silversaddle1 said:
Did anyone see the new price list from IRT? You have to be kidding me????
For example: Have you ever seen gold edge memory at $20.50 a pound?
Yeah, that does bring a smile to my face
Do you mind sharing where'd you saw that price, if it is avalible to general public? I assume you meant irtmn.com, but failed to find a price-list there....
Myself, for average "american" or "international" price level & dynamics I usually check boardsort.com (I also like their forum a lot), they are currently at 18.25 - still an increase, just not as much...
Interestingly, I haven't noticed similar increase in boards less rich in gold - motherboards for example, so it seems obvious this is due to gold finally rising to what looks like a 9 year high and hopefully more... So I'm stockpiling RAM, If my cash-flow and floor-space allows for it, I sold a few bigbags of Small Socket motherboards back in february, and so far I am glad that I did. But RAM - it is valuable & easy to store and it's value is >90% in gold, so I'll try to HODL until the paper-gold bubble finally burst
Also - currently there are a lot of fiat money being printed all over the world - so prices increase, forced inflation is what it is....
On the flip side - due to slowing economy, prices for copper, aluminium and scrap iron are very low ;( locally copper wire fell from >1 eur/kg (december) to <0.7 eur/kg now, aluminium & steel hadn't yet recovered from trade war back in summer and plummeted once again... too bad I am sitting on about 5 bigbags of wire and about 10 tons of cases,
, could be they'll keep me company till this mess is over and worldwide production starts up again ;/... OR I run out of space