PC manufacturers Panic Because Hard Drive Supply Reduced.
Reducing the supply of the hard disk because of the floods in Thailand led the PC manufacturers are forced to buy in the gray market. Grey market is a market where products are bought and sold outside the official distribution, but are not legally authorized, and generally have a higher price.
This makes the price of hard drives on the gray market shoots up. For example, for hard disks with a capacity of 500 GB, compared to $ 45 more than $ 100 and the 320 GB hard drive, up from $ 35 to 60-70 dollars per unit .
Due to uncertainty about the future of the hard drive industry and fears of worsening floods in Thailand, so that PC vendors seek from any source to replenish inventory of your hard drive. Some sources describe the sellers have entered the stage of “panic” in an attempt to fill their inventories on the hard disk.
Most vendors have made repeated orders to manufacturers of hard disk with a number of two or even three times the usual demand for them. However, since hard disk manufacturers can only be answered with no more inventory, the PC vendor was forced to turn to the gray market.
With the rising price of hard disk, the PC vendors would have to revise the selling price of their products. A vendor shows, for general purpose computers with prices ranging between U.S. $ 827-926 increase by 4 percent when using a 320 GB hard drive on the gray market, which increased by $ 30. However, current PC manufacturers will increase prices only for general purpose computers, while for high-end PCs that have not been decided.
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