gurusmiSure AMD looses revenues to provide something for free. My suggestion: Dream on, grow up and get better educated. If you do so that is your topic not mine. But never ever charge me to be so dumb and undereducated to believe your theories. Btw. For a discussion there are two needed. Believe it or not. I put you on my ignore list also. So for you the discussion stopped with this post. Enjoy your self talkings.

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Also in the automonile industry there are such silly offers also. If I live in Hawaii and there I never face temperarutres below 10°C. I want to buy a Porsche- I dont need winter tyres. Porsche has a world wide offer telling me that i get those winter tyres for free with every car order. If i would buy that promoted porsche i would also buy the winter tyres by that offer. No matter if I want or need them. Nobody would say that those tyres are for free. But because of computers, a lower price, or whatever at the CPU/GPU they believe so.

gurusmi1. I was working a couple of time at the (at that time) biggest distributor (Importer) for computer parts within germany (Microtronica). At that time there have been direct contracts i.e. for Intel and Samsung my two collegues worked at. I have been that guy buing i.e. Harddisks so that they can be sold by the sales. I made the prices those HDD where sold in germany. All over i was teken care of around (let's say) 10.000 Products. I made the german prices and with that the margins for all of those articles. I also know a bit about mixed calculation etc. And with that i know how those prices are calculated. Ooops. Business is mainly black and white. Either one makes money or he's getting bankruptcy.

2. I didn't say that anybody did a favor to a dealer. I said that that dealer bought CPUs/GPUs when they where available at a lower price. So mind factory was able to push through that reduced price. If the dealer didn't offer those GPUs/CPUs for that low price again they also didn't got it again by their distributor (AMD or an importer). Others haven't gotten that CPU that cheap so they weren't able to participate at those lower prices. That's not an assumptiuon but a fact.

3. I don't care about micro center. They are not a valid seller within germany. But to answer your examples: It could be i.e. a mixed calculation. Both parties selling the Ram and the CPU/Mainboard(???) reduce their prices and a bit is provided by the dealership. People often get into a shop and buy more than they planned. But it is a fact that all of the businesses have their revenues by that offer. None of the businesses looses even one cent.

4. I already got my mainboard (Asus ProArt X670e). Aside a lot to do (constructing and printing 3D Parts) i have only a few things to buy (CPU 7590x /RAM 96gb 6000CL30/SSD's 2*2TB PCIe 4.0x4/5.0x4/GPU 6950x). Except the GPU Cooler (Watercool Heatkiller) everything around is bought. I paid for all that stuff already 3.500€. I buy my stuff for a build always according to a plan. Starting at the outter and focussing on the main parts at the end. First the time consuming parts and at lasrt the fast ones. It could happen that I have to buy a larger PSU (>1kW) and/or 4 coolers incl. the connectors for the SSD's and/or 2 coolers connectors for the RAM bars. So no. I won't buy a new mainboard for my 7950x rig. I also don't buy things not available in my township in a store as i'm sitting in an electrical wheelchair 24/7. To get to the next store/mall I would need at least 3 days to get there and back. That are around 50km one way.

If you imagine that the world would be a back you sit on. Then the almost brown spot of the back is the place i live. Here we don't have a delivery for dishes or even from a grocery/supermarket. That is btw. in the middle of western germany!


Sure AMD looses revenues to provide something for free. My suggestion: Dream on, grow up and get better educated. If you do so that is your topic not mine. But never ever charge me to be so dumb and undereducated to believe your theories. Btw. For a discussion there are two needed. Believe it or not. I put you on my ignore list also. So for you the discussion stopped with this post. Enjoy your self talkings.

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Also in the automonile industry there are such silly offers also. If I live in Hawaii and there I never face temperarutres below 10°C. I want to buy a Porsche- I dont need winter tyres. Porsche has a world wide offer telling me that i get those winter tyres for free with every car order. If i would buy that promoted porsche i would also buy the winter tyres by that offer. No matter if I want or need them. Nobody would say that those tyres are for free. But because of computers, a lower price, or whatever at the CPU/GPU they believe so.

Loss leader pricing and strategy is a marketing approach where a product is intentionally sold at a loss or minimal profit to attract customers. The marketing strategy is to entice shoppers with the discounted item, hoping they will make additional purchases of higher-margin products.

One common explanation for such dispersion is the use of a loss-leader strategy, in which a firm prices one good below cost in order to attract a higher customer volume for profitable goods

gurusmiFor me this topic is closed as the majority even don't understand what i'm talking about. d'Hondt mentionend this a failed communication.