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whats going on, why is ram so cheap now?

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Apparently DDR3 isn't selling. Which means us dealfinders are getting good RAM deals at the moment!
 
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£24 for 4GB
£48 for 8GB
£77 for 12GB
all with free shipping.
real good deals here in the UK
 
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For those of you that want to know the actual reason, you can read about the price fixing lawsuits against the ram manufacturers years ago. They were price gouging us and got totally caught doing it. Remember the $100 2 x 512mb ddr and ddr2 kits back in the day? They were raping us.
 
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Originally Posted by sccr64472
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For those of you that want to know the actual reason, you can read about the price fixing lawsuits against the ram manufacturers years ago. They were price gouging us and got totally caught doing it. Remember the $100 2 x 512mb ddr and ddr2 kits back in the day? They were raping us.

That's not the reason.... Read the articles here: http://www.dramexchange.com/WeeklyRe...px?sectionid=2

If you recall, DDR2 was selling at below costs at the end of 2007 and into 2008. This was due to supply and demand. Companies were producing too much due to expectations of Vista and demand was down due to global financial crisis.
 
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Lucky you, Ram in my country are still killing me .... with the import and everythings,it cost me more than 120 bucks
 
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That's not the reason.... Read the articles here: http://www.dramexchange.com/WeeklyRe...px?sectionid=2

If you recall, DDR2 was selling at below costs at the end of 2007 and into 2008. This was due to supply and demand. Companies were producing too much due to expectations of Vista and demand was down due to global financial crisis.

Hynix, Infineon, Micron Technology, Samsung, and Elpida all plead guilty to price fixing and were fined by the Department of Justice in 2002.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAM_price_fixing
 
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