MSI scalping their own 3080s on ebay, links included [REDDIT]

Disco_P · 7 Oct 2020 at 08:02

If I was scalping 3080s on the bay and wanted to make as much money as possible, I'd pretend to be a manufacturer.

HahaYouLooked · 7 Oct 2020 at 08:04

Nutty_Death said:
Subsidiary of MSI https://twitter.com/msiUSA/status/1313734160582803456?s=20

Man, can this card launch get any worse? Jesus.

Mean Mr Mustard · 7 Oct 2020 at 08:21

Thank goodness! This was all just an honest mistake. They genuinely had no idea their subsidiary which deals in excess stock had managed to get their hands on rocking horse **** and was selling it at an 80% markup.

el-nino · 7 Oct 2020 at 08:21

I have the MSI Gaming XTrioon preorder sub300 position do I now pull the trigger and cancel and go strix?

el-nino · 7 Oct 2020 at 08:23

Mean Mr Mustard said:
Thank goodness! This was all just an honest mistake. They genuinely had no idea their subsidiary which deals in excess stock had managed to get their hands on rocking horse **** and was selling it at an 80% markup.

Where has that information come from?

Relentless81 · 7 Oct 2020 at 08:28

If your car was worth £1000 but you knew someone really wanted it and was willing to give you £1500 would you say no to the £1500 and take the £1000?

It people are willing to pay it then its nothing but the peoples fault.

Video on Gamers Nexus just gone up

Greebo · 7 Oct 2020 at 08:35

GN live now about it

HACO · 7 Oct 2020 at 08:37

Nutty_Death said:
Subsidiary of MSI https://twitter.com/msiUSA/status/1313734160582803456?s=20

Shameful. This is the one that got caught, I'm sure hundreds of others are also the manufacturers and are never caught. What MSI means by "never happens again" is actually "never get caught doing it again".

Greebo · 7 Oct 2020 at 08:37

Relentless81 said:
If your car was worth £1000 but you knew someone really wanted it and was willing to give you £1500 would you say no to the £1500 and take the £1000?

It people are willing to pay it then its nothing but the peoples fault.

Video on Gamers Nexus just gone up

Its not the same though.

In your scenario it would be like aston martin bringing out a new car with a massive waiting list and people having a year to wait but on the side they 100% own a company called trotters traders and they are selling 4 new aston martins a week for a 80% mark up.

You dont think people would have an issue with that?

N19h7m4r3 · 7 Oct 2020 at 08:38

I hope NVIDIA does something. In the past they got rid of XFX for the gall of them simply also making AMD boards.

This is worse to me.

HACO · 7 Oct 2020 at 08:39

Relentless81 said:
If your car was worth £1000 but you knew someone really wanted it and was willing to give you £1500 would you say no to the £1500 and take the £1000?

It people are willing to pay it then its nothing but the peoples fault.

Video on Gamers Nexus just gone up

No. If MSI thinks the price of this item is £1200 instead of £700, they're free to give it a MSRP of £1200 and sell it. Nobody would fault them for it (other than calling it an expensive product that's not worth it). But that's a right any manufacturer have.

It's shady to create an artificial shortage in normal channels, and then sell it for 2x the price to desperate customers.

Chuk_Chuk · 7 Oct 2020 at 08:43

N19h7m4r3 said:
I hope NVIDIA does something. In the past they got rid of XFX for the gall of them simply also making AMD boards.

This is worse to me.

It is worse when thinking about it from a consumer stand point, but has no effect on Nvidia so they won't do anything about it.

If certain rumours are to be believed, it's all going to plan for them.

Rroff · 7 Oct 2020 at 08:48

TBH MSI's statement was largely lacking in spin - either they genuinely didn't know or realise their reputation can't keep taking hits like this.

Greebo · 7 Oct 2020 at 08:50

The people who bought them got a good deal in the end though as MSI has refunded them the difference between the price they paid and the real MSI MSRP.

Sampsy · 7 Oct 2020 at 08:53

There's no way in hell MSI didn't know this was happening. Given the pressure from retailers and Nvidia they'd be watching their stock like a hawk right now.

Not only did MSI decide to scalp new customers on eBay, they did it while customers on sites like OCUK (like myself) have already paid for their products and are waiting on shipments. The reason there are no MSI shipments is because they aren't even trying to fulfill them.

Semple · 7 Oct 2020 at 08:56

robj20 said:
Doesn't look like MSI.
Not hard to find out, different trade mark companies.
Starlit, MSI Computers.
Actual MSI, Micro-star International.

Just someone trying to look legit. Some of you guys sure get angry fast, bet you fall for all that fake news as well.

My thoughts exactly.

a) I'd doubt a vendor has the time to be pulling the odd GPU from stock to sell on ebay
b) Vendors make their money from selling mass volume. Selling a dozen cards on ebay for a few hundred dollars more than MSRP is hardly going to make a dent in their margins
c) Scalper implies they bought a card from a retailer with the intention of selling it on ebay for more money - if that was the case why wouldn't they just pull a number of cards from their own stockpile for ebay rather than sending them to a retailer/distributor.

Nutty_Death · 7 Oct 2020 at 09:01

Semple said:
My thoughts exactly.

a) I'd doubt a vendor has the time to be pulling the odd GPU from stock to sell on ebay
b) Vendors make their money from selling mass volume. Selling a dozen cards on ebay for a few hundred dollars more than MSRP is hardly going to make a dent in their margins
c) Scalper implies they bought a card from a retailer with the intention of selling it on ebay for more money - if that was the case why wouldn't they just pull a number of cards from their own stockpile for ebay rather than sending them to a retailer/distributor.

Can the op be updated with their Twitter statement please as people clearly haven't seen it.

EastCoastHandle · 7 Oct 2020 at 09:02

I am not sure why some people still think it's a hoax.

Greebo · 7 Oct 2020 at 09:03

robj20 said:
Doesn't look like MSI.
Not hard to find out, different trade mark companies.
Starlit, MSI Computers.
Actual MSI, Micro-star International.

Just someone trying to look legit. Some of you guys sure get angry fast, bet you fall for all that fake news as well.

So you are commenting without reading any of the links?

Starlit has same company address as MSI
The MD Of Starlit is MSI head of Sales.
The guy listing the cards of Starlit is an MSI employee
MSI have acknowledged its them and apologised
MSI has partial refunded all the people who bought the cards so they paid normal MSI MSRP or offered them a full refund.

Just how much evidence are you going to need before you stop defending them and claiming its fake news?

Relentless81 · 7 Oct 2020 at 09:04

Greebo said:
Its not the same though.

In your scenario it would be like aston martin bringing out a new car with a massive waiting list and people having a year to wait but on the side they 100% own a company called trotters traders and they are selling 4 new aston martins a week for a 80% mark up.

You dont think people would have an issue with that?

It is the same, it simply doesn't matter if you have an issue with it or not.

Don't buy it. Its that simple.