DDR2 price is really shooting up

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/166785/show_product_reviews

i bought this set for £37 about three weeks ago and look at the price now.... £61!!!

Same with DDR3... I bought this for $75 in may. Now it's $110.

Yeah they seem to be getting a bit too greedy with our dollars lol!

I agree I bought this for $50 2 months ago now it's $70.

hehe just bought 2x1 Gb of DDR3 1066 for my laptop http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227493

hehe just bought 2x1 Gb of DDR3 1066 for my laptop http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227493

slayerpker

not the original DDR, I spent 36 bucks a couple moons ago on a 1 Gb Stick

That's bizarre. I bought the G.Skill 4BG (two sticks) for like 42 dollars several months ago. I wonder why the prices have gone up.

That's bizarre. I bought the G.Skill 4BG (two sticks) for like 42 dollars several months ago. I wonder why the prices have gone up.

organic_machine

nope don't think any corporation conspiracy behind that it more like the cause of the Actual recession i noted that all hardware price increase is due to october / November 2008 all that is behind the huge price gain in several country noticeable Canada my country and UK i watched hardware such as PSU / RAM / Processor / motherboard same here but recently canada price become more USA Price Ratio so the economy value on pc hasn't drop too much

but it sure did for canada we ad price that is only from 20-40$ difference with most of thing to usa back to 2008 Q1 To Q3 and now some product ar as far as +100$ then USA value compare to +200$ at the peak of recession around October 2008 Third week until February 2009

example Price of 4870x2 at release 599$CAD : 549.99$US price of 4870x2 + MIR around November 2008 430-450$US : price of 4870x2 at Novembers 2008 674,99+ with majority of Manufacturer & place sell it at 700$+ : current price : 449$-550$CAD : usa : around 320-350$US : judging that the peak went better

for Uk id have to remember the Pound value of Fall 2008 to now fall of 2009 : i can't be Everywhere :P

but the only thing in Canada that haven't ad recession problems which mean a The proce of a thing rise usally by +15% to +35% then it original price you bough it was the DDR3 Ram they only Lowered Cost as month pass in both USA / Canada for majority of DDR3 While DDR2 Climbed price slowly by +5-10% for the high quality DDR2 with Low Latency / high mhz

The CPU Cooler / motherboard / everything raised of price : cpu & power supply / motherboard / cpu cooler ect.. for Canada : for usa i seen nothing such as majority of hardware increase price only Few DDR2 &DDR 3 module & PSU maybe i wasn't looking at other place then newegg.com which was maybe why but anyway it the case

So I guess it quite normal to have Seen DDR2 you bough at 30$ becoming at 70$ but some DDR3 you would have bough at 200$ are probably 90$
but a such topic to Start to talk about would probably figure more like a off-topic or a mixed economy /PC hardware topic then a pure PC-hardware thing

anyway most of thing i buy get less expensive as month pass specially each season : example a HDTV at 1,600$ in sales : 3-5 month later : 1,200$ but a new product with better dynamic contrass / color feature show up for around same price it quite normal to see that here apprently so if the DDr2 did Increase as you show for usa / uk it may get to drop in price later or it simply because 75% of the costumer are buying DDR3

or there maybe a conspiracy such as the ink cartridge conspiracy if you heard of it but it quite off topic but i assure you it exist ;)