i went back and forth on this for some time. few months. since october and the ram post. waffling.
ive been keeping my prices aggressive because i do this for fun. i do this for you guys. i know its dumb. if you think about my setup, and you realize i have no warehousing, no employees, no real overhead accept the servers, components, and packing materials, you can see that i directly pass the value back to you.
this worked well. you guys got a great value, i got a slice, life was good.
yet here we are.
ive been waffling on the ram pricing. for every server i sell, i am losing money. what do i mean by this. i mean that i am making money, but i am losing money. there is reinvestment cost to doing this, and my rates are simply not keeping in line where i can continue with this course of action.
my ram suppliers are drying up. the carved out chunks for me are gone. the phone calls asking if i’d like to buy more have stopped. the game has shifted. our relationship is still good, but they can no longer offer me discounts. “my boss wont let me sell it to you for X when this other guy will buy it for Y”. i used to be the rounding error…. not anymore. some shops i used to go to simply dont have anymore. have no idea if theyll get anymore. they themselves are stuck. this shit is going to get fucking ridiculous.
so do i have ram? yes. i have over 10tb of ram. because i hoard. for situations like this… but this situation is not normal. not what i imagined. i tried to plan for my suppliers going out of business.. or raising their prices.. or turning into dicks. i never couldve imagined that the fucking manufacturers who MAKE THE SHIT decided TO STOP MAKING THE ShIT.
this situation is fucked.
a single stick of 32gb ddr4 server ram is selling for almost 300 dollars on ebay.
i am not bullshitting you:
so i have made a difficult decision.
after much waffling.
i am moving to be sell servers without ram, with the option to add ram at market rate.
for what its worth it was not an easy decision to make.
thank you for your understanding, your support, and your trust.
ptnerd