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CES - smiling through the gloom 10:25pm on 11 Jan 2009 One of the effects of Amazon's Wish List function is it let's you track prices in the same way eBay does. Perhaps I'm just unlucky; but most of the consumer electronics on my Wish Lists have risen in price before, during and after Christmas and new year.

My tracked items; Digital camera equipment, LCD TVs and even reliably decliners; hard drives and RAM have stayed the same or increased. For example the Hitachi 500GB SATA drive which was available for around £40 in September is now averaging £54.

Where are the bargains?

And this is not just in the UK, Las Vegas is also home to the enormous Fry's Electronics store; it makes a branch of Ikea look like a corner shop. But prices there are pretty much in line with Best Buy, Circuit City and all the other major retailers across the US. If somebody is cutting prices of electronics the reductions haven't reached Joe Public yet.

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