Ram Prices ?

[welsh wizard]

Just lately I have been snowed under with work and found I needed to go to wholesaler for some more ram, only to find it had jumped from $110 NZD to $210 NZD in a matter of 4 weeks,:-( and thats only for 64Mbs sticks.

Has some major event occurred that I missed or are we being ripped of again.
WW

[skai]

wiz check prices in Sysopt price check at home page $70us about $110A still to much cost of production should go down with increased demand not up ,yes we are being ripped off. Sorry to hear about your fighting man in Timor. Brave lad,All Australians I'm sure will share your grief. Sincerely skai

[Richard_Cranium72]

At buy.com it's up just a little, $75.00us for Kingston 64meg/pc100=>> http://www.us.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=10251638&loc=101 DrVette

[socalgal]

Hi Welsh

Check out our SysOpts' new Price Guide (http://ibuyer.sysopt.com/) on the home page.

See this thread for further reference:

http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/Forum17/HTML/000547.html



[This message has been edited by socalgal (edited 07-30-2000).]

[johnpaul]

I just bought a stick of PC-100, 128 Mb at Best Buy for $120 (US), after a $15 rebate.

JP

[welsh wizard]

Thanks all, looks like after allowing for exchange rate, the silly season winter prices D/U are rip of time again.

BTW Thanks Socalgal for moving thread, wasn't sure if it was Tech enough for General so posted original in community.
WW

[Inferior]

To tell ya the truth, I think another similar disaster happened.

I think there was another quake or maybe even a fire at a ram storage warehouse in Taiwan or something.....

Because once again ram prices around here are just too **** high...

[welsh wizard]

well they should be comming down, just seen on CNBC news / Biz that a big manufacturer has just had a very large (MAJOR) order cancelled on them after producing the ram, so it will be interesting to see if this has an effect on prices, as hard drive have dropped like crasy the last 4 weeks following some thing similar with them.
WW

[GroundZero3]

man i remeber in mid march when they were like $87 dollars. now when i search thru www.pricewatch.com (http://www.pricewatch.com) its like $110 was the cheapest for 128mb SDRAM ****'t and i wanted some more RAm win2k is killing my comp on 64mb
JaYsin

[Dputiger]

From what I've heard, RAM prices are going UP, not down.

Plus, Crucial is already scaling to meet the demand for DDR-RAM, which is supposed to be huge. So I'm not holding my breath looking for an SDRAM price decrease.

[spark25]

The odds of a major brand stick of good ram Muskin,Piny,Micron etc. going bad are miniscule. I get mine off for sale boards,never had a problem and never paid more than $130, shipped for top flight 128MB PC 133.

[Bovon]

For the past three years that I know of, ram has started to increase in price in May...continues to increase til about January, then nose dives til about May...then, cycles back up again. I try to gather my stuff together for any new system along and along, and get the ram in late January/February...if you can't wait, then its deep pocket time. And, yup...I believe it is a rip off. People starting to think in terms of Christmas, ect. I know one Guy that buys several hundred...maybe even a couple of grand for ram, when its down, then sells it when it peaks...made some good bucks, or so he says.

[Hellmund]

Maybe you should try a computer fair.
I got a 64meg pc100 stick for $89AUS.I took it home and tested it with Docmem and it was fine.I got a 160meg right now of PC100 and it hasn't costed me over $200.I think AUS$ buy 58 US cents now.
Hellmund

[welsh wizard]

I sell a lot of old stock items at the computer fairs, normally Old stock items or stuff from upgrades that is left over, even the C F's are expensive across the ditch in N.Z. besides it would not be playing ball selling a new system to a customer with second hand ram in it.

U only have to look at that chap down in Sydney that has a computer auction every week ( over 10 acres of storage for item for auction) to see how Oz prices are cheaper than N.Z. U can get a complete system with monitor there for a 100 or so A$ and the same system in NZ would fetch 4 to 5 hundred NZ$
thanks for the thought though.
WW