Hard drive pricing still high in South Africa
The word from local distributors is that hard drive pricing will remain high for the time being
Hard drive pricing still high in South Africa
Hard drive pricing still high in South Africa
The word from local distributors is that hard drive pricing will remain high for the time being
Yup, that goes without saying....
My words exactly to someone this morning.
Wrong :
Its actually :Thailand is responsible for half of the worlds hard drive production.
Thailand is the world's 2nd largest producer of hard disk drives accounting for approximately 25% of the world's production
Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Thailand_floods
You can do something for love, you can do something for money, but there is nothing as satisfying as doing something out of spite - Jeremy Clarkson, 1993
heheheOriginally Posted by Kosmik
Ok, who broke out the antique MFM drive?
Christ-mass is NOT for Christians. Jeremiah 10.Is the 10 Commandments for Christians?
Saturday is the Seventh day, Sunday is the first day.
Shmiert Shpammer
The whole hard drive price hike is a price fixing scam. Realistically only WD prices would have sky rocketed and they would go bust. Samsung build all components themselves so I cannot understand why there prices tripped.
You can do something for love, you can do something for money, but there is nothing as satisfying as doing something out of spite - Jeremy Clarkson, 1993
"The exchange rate for the beginning of September sat at R7.03 to the dollar. This skyrocketed to a peak of R8.52 in late November, before dropping slightly to current levels of around R7.55 per dollar."
I'm confused by the use of adjectives here. A devaluation of R1.49 is seen as skyrocketed but a increase in value of almost a Rand is seen as dropping slightly...
Ever the bad news for consumers here in S.A.Bet the stock pre-Sept flooding that was not sold by early Dec suddenly skyrocketed though it was bought pre-Sept flooding.I go with Rouxenator on this and declare a price fixing scam.And I bet even if the rand reached a range of R6-R6.80 we will never see "savings" passed on to the consumer.
I suppose you meant "The World Bank"Hard drive pricing is still high internationally, following flooding in Thailand that was described as the world’s fourth costliest natural disaster by the Work Bank.
We all saw this coming. Floods are over, "epic shortage" causing prices to more than double (LOL, like half the hard drives in the world miraculously disappeared) is gone, now local distributors are coining it since they're probably buying it for normal or close-to-normal prices again and they noticed SA consumers are suckers who would go on buying at these silly prices. Why make low margins when you can have close to clothing industry-levels?
So y'all need to hide yo uzis, hide yo assault rifles and hide yo bazookas 'cos they disarmin' everybody out here!
-Darkmatter2525
It was like a few years ago memory prices were high due to some earthquack or something other affecting a major assembly plant... but all memory went up, even with Rectron who have their own assembly plant in Midrand.
How wonderful life would be: http://www.twitpic.com/151em5
Time being,being time enough to fleece your as**s.Gosh!! What a load!!!
Luckily I don't need to buy hdd's, I can always watch, delete and redownload later when I get uncapped(hopefully soon). I think one of the suppliers are going to crack soon and the market will get flooded with all the current stockpiles, prices will drop to the lowest levels ever.
Well, well, well....
I am sooooo pissed off I could punch a dolphin
I got a 2TB verbatim drive from Incredible end Sept @R1400, went back a week later and the same drives had new price tags stuck over the last price at R1800
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