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I think any company scalping their own cards are scum - it’s that simple and it isn’t any kind of “mistake” at all, they just got caught and are backtracking
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Amazing how many people on this thread have not read what actually happened and have got it so wrong. Dont you guys actually read the facts or just like to make it up or are just being sarcastic ?
All MSI are "guilty" of is accidentally putting the 3xxx's on their refurbished list.
All the Starlit Company is "guilty" of doing is then putting said items on Ebay for sale.
Both a simple but embarrassing mistake.
MSI DID NOT put them for sale on Ebay.
Come off it, as if nobody at any point would have realised they can't possibly have 30 series cards that have been refurbished already when there are barely enough to fill current orders.Amazing how many people on this thread have not read what actually happened and have got it so wrong. Dont you guys actually read the facts or just like to make it up or are just being sarcastic ?
All MSI are "guilty" of is accidentally putting the 3xxx's on their refurbished list.
All the Starlit Company is "guilty" of doing is then putting said items on Ebay for sale.
Both a simple but embarrassing mistake.
MSI DID NOT put them for sale on Ebay.
There is no way on Earth that the higher ups didn't know this happened. If it hadn't blown up it'd still be happening.
Others have put it much better than I could, but these are high margin items in absolutely unreal demand. I really don't think an official partner would take the decision to do this without the green light from someone at MSI. How would they get access to the inventory?What makes you say that? How many cards were involved, it looks like a trifling number?
Just read the content and the twitter feed etc. The retailer behind the company selling the card is MSI. MSI even owned up that the company is legit ie they are dealing with this retailer and this specific retailer is part of MSI business group and they usual deal with excess stock rather rather than in demand stock. MSI doesn’t know how it happened.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.
Imagine paying double what something is worth.
If you read the apology its not MSI its a separate company working as a partner. They will have had to sign contracts etc to qualify as such and by an error with the MSI product list for refurbishments the Starlit company had access to MSI items they shouldnt have.
You are on form buddy. You previous post is saying starlit is not part of MSI and pulled out a load of other crap about other companies. Now you are not acknowledging MSI and Starlit are one and the same but using the MSI apology as your go to for dismissing it.Amazing how many people on this thread have not read what actually happened and have got it so wrong. Dont you guys actually read the facts or just like to make it up or are just being sarcastic ?
All MSI are "guilty" of is accidentally putting the 3xxx's on their refurbished list.
All the Starlit Company is "guilty" of doing is then putting said items on Ebay for sale.
Both a simple but embarrassing mistake.
MSI DID NOT put them for sale on Ebay.
Amazing how many people on this thread have not read what actually happened and have got it so wrong. Dont you guys actually read the facts or just like to make it up or are just being sarcastic ?
All MSI are "guilty" of is accidentally putting the 3xxx's on their refurbished list.
All the Starlit Company is "guilty" of doing is then putting said items on Ebay for sale.
Both a simple but embarrassing mistake.
MSI DID NOT put them for sale on Ebay.
People have now realised that they made the same “mistake” during the 2000-series launch. Selling out of stock cards at above RRP.Both a simple but embarrassing mistake.