Hardware and Software prices to climb

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antowan

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Got the first communication from a wholesaler today indicating immediate price hikes due to Rand/Dollar chaos recently.

Price lists are immediately void at this one wholesaler with new price list in the making.

The others are bound to follow with a knock on to consumers within 48 hours if I am reading the situation correctly.

Eina! :(
 
Hope that is not Rectron.
Because I will be there tomorrow to get some hardwares.
 
ag no man just when I got the cash I can't get my cpu and now that I am looking around the dam price is going up :(:(:(
 
Borak 17% the rand has lost man, your looking at a huge increase man, as much as 300-400 on expensive items if not more.
 
All I can say is thank goodness I got my external sata drive case/bay today.
 
Ah no problem, the fancy case is something nice to have but my current case is good enough.
 
Just skimmed through the Axiz pricelist for today - most of it still the same, not aware of any specific price hike warnings but their pricelist is updated daily.

Sometimes you win sometimes you lose. Once I picked up a colour laser from them for +- 4k, 2 weeks later the $ was stronger and the printer was 1500 bucks less.

Biggest change I see is on intel procs, esp the 45nm quads up about 400 bucks on a week ago. Some other stuff has dropped. 500gb seagates are R635 ex, down since last week.

Apparently Kingston just dumped out a 32gb flash drive as well...

Yes, retailers are naturally going to up prices to cope with the pressures but everything balances since the importers need to shift stock asap always. If they get stuck with 10,000 nVidia's xxxxGT's and the next model comes out those lose value instantly and they're screwed.

Just buy smart - e.g. after the eskom fiasco, 600va ups' are now about 350 bucks cheaper than they were going for sub R400.
 
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Westcon sent out a notice saying due to the exchange rate, all quotes will be valid for 7 days, however should the exchange rate go up by more than 2% compared to when quoted, they will void the quote.

Which is fair enough for me. it just pisses me off becuase a lot of deals I had been working on, are now past the original CAPEX requested, and now the whole process starts again. :(
 
What i find nasty is lets say they brought in 100 intel cpu's at the old rate, they then sell them at the new rate even though they paid the old rate.

I can understand new stock but not old stock being sold for more.
 
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