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Best month of year for parts?
March and April are typically the drop in electronics prices. I know
20 years ago it used to be January. What month is best for CPU, memory, MoBos, cases, video cards, etc? I thought January would be the "best buy" month. Anyone know? |
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What month is best for CPU,
memory, MoBos, cases, video cards, etc? I thought July was a good month for RAM. I saw Crucial 256 PC 2100 was down to $29 a stick. As for CPU's I think AMD socket A, they are fazing them out within the next year or so, right now they seem to be as cheap as ever and will probably continue to get cheaper. I haven't been comparing them on a monthly basis but those I remember. Ashley |
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Conor wrote:
January on E-Bay when everyone is selling their old kit. Better to be one step behind leading edge and spend the savings on other things. Most of the used computer parts I've bought on ebay haven't been 'kit'. They have been something that rhymes with 'kit'. |
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Matt wrote in
: Most of the used computer parts I've bought on ebay haven't been 'kit'. They have been something that rhymes with 'kit'. OH, AND WHAT'S THAT? |
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Mini Me wrote:
In article , says... Conor wrote: January on E-Bay when everyone is selling their old kit. Better to be one step behind leading edge and spend the savings on other things. Most of the used computer parts I've bought on ebay haven't been 'kit'. They have been something that rhymes with 'kit'. Then you don't know what you're doing... I do now. I've had great luck in getting parts from eBay. It's important to only buy from people with good positive feedback and to ALWAYS ask the seller questions before you bid. I've only been burned a few times out of hundreds of transactions on eBay. Uh huh ... tell us about some of the great deals you've made recently and why they were better than buying new items locally. Don't forget to consider rebates from the chain stores. |
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On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 22:52:01 GMT, Phisherman wrote:
March and April are typically the drop in electronics prices. I know 20 years ago it used to be January. What month is best for CPU, memory, MoBos, cases, video cards, etc? I thought January would be the "best buy" month. Anyone know? Due to world events and market changes that target is forever changing. On a regular basis however the best price point routinely is for items 6 months to 1 year behind the state of the art. |
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on Sat December 27 2003 7:37 pm, Jim Strand decided to enlighten us with:
On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 22:52:01 GMT, Phisherman wrote: March and April are typically the drop in electronics prices. I know 20 years ago it used to be January. What month is best for CPU, memory, MoBos, cases, video cards, etc? I thought January would be the "best buy" month. Anyone know? Due to world events and market changes that target is forever changing. On a regular basis however the best price point routinely is for items 6 months to 1 year behind the state of the art. The day after Thanksgiving many places have a "6 hour sale" of some sort and have huge discounts. My brother and best friend picked up 120 GB 7200 RPM 8MB cache Maxtor drives for $49 after rebates, a LiteOn and a BusLink 52X CD burner for $9 each after rebates, an ATI Radeon 9600 graphics card for $59 after rebates and more! They both built systems with pretty nice specs for less than a grand with 3 GHz P4's and 865PE based motherboards from MSI and Asus. My brother's computer even has SATA RAID, though my buddy's board has it, but he opted for a single drive. Both systems even have 512 MB Corsair dual channel memory or more too. That was a steal! They both bought new eMachines computers too as gifts pretty cheap. They both bought the same system - 2.6 GHz Celeron, 256 MB DDR, 40 GB HDD - but my brother got a 17" monitor too. My brother paid $299 after rebates and my buddy paid $199 for his system without a monitor. The very same system that my brother bought was on the shelf at the same Best Buy the very next day for $489, but this time it included a printer too. |
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