Due to rising hardware prices, many gaming PCs and parts are being bought up before they become even more expensive. A store in Japan is desperately trying and sees no sense in hiding its plight.
What is the store desperate about? A Japanese store that earns its revenue by selling custom-built and ready-to-use gaming PCs realizes that it can no longer be picky.
Due to the rising prices of RAM, SSDs, and graphics cards, many gamers and PC enthusiasts decide to act quickly. They are buying hardware in bulk before prices can rise further.
Businesses, like the aforementioned store in Japan, are therefore looking for additional sources. And they have reached a point where they not only want to hope but actively beg gamers to sell them their used computers.
Store desperately needs restock, no matter how good or bad
How does the store plan to obtain hardware? The store “Sofmap” from Japan is forced to ask for help on X. In their message, they explain the bitter truth they are facing as a company – they need anything they can get, regardless of its condition:
The desperate message from Sofmap translates as follows:
The situation is currently such that gaming computers, even used ones, are in short supply in warehouses.
If you want to replace your devices with new ones, please sell your gaming computer to our company. We offer you rather high purchase prices. It does not matter whether it is a gaming desktop PC, a laptop, or of course also a regular computer that is not used for gaming.
We basically buy anything related to computers.
Can this approach help the store? It can be assumed that the used computers will subsequently be dismantled to then resell RAM or graphics cards.
However, whether this will be worth it is difficult to say, as many gamers need newer hardware to prepare for upcoming games. The new action game featuring James Bond, 007: First Light, has system requirements for RAM that are hardly affordable for many players.
Issues with hardware prices are currently not uncommon. However, the experience of a gamer could make the already beleaguered PC community even angrier. This gamer purchased RAM, but the shipping was delayed, ultimately draining even more money from him: Gamer orders RAM: The seller delays shipping just to raise the price significantly shortly after
