[SOLVED] Is PCPartPicker broken? If so, anyone know what's going on?

King_V

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Alright, so, recently, I've noticed that I've had a lot of trouble doing searches with PCPartPicker. Typically, I'll filter down some, then sort by price.

It seems like they're missing a lot of things - sometimes a price will show for a certain item, then if you click on that item to see which vendors have it, the prices, in stock, will be lower than what the list view showed.

Other times, they simply won't have it showing correctly on PCPartPicker at all (ie: looking at an RMx 750W power supply, PCPartPicker showed it over $200, but NewEgg had it (sold by NewEgg) for $139.99 plus shipping).

I suppose that might be due to things selling out quickly?

Yet with other things, say, video cards, there'll sometimes be something readily available, and it's still not showing - example: there's a Gigabyte RX 570 4GB at NewEgg (again, sold by NewEgg, not a third party seller) that's been there, in stock, for 3 days at $119.99. Yet, it's not showing up on PCPartPicker with that price. If searching by part number, 3 items show up, two of which does not have a price in the list view.

If you click on one of the two without the price, then it shows that it's available at NewEgg for $119.99.


Is something fundamentally broken on PCPartPicker now? Are rapidly restocking/depleting inventories playing havoc with it? Are vendors somehow blocking it?
 
Solution
Na it's the way things are atm with covid, no doubt. Even the build competitions here are being affected with price fluctuations and stock levels as people gear up working from home.