Lets Talk Sales

[akela]

So IDK where to put this so general seemed good enough. I'm going to buy parts soon and want to know, what has better online deals for PC parts, black friday or cyber monday? Ya I know you would think cyber monday but just want to make sure. Thanks for replying in advance.

[ARikozuM]

I'd go to Newegg and take advantage of any Price Match Guarantees. Buy the item on Black Friday or whenever and if the price drops on Cyber Monday or later, just file the claim.

[Guest]

1 minute ago, akela said:

So IDK where to put this so general seemed good enough. I'm going to buy parts soon and want to know, what has better online deals for PC parts, black friday or cyber monday? Ya I know you would think cyber monday but just want to make sure. Thanks for replying in advance.

Depends on which part. 

 

You can never predict the future. Sometimes cyber monday other time black friday. Really really really depends on shops/stores too

 

[akela]

Just now, wrathoftheturkey said:

Cyber Monday probably, mostly because stuff sells out REALLY fast on Black Friday

ok but in terms of better deals? thx for the info in advance

[akela]

Just now, deXxterlab97 said:

Depends on which part. 

 

You can never predict the future. Sometimes cyber monday other time black friday. Really really really depends on shops/stores too

 

all parts...

[akela]

3 minutes ago, ARikozuM said:

I'd go to Newegg and take advantage of any Price Match Guarantees. Buy the item on Black Friday or whenever and if the price drops on Cyber Monday or later, just file the claim.

whattt? does that work? If so thank u so much!

[HKZeroFive]

I've often heard that Black Friday and Cyber Monday don't yield many good deals when it comes to computer hardware... it's often the weeks leading up to it where you can find the best deals.

 

For instance, this week, there was a MSI RX 480 Gaming X 4GB that went for $165... and a Sapphire R9 Fury Nitro 4GB that went for $245... both on Newegg.

[akela]

also does anyone know how much the sales usually are on parts? a percentage prehaps.

[GDRRiley]

just get on newegg daily sale email and you will be happy. got a 5tb hard drive for about 130$.

[akela]

2 minutes ago, wrathoftheturkey said:

The title is so dramatic

thank you  took me a whil to think of a title that people would want to click on... but not clickbait

[akela]

Just now, wrathoftheturkey said:

Isn't that.... the definition of clickbait?

no because clickbait isn't related to the actual content what so ever. This is related we are talking about sales. Clickbait is trolly

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@VGDtryhard

[ARikozuM]

I would go to PCPP and sign up for e-mail notifications.

 

9 minutes ago, wrathoftheturkey said:

Wait, you can do that?

Yes. PMG is good up to 30 days, IIRC. You can only do it once though, but it is worth it.

 

8 minutes ago, akela said:

whattt? does that work? If so thank u so much!

Look above.

 

13 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

You can never predict the future.

Probability, motherf#cker! Do you speak it?!

9 minutes ago, akela said:

also does anyone know how much the sales usually are on parts? a percentage prehaps.

I've seen the best deals going towards storage and GPU's.

 

10 minutes ago, HKZeroFive said:

I've often heard that Black Friday and Cyber Monday don't yield many good deals when it comes to computer hardware... it's often the weeks leading up to it where you can find the best deals.

He gets it.

[akela]

11 minutes ago, HKZeroFive said:

I've often heard that Black Friday and Cyber Monday don't yield many good deals when it comes to computer hardware... it's often the weeks leading up to it where you can find the best deals.

 

For instance, this week, there was a MSI RX 480 Gaming X 4GB that went for $165... and a Sapphire R9 Fury Nitro 4GB that went for $245... both on Newegg.

i know but i hop on them late... found a mech keyboard but it sold out

[Guest]

Just now, ARikozuM said:

Probability, motherf#cker! Do you speak it?!

There is a 1% chance that my 4460 will not bottlenecked by a GTX 1080 or RX 490 in cpu heavy games

[akela]

 

3 minutes ago, wrathoftheturkey said:

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&rlz=1C1GIWA_enUS702US702&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=define clickbait

 

Not that I mind, since it was relevant, just saying that it does meet the definition. I'm an English Nazi

well i guess in that sense it is but I prefer my definition  because then it isnt

[ARikozuM]

5 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

There is a 1% chance that my 4460 will not bottlenecked by a GTX 1080 or RX 490 in cpu heavy games

That's statistics, but nice try...

 

Probability focuses on how long until a certain event occurs because it will occur.

Statistics focuses on events and how often they occur or whether two events are dependent... Statistics is very broad and I'm not typing an essay again.

6 minutes ago, wrathoftheturkey said:

This is the nerdiest thing I've ever heard and I hang out around a lot of statisticians. Nice.

I f#cking hate statisticians, but the actuaries (people who do risk assessment) are the worst! You get a Master's in Math, you're a great man. You get a Master's in Probability, you're just an a##hole.

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, ARikozuM said:

That's statistics, but nice try...

 

Probability focuses on how long until a certain event occurs because it will occur.

Statistics focuses on events and how often they occur or whether two events are dependent... Statistics is very broad and I'm not typing an essay again.

Well, you are saying that bottleneck is not an even that can be occured? Why out of sudden are we talking about something irrelevant?

[HKZeroFive]

6 minutes ago, akela said:

i know but i hop on them late... found a mech keyboard but it sold out

I would frequently check the Slickdeals.com or the buildapcsales subreddit... those two sites seem to be the best sources when finding sales.

 

Now, if only if there was another sale for the Sandisk 960GB SSD... which went for $165 last time.

[ARikozuM]

Just now, HKZeroFive said:

I would frequently check the Slickdeals.com or the buildapcsales subreddit... those two sites seem to be the best sources when finding sales.

 

Now, if only if there was another sale for the Sandisk 960GB SSD... which went for $165 last time.

Which one? X400, Z400, or SSD Plus?

[akela]

7 minutes ago, ARikozuM said:

You get a Master's in Math, you're a great man. You get a Master's in Probability, you're just an a##hole.

ok but what if u have a masters in both?

[HKZeroFive]

3 minutes ago, ARikozuM said:

Which one? X400, Z400, or SSD Plus?

The Ultra II. It's no 850 EVO but for $165... that was a great price for a non-garbage SSD.

[HKZeroFive]

On a side note, this forum is giving me the 500 Error middle finger so many times that it's not even funny anymore.

[ARikozuM]

1 minute ago, wrathoftheturkey said:

Probability is how many times an event will happen given a certain situation. Statistics is basically the study of analyzing large volumes of numbers for patterns, and the collection of that data 

Best way to explain the difference is that prob explains the future, for example, risk management, while statistics deals with patterns emerging from past events.

 

IIRC, my professor used a coin flip as an example. Statisticians would wait to find the pattern while probabilists (?) would think that the odds were 1:1.

 

1 minute ago, HKZeroFive said:

On a side note, this forum is giving me the 500 Error middle finger so many times that it's not even funny anymore.

Same here.

 

3 minutes ago, akela said:

ok but what if u have a masters in both?

A great a##hole? A friend of mine is going for his Master's at the moment and, holy God, if there's one thing the guy does, it's confuse the hell out of me with his equations. Calc is elementary compared to that.

[akela]

13 minutes ago, HKZeroFive said:

I would frequently check the Slickdeals.com or the buildapcsales subreddit... those two sites seem to be the best sources when finding sales.

 

Now, if only if there was another sale for the Sandisk 960GB SSD... which went for $165 last time.

thanks for the links. I will be sure to check them out!