this summer? Has this happened yet?

 

[Kingofcomputer]

seems not.
before sony 650M 8x 10 pack with jewel case was $9.99.
now sony 700M 16x 10 pack with slim jewel case is still $9.99.

 

[bacillus]

the increases haven't seen to have yet materialised or filtered through.

 

[T2T III]

Both Imation and TDK have made formal annoucements of price increases. However, it does seem that they haven't filtered through the network, yet. Or, vendors are just eating the difference and selling these items as "loss leaders" to get people in the door of their store.

 

[chuckieland]

no still cheap

 

[The Sauce]

Yeah, i can't tell you how many times I've seen that same tactic utilized by manufacturers. It was last done with RAM when everyone was saying prices were on their way up and mfgr's were going to limit production...a load of bull. They just made that up to get people to stock up on ram. I knew this was going to turn out to be the same thing with the CD media.

It seems whenever some industry's prices bottom out they try that to get a quick sales bump.

 

[Xenon14]

Wiz has a special, dont' know if it's still going on. But 650mb/74mins 50 pack w/ jewel cases is $14.99 and the 700mb/80min 50pack w/ jewel cases is $19.99. The latter comes out to be 40 cents per cd w/ the case. Which isn't too shabby, I think i'm gonna go get them.

 

[apoppin]

Nope.

DVD-R is the next big thing and moneymaker.