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My moron question of the week

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leigh6

Diamond Member
Hi all,

Just purchased a Sempron 2800 retail off of ebay for a build for a friend. My friend wanted me to buy this. UGH.

After buying saw the reviews and it is going back on ebay.

OK. Now my moron question.

I went to numberous sites to check reviews. I went to NEWEGG.

The price on the 2800 oem was $2.00 more expensive than the RETAIL!!!!
Same with the 2600 Sempron. The RETAIL boxed one was $2.00 less than the OEM.

Can someone please explain this to me?

Leigh
 
Could be OEM supplies are tighter than retail right now, so discounts to Newegg are currently less.

Newrgg doesn't price by whether one part is "better" than another, just by adding a markup, otherwise intel CPUs would sell for a lot less 🙂
 
this happens to newegg often. they dont check on each and every product everyday. they make mistakes, and when its time to check back on them, they probably then see the mistake.
 
So AMD is selling the OEM's to NEWEGG for less than the RETAIL? Still makes no sense.

Can't be supply and demand. The Sempron's would be $10.00 if that was the case.

Leigh

 
Leigh6, Newegg's price all depends on supply and demand. Welcome to the retail market.

- If something is high in supply but has no demand, prices will come down.
- If something is in short supply and has a lot of demand, prices go up.

IE: X800XT PE's, Lots of demand, little supply, prices go higher than MSRP.
 
Ok,

So explain this again to me.

The OEM chip and the RETAIL chip are the same:

The differences are the following:

OEM: 90 day warranty
No HSF

RETAIL: 3 year warranty
With HSF

How is it possible that the demand for the OEM chip would exceed the demand for the RETAIL chip enough to have it cost more?

Impossible.

If the OEM chip was limited it might have some increase in price (but NEWEGG usually just puts a limit on availability)






 
Originally posted by: leigh6
Sorry,

It can't be supply and demand. There is no way the demand for the oem chip would exceed the demand for the retail chip enough to increase the price to more than the retail.

Leigh
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you forgot about the supply part of the equation. Probably because newegg has much lower supply of oem chips then retail chips. Or maybe it is just a typo.
 
Okay before the price drop, the Retail was probably about $20 more than the OEM CPU, with that $20 you could buy a decently nice heatsink with that chunk of money, or put it twards better ram, if you already have a heatsink. A lot of the people I know only buy OEM CPU's because a retail heatsink isn't worth the extra.

They'd have a lot more RETAIL CPU's so they'd want to drop the price so they could sell them... products sitting on a shelf isn't making money.
 
Originally posted by: leigh6
Ok,

So explain this again to me.

The OEM chip and the RETAIL chip are the same:

The differences are the following:

OEM: 90 day warranty
No HSF

RETAIL: 3 year warranty
With HSF

How is it possible that the demand for the OEM chip would exceed the demand for the RETAIL chip enough to have it cost more?

Impossible.

If the OEM chip was limited it might have some increase in price (but NEWEGG usually just puts a limit on availability)
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More than likely a low supply of OEM chips driving the cost up. Not the demand.

 
Could be supply issue, could just be newegg trying to get rid of a ton of retain semprons. Why don't you just buy the retail chip. Saving $2 shouldn't be this hard.
 
BTW, this is pretty common. Some Athlon-64 sell cheaper in the kit, too.

I'd say it is more competition. Please check all the online stores to compare prices, with the help of pricinging search engines. The shops monitors it and adjust prices - for the procuts that sell best. Retail kits sell better, OEM is under the radar.

Think of it as a tax on stupidity.
 
I love this debate. If I saw a retail part for less than an OEM I would be on that like a virign on prom night. Get the retail, get the warranty, save $2, and smile that you are a good shopper.

Afterwords we can all hold hands and sing songs of joy and happiness.
 
Yep, this just seems to happen, not only at Newegg. I bought my AMD64 processor at Microcenter (was only 20 bucks more than Newegg and I needed to replace one ASAP), and their OEM was $40 more. Kind of a waste of heatsinks though...
 
retail and oem cpu can have different manufacturering plant, manufacturering date, stepping, etc.

sometimes people find a good overclocking chip from one plant/date/stepping, resellers will mark up the price if they have such stock, that can cause oem cpu being higher price than retail one.
 
YEA!!!

Was trying to get to this from there. Does anybody know if this is the case for the Sempron's?

Leigh
 
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