Originally posted by: CrimsonWolf
How the hell does wholesale price enter into this? Newegg is basing their price on the fact that they have a limited number of chips, yet lots of people are willing to pay top dollar to get those limited number of chips. Market price is determined independently of wholesale price. Newegg - OH teh noeeess... we can't raise the retail price because wholesale price hasn't gone up!😕😕😕
And this is not price gouging. Are peoples' livelyhoods threatened by not getting a Conroe? Is someone putting a gun to your head and saying you must buy your Conroe from Newegg? Newegg can charge whatever the hell they want for these processors. It's their product, their decision. If people are willing to pay that price, then more power to them. Don't whine and bitch just because you don't want to pay the price to get a product with limited availability. If you don't like it, here's an easy solution... don't buy from Newegg. You have a choice. There are several other retailers that will get these processors. Be patient and buy it from them instead.
Right, wrong, or indifferent, Newegg, or 'Screwegg' has a reputation for doing this with new product releases. If you're surprised by this, I hope it is just because you haven't been shopping with them long. Otherwise you should know better. That's why I pre-ordered with Tankguys, and will just patiently wait for my E6600 to come in. Newegg won't get money from me on this. But that doesn't mean I won't buy from them in the future. They are just a business, and I just need a part. I buy from whoever gives the right combination of price and service at the time I need it.
Um, wholesale price is what determines whether profiteering (the correct term) is happening, or not. I thought everyone realized that. If your markup on a new item is the same as a readily available older item (or anywhere near), then you aren't profiteering. If your markup is 10-12% on older items, and 100% for what's "hot" and in short supply, then you are profiteering, period.
By the way, I don't even want a Conroe. I haven't even considered buying a C2D, and won't for a minimum of a year, if ever. Newegg's problem, though, is some of us take offense to people who do business that way, and will exclude, whenever possible, any company who conducts themselves that way, from the money that we'll be spending. I'm actually in the process of building a new system at the moment, and would have bought every part from newegg, as I usually do. That won't be happening this time, though. They're making enough money from the C2D's they've sold so far, therefore my money will be going to the sites who haven't jacked up their prices, who are obviously
much more trustworthy.
And just to clarify, what makes you think that you, Pabster, and getbush, have the right to complain about someone complaining about a company's prices, but they don't have the right to do the complaining in the first place? Wait, don't tell me, that's the new official Republican party slant on anything that doesn't agree with their/your greed, huh? You know, the same way they start investigating any congressman or senator who doesn't agree with them, or pretends as if he may tell one of their many, many secrets.
