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Does anyone know what they did with the "losing" chips, the ones they bought that didn't turn out to be positive outliers? Seems very tricky to get this financi

Does anyone know what they did with the "losing" chips, the ones they bought that didn't turn out to be positive outliers? Seems very tricky to get this financially viable, since 90% of chips will just be average. At least I assume so?

cortesoft 5y ago
Resell them as average?
- Grustaf 5y ago
  Yeah, but will they even make a profit on those? I mean presumably people who just want a normal processor would prefer to get it from a more well known shop, so they can't even charge market price for them. Plus their "normal" chips are actually worse than your average market chip, since they removed the good ones. But maybe the margins are high, so they didn't lose money on those.
Sebb767 5y ago
It seems the resold them cheaper [0]. Unfortunately, all prices are zeroed, so it's hard to tell by how much and whether it was below retail. [0] https://siliconlottery.com/collections/cometlake/products/10900kf49g?variant=32994307702870 https://siliconlottery.com/collections/cometlake/products/10... (see the description, 100% of CPUs reached this).
- banana_giraffe 5y ago
  I'm not knowledge on CPU prices, but looking at their prices from January [1] , it looks like you could save around 10% off retail if you used them to get the "losing" chips. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20210116175309/https://siliconlottery.com/collections/cometlake https://web.archive.org/web/20210116175309/https://siliconlo...
- tgsovlerkhgsel 5y ago
  I still see prices at https://siliconlottery.com/collections/all https://siliconlottery.com/collections/all Intel Core i9 11900K @ 4.9GHz Boxed Processor $ 519.99 Intel Core i9 11900K @ 5.0GHz Boxed Processor Sale price $ 499.99 Regular price $ 579.99 Save $ 80 Intel Core i9 11900K @ 5.1GHz Boxed Processor Regular price $ 779.99 Intel Core i9 11900KF @ 4.9GHz Boxed Processor Regular price $ 499.99 Intel Core i9 11900KF @ 5.0GHz Boxed Processor Regular price $ 559.99 Intel Core i9 11900KF @ 5.1GHz Boxed Processor Sale price $ 639.99 Regular price $ 759.99 The discounted ones are the only ones not marked sold out.

cortesoft 5y ago

Resell them as average?

Grustaf 5y ago
Yeah, but will they even make a profit on those? I mean presumably people who just want a normal processor would prefer to get it from a more well known shop, so they can't even charge market price for them. Plus their "normal" chips are actually worse than your average market chip, since they removed the good ones. But maybe the margins are high, so they didn't lose money on those.

Sebb767 5y ago

It seems the resold them cheaper [0]. Unfortunately, all prices are zeroed, so it's hard to tell by how much and whether it was below retail. [0] https://siliconlottery.com/collections/cometlake/products/10900kf49g?variant=32994307702870 https://siliconlottery.com/collections/cometlake/products/10... (see the description, 100% of CPUs reached this).

banana_giraffe 5y ago
I'm not knowledge on CPU prices, but looking at their prices from January [1] , it looks like you could save around 10% off retail if you used them to get the "losing" chips. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20210116175309/https://siliconlottery.com/collections/cometlake https://web.archive.org/web/20210116175309/https://siliconlo...
tgsovlerkhgsel 5y ago
I still see prices at https://siliconlottery.com/collections/all https://siliconlottery.com/collections/all Intel Core i9 11900K @ 4.9GHz Boxed Processor $ 519.99 Intel Core i9 11900K @ 5.0GHz Boxed Processor Sale price $ 499.99 Regular price $ 579.99 Save $ 80 Intel Core i9 11900K @ 5.1GHz Boxed Processor Regular price $ 779.99 Intel Core i9 11900KF @ 4.9GHz Boxed Processor Regular price $ 499.99 Intel Core i9 11900KF @ 5.0GHz Boxed Processor Regular price $ 559.99 Intel Core i9 11900KF @ 5.1GHz Boxed Processor Sale price $ 639.99 Regular price $ 759.99 The discounted ones are the only ones not marked sold out.