Retailers Respond To HDD Squeeze By Limiting Purchases, Raising Prices 282
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."
Re:Awesome! (Score:5, Funny)
Well, I just "bought" a pair of 2TB drives for storing all my legally acquired media files.
Finally (Score:5, Funny)
My scheme of buying computer parts to sell them on at a later date finally pays off.
Re:Awesome! (Score:5, Funny)
And "I" just bought a pair of 2TB drives for storing all my legally acquired media files.
Re:Price discovery make distribution efficient (Score:5, Funny)
What you have here in your comment, is basic misunderstanding of economics and politics.
Welcome to Slashdot!
Re:Awesome! (Score:3, Funny)
* For values of "pair" sufficiently close to 1.
Re:Awesome! (Score:5, Funny)
Well I just bought a pair of "2TB drives" for storing all my "legally" acquired "media files".
~ Papa Lazarou.