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Second hand GPU prices

The Bay's prices are always inflated for many reasons. The main one being that the seller has to pay fees on top, and the other being that buyers aren't as educated. People who still pay £400+ for 980ti's might not be aware that the 1070 is available.

Also, prices of hardware is on the up, so people see that as a reason to increase the prices when selling their hardware. I've seen it here and on the bay with SSD's especially. People trying to sell 2 year old 240GB SSD's for over £40 when they probably bought it for a similar amount brand new at a time when SSDs were dirt cheap.
 
Thing is though you can get some good deals too. You just have to be careful. I got a brand new Samsung 850 EVO 2tb SSD off the bay for £350 by sniping a bid at the last minute. At the time they were going for £600+ everywhere else. Still not far off that price now several months on.
 
Yeah £145 seems like a fair price for the buyer.

2nd hand prices are governed by performance more directly than new cards as they are directly competing again lots of generations once you are past the warrantee periods.

GTX 670 £50-£70 Add £10-20 for 4GB ver.
GTS 770 £80-£100
GTX 780 £90-£110
GTX 780ti £105-£130
GTX 970 £130 - £180
GTX 1060 6GB £180+ (in general £200+
RX 480 8GB £180+ (in general £200+

You may get cheaper deals with direct cash sales rather than 2nd hand dealer/ebay. Down to less cost to the seller.

Price bands can't fluctuate too much before you hit a different level of card. So they all have to gradually go down in price. That will generally be down to the price of new cards on the market or an over supply of cards.
 
String said:
If you threw darts at a dart board whilst blind folded, you'd hit a bullseye eventually. Prices generally find their level when there are more than one person interested.

I always know if I've bid too low because someone would generally step in afterward and seal the deal with a higher bid. The opposite is also true. I bid what I deemed to be a fair price for a 1070 last week, and I provided reasons why I came to that bid (you don't get that on Ebay). The buyer was adamant that I was "selling the card short". It's still for sale, and the seller has offered it to someone for £5 more than I was bidding, and that buyer has passed... so, ergo I must have bid a fair price after all.
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Just noticed this post and I thought I was reply and give another perspective :)

First off I never said you was selling the card short in regards to your bid, that was in reference you making it sound like there was hardly any difference between the 1070 I am selling which is the AMP Extreme Edition vs a some what standard one which sold for less before. I had a quick look and found 5 things that the AMP Extreme does compared to the other card which you was not acknowledging. This is why I felt you was selling it short.

Case in point I noticed shortly after you went and paid around £10-15 for a backplate for your 780 card which was just 1 of the 5 extra things my card had vs the other cheaper card. Yet you did not seem to put value on the backplate when you said the only difference is that mine would guarantee high clocks. Hope that clears that up.

None of this really bothered me, but when you come and make a post about it from your point of view, it ends up making me look bad, especially when not all the correct facts are being used.

For the record there was nothing wrong with you second bid of £320, just as I feel like there was nothing wrong with me holiding out for a while. You was the first person who showed interest as soon as I put it up for sale and I felt holding out a few days for my asking price would be okay. OcUK sell my 1070 for £458.99 so my pricing is not exactly unreasonable at £330.

No one is wrong here. The only thing out of place here is your somewhat distasteful post as far as I am concerned :(
 
kmetek said:
what do you guys have beside ebay in uk?

we have a site called "bolha" where people can sell virtually everything.
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ebay is probably the biggest everywhere, but theres also amazon. i rarely buy new items, because of the lacking of money and what i buy and as often as i do, i dont need to pay new price for the same thing or any new price if a used item is cheaper and better, example, i could buy a rx 460 brand new for £95, but from £80 i could get say a r9 280(x) that is older, but has better performance pretty much.



to everyone else, the prices are high on the bay for 2 simple reason:

being greedy & extra covers the cost of bay fees and postage as you will always have a fee to pay for the bay and paypal.
 
TNA said:
Just noticed this post and I thought I was reply and give another perspective :)

First off I never said you was selling the card short in regards to your bid, that was in reference you making it sound like there was hardly any difference between the 1070 I am selling which is the AMP Extreme Edition vs a some what standard one which sold for less before. I had a quick look and found 5 things that the AMP Extreme does compared to the other card which you was not acknowledging. This is why I felt you was selling it short.

Case in point I noticed shortly after you went and paid around £10-15 for a backplate for your 780 card which was just 1 of the 5 extra things my card had vs the other cheaper card. Yet you did not seem to put value on the backplate when you said the only difference is that mine would guarantee high clocks. Hope that clears that up.

None of this really bothered me, but when you come and make a post about it from your point of view, it ends up making me look bad, especially when not all the correct facts are being used.

For the record there was nothing wrong with you second bid of £320, just as I feel like there was nothing wrong with me holiding out for a while. You was the first person who showed interest as soon as I put it up for sale and I felt holding out a few days for my asking price would be okay. OcUK sell my 1070 for £458.99 so my pricing is not exactly unreasonable at £330.

No one is wrong here. The only thing out of place here is your somewhat distasteful post as far as I am concerned :(
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The points you made about your card were valid (which is why I didn't go on to challenge them), but that doesn't always transfer into an uplift of cash when selling second hand. Look at a car with leather spec compared to a car with fabric, the leather could have cost £2000 as an optional extra, but that won't transfer to a £2,000 uplift when selling second hand. That's why I point out the subsequent bids and why I think it justified my valuation.

I think you may have misinterpreted my intent there, but I also accept that you have a right to reply so I'm happy to leave it at that.
 
String said:
The points you made about your card were valid (which is why I didn't go on to challenge them), but that doesn't always transfer into an uplift of cash when selling second hand. Look at a car with leather spec compared to a car with fabric, the leather could have cost £2000 as an optional extra, but that won't transfer to a £2,000 uplift when selling second hand. That's why I point out the subsequent bids and why I think it justified my valuation.

I think you may have misinterpreted my intent there, but I also accept that you have a right to reply so I'm happy to leave it at that.
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As I said, I never had an issue with your bid. So I am not sure what the car analogy has to do with my reply considering this. I am also happy to leave it at that.
 
I've very occasionally gotten a good deal through ebay, but man you really have to wade through a lot of ridiculous listings to find one. The OCUK MM sounds amazing, but I'm sadly a loooong way away from getting access to it
 
I sold my gtx 980, a 2500k, motherboard and ram for £250 all in. Now I'm thinking it was cheap haha.
 
Theres some guy on there now flogging 7 MSI RX480 Gaming X 8gb , for £189 each , doesnt say what he was doing with 7.
Thats not a bad saving of £70 for a second hand gpu thats probably only a few months old.
 
chongker said:
I've very occasionally gotten a good deal through ebay, but man you really have to wade through a lot of ridiculous listings to find one. The OCUK MM sounds amazing, but I'm sadly a loooong way away from getting access to it
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Well, if you become active on the forums it's not too hard to achieve around 20 posts/day (that aren't spammy, which would be against the rules). That's about 3 months away from access. You'll be a member before you know it! :cool:
 
leemk said:
Theres some guy on there now flogging 7 MSI RX480 Gaming X 8gb , for £189 each , doesn't say what he was doing with 7.
Thats not a bad saving of £70 for a second hand gpu thats probably only a few months old.
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Mining the other reason 2nd hand GPUs are still maintaining their price. Especially RX 470/480s. Those GPUs have likely been running 24/7 since launch and will carry on for months more. The difficulty has been rising quickly recently for popular coins so it could be they decided to cash in now.

Just checked and it looks they will all be sold in a day!
 
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TNA said:
As I said, I never had an issue with your bid. So I am not sure what the car analogy has to do with my reply considering this. I am also happy to leave it at that.
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Strangely enough, it's now the people who have had offers refused that take greater offence than the people receiving said low-ball offers, which is ironic!

It seems perfectly ok to bid people in the balls for stuff, but politely refuse it and they get all uppity and offended.

Private sales on the whole are well priced because both seller and potential buyer know exaclty what they're selling/buying, where as ebay seems to be some sort of alternate world where people buying stuff don't have access to google, or any sort of common sense even.
 
Telecaster said:
Strangely enough, it's now the people who have had offers refused that take greater offence than the people receiving said low-ball offers, which is ironic!

It seems perfectly ok to bid people in the balls for stuff, but politely refuse it and they get all uppity and offended.
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I never once took offence at him refusing my offer, after all I've refused plenty offers myself in the past. And I certainly didn't low ball, which is the point I was making when I first posted in this thread.

There's a big difference between an offer that the seller doesn't feel the need to accept, and a low ball offer. My first offer was around 10% less than asking, that's not a low ball offer. I also increased that offer after discussion with the seller.

If anyone is in any doubt about my conduct in the MM, just check my Trust. It speaks for itself.
 
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String said:
I never once took offence at him refusing my offer, after all I've refused plenty offers myself in the past. And I certainly didn't low ball, which is the point I was making when I first posted in this thread.

There's a big difference between an offer that the seller doesn't feel the need to accept, and a low ball offer. My first offer was around 10% less than asking, that's not a low ball offer. I also increased that offer after discussion with the seller.

If anyone is in any doubt about my conduct in the MM, just check my Trust. It speaks for itself.
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I didn't mention you specifically. You just see it all over the MM and on ebay.
 
What I do notice is that there isn't many used cards available at the minute, is that because the pound has tanked and people are holding on to them longer or what?
 
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