Memory price shocker

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We placing our new order for memory today as we running out of stocks

Just to give you an idea

We were currently selling a well-known international brand 8GB DDR 3 1333 @ R 649.00, our new cost today from suppliers UK warehouse is now at R 779.00 FOB meaning we still have to add the air freight cost and other shipping charges and looks like the landed cost is going to around R 841.00

And it seems that it is going to get worst , we expecting that 8GB DDR 3 is going to cost the end user around R 1100.00 for 8GB memory chip , Please buy up where you can at old pricing
 
That factory burning made another big hit on the market price. I'll probably buy RAM again when DDR4 is here in 2 years time (hopefully)
 
EmileS said:
That factory burning made another big hit on the market price. I'll probably buy RAM again when DDR4 is here in 2 years time (hopefully)
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and here I was hoping that in December would get some more RAM but not at those prices. it cost me R500 from matrix warehouse a couple months back. Dont want to see the retail of it when it is launched
 
i smell a rat!!! first hdds now memory...almost seems like because prices went too low they needed to be "corrected"...no fault of esquires ofcourse....
 
It shouldn't do, since they don't use DDR, and the process is completely different.
 
I recently went on a RAM searching frenzy to find 16gb RAM at a reasonable price.

+- 40 emails later and countless 'Sorry, that RAM is no longer in stock and the ETA is XX plus it will cost double/triple' responses from about 10 or so different stores, I eventually found once place that had 4x4gb Corsair XMS3 1600mhz for R1278.

I had a few prices I wrote down from a year or so back and to see how much RAM has increased since then is scary.
 
The aliens making the technology for us is leaving earth saying the human race is unbearable and should "STFU"

That's why the prices are going up
 
The fire had nothing to do with it, I knew via sources that memory prices would double about three months back and warned quite a few people on Carbonite. This hike was planned, the fire was not.
 
Just be glad its not anywhere close to what FB ECC DDR2 4GB modules costs.
Here's what I paid in Nov last year for 32GB of DDR3 1600Mhz & 16GB of FB ECC DDR2 667MHz
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Its sad to hear that the cost would've increased 3x - 4x within a year :(
 
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