floofloof@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoThanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are already sold out for the entire year, says Western Digitalmashable.comexternal-linkmessage-square24fedilinkarrow-up1525arrow-down14
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minus-squarechunes@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up40·edit-22 days agoThey could garner good will by setting aside a % of their stock to sell to red-blooded people at a lower price… If someone walks into a grocery store before a storm and wants to buy 10 pallets of water, the store tells them to fuck off.
minus-squareRememberTheApollo_@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·2 days agoThen scalpers would buy them and jack the price up.
minus-squarechiliedogg@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·2 days agoThat’s because they’re guaranteed to sell all the water when there’s a storm anyway. There’s a reason there’s laws against raising prices in an emergency.
minus-squarechunes@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·2 days agoI consider not having access to reasonably-priced hardware an emergency ;(
They could garner good will by setting aside a % of their stock to sell to red-blooded people at a lower price…
If someone walks into a grocery store before a storm and wants to buy 10 pallets of water, the store tells them to fuck off.
Then scalpers would buy them and jack the price up.
That’s because they’re guaranteed to sell all the water when there’s a storm anyway. There’s a reason there’s laws against raising prices in an emergency.
I consider not having access to reasonably-priced hardware an emergency ;(