3070 prices creeping up daily...

ukxenon · 23 Oct 2020 at 13:14

Lets wait and see what AMD do and lets hope the prices will come down..

i want a 3070 for my other pc but i am not paying the asking price at this time

Stephen Garner · 23 Oct 2020 at 13:15

Suggesting waiting a few months when 'prices normalise' is bonkers.

Brexit will skyrocket pricing.

Mr Oblong · 23 Oct 2020 at 13:29

Adrian1976 said:
Haha what a joke I only paid 689 for the 3080, Although it's only a Zotac trinity with only 5% power headroom without a bios but £30! Who the **** in the right mind would pay more than 500-550 for ANY 3070 need their heads testing if you aske me.

I don't get it either. Plenty of people with deep pockets about, but I don't understand them.

Adrian1976 · 23 Oct 2020 at 13:41

The reason the retailers or these cards are this price is because they think they will sell which they probably will but if people didn't get desperate and wait for the stores to get stuck with stock then they'll have to drop, I know this is easy saying for people who need one and I was lucky to get a 3080 on release day from elsewhere but my god the 3080 is just a different class to the 3070 and no matter whether it's a STRIX or whatever is not worth more than 5-550.

it's time people started to vote with their wallet and don't rush into new tech to learn these greedy sods a lesson.

varkanoid · 23 Oct 2020 at 13:49

ukxenon said:
Lets wait and see what AMD do and lets hope the prices will come down..

i want a 3070 for my other pc but i am not paying the asking price at this time

Never mind that I want a 2060 in my son's PC but no way paying stupid 2nd hand prices for it.

Dirk Diggler · 23 Oct 2020 at 14:30

Oh look, if I could just get back what I paid for my 3080 I could bag myself an Asus 3070.

Who buys these things

Duke · 23 Oct 2020 at 15:31

Crazy prices. Lets hope Bignavi gives us another option without spending so much.

otester · 23 Oct 2020 at 15:38

Unless AMD also jumps on the price gouge wagon and we get double teamed by team green & red.

southernorth · 23 Oct 2020 at 15:47

otester said:
Unless AMD also jumps on the price gouge wagon and we get double teamed by team green & red.

Some people pay a lot of money for something like that. I think we will too - we've seen how AMD is now charging premium prices for CPUs, let's see about GPUs.

2Thumbs · 23 Oct 2020 at 16:10

Stephen Garner said:
Brexit will skyrocket pricing.

Can I borrow that magic ball of yours soon please? Wanna check when next year I'll get the 3080 I've paid for. I'll trust you my address.

Although maybe that will be the new excuses of this place when they start increasing prices even more.

Stephen Garner · 23 Oct 2020 at 19:22

2Thumbs said:
Can I borrow that magic ball of yours soon please? Wanna check when next year I'll get the 3080 I've paid for. I'll trust you my address.

Although maybe that will be the new excuses of this place when they start increasing prices even more.

It'd probably be cheaper to fly to the US, buy a card and fly back.

aelc89 · 23 Oct 2020 at 19:26

Anybody know why OCUK havent any MSI 3070 Trios listed?

turbot1984 · 23 Oct 2020 at 19:34

High demand, low supply + 16/20GB maybe cancelled? I think we are in new territory before prices equalize and Big Navi availabilty is known. Q2 2021?

G J · 23 Oct 2020 at 19:39

People keep saying I'll just wait for the prices to normalise but as soon as the original stock has gone the pricing is very rarely the same again but only goes up as the inflated prices become the norm.

Then some retailers do "deals" where it close to the original price the product launched at.

Name · 23 Oct 2020 at 19:55

We need Bogdanoff meme here. He Bought ? Dump et.

CraigN · 23 Oct 2020 at 20:11

3070 distribution prices artificially high with retailers having to claim rebates from AIB's.

Chaos666 · 23 Oct 2020 at 20:12

CraigN said:
3070 distribution prices artificially high with retailers having to claim rebates from AIB's.

better than nothing

chaparral · 23 Oct 2020 at 20:37

G J said:
People keep saying I'll just wait for the prices to normalise but as soon as the original stock has gone the pricing is very rarely the same again but only goes up as the inflated prices become the norm.

Then some retailers do "deals" where it close to the original price the product launched at.

I wouldn't like to put any bets on the prices dropping

The 2080ti prices never hardly dropped at all through it whole 2 year life span (if anything they actually went up even higher :eek:

)

Dr_rizvi · 23 Oct 2020 at 20:44

2Thumbs said:
I don't think anyone who wasn't born the day before was believing the exchange rate nonsense.

It's not the first time we've heard that though in the history of OCUK launch price increases and I'm sure it won't be the last.

OcUK aren't much different than scalpers then!

X-Mikuru_Beam-X · 23 Oct 2020 at 21:05

Is the 3070 a worthy upgrade from the 1080ti? I want to actually stretch my 165hz 1440p monitor this generation.

I wanted a 3080 but since its Vapourware its not much of any option lol