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Postby geokilla » Sun Jun 15, 2008 10:56 pm

http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTUxOSwxLCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdA==

Hmm, I was wondering why I couldn't see the prices of 8800GT and stuff on NCIX. I had to click "add to cart" to see em, or if there was a mail in rebate going on, then I can see the price of the card without having to go to the cart.

IMO, that's messed up, PITA, everything negative that one can possibly think of.

Canada Computers still shows the price of the 8800GT and stuff. That's one place which isn't following NVIDIA's UMAP policy.
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Re: NVIDIA Dictates Advertised Video Card Pricing

Postby stopthekilling77 » Sun Jun 15, 2008 11:23 pm

idiots, people will still check prices
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Re: NVIDIA Dictates Advertised Video Card Pricing

Postby aircommando13 » Mon Jun 16, 2008 2:01 am

lol newegg told nvidia to "go pound sand"
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Re: NVIDIA Dictates Advertised Video Card Pricing

Postby DMB2000uk » Mon Jun 16, 2008 4:10 am

Wow, that is sucky.

Hopefully it won't be a worldwide thing.

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Re: NVIDIA Dictates Advertised Video Card Pricing

Postby Kougar » Tue Jun 17, 2008 10:18 am

To bad Newegg didn't stick to their guns, they are an extremely huge retailer with a good deal of weight. They should have given NVIDIA the finger after NVIDIA threatened to cut them off.

I am extremely annoyed over this, not only does it make search engines useless but nothing gripes me more than having to add something to my cart, then click my cart to find out the final price. I almost never buy from stores that pull this trick.
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Re: NVIDIA Dictates Advertised Video Card Pricing

Postby vicaphit » Tue Jun 17, 2008 10:51 am

atleast newegg has that small window that pops up instead of navigating multiple pages.
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Re: NVIDIA Dictates Advertised Video Card Pricing

Postby Kougar » Wed Jun 18, 2008 8:56 am

vicaphit wrote:atleast newegg has that small window that pops up instead of navigating multiple pages.


I just tested it out... apparently it does not even add it to your real cart. Because if you add things to your cart, they then stay there for a day or two. Most stores probably won't have it set up as conveniently as Newegg I bet.
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Re: NVIDIA Dictates Advertised Video Card Pricing

Postby vicaphit » Wed Jun 18, 2008 10:17 am

Newegg can do no wrong!
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Re: NVIDIA Dictates Advertised Video Card Pricing

Postby Zertz » Wed Jun 18, 2008 11:35 am

DMB2000uk wrote:Hopefully it won't be a worldwide thing.


It's illegal in Canada and Europe :roll:
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Re: NVIDIA Dictates Advertised Video Card Pricing

Postby stereo55 » Thu Jun 19, 2008 9:37 am

Interesting read to say the least .

Nvidia has been cutting their own throat as of late considering they now have three fairly new generations of v/cards selling at the same time (8800/9800/G200) ; so why take it out on the consumer . [-X

Nice to see that Newegg's on top of things :P
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