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Sorry if this has been posted already, but Amazon's UK price has lept up since I pre-ordered 3 copies yesterday!
15 July (yesterday) it was £48 for Home Premium. Today it's £75! Currys is still £45.
Even more amazing is that the Professional E is £90 at Currys and is now a whopping £180 from Amazon!
What is going on?
 

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The US price at Amazon is now $119.95 for the HP upgrade. It's probably because the original offer was for a limited quantity and had to be purchased by July 11, so the offer is now done and these are the normal retail prices.
 

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imacken said:
Sorry if this has been posted already, but Amazon's UK price has lept up since I pre-ordered 3 copies yesterday!
15 July (yesterday) it was £48 for Home Premium. Today it's £75! Currys is still £45.
Even more amazing is that the Professional E is £90 at Currys and is now a whopping £180 from Amazon!
What is going on?
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Its probably because, as the add says, while stock lasts. I guess it didn't last too long and now the offer price has gone and so you now see the correct price.
I think it will go up even more in the new year.
 

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So we are saying that the entire Amazon stock went in a matter of hours!
Well, I guess MS will be happy.

Still, it seems crazy that a major store like Amazon can run out in a few hours.

Anyway, the full retail price is £150 according to Amazon.
 

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DJG said:
The US price at Amazon is now $119.95 for the HP upgrade. It's probably because the original offer was for a limited quantity and had to be purchased by July 11, so the offer is now done and these are the normal retail prices.
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This is the UK offer for windows 7 E (full, not upgrade); it only started yesterday, 15th July, and runs until 9th August. Home premium is supposed to be £49.99, and professional £99.99. Amazon were selling at a slight discount, £45 for HP, and £90 for Pro. Amazon.co.uk appeared to sell out of these copies of home premium in about 8 hours, and has now got some new stock allocated - but at the prices orginally due to kick in from 10th august until 30th december, £79.99 for home premium (professional is due to go up to £189.99).

From 1st January 2010, it'll be at full price for retail copies, £149.99 for home premium and £219.99 for professional.

Curry's and PCWorld (both DSG) still have it at £44.99 (with free delivery) comet are advertising it at £49.99, but have it at £44.99 when you add it to your basket. There's several other places, like anvika, staples.co.uk play.com and ebuyer that have HP at the normal discount price (£49.99) and littlewoods who have it at £69.99?.
 

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imacken said:
So we are saying that the entire Amazon stock went in a matter of hours!
Well, I guess MS will be happy.

Still, it seems crazy that a major store like Amazon can run out in a few hours.

Anyway, the full retail price is £150 according to Amazon.
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When i looked this morning both Play.com and Amazon were off the list of pre order sites and ebuyer are out of stock So yes, they ran out.

I believe the pricing will be done in three stages.
The low pre order that we had yesterday, a discounted price until its launched and then the full price.
I did read that somewhere but cant find it now.

EDIT: I took so long to type that that Arkhan beat me to it (and was a bit more accurate).
 

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imacken said:
So we are saying that the entire Amazon stock went in a matter of hours!
Well, I guess MS will be happy.

Still, it seems crazy that a major store like Amazon can run out in a few hours.

Anyway, the full retail price is £150 according to Amazon.
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Here in Germany, Amazon's stock of Home Premiums for 49.95 Euros ran out within SECONDS. Thousands of people feel pretty pissed over here, me being one of them. Well, I ordered my copy over at Amazon UK then, but still, what happened here yesterday was a farce. Way too few copies for way too many people interested in taking advantage of this offer. Not only at Amazon but in various other online and offline shops as well.
 

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even the prices at microsoft's eu went up since yesterday, though i'm not sure how they could have 'sold out'. i bought HP N there last night for 50 pounds (download copy), and now it's up to 80.
 

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Its not difficult to understand why even MS have sold out.
It was a limited offer.
 

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Fliplip said:
Its not difficult to understand why even MS have sold out.
It was a limited offer.
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on their website yesterday, they said the pre-sale would be on until AUGUST 15. but no, lasted less than 24 hours.

there's a slight difference between 4 weeks and 24 hours...
 

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garbanzo said:
on their website yesterday, they said the pre-sale would be on until AUGUST 15. but no, lasted less than 24 hours.

there's a slight difference between 4 weeks and 24 hours...
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You left out the bit thats says LIMITED OFFER, WHILE STOCK LASTS.

Actually, pre sales are still on as some places do still have copies at the low price.
 

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fair enough. but if even microsoft only set aside enough licenses to last 16 hours, why on earth would they advertise the offer as lasting for a month? if i had waited just a few more hours, i would have been out of luck.

but no matter. the early bird catches the worm.

(but on the other hand, the early worm gets eaten by the bird...)
 

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Maybe they were taken by surprise. It looks like they werent expecting such a high demand.
I'm just glad i didn't wait until lunchtime to place my order with Amazon.
 

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Comet has stocks right now.

£44.99 Premium

£89.99 Pro.

Microsoft Windows 7 | Comet advice

Free delivery if you don't mind it taking 2 days longer than paid delivery.

Pretty silly that some places has so few copies at the pre order price.

Even Tesco was out of Premium earlier today.:confused:
 

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If one was to snap up some extra copies, surely some money could be made re-selling them in a few months?
 

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Not sure about that - they only go up a little initially - e.g. from 49.99 to 79.99 for premium.

Unless you keep them till it goes to full price.

Trouble with that is, It may not be too long before SP1 is released - leaving pre SP1 media unwanted.

Hardly seems worth the effort.
 

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On the 1oth of August the professional version is due to go up by £100 though!?
 

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I hadn't checked the dates for the price increases.

Are you planning to get some extra copies of Pro for 89.99 and see if you can shift them on ebay?

I assume that is why there is a limit as to how many you can order.
 

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SIW2 said:
I hadn't checked the dates for the price increases.

Are you planning to get some extra copies of Pro for 89.99 and see if you can shift them on ebay?

I assume that is why there is a limit as to how many you can order.
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Errr, yep.

I bought 1 Home and 1 Pro earlier for my personal use.

Am undecided whether I'll actually need 2 Pros so have just bought another 2 Pros.

Will have 2 to sell!

Look forward to posting more on this forum!:geek:
 

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Any shop to deliver windows 7 pre-order to finland?

Hi guys! I need your help! Is there any shop in uk or somewhere else to deliver windows 7 english home premium or professional to finland? I've been trying to find one but no luck yet. I want to save some money so I'm desperate :)
 

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