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I bet you feel the same way about oil prices huh? I bet you scream for joy when exxon posts record profits. Gotta do your part. Anyway, I don't care for businesses that are unethical and try to take advantage of a situation. You can gladly be a sucker and pay it though, peace.
The difference is that you need water to live in the aftermath of a hurricane. You don't need a GTX 680, disaster or no disaster. That is a truly idiotic analogy.
If you dont have it, sit down there with Fireman Ed. If you dont have $1200 for a GTX690, get the sand out of your vagina and go buy a GTX560Ti for $250.
Or just wait a month or two for prices to most likely come down as availability picks up and the die hards already have their cards. You want to be the new kid on the block with the fanciest toy you pay the early adopter price.
This is why I haven't used Newegg in years. I'm thinking of grabbing one, but it will be from Amazon, when they get them in stock.
WTF, Ferrari's are $300,000. That's fucking ridiculous and price gouging!!! I'm never buying from Ferrari again! Now lets look at this Bently....oh wtf....
Seems like you are completely missing the concept of "price gouging"...
$1000 MSRP -> $1200 price = price gouging.
I think you missed the point. No one is going to die without a 690. Someone will die without water.
People bitch and complain about communism and socialism but when capitalism doesn't work for them, they bitch about that. Is this not America???
Apparently people forgot that when the 680s came out, Newegg was one of the very few places that actually sold at MSRP. Go figure.
Seems like you are completely missing the concept of "price gouging"...
$1000 MSRP -> $1200 price = price gouging.
EDIT: And I see you ninja-edited your post. In any case, it's rare that cars are over MSRP anyway so it seems like a failed analogy by any metric.
The only idiot is someone who would pay 200$ more for no apparent good reason. I bet the newegg execs are truly laughing right now though, its cool.
Seems like you are completely missing the concept of "price gouging"...
$1000 MSRP -> $1200 price = price gouging.
That is not price gouging. Some douche nozzle selling chainsaws for $500 a piece and $10 for a bottle of Aquafina right after Hurricane Katrina is price gouging. Selling a $250,000 Ferrari for $300,000 is not.
Really depends on what you consider "unreasonable" or "unfair" prices, but yeah, I'll give you that. Though it doesn't HAVE to be a necessity to be considered price gouging.
Yes it does have to be a necessity. You cannot price gouge on items that are not consumer staples. Selling at a market clearing price on luxury items does not even begin to meet the definition of price gouging.
No it does not, look it up.
The very definition is selling at a price that is considered unreasonable or unfair.
Yes it does have to be a necessity. You cannot price gouge on items that are not consumer staples. Selling at a market clearing price on luxury items does not even begin to meet the definition of price gouging.
This. No one is forced to buy or use this product.Selling luxury items at or under market clearing prices is not unfair.
That's a bullshit public definition that leaves out too much rational thinking and injects too much emotional thinking. Anyway I completely agree with devman. The term is so overused on non necessity products. I even saw someone say that the government should do something about this over in the 680 availability thread.No it does not, look it up.
The very definition is selling at a price that is considered unreasonable or unfair.
You want to be the new kid on the block with the fanciest toy you pay the early adopter price.
Actually, I was able to get an order in this morning at EVGA for the "signature" model for $1050.
Well, Newegg. I can absolutely promise you I will not order at least my next $5,000+ dollars with you. I hate that kind of ripoff mentality. They are already getting profit margins off 20 cards and who cares if it's not enough. It's still a few thousand dollars in profit. This just turns your customers away and I really do wonder if in the end, they lose money pulling these kind of stunts by losing loyal customers.
Another thing I'll add is that I am loyal to businesses that treat me well.
Congrats! ETA?
I would never go out of my way to make a sub optimal purchase just because newegg charged over MSRP on a product I'm not interested in that also happens to be the crazy "money is no object" top of the line luxury graphics card anyway.
To many whiners in this thread, and seriously people who say they are not going to shop newegg because of this. Don't kid yourself. You'll be buying the next item you can get from them at a better deal than the other places, because that is what smart consumers do.
So you admit you would never buy a product like this anyway, and then chastise people for "whining" about it.
You're just as bad as everyone over in the Diablo 3 thread bitching about how "it'll be the best game ever, everyone who days they aren't buying it will buy it anyway".
Just like Diablo, Newegg's not the only game in town. I never said I would boycott Newegg because of this, but you're damn sure I will pay a little more if it means avoiding a retailer that rubs me the wrong way.