Only a very small amount are getting sold.
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Is now the best time to sell your GPU?
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Only a very small amount are getting sold.
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I wasn't thinking about the crypto mining aspect, fair point. Scalpers can be stopped and thought NV had released dedicated hardware for mining to help ease the demand there. Not been following closely and had to use some code (to scrape NV website) to help me land one back in I think Nov last year. Am amazed these issues are still continuing. Seems like huge demand from gamers though so in that respect at least it seems a healthy industry (gaming).It looks unhealthy to me mateIn terms of hardware, demand is mainly drummed up by miners and scalpers buying all the stock. Pricing is an absolute shambles! And there's more of this to come.
This is certainly going to put people off, from coming to PC gaming and building a PC for gaming.
PC gamers are even looking into consoles and game streaming sites.
the pc gaming market increased mainly down to covid rules, that has subsided now and can see gpu sales have slowed,folk are still mining, ETH is creeping back up, ETH 2.0 isnt coming till late 2022 by looks, so that wont help gpu market
I'm not completely sold on this lockdown theory, there was no GPU shortage iirc during lockdown 1 which was a relatively hard lockdown. Maybe one could make a case for people having more money burning a hole in their pocket in Q4 due to less holidays/leisure activities earlier in 2020.
To me it looks more like supply shortages in conjunction with mining boom, exacerbated by scalpers who are enabled by shortages caused by the former.
To me it looks more like supply shortages in conjunction with mining boom, exacerbated by scalpers who are enabled by shortages caused by the former.
8 days later now and nothings happened yet.
They've just dropped their 3080 buy price again to £846 so I really cant see them honouring the £1500 I've been quoted now.
Probs just gonna end up getting it back after they've carted it around the North East for a couple of weeks
Yeah it's a bit of a worry. I'm planning to drop off my 3090 on Saturday and can envisage the same sort of thing happening.
At least the sell price on your 3080 is still £300 over what they are paying you so fingers crossed you get it.
At least the sell price on your 3080 is still £300 over what they are paying you so fingers crossed you get it.
I thought they had to honour the agreed price if it works properly?
They'll honour the price if you had it locked in. They're just really slow about testing right now. I bought a 980 Ti from them that arrived faulty. They've had it back for over two weeks now and it's still in the queue for testing, as I emailed them yesterday to see what was going on.
Cheers mate. Good luck with your 3090.
Dunno if I should phone them today as I thought I'd eiither have the money in my bank or a phonecall by now.
If they sent it on Monday i'd have thought it would arrive on Tues or Wed and been tested by now
There were some posts earlier in this thread where people were saying that isn't always the case
They really should have some sort of regulation on this testing, i.e. a maximum timeframe. Otherwise what's to stop the kid working behind the counter just whacking the card in his own PC for a month before it finally gets tested? Then another one gets dropped off so he puts the original card in the chain before the customer gets too shirty, and replaces it with the next in line.
Voila, free top end GPU for life.
Voila, free top end GPU for life.
Just got an email from CEX: "Thanks for selling your item(s) to us. We have instructed our payment department to issue payment as follows: You will be paid £1520.00"
Not got the money yet but I assume that means it passed testing and the sale is completed?
Gotta admit I'm feeling a little relieved
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Madness they pay such a high amount lol. Serves them right.
Normally if you had say a bike that was worth £800 they would offer you about £300 for it.
If they are giving you £1500 for it, what are they trying to sell it for?
Normally if you had say a bike that was worth £800 they would offer you about £300 for it.
If they are giving you £1500 for it, what are they trying to sell it for?
Just got an email from CEX: "Thanks for selling your item(s) to us. We have instructed our payment department to issue payment as follows: You will be paid £1520.00"
Not got the money yet but I assume that means it passed testing and the sale is completed?
Gotta admit I'm feeling a little relieved
Yes, you are good mate.
I assume this was him selling it during the time it was that price a few weeks ago and them just taking their time to test it in order to release the funds. Doubtful they are paying that now.
Cheers mate
Just got an email from CEX: "Thanks for selling your item(s) to us. We have instructed our payment department to issue payment as follows: You will be paid £1520.00"
Not got the money yet but I assume that means it passed testing and the sale is completed?
Gotta admit I'm feeling a little relieved
yeh, as long as you got confirmation that it was delivered to them within 10 days you are good.
i took my 3060ti in on the third (last) day for a drop and go order, and between that the price they were offering dropped £400. They still honoured the price i submitted the order at though and the receipt shows "£399 price honour" added to latest trade in price. Just in time!
the prices they were giving were just too good to pass up considering that cyrpto prices/mining looks potentially shaky and the fact that GPU supply might well get better in the coming months anyway.
Cheers buddy. I'm not sure why there is a delay between them telling you the sale is confirmed and you will be receiving the quoted price to then actually paying you. Does anyone know how long that delay is?
my 5700 bios flashed to XT is going for 900 on the ebay utter madness!!, no way would i sell it though making some good profit on mining 
doesn't the amd 6000 series cards suffer from the lower hashrate compared to the 5700xt? and seeing performance that the 5700xt sometimes does better than the 3060 makes me laugh.
doesn't the amd 6000 series cards suffer from the lower hashrate compared to the 5700xt? and seeing performance that the 5700xt sometimes does better than the 3060 makes me laugh.