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Exactly. Am I a "real gamer" if I sell my GPU for profit and then use that profit to buy more video game related things? "Real Gamer" is a meaningless statement.
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Is now the best time to sell your GPU?
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Exactly. Am I a "real gamer" if I sell my GPU for profit and then use that profit to buy more video game related things? "Real Gamer" is a meaningless statement.
To be fair, if they weren't then the cards would be bought in seconds to be sold by those scalpers. I'd rather pay ~£900 to OcUK and get full warranty etc. than the same to a random on the internet who might not even send the card.
Its a pathetic pc master race thing. People genuinely think they are "real gamers" because they play competitive fps with a keyboard and mouse on their pc in their bedroom in their mum and dad's house.
Ive played pc games for 22+ years now (scary to think) and I'm mature enough to know that it's a privilege not a right.
If there's a gpu on a shelf and three customers turn up. One wants it for gaming, one wants it for mining and one for professional use. I'd say "who got here first?"
Its ridiculous that people think they have more right to a product. Im ignoring the mass bot buying ofc. I don't agree with that.
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The cards are bought by scalpers no matter what the price. I'd rather have the small chance of getting one at msrp than the small chance of getting one at double msrp.
Ftfy
Simply not true of course, the 6800s on sale here yesterday were there for about 30 minutes (and probably only sold out so quickly because they were less than you could trade them in for).
There are 6700 XT, 6800 XT and 6900 XT all in stock right now.
Indeed, they are just not particularly attractive at current prices, not by a longshot.Ftfy
Simply not true of course, the 6800s on sale here yesterday were there for about 30 minutes.
There are 6700 XT, 6800 XT and 6900 XT all in stock right now.
First time I have seen CeX offer higher voucher price than cash for RTX30 cards.
They have a while bunch of FEs in stock, so can see why they dropped the trade-in price. Havent dropped the sale price yet. And I expect if they shift them all at that price, the trade price will pickup again.
Still glad I traded mine when I did.
They have a while bunch of FEs in stock, so can see why they dropped the trade-in price. Havent dropped the sale price yet. And I expect if they shift them all at that price, the trade price will pickup again.
Still glad I traded mine when I did.
I absolutely agree, I certainly wouldn't buy one at the moment. My point is that if I was going to, I'd rather buy one from a proper retailer than a random individual, and by selling them at the same price as the scalpers, that is actually a possibility. Do you think those cards would still be in stock if they were at MSRP? (of course they wouldn't, they'd already be on ebay or in a CEX window).
No you're right, at MSRP I'd have certainly snapped their hand off, agree with you about the auction sites and social media marketplaces, not worth the risk for the money spent. That said OCUK seem to be stuck between a rock and a hard place, especially if prices do go down and demand falls, how do they recover their costs?
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Ftfy
Simply not true of course, the 6800s on sale here yesterday were there for about 30 minutes (and probably only sold out so quickly because they were less than you could trade them in for).
There are 6700 XT, 6800 XT and 6900 XT all in stock right now.
That just goes to show the bubble has popped and nobody is willing to pay the overinflated prices.
Ecept the bubble hasnt popped - prices at distributors are still going up
I think this depends on the card, I still have a few stock alerts set up, and 6800/3070 are still selling out within minutes
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There will always be a lag when the bubble pops. There have been recent reports of retailers deciding not to buy more gpu's from distributors because they believe they won't be able to sell them on for a profit.
Nobody should honestly expect the situation to rectify until 2022/next gen.
This gen is a complete write-off for 90% of us. Congrats to the lucky few who got FE at RRP, commiserations to the desperate who paid anywhere up to 3x RRP.
Lack of fabs, global demand for anything electronic , global demand for materials = cost increases over resources at each step. All it would take is China to play politics with Taiwan and prices would hit the stars
All that has happened is the coin prices dropped and people panicked and looked for the easiest place to offload their card. That place is now overloaded and overexposed on graphics cards so they have drastically slashed the buy price to stop the flow of cards. If they sell through the buy price will go back up but who really cares as they are just one place to sell a card.
The price of crypto is now rising so maybe they will sell though quick, maybe not. From what I can see people are still paying stupid prices for 30 series cards at least.
The price of crypto is now rising so maybe they will sell though quick, maybe not. From what I can see people are still paying stupid prices for 30 series cards at least.
Yeah 3080FE saleprice has dropped to £1102 from £1615 about a week ago, to be honest I was surprised how much they were offering, they were basically making arbitrage too easy even on non-FE cards. Although to be fair that's still over £500 profit for anyone lucky enough to bag an FE.
I put my RX480 8GB up for auction at the weekend (running to this Sunday), maybe I procrastinated a little too long and won't achieve a good sale price if there's a lot of cards hitting the market.
Definitely not a burst bubble yet though, you only have to look at the prices of cards going in and out of stock same day to realise that.
One of the somewhat unusual phenomena brought about by mining is that unlike gaming the diminishing returns from multiple cards is quite low. I.e. miners want as many profitable GPUs as they can get their hands on, whereas gamers generally only want 1 card now that SLI only works on 3090. So 1 miner might produce the same demand as dozens of gamers.