Wacky Pricing
- Feb. 11th, 2010 at 6:47 AM
Originally published at BunkBlog. You can comment here or there.
I understand supply and demand, and what the market will bear, blah blah blah, but this is entertaining.
Yesterday, Newegg began selling a new gaming laptop, the Asus G73. When Gizmodo and other sites posted it at 8am or so with a claimed price of $1430, the price was $1449 at Newegg. Later in the morning, the sites that blogged about it mentioned the price as $1499. When I got home, I showed it to my wife, explaining that it was nigh impossible to build a gaming desktop with the same specs for less than the $1500 they were asking. But, when I pulled up the listing, it was $1599. This morning, just out of curiousity, I looked again – $1549.
There can’t be this much demand and supply change in one 24 hour period, can there? This is like watching Apple stock whenever Steve Jobs speaks.
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Oh, and it's $1600 now.