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Does buying an Nvidia card from a scalper maintain its warranty?
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You should count yourself lucky, because only thing that would have arrived at your door for £600 and sold as a 3090 is a:-
And for you PS5 buyers trying to get a cheap deal too expect this in the box :-
Moral of the story is :-
“If it's too good to be true, it probably is”
These would be scalped like crazy, it might take a year to get one for msrp after release. They might be expensive on release.
You should count yourself lucky, because only thing that would have arrived at your door for £600 and sold as a 3090 is a:-
And for you PS5 buyers trying to get a cheap deal too expect this in the box :-
Moral of the story is :-
“If it's too good to be true, it probably is”
3090 for £600 is a scam!
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Demand isn’t there anymore. Miners have stopped mining as crypto crashed. 30 series available freely now and everyone who wanted a card has one. I don’t think there will be the demand to upgrade to 40 series as we all expect. RRP will be met mostly.
Don't be surprised if crypto goes up again for seemingly no reason. It's not that important anyway because ETH is going POS.
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It won’t. That ship has sailed for the Caribbean! (And other places with cheap electricity)
Mining is over in the UK due to electric prices- eg for 1GH mining power you consume £500 electricity per month to generate £500-600 ethereum. So after paying for electric you are only making about £50/month. A lot have sold their gpus on e-commerce platforms or the local unmentionable shop.
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99.9% or warranty's are not transferable, and the chance of an ebay seller giving a crap after 45 days are passed is ZERO
and just to be clear.. when sombody on ebat says they will give you a 12 months warranty ebay doesn't make then stand by this after the 45 days
Ebay is moving away from paypal..
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Does it ****.
I’ll chime in here. I’ve bought and sold EVGA cards in the past on eBay. Always biy, use for a couple years then sell on to partially fund the next card.
780Ti, 980Ti, 1080Ti, 2080Ti were all EVGA. I had an issue with the 980Ti, it was still in warranty and I had the eBay / Paypal invoice. No issues at all, they sent me a brand new card after I RMAd the one that developed a fault.
Hostile_18
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EDIT: I was wrong.
Yeah I've looked into it and I think as long as you have the reciept from a certified retailer it's fine. I mean what if it was a gift etc.
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no its not...
im not saying you cant get away with it, but just to be clear its not fine. it literally in the terms and condition that its not fine
drop £3000 in to a GPU and find out the warranty is worth as must as loo role... dont tell people you have looked into it and its fine because it not,
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Hostile_18
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So how would a gift work? If it's a new item and from a registered retailer how could it not? If you are provided receipts/confirmation emails etc.
The FE retailer would not entertain this. They will ask you to get the person who bought the item to raise an RMA for you via their account.
This isn't like going back to a shop with a receipt.
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