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To: wanna_bmw who wrote (160978)	3/4/2002 8:48:51 AM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Re: Toshiba pays 25% more than Pricwatch quantity 1 for their P4s LOL!!! Sure they do.

To: wanna_bmw who wrote (160978)	3/4/2002 11:13:18 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

"OEMs often pay more because Direct pricing is greater than grey market pricing." wanna_bmw, how do you think chips get into the grey market? For the most part, they are sold there by OEMs who have excess stock for what ever reason. Now the idea that they would sell them for less than they pay for them might occur at times, but that would be extremely rare...

To: wanna_bmw who wrote (160978)	3/4/2002 11:36:56 AM
From: andreas_wonisch	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Wanna_bmw, Re: OEMs often pay more because Direct pricing is greater than grey market pricing. Grey market processors are by definition OEM processors. Since I doubt that an OEM would sell processors below the buying price (except if there was an inventory glut or the OEM really desperate) OEM probably pay a few percents below grey market prices for their processors. But I am also sure that the 1.6 GHz mobile P4 is a lot more expensive than the desktop part found at Pricewatch. Andreas