Question Say it ain't so, Joe!

[drea.drechsler]

Edit: just rechecked their page and it's back down to $299. Someone hacking their website? or just craziness.

Piffle...so has Microcenter gone the way of scalpers? Even in their stores?

https://www.microcenter.com/product...m4-boxed-processor-with-wraith-stealth-cooler

$449 for 5600X? Has AMD raised their MSRP?

 

[logainofhades]

Shows $299, when I click on it. Maybe it is store specific? Which store you shop at?

 

[drea.drechsler]

Shows $299, when I click on it. Maybe it is store specific? Which store you shop at?

Note my edit!

I was on one of the PA stores, and then checked their 'shippable items' to find the chain-wide pricing. Now it's showing me "SALE: original price $449, 150 off: $299.

HAH. either it's marketing to make it look like a sale, or someone's dinking with their website.

 

[Viking2121]

Note my edit!

I was on one of the PA stores, and then checked their 'shippable items' to find the chain-wide pricing. Now it's showing me "SALE: original price $449, 150 off: $299.

HAH. either it's marketing to make it look like a sale, or someone's dinking with their website.

Probably just and typo, I was at the Cleveland Microcenter and seen them for $299

 

[drea.drechsler]

Probably just and typo, I was at the Cleveland Microcenter and seen them for $299

I now think it has to do with how they apply 'sale' prices. The web site probably acquires standard pricing from one data base but alter it with a 'sale' price acquired from another data base. The 'sale' price just hadn't been applied yet. In this case the 'sale' price happens to be AMD's MSRP.

Why they consider the original price $449 is beyond me...unless they use 'what they market will bear' based on scalper prices from eBay instead of MSRP. That part is marketing and, IMO, misleading at that.