Why so angry. Work for or own stock in WD?
Don't know who the heck you think you are, but no one tells anyone to shut it. You are way out of line.
And this may come as a shock, but I neither remember or care what you said. Certainly will make a note to ignore your comments in the future.
Did I mention I think they raised disk prices higher than they needed to.
I don't own any stock. I don't believe that you are basing a conclusion on any facts, but you are proposing that a company is slighting you. By the same standards:
There is a conspiracy on auto insurance.
There is a conspiracy on gasoline prices.
There is a conspiracy on the moon landing.
All of these statements are made without any basis in fact, but must be true because I said so. Do you see the problem I have believing a conspiracy exists, when no facts are presented. I suggest that there is no conspiracy, but agree with you that prices are too high. It sucks, but isn't a conspiracy as the OP stated (and what the subsequent discussion was about). On top of that, neither you nor I have the knowledge about current pricing (my first hand knowledge is 6 years old) so stating that it was too high isn't up to either of us. The only reasonable conclusion is that we all shut up about a conspiracy, not to stop railing for more reasonable pricing.
The flood was real. You honestly think they keep/kept all their "egg's in one basket"
The corporation's are a lot smarter than we are, that's why they're rich and we're poor
Perhaps you don't understand the reality of manufacturing. Several millions, or hundreds of millions, is spent on a factory. They produce a products, whose profit curve looks like a bell. They only start making money after a while, and they don't make back their initial investment for years.
You can't just build a dozen plants scattered around the globe, because companies don't run in debt like the governments seem to. The reason that the factories are built where they are is access to workers, resources, and low cost. These three factors come together in very few places. So even if companies could afford multiple location, they may not have the location to build in. On top of this, natural disasters aren't something you expect, by their very nature.
So the only theoretical remainder is a stash of HDDs kept somewhere. That is unlikely, as the storage wars have driven profit margins down very low. Lower profits mean that very few units can be kept in storage before the bottom line is hurt. So no "secret eggs" there. Seems like they couldn't be hiding anything...
There was literally no shortage of HDD's at my store.
By the same logic, there is no oil shortage. I have several local gasoline stations, and the pumps there always have fuel.
Kinda sounds funny when I say it out loud?
You are looking at the store front, and denying the rest of the supply chain exists. Unfortunately, life doesn't work cleanly as that.
