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I feel sorry for people in retail; I can not believe how much the price can fall when a new product comes out.
William Hillsum – Independent computer support
Who holds stock of this stuff? Not us. Only the price protected big guys can take the risk. In fact it's not a gamble as this stuff always goes down in price whilst on the shelf. We will only order high end goods when paid for in full. No exceptions. Been burnt too many times and had to sell at a loss after less than a month.
We are domestic, mainly AMD and NVIDIA, with a bit of Intel and ATI. The old love match between AMD and NVIDIA was good for us but the recent marriage of AMD and ATI has not produced the honeymoon we expected. If anything AMD has lost out and is now sulking in the garden shed. It should start flirting with NVIDIA again. Put a spark back in the relationship.
Whilst I am on this rant: food has gone up, fuel has gone up, everything has gone up except laptops and PCs. Still coming down in price. Were we being ripped off before?
In answer to the question above. The only relationship we have is with AMD. And it is the same as before. Second cousins. Intel, they only do deals with the big boys. Us independents are small fry for them. At least AMD sees we are there and wants to help.
Matt – Independent retailer
