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Radeon R9 290 and 290X widely available, but at premium prices

Well all I can say is that the BBB in the US has received multiple complaints against etailers due to this now and they are looking into it. Whether it be ethical or not, Newegg has lost my business for good due to this and I am sure I am not the only one either.
 
vsg28 said:
Outdated article, that. The cards are now at an all time high at $900 each for pretty much every 290x model on Newegg. I contacted 3 different, independent AMD reps as well a rep each from Sapphire and Powercolor and they confirmed that AMD had not changed the MSRP and neither had the brands themselves. So it is a case of etailers being extremely unethical and charging more just because they can.





Thing is, people are randomly creating alt coins from their arses and so there will always be new coins to mine at low difficulty. So unless ASICs come out, GPU based mining isn't going anywhere.
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Well half the altcoins are worthless the more that come out the more worthless the whole process becomes
 
vsg28 said:
Well all I can say is that the BBB in the US has received multiple complaints against etailers due to this now and they are looking into it. Whether it be ethical or not, Newegg has lost my business for good due to this and I am sure I am not the only one either.
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What's the BBB? THe only thing we have thats similar to that is BBLB and that's stands for Big Brothers Little Brother. Don't ask me how i know that.
 
https://www.gov.uk/competition-law-unfair-pricing-agreements

Business practices that restrict competition in the UK or elsewhere in the EU may be illegal. If you suspect a business is acting in an anti-competitive way, you can report them to the Office of Fair Trading (OFT).
This includes anti-competitive agreements, and businesses that abuse a dominant market position.
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Abusing a dominant market position
This includes anti-competitive practices, eg a business with a large market share imposing unfair prices on customers or suppliers.
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Penalties
Your business could be sued or fined if it enters into an anti-competitive agreement or abuses a dominant market position. If you enter into a cartel agreement you could receive an unlimited fine or a prison sentence of up to 5 years.

Your business could be fined up to 10% of its turnover and company directors could be disqualified.
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Does this cover what's going in...? Companies buying all the stock, then charging extreme pricing, holding the monopoly so to speak?
 
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LtMatt said:
What's the BBB? THe only thing we have thats similar to that is BBLB and that's stands for Big Brothers Little Brother. Don't ask me how i know that.
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lol ok you can keep that secret :D

BBB is the Better Business Bureau which is kind of a watchdog here to keep retailers in check. They got enough clout to shut down small businesses but I don't know what they can really do to big companies like Newegg other than to lower their rating. The biggest impact from lowered ratings comes from customers new to the field looking to see who to order parts from and a lower rating is thus make or break to some companies. They aren't as influential lately as they used to be though!
 
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I got my 290 Gaming Edition for £329 which was a great deal.
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Nice deal on an AIB 290. I got my reference 290's at xmas for £300 a pop. Once i sold the game codes it worked out at £560 for both cards, same price as a 780TI at the time.
 
Bought my reference 290 here in Australia just before the litecoin craze for $485AUD.

Mining over here isn't even viable unless you are stealing electricity from somewhere - I'm paying 26.8 cents / kw hour. Even so the price went up to $520 for the same card overnight and the AIB cards are now selling for $545 - $590 depending on brand and these are the cheapest you'll get over here.
 
Geck0 said:
Bought my reference 290 here in Australia just before the litecoin craze for $485AUD.

Mining over here isn't even viable unless you are stealing electricity from somewhere - I'm paying 26.8 cents / kw hour. Even so the price went up to $520 for the same card overnight and the AIB cards are now selling for $545 - $590 depending on brand and these are the cheapest you'll get over here.
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Sounds right. That's aud right,?
 
AMD high end GPU prices getting too high

Have a look at this.

Higher mid level card.

Examples at opposite ends.

Sapphire Radeon R9 270X Boost OC 2048MB = £150: awesome price for that GPU
Sapphire Radeon R9 270X Toxic OC 2048MB = £175: again, an excellent price.

Now the 'next level up'

Sapphire Radeon R9 280X Dual-X OC 3072MB = £275: what? £125 more, much to expensive
Sapphire Radeon R9 280X Toxic OC 3072MB = £320: £145 more expensive than the 270X equivalent, a silly price. no other way to put it.

Early on a cheaper 280X was around £200, a very reasonable price, they are now £50 to going on £100 more expensive than launch price.

I find it astonishing that AMD can sell the 280X in volume at what is now on average more than what the GTX 770 sells for.

The prices need to come down. at this rate i will be witching to Nvidia.

The 280X is now getting as expensive as the 7970 GE was 2 years ago.
 
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Radeon R9 290X Retail Prices Hit $900

Though we keep track of video card pricing regularly on an internal basis, it’s not something we normally publish outside of our semi-regular buyer’s guides. More often than not video card pricing is slow to move (if it moves at all), as big price shifts come in concert with either scheduled price cuts or new product introductions. But in a process that has defied our expectations for more than a month now, even we can’t fail to notice what Radeon prices are quite literally up to.

In a sign of the daffy times we live in, Radeon R9 290X prices have hit $900 this week at Newegg. Every card, from the reference models to the water block model, is now at $899, with Newegg apparently doing brisk enough business to be sold out of more than half of their different 290X SKUs. This of course is some $350 over the 290X’s original launch price of $550, a 64% price bump. Meanwhile the Radeon R9 290 has been similarly affected, with 290 cards starting at $600, $200 (50%) over MSRP.
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http://www.anandtech.com/show/7758/radeon-r9-290x-retail-prices-hit-900

Nice one AMD, bout time those AMD guys got a chance to milk their GPU's like Nvidia do :p
 
Its not AMD mate, its the vendors hiking the prices cos of the shortage and demand, when they are plentiful and the competition to sell them is hard, they lower the price to shove them out the door.

When there is a shortage of them like now, and are extremely sought after, the vendors can pretty much charge what they like.

There are out of stock everywhere.
 
Blame mining, whilst the prices aren't good if you're looking to buy an AMD card now they will help competition as the next set of sales figures come in I can see AMD closing the gap a fair bit due to mining.
 
I think if its the same way in a few months then you can blame AMD some too, they need to ramp up production, tho im no expert on how long that takes :p

and yeh for sure mining killed bargains for gamers ><
 
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