The spike in RAM prices happened the day before my birthday and I am mad about it.
That's all there is to it. I started planning my PC build a while back, maybe 5 weeks or so, and budgeted carefully around it. Everything was locked in. I'm on a tight budget so I had to be very careful but I managed. Was quite pleased with myself for putting it all together in my 3rd language. Bookmarked relevant pages.
Forced myself to wait until my birthday, today, to start to order it all, and praised myself for being disciplined and patient.
Today I went to start placing orders and found out ram has gone absolutely off the chain. I guess I shouldn't have waited, but that's what you get for trying to be mature and adult about this kind of thing rather than mad impulse buying.
And I realize this all sounds like a roundabout way of e-begging, so I'm putting the disclaimer right here that that's not what I'm doing. I am literally just getting this off my chest (as the sub name demands) because I have nobody else to complain to this about that would really get it.
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I feel you. I was going to wait for deals to replace a NAS. A week later the ram I wanted doubled. I think I did ok on the SSD. Have to wait til next year for storage upgrades anyways.
Your birthday has no bearing on the world. The sooner you understand that, the less important it'll be. RAM prices, or any other for that matter, don't celebrate with us.
I'm not trying to be cruel, but it's truly an arbitrary decision to wait for your birthday to do something.
So who forgot your birthday as a kid?
Nobody. I realized the world doesn't revolve around my wishes as an adult.
OP never even implied that it did. It seems like you're just searching for a reason to be a dick. Chill.
Wow.
Of course the RAM industry doesn't revolve around you, OC.
That being said, a bad coincidence has every right to make OP sad. Unike you, who is untouchable by stuff like bad coincidences.
I am thankful that I bought some RAM last month. It is now double the cost.