Thanks for the feedback. Yep, we did post discounts across the board over the weekend — see our news post at http://www.pugetsystems.com/all_news.php?newsid=3950 .

The reason the QX9650 is a little high is because we’ve had it for a few months — we base our pricing on our costs, and we paid quite a bit more than current cost for that CPU.

The point though is that we generally don’t worry too much about pricing aggressively on our parts store for parts we actively sell in our computers. The intent is for the parts to be there for people when they have nowhere else to turn, but all things equal, we’d rather keep them for our system builds. We understand you can go to NewEgg, and we encourage it! They do what they do really well, and we aren’t trying to compete with that.

Where we do want to make sure we’re pricing aggressively is for our overstock — parts we don’t actively use in our systems. For those parts, I’m quite interested in making sure our pricing isn’t beat — we have a vested interest in getting that inventory outta here, even if it means selling at a loss!

Jon

“I was wondering why you are charging $1,250 for a used processor that retails for $999.99 elsewhere. the processor in question is the Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 Yorkfield 3.0GHz.
I am just curious as to why a used processor costs more than a new processor. Is this really a good business strategy, overpricing products?”

only to have my comment deleted. When i checked the price of the processor expecting it to be less than a new processor i was dumbfounded to find that it was only lowered to $1,083.15……I could have sworn that computer hardware depreciates over time and as it is used. O well i guess i was wrong. Now i can go dig up the rig that i built in 2003 and sell it for a profit!