By fleecing the market, do you mean the current high prices? If so then surely that's just down to simple supply and demand. High demand from crypto miners, supply can't keep up and suppliers are cashing in. If anything it's Overclockers and all the other retailers who you should be protesting!
Unless I'm misunderstanding? (Which is very possible!)
It’s very probable that I’m the misunderstanding one but I’m just reflecting both my and my close gaming mates feelings and perception of this current pricing situation (of GPU’s in particular)
Ultimately Nvidia set the RRP and I’m sure they could up production if the demand was really that high but, looking at their financial results they seem to be doing very well selling these volumes but at inflated prices, why up production when you can sell the same volumes for more? - Apple only last week conceded they were following this very approach.
The crypto bubble is slowly bursting I think but I still don’t buy into the whole “it’s miners killing supply”
Yes, OC/UK are making a killing, but for how much longer will their customer base put up with it? They are a business very much geared toward PC gamers yet the prices are alienating large swathes of their potential customers, I look my close pc gaming friends, not one has upgraded via buying new this year due to prices and a couple have thrown in the towel and sold their rigs in favour of consoles.
I’m sure OC/UK’s response would be “margins are tight, we try to get the best deal for our customers” but then again those same customers then see the purchasing managers newly acquired Jag SVR all over the forums.... Nothing against Gibbo, please don’t get me wrong - I like the guy, he works hard and is good at his job, good luck to the guy and frankly I don’t have an issue with him whatsoever - it’s more the perception this paints to end users - I know I’m not alone in this view - then again, it’s always been thus, I remember many posts by the former owner on the one hand pointing out margins were tight but on the other hand uploading threads saying words to the effect of “Hey look at the nice new Ferrari you’ve all paid for”......
My group of mates are not kids, we’re all middle aged with jobs and spare cash but are unwilling to spend such huge sums to fulfill what’s ultimately a hobby that’s mainly a few hours at weekends or the odd hour here & there through the week, we’ll carry on gaming in the main I’m sure but it won’t be by buying new at these prices unless things change drastically, and if things don’t change then both the GPU manufacturers and OC/UK et al will all lose out in the long term.
