Regular followers of our deals\u00a0articles will\u00a0recognise several retailers that seem to pop up again and again with the cheapest deals.<\/p>\n
One such retailer\u00a0is Loot<\/a><\/strong>, which despite offering a number of other products besides hardware, still remains competitive\u00a0with its pricing.<\/p>\n How do hardware retailers like Loot keep their prices relatively low?<\/p>\n We asked Loot\u00a0CEO Gary Hadfield and\u00a0Senior Category Manager for Electronics, Marthinus Versfeld:<\/p>\n With regards to how <\/strong>Loot is able to offer lower prices, a big reason why Loot is so competitive is the fact that they don’t only deal in hardware, says\u00a0CEO Gary Hadfield.<\/p>\n “We have a considerable range breadth\/depth of hardware and strive to be competitive but not always the cheapest.”<\/p>\n “We do focus on local demand curves and align our pricing which often results in us offering the lowest prices.”<\/p>\n There is still a strong emphasis on finding the best supplier and dealing with local companies, however.<\/p>\n “We use a mix of local\/global suppliers \u00a0and keep a close eye on what is trending internationally,” said Senior Category Manager for Electronics, Marthinus Versfeld.<\/p>\n “We heavily align ourselves with local brand and distributor launches of graphics cards.”<\/p>\n Will this still be the case if the Rand continues to spiral out of control?<\/p>\n “Pricing on hardware is always directly correlated to the ZAR \/ USD exchange rate so yes, if the rand slips then prices will increase but conversely, if the rand improves then there should be an almost immediate drop in pricing.”<\/p>\n How do South African hardware retailers keep their prices so low?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":98750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1097,6325,2163],"class_list":["post-108833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-interview","tag-loot","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109043,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108833\/revisions\/109043"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nNow read:\u00a0Epic graphics card deals this week<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"