Did I miss the opportunity to buy good oled monitor.

Forums › Gaming › Did I miss the opportunity to buy good oled monitor.

rickpower

4 posts

Wannabe Geek

#319281 9-Apr-2025 12:06

The big smile deals on monitors pbtech had aoc 480hz woled for $1400 is now $1800. On Amazon Au I wanted to get dell AW2725DF 360hz qd oled $1180 which I almost bought but the $180 import fee deterred me. Now I'm not sure if Easter sales be any good. Anyone here have any magic tricks to find good deals on high refresh rate monitors?

wellygary

8260 posts

Uber Geek

#3362274 9-Apr-2025 12:11

There are potentially factories full of stock in China looking for a market now that their price in the US market is about to go through the roof...

This will certainly keep pressure on prices in this ( and other non-US) parts of the world...

rickpower

4 posts

Wannabe Geek

#3362275 9-Apr-2025 12:15

You mean the prices for non US countries will go down?

snj

168 posts

Master Geek

#3362284 9-Apr-2025 12:46

rickpower:

You mean the prices for non US countries will go down?

Assuming demand decreases in America due to tariffs raising prices (because the retailers/importers will still want to profit), there'll likely be a surplus of panels/etc that have already been produced, so if the manufacturers are smart, they'll convert the final output for EU/ANZ/etc markets with the right power supplies and we might get a bit of surplus of supply.

Lots of assumptions at this point of time, but it is plausible that the manufacturers will be more interested in shifting stock rather than warehousing it in the hopes that the new tariffs get dropped in the near future. Will probably be a non-event if the US tariffs disappear in the next week or so though.

Edit: The above relies on the currency rates not going completely bonkers, but that seems like it's also happening.