Intel SSDs Double in Price on Newegg
It's gone up, way up.
The Intel SSDs are still some of the best choices if you're looking for performance storage, but unfortunately they're still some of the most expensive solutions available right now.
While prices have been steadily dropping, something did catch our eye today on Newegg's listings for the Intel line of SSDs – dramatically inflated prices.
When Intel rolled out its new G2 "Postville" 34-nm SSDs in July, it updated pricing for the X25-M 80 GB to $225 for quantities up to 1,000 units. The 160 GB version was $440 (down from $945 at introduction) for quantities up to 1,000 units.
For one reason or another, however, Newegg's latest pricing for the new X25-M 80 GB is a whopping $599 and the list price for the 160 GB model is no less shocking at $997.
Prices for the older G1 stock, while not as stratospheric as the G2 models, are still higher than what they were previously.
Curious if there was some secret price adjustment that we didn't know about, we asked Intel about the prices listed on Newegg.
Intel PR manager Dan Snyder told Tom's Hardware, "Intel has not raised distributor pricing but the demand for 34nm SSDs is outstripping supply, which Intel is addressing. We cannot speak to pricing strategy at specific etailers."
A quick search engine query returns results showing that pricing is indeed largely unchanged, which now has us directing our questions to Newegg for an explanation of the revised prices. Stay tuned for more.
[Update] Newegg has now completely removed the second generation Intel SSDs from its site. This doesn't explain the higher prices for the first generations.
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Hmmm, interesting. That's all I can say because neither Toms, Intel or Me have a friggin clue as to what is going on. I guess it really doesn't matter anyway, I cant afford that crap in the first place. FIRST!
It happens to all etailers over time. They start small, gain a following with great prices and service, get big and greedy, and start screwing around with prices. A wonderful opportunity for some other company to start this cycle over again will be presented very soon.
It happens to all etailers over time. They start small, gain a following with great prices and service, get big and greedy, and start screwing around with prices. A wonderful opportunity for some other company to start this cycle over again will be presented very soon.
I think you are speaking too soon. Let's wait and see what happens. Hope this isn't the new Newegg
NewEgg seem to have a automatic pricing system that takes in to account inventory + orders for deciding price. For example, the E8400/E6600 fluctuated by ~$100-150 during release time.
It happens to all etailers over time. They start small, gain a following with great prices and service, get big and greedy, and start screwing around with prices. A wonderful opportunity for some other company to start this cycle over again will be presented very soon.
but not when tom's here to catch them in the act if there is an act?
they do have inventory flux pricing been a victim of it in the past. Now i learn to wait out the rush on parts
Use your brain. Newegg has a stock tracking software that will auto adjust price based on recent purchase and available stock.
Someone might have just bought eight drives at once and cause stock to drop to single digit. The program thought Intel SSD is in super demand and auto adjusted the price through the roof until a technician realized this and take the item offline.
sounds like a simple matter of supply and demand to me.
maybe Woot picked them up...IN FOR THREE!
Supply and Demand is a euphemism for sanctioned theft.
Bet they still sold some at that price.
They get them in and there gone in minutes, so they figure they can get more$$$. Guess I'll be buying mine elsewhere.
Ive had em on auto notify, and when I get email, I check and there gone. Supposed to be more tomorrow.
Sanctioned theft.. right. Because you own those SSDs at the price you think they should be, and any increase over that price is "theft". Stunningly logical.
Saw this here yesterday night...
http://www.pcper.com/comments.php?nid=7706
As of right now I can't afford it so I dont care.
Saw this here yesterday night...http://www.pcper.com/comments.php?nid=7706
good find +1
More power to the idiots that bought these drives at these ridiculous prices (unless, of course, they have enough money to literally burn)... 320GB SSDs which will smoke the current crop of Intel drives in terms of performance are only months away... which means, if you just wait a while longer, you'll either get much more for your money, or get these same drives for much less.
I noticed this a couple days ago as well... Newegg is great when it's great but it certainly pisses me off when they have drastic price changes on certain products. This isn't the first time, but this is the first time I've seen it done to this magnitude.
Supply and Demand is a euphemism for sanctioned theft.
I thought the same as well.
Now thats a profit margin! But if they are going to be selling out in hours anyway why shouldnt they raise the price? If they stop selling like hot cakes im sure the prices will normalize down to what we expect.
I'm quite happy about this... (of course not about higher prices) but at the amount of demand that is going on. the demand is shooting up, intel ramps up production. floods markets... prices go down even further then msrp. then we get reasonable prices for ssd....
Newegg is the best in the business, but you still have to use your brain. If you're paying MSRP for anything on the internet then you're probably paying too much.
If you don't want to pay the price for the product, don't buy it. Supply and demand works. You have an alternative?
$599 up from $220......holy shit! Thats going from almost affordable to a mortgage payment.
And here I was hoping to get one for $175ish during the after Christmas sales.
The spike in demand is due to Anandtech's new article from Monday. Another article confirming that Intel SSDs are excellent and nobody else's SSDs are quite as good sends a lot of people clamoring for X25-Ms.
(or am I supposed to pretend that Anandtech doesn't exist while I'm at Tom's??)
Umnn.... is it jsut me or has Newegg been a little bit shy of insane in the past month? even they're labor day sale is pricing a 250GB HDD that WAS 50 bucks now suddenly at 64 dollars from 80? Wtf is up with that? Its an older model version too and it was worth less then the normal 50 buck ones I found.
It happens to all etailers over time. They start small, gain a following with great prices and service, get big and greedy, and start screwing around with prices. A wonderful opportunity for some other company to start this cycle over again will be presented very soon.
Damn, my microeconomics textbooks have all been a lie. In truth, apparently, at some point, businesses change from being profit maximizing firms to instead being greedy, which is totally different. Thank you for this lesson on price theory. I'm dropping out of grad school!
More power to the idiots that bought these drives at these ridiculous prices (unless, of course, they have enough money to literally burn)... 320GB SSDs which will smoke the current crop of Intel drives in terms of performance are only months away... which means, if you just wait a while longer, you'll either get much more for your money, or get these same drives for much less.
As is the tendency of technology, no matter the situation, almost always something better is available in a few months. I bought a 1.6GHz solo core athlon like 5 years back, but why didn't I want 5 more years for a i5/i3 instead?
Anand "demonstrated" how you "absolutelly need SSD" in the last article. Like "if you start a very strange bunch of apps together and right after windows boots, SSD could save you whopping 24 seconds!". This article led to: "OMG OMG, I soo need this piece of... hardware" comments.
I guess there are a few thousand users trieing to buy this expensive (15x as much as usual HDD) piece of... hardware, and since market of those thingies is rather small, it led to shortages.
So what are the other good retailers in U.S. (competition to Newegg)?
I've used the following etailers for various things:
ZipZoomFly (formerly googlegear)
TigerDirect
FrozenCpu
Buy.com (Charged me for a Mitsubishi Diamondtron CRT. Never shipped it according to their site. Said it was out of stock. Didn't refund my money. Advised me it was cheaper to eat the loss than to hire a lawyer to get my money back. Of course I was more concerned with the principle of it. Won't ever touch them again, but apparently my friends have had great luck with them.)