Since we are on the topic of ridiculousness I was out and about during the the build up to christmas doing some shopping etc. I came across an electronic store and something odd caught my eye. It was a motherboard and cpu combo.
The motherboard was an asus m5a78l with an amd bulldozer fx4 4100. It was on sale at the time reduced by 20% to a bargain of a price which was 480 euro.
Another one I was looking through play.com today and said I would see if they had the new corsair fans by any chance. They did and one fan is 55 euro.
http://www.play.com/PC/PCs/4-/31965...urce=0&searchtype=allproducts&urlrefer=search
One more for you. After a recent thread here I went to look for a price on the benq xl2410t and guess what I found.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Benq-XL2410...NS/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&qid=1357175001&sr=8-10
Yes that is near 600 pounds for the old style monitor.
It is not only limited to products. I was looking up a website looking to purchase an ssd. They wanted to charge 27 pounds for delivery of the ssd to Ireland from the uk. To put that in perspective I got my whole system shipped from the uk with dpd for less than 15 pounds.
I was also in gamestop yesterday just because I was killing time and was passing. I do not usually buy anything in there but said I would have a look. As I was browsing the pc games they had the original dawn of war game for 45 euro. They also had F1 2011 for 35 euro.
I mean where do these people get their prices from? Wouldn't it be better to get rid of the old stock at a slightly less profit and then get new stock in and shift that too. Instead of having old stock getting older and being surpassed by newer and better products. Especially in the electronics and games industry.
It is not only limited to games and electronics. I was in Hmv coming up to christmas and the first season of house was 60 euro and each other season was 45 euro. Family guy is also another bad example. You used to get 20 or so episodes in a season and it would range between 18 to 25 euro, now they are charging 30 euro for 11 episodes. I know times are tough for all industries but is it any wonder why so many people torrent stuff these days.
Last one I had to get a sensor adapter welded into my exhaust for my car a few weeks ago. One garage that specialized in exhausts wanted 150 euro for 10 mins work. I went with another garage who did the job for 60 quid. I would do it myself but I do not have a welder or know how to.
Seriously though where do these prices come from because they seriously make no sense to me.
