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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Why memory costs doubled
- Message-ID: <92315.135300DXB132@psuvm.psu.edu>
- From: <DXB132@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 13:53:00 EST
- References: <9NOV199216240252@reg.triumf.ca>
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- In article <9NOV199216240252@reg.triumf.ca>, noel@reg.triumf.ca (NOEL) says:
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- >the price rises ahead of any legislation. It stinks of speculation and price
- >fixing. Why not hoard ram chips just before Christmas and a possible American
- >legislation and see what the market will bear. If the bill does go through,
- >then somebody has made a 20% profit on investment, even more if the shortage
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- Well, that's why prices have increased - people are buying chips now in
- anticipation of increased prices later.
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- Well, no one can accuse America of being anti-Japan now. This action is
- transferring huge amounts of money directly from the American consumer to
- large Japanese manufactrurers. How kind of us...:-/
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