Wednesday 4 August 2010

Web shopping

So many of our transactions now take place online, it is a wonder how we ever coped without online purchases. Even when we aren't actually looking to make any purchases, how many of us can resist the emails that drop into our inbox from our favorite retailers like buy.com with all the lastest deals and bargains.
I have weekly emails from a few 'techno' type retailers giving the bargain prices for PC hard-drives, DVDR's or even complete PC systems. The fascinating thing is that prices for these products are always getting keener and keener as new technology is introduced and previous products improved.
The one product that interests me at the moment are the SSD hard-drives for computers. These Solid State Drives are the latest technology and were frankly too expensive to contemplate when first introduced, but like USB drives (same technology) they are becoming both bigger and cheaper. The knock-on effect of this is that the established technology becomes cheaper in order to compete with the newer products.

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