I think you'll find the cheapest 5870 from OcUK is priced at £298.99 inc VAT.

It's not in stock at the moment but they have sold plenty at that price.

OcUK are amongst the cheapest UK etailers I've seen for the 5800 series whether it's the 5850 or 5870.


edit: I realised you're including shipping to Malta, well you can't expect anyone to be that cheap including EU shipping.

 

yeah some are just under £300, not much stock of them

however the delivery might run it up for you a bit..hopefully when Nvida hurry up and actually makes their GTX300 and lunches them than the prices should fall a bit

 

I get what you're saying. The $ to the £ isn't helping to be fair.

OcUK are very competitive price wise, if you shop around the major UK etailers OcUK are easily the cheapest I've found.

 

So you've found a local shop that sells them for £10 more than OcUK?

The 5870 will be selling for more or less the same cost across Europe. As it's a new product and in short supply, there's no way any retailer could or would want to discount them much.

But as I mentioned, OcUK are still cheaper minus shipping

 

Be happy, you found it locally for a better price. Saves on the hassle of sending it overseas if you have any problems.

 

Yeah, surely this should be a good thing!

 

No chance, VAT's going back up to 17.5% soon, so everythings going up.

 

You didn't read what I said and remember, OcUK is a store. You can walk in and pick up a 5870 over the counter for less than £300, which reiterates what I said originally, OcUK is £10 cheaper than your local store where you can do the same for £310.

I also stated about the availabilty and age of the 5870. With it being a new product in short supply, the prices are going to be very similar everywhere as no retailer is going discount a premium product people are gagging for. Hence why your local price and everywhere else is very close to OcUK's.

Think about it, the price difference of the 5870s is £10. Now look at the 4890s, they range from £140 to £173. There's more flexibility in their pricing as they are an older product, have different designs, different OCs, different bundles etc etc. The 5870s being so new lack that, they are all basically identical.

 

VAT going up is fine by me A 5870 will still only cost me only £260 plus p&p

 

i thought the vat was going to 20% ?

 

Galea, you don't say which brand are you talking about. Products are nearly identical, but prices aren't. The two biggest hardware distributors (not normal shops, these sell only to companies - mainly to small shops) have following prices here in Slovakia :
Sapphire 5870 full retail - 319€
Gigabyte 5870 - 349€
Asus 5870 - 359€

And those are not a small (e-)shops, those are the main distributors who sell them to others ! So if the card of your choice is not a Sapphire HD5870, then the price is relatively OK.

And before doing posts like this, try to think about costs of that your local Malta shop.
1) shipping - it is not free, Malta doesn't have a big market so if they order something then they order only a very small number of pieces - shipping costs are bigger for 1 piece.
2) profit for the shop - they must get their money too, so adding ~5% is nothing exceptional, 3-4% profit means the small shop is screwed on long term.

So let's recap - even with Sapphire HD5870 they will get it for 310€ from his supplier. Add his 5% profit to that, price is at 325€. International shipping fees of 10-15€ per piece to small country are normal, maybe even small - and you are at 340€.

I know how you feel, i paid ~310€ for a Lian Li PC-V1110A which would cost me cost me maybe 230-250€ at max in UK - but that is a cost of living in small country.

 

The 5870 here in Germany is

Sapphire HD 5870 1GB GDDR5 PCI-Express - 314,89 €

Thats from the second biggest e-seller here.

The price includes 19% VAT and P&P. So its 265 € minus vat.

Converting to pounds at todays rate of

1.00 EUR=0.911658 GBP

thats 241.589 GBP without VAT.

 

entireweb, you didn't read my post as well. You can't compare prices in Germany (82 milion citizens) and small countries like Slovakia (5 milion citizens) or Malta (0,5 milion citizens). For example, most of the things which you can buy here comes from a Slovak shop, who got it from Poland or Germany for the price just a bit lower than general public does have. And that doesn't include shipping fees or profit for the local seller.

Yes, i could order it from Germany (which i did for some things), but doing RMA to another country is pain in the ass.

 

I have to say i was surprised to see the 5870 (Connect Radeon HD5870 1GB) cost 299 euro in Greece.It is the first time i've seen anything pc related cost less in Greece than it does in the Uk.
Sadly the cheapest 5850(MSI Radeon HD5850 1GB) costs 235 euro so its a no brainer between the 2 cards price-wise,at least for me.

 

And to think we complain about rip off Britain.

Galea - have you purchased yet? What brand is it at that price?