Why are companies such as, acer, HP, Dell and etc... charging people ridiculous amount of money?

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I mean to start off, they're technically not even a company because all the parts manufactured from companies such as Intel, AMD, I mean sure some of them do make motherboards too, but most of the parts are from other companies, should they really be creating a plastic box stamping their name on it and claiming credit for everything and over charging people compare to a person that buys his own parts I know it takes time and effort to do buy they just overcharge people and even worse thrown in an awful monitor into the desktop/system package and charge people hundreds of quid more.
I mean look at apple they make all their systems including components and software, and no I'm not an apply fan I hate apple, but at least they make their own parts and stuff
 
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That's not the definition of a company: "A number of persons united or incorporated for joint action, especially for business" is one of the definitions; the one most applicable here. I wouldn't necessarily say that they rip people off, they serve a section of that market that is there and needs to be provided for. They need to make a profit and they cant just build pcs for a tiny margin. leaching off other inventions doesnt make them not a company, does this mean because electricity generation companies aren't really companies because they didnt invent the turbines and generators, or maybe didnt invent burning coal for fire/utilizing fission reactions etc.? Just because you dont see their products as good value doesnt mean that other...
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Just because they don't make the parts does not mean they are not a company. Just because they don't manufacture it does not mean they are not a company, Woolworths doesn't make all the stuff they sell and they are a company aren't they. Apple don't make all their stuff, they have Intel cpus and outsource the specialized parts they use.
 
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I already have don't you worry, I used to when I was young, 13-14 not know + nor did I have money to build my own, but thinking about it now and knowing millions of people buy them premade spend so much money for so much less
 
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That wasn't my point, I'm not arguing or discussing whether they're a company or not but they rip people off and I wanted to know why, I know they are a company I'm not denying that but I'm just saying they're not technically a company because they are leeching off other peoples inventions.
 
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Sorry, you're still trying to argue that "they're not technically a company". If they're in the Companies Register (or equivalent), they're a company. Doesn't matter what they do, even if it's completely illegal. That's someone else's problem.

They charge lots because people are willing to pay more for (perceived) improved service, even if you're not going to get that outside of enterprise with SLAs.
 
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That's not the definition of a company: "A number of persons united or incorporated for joint action, especially for business" is one of the definitions; the one most applicable here. I wouldn't necessarily say that they rip people off, they serve a section of that market that is there and needs to be provided for. They need to make a profit and they cant just build pcs for a tiny margin. leaching off other inventions doesnt make them not a company, does this mean because electricity generation companies aren't really companies because they didnt invent the turbines and generators, or maybe didnt invent burning coal for fire/utilizing fission reactions etc.? Just because you dont see their products as good value doesnt mean that other customers who dont want to build their own system dont see the benefit of paying more for a product guaranteed to work. A significant number of people use a pc for email and work only, a prebuilt system here actually can provide quite good value. Go rant somewhere else
 
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Where did you see that Apple manufactures their components? I don't think most computer companies "overcharge", they do add a premium on top of the parts cost since it takes money to put the thing together, test it, market it and ship it. If anyone does overcharge it's Apple, they have the same components as others but at a price 30% higher.

You may say the supermaket you buy your food at is also a waste, after all they don't grow the food they just buy it from farms and distributors and you can grow your own tomatoes and have a few cows in the barn for beef and milk.

Your post was the start of a decent idea but with imcomplete and wrong information. Less rant more details.
 
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It's a law, for one, anyone making more than 100 computers per year for sale are required to 'stamp' their name on it. This is either a DEQ or EPA law which are environmental companies.

And by tax law if you buy and assemble parts, you r considered a manufacturer. They'd get in trouble if they did otherwise. That's what they pay all their expensive lawyers and accountants for, driving up their prices.(joke)

And two, Apple uses Intel processors, major brand memory, etc parts in their machines.

We know both because we recycle used technology and repair and resale for very little $ what we can, using used parts. We process 1000's of machines annually so are familiar with those and most manufacturers and pertinent legal issues to our industries.

AfterTech, Inc.

Also, we'd like to give a shout out to Toms Hardware where we've found useful, tech fixes over past many years. Thank you Tom!
 
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