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Retailers Respond To HDD Squeeze By Limiting Purchases, Raising Prices

Posted by timothy on from the now-you're-ready-for-econ-102 dept.

SKYMTL writes "With Thailand experiencing its worst flooding in generations, component manufacturers have been especially hard hit. The trickle down effect is having a huge impact upon hard drive manufacturers in particular. Retailers have responded by drastic price increases and even limiting hard drive purchases to 1-2 drives per person."

6 of 282 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Awesome! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, I just "bought" a pair of 2TB drives for storing all my legally acquired media files.

  2. Finally by woodhouse · · Score: 5, Funny

    My scheme of buying computer parts to sell them on at a later date finally pays off.

  3. Re:Awesome! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    And "I" just bought a pair of 2TB drives for storing all my legally acquired media files.

  4. Re:Price discovery make distribution efficient by Bacon+Bits · · Score: 4, Funny

    What you have here in your comment, is basic misunderstanding of economics and politics.

    Welcome to Slashdot!

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    The road to tyranny has always been paved with claims of necessity.
  5. Re:Awesome! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    And I just bought a "pair"* of 2TB drives for storing all my legally acquired media files.

    * For values of "pair" sufficiently close to 1.

  6. Re:Awesome! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well I just bought a pair of "2TB drives" for storing all my "legally" acquired "media files".

    ~ Papa Lazarou.