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    Player GaiusDrakon's Avatar
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jeeqbit View Post
    They were willing to pay "above market price" for new servers.
    Lol? People actually believe this?
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    Quote Originally Posted by GaiusDrakon View Post
    Lol? People actually believe this?
    during COVID? yeah, server parts had a huge demand and a fall-off in production,
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    Quote Originally Posted by GaiusDrakon View Post
    Lol? People actually believe this?
    bro a raspberry pi 4* costs 200-300 bucks rn and car companies were buying brand new washing machines just to rip out the guts because they had compatible chips.
    i got a low-end education laptop for a hundred bucks back in december because every store mass-ordered thousands of them because people needed to work from home and when all the back orders were finally fulfilled there was a flood of extra-crappy laptops on the market. i also bought an AC just a couple days ago that's -entirely- mechanical. the most recent piece of tech in it is the green LED followed by the brushless motor in the fan.
    it was bad. really bad. they weren't the only company that were in actual bidding wars just for hardware and we're still in the thick of it. it'll be a few years before things go back to normal.
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    Last edited by Denji; 06-01-2023 at 11:14 AM. Reason: specified which pi just in case some dork trots out a 20 dollar pico

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    Quote Originally Posted by Denji View Post
    bro a raspberry pi 4* costs 200-300 bucks rn and car companies were buying brand new washing machines just to rip out the guts because they had compatible chips.
    i got a low-end education laptop for a hundred bucks back in december because every store mass-ordered thousands of them because people needed to work from home and when all the back orders were finally fulfilled there was a flood of extra-crappy laptops on the market. i also bought an AC just a couple days ago that's -entirely- mechanical. the most recent piece of tech in it is the green LED followed by the brushless motor in the fan.
    it was bad. really bad. they weren't the only company that were in actual bidding wars just for hardware and we're still in the thick of it. it'll be a few years before things go back to normal.
    Quote Originally Posted by Ransu View Post
    Yes because I work in IT and we experienced the same problem. It was impossible to get any kind of server hardware. New cisco 9000 series switches were over 12 months out for availability and the only way to get one was to pay way over market price. Same with servers and practically everything else. We had to go after refurbed dell servers to get our new network up and running because it was all we had access to.
    ?_?

    The market price went up because there's a shortage... no one calls that going "above the market price". Do you people not believe in supply and demand or some shit lmao
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