One month ago, I paid $95 for a 128Meg stick of Micron 8ns Ram.  Generic RAM is
now going for $229 after rebate.  This is bull!  Taiwan produces app. 15% of the
RAM sold.  If 15% of the RAM sold disappears for one week (or even two), how is a
200%+ price increase justified?  How about greed.  Please, just say no, and avoid
buying RAM until the backup forces them to drop the price.  This is the same as
if Toyota had a strike that lasted a week and General Motors raised the price of
a Suburban to $85,000.



>Date:    Sat, 16 Oct 1999 17:37:28 GMT
>From:    Kyle Elmblade <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: RAM

>Prices locally where I am have tripled.  A 32MB DIMM that cost about $25.00
>four weeks ago now costs over $90.00.  The reason?  The earthquake in >Taiwan
>has severely crippled production for a short time.  This is (pardon the pun)
>an aftershock of that event.  They will come back down as the plants get
>back into full swing, but we will see these kinds of prices through
>Christmas.  At least, that's what the analysts say.

>Kyle


>From: Phat Nguyen <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: [PCBUILD] RAM
>Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 15:29:07 +0700
>
>Hi everyone !
>I'm from Vietnam. The price of RAM in Vietnam is increased in over double (
>ex. 30USD to 70USD), please show me if the proce in the world is increased
>too, and why ?
>Thanks in advance.
>Nguyen Dinh

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