Hardware pricing in relation to the R/$

DenSweeP

DenSweeP

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Is it just me or is it a bit odd that hardware prices seem to be increasing, despite the fact that the Rand is trading at R6.97885 (11:01 29/09/10) to the USD? Surely pricing should come down as a result, or maybe stay the same if distributors wanna be a bit greedy, but going up? That makes no sense to me.
 
Well they'd probably say that it depends when the parts are bought. You'll find that some suppliers place orders months ahead of time for certain hardware and because they have to make a profit they'll add their extra bit.

IMHO, this is BS. You'll find time and time again that when the Rand does well, prices drop extremely slowly over the months. But if the Rand does badly, hardware prices skyrocket overnight.

Call it greed or good business sense if you want, I'll just call it unfair. :(
 
Ag dude, it's the same mentality as the petrol price. The price-per-barrel for oil goes up and they immediately use that excuse to pump the petrol price through the roof, but when the price-per-barrel comes plummeting down, do they bring the petrol price down accordingly? Hell No!

It's all about making you pay more for getting less. The fat pigs are lining their pockets and the end consumer is working ever harder to afford the small things which once was actually affordable.

There is no reasoning when it comes to suppliers, be it petrol or I.T. Product suppliers. It's all about the money - YOUR money.
 
I used to work for an authorised Intel importer and what really gets me is that the companies are very often given price protection against the R/$, so why does that not filter down to the end users? Not to mention the rebates involved that these guys get.
 
The rand has gone down from R7.40 to R7 in the last year. Which is a 5% saving. So you really expect to see be able to the difference? 5% over a year :/
 
I think pricing isn't too bad right now. At retail you can now get a 500GB HDD for under R400. Beginning of the year it was closer to or even over R600, same for 1TB harddrives. I can think of quite a few items costing way less than they did 6 months ago. Flashdrives, optical drives, hard drives, UPS's, external drives etc. Then you get items like CPU's and GPU's where the same models from a few months back is now going for quite cheaper, but that's related to the new higher spec'd models coming out. But still, a quad core for under R1400, not bad at all.
 
tanka said:
Do you bother to read the whole topic when you reply?
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I did actually :rolleyes:

I am simply stating that even if the rand strengthens, suppliers are not going to drop prices because they know they don't have to. And in some cases they even put prices up. Its called greed.

Did you bother to think about that?
 
tanka said:
The rand has gone down from R7.40 to R7 in the last year. Which is a 5% saving. So you really expect to see be able to the difference? 5% over a year :/
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Of course I did ;) However I didn't agree with it as 5% does not go very far. R100 decrease on a R2000 product and at the rate a which hardware prices change with new technology you are never going to notice this drop as it will just blend in with the changing prices.
 
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