I bought one of these at the end of the year and, touch wood, it's been all good. Works just fine with 4K in my Pany GX80 camera.
Redonkulous
19 Aug 17#3
Thanks
javz1982
19 Aug 17#4
Is this any good for a dash cam?
Crossbow
19 Aug 17#5
Remember the days (only last year) when these were just under £10, or lower if you bought a pair? Even 128Gb was lower than this for a short while.
I always put off buying one, thinking they will keep falling & level-off at a low price. Finally, when desperate last week, had to pay almost £19 for one off Amazon :cry:
Anyway, here are some past deals to make you turn green or red depending on the emotions you feel....
Nothing to do with brexit at all. It's actually a global shortage in flash memory - not just UK affected... Everything that uses flash memory is more expensive now, and prices aren't expected to recover until next year either..
master10 to NotTayyeb
19 Aug 17#8
I can buy now and have delivered in an hour. Cant be that much of a shortage.
xp2500 to master10
19 Aug 17#12
Guess depends on your grasp of economics. Oil/ Fuel prices could be a similar example of something that goes up and down on price depending on the production of oil across the world but still remains readily available.
master10 to xp2500
19 Aug 17#16
Thats market mainpulation, nothing to do with whats available, its to do with what they want available. Two different things. Just as in this case.
thegamingkinginfo to NotTayyeb
19 Aug 17#24
Brexit and the shortage of flash memory increased te prices
jimbo23 to thegamingkinginfo
19 Aug 17#25
I just looked at prices all over the EU, including Germany and the prices are more or less the same, if not more expensive! Whats that got to do with Brexit? Can you show me some links where the OP's memory card is cheaper in another EU country?
pwel to jimbo23
20 Aug 17#29
True, I'm visiting Germany/central Europe at least 3 times/year, always checking for good deals on electronic/camera gear. Never manage to find something cheaper than in UK, at least that I was looking for.
Rich44 to NotTayyeb
25 Aug 17#42
So the £ collapsing against the Dollar had 0 affect then????
jimbo23 to master10
19 Aug 17#13
You lot make me laugh. We constantly see cracking deals on here, some stuff cheaper than ever. Amazing how silent you lot are then. Yet, the slightest hint of a price rise, compared to a year or a few months back and you lot are on it like a fly around ..... with your stupid, irrelevant comments.
jeczap to master10
20 Aug 17#32
majortom to jeczap
20 Aug 17#33
I'm glad you agree
SweeneyUK to Crossbow
19 Aug 17#18
Remember the days... They are U1 though and this is U3. Don't actually know what the difference is, just read that people highly recommend the U3 over the U1.
johnsmith1997 to SweeneyUK
19 Aug 17#20
U3 faster speeds than U1.
Aldnoah to Crossbow
19 Aug 17#21
This is a U3 card so apart from the ebuyer deal this is better than everything you posted. Unless of course you don't need U3 but it's an important distinction.
amour3k to Crossbow
21 Aug 17#38
Yep!, I agree with you!. :-(
The shift of the tide has 'shifted' a wee bit of late, huh?.
Unfortunately for alllllll of us, those cheap as chips price's are possibly never to be repeated again?.
I too also recall buying several rounds of Kingston 64GB MicroSD Card's on Amazon for only £11.24, and £11.45 at it's most! (and alllll were around January/February last Year sort of time?).
And even then I was a bit peeved that I'd missed the boat on when the same was only £11.14 some few moments before ...
Irony, no?.
I believe we'll allllll need to polish off the dust on our Flux Capacitor's to get those day's of lore back ...
Lool. :-)
David23
19 Aug 17#9
I was really annoyed putting off buying an SD card last year when the prices were so good. I waited to get one when I got my new phone thinking they would fall further, terrible move!
Shortage of flash memory due to high demand (what doesn't use memory these days) plus the fact there are only a small amount of factories making them has made prices rocket.
fishmaster to David23
19 Aug 17#17
Hindsight is a wonderful thing. You can say this about anything, if you'd invested in Bitcoin in 2009, you'd likely be a millionaire now. Buy something when you need it is the rule. The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, the second best time is now.
David23 to fishmaster
19 Aug 17#26
Buy something when you need it? I waited till I got my new phone because I didn't need it beforehand. I should have bought it when I DIDN'T need it!
I am certainly not paying the inflated prices they are asking now, you could get 128GB for around this price before so I will wait it out.
scribe76
19 Aug 17#10
Any good for a Go Pro 5?
stee01
19 Aug 17#11
Not entirely convinced on the whole high demand short supply argument. Think the market prices are being fixed this high because people will pay it. Remember the floods in thailand that rocketed hard drive prices sky high? The prices never truly recovered like they "predicted" they would and storage costs an arm and a leg these days regardless of the medium. In short, I wouldn't expect to see the prices come down soon other than the odd bargain deal you might find on here
cicobuff to stee01
20 Aug 17#34
It is Apple and the iPhone 8 that is part responsible for the worldwide flash memory (nand) storage problem. [Here]
amour3k to cicobuff
21 Aug 17#39
Wow!!! :-(
Scary that ...
amour3k to stee01
21 Aug 17#40
That's an excellent point you just raised there too mind?. :-(
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I always put off buying one, thinking they will keep falling & level-off at a low price. Finally, when desperate last week, had to pay almost £19 for one off Amazon :cry:
Anyway, here are some past deals to make you turn green or red depending on the emotions you feel....
New site search feature seems to work great btw!
Oil/ Fuel prices could be a similar example of something that goes up and down on price depending on the production of oil across the world but still remains readily available.
The shift of the tide has 'shifted' a wee bit of late, huh?.
Unfortunately for alllllll of us, those cheap as chips price's are possibly never to be repeated again?.
I too also recall buying several rounds of Kingston 64GB MicroSD Card's on Amazon for only £11.24, and £11.45 at it's most! (and alllll were around January/February last Year sort of time?).
And even then I was a bit peeved that I'd missed the boat on when the same was only £11.14 some few moments before ...
Irony, no?.
I believe we'll allllll need to polish off the dust on our Flux Capacitor's to get those day's of lore back ...
Lool. :-)
Shortage of flash memory due to high demand (what doesn't use memory these days) plus the fact there are only a small amount of factories making them has made prices rocket.
I am certainly not paying the inflated prices they are asking now, you could get 128GB for around this price before so I will wait it out.
Scary that ...
Hmmmmmmmmmmm.