Comment on RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices
BD89@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
Lol pricing computer parts like they do fish in an expensive restaurant.
What a time to be alive.
SatyrSack@quokk.au 3 weeks ago
Valmond@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
In paris there was this street “rue Montgallet” selling computer stuff like that around y2000, the prices for the most sold things were printed on a cheap paper daily or you had to ask. Guarantee? Yes, but it stops when you leave the shop, or so was the saying.
comador@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Thing is, this isn’t new in the slightest.
I remember calling around to different PC stores in the 90s and early 00s to find the cheapest RAM and hard drive prices.
Before that, I remember my grandfather, an IBM employee in the 60s-90s calling places looking for best pricing on 64k-128k SIPP memory for an ibm pizzabox 286.
3abas@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That was the norm before it was so easy to buy online from across the country, local stores set their own prices and a few minutes of calling to find the best deal is like searching on Google for a few minutes to find the best deal… But they weren’t doubling in price in a couple months, that I can recall anyway.
Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I’ll never forget the time someone in my neighborhood found out one of the local PC shops had a deal on 8MB of RAM for like 100 bucks. That’s not a typo kiddies 8 Megabytes. We were so excited, a bunch of us piled into one car and rushed over there before they sold out!
tal@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II
I mean, few people actually need a full 48KB of RAM, if you have an extra $6k lying around, it can be awfully nice.
Zink@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Yeah the “shopping around” aspect isn’t even close these days. I remember ~25 years ago using price aggregator sites to pick up individual PC parts from all different websites.
Today the situation is flipped. It isn’t difficult to find a really good price. If you buy all your parts from the same retailer, you’ll be way closer to the minmaxed optimal price than in the past.
The problem is that right now the “good” prices are crazy.