Boo Hoo, Poor Scalpers

[SpellowHouse]

I notice on certain auction sites that the scalpers are having limited success this time. Cards are selling, but mostly way below what the scalpers no doubt expected. There are some that have sold at silly prices but honestly you wonder why when there seems to be a glut of cards at much more sensible prices. Some are even going at less than £100 over rrp. Still, even that's not cheap enough considering you lose your warranty.

 

[Purgatory]

I notice on certain auction sites that the scalpers are having limited success this time. Cards are selling, but mostly way below what the scalpers no doubt expected. There are some that have sold at silly prices but honestly you wonder why when there seems to be a glut of cards at much more sensible prices. Some are even going at less than £100 over rrp. Still, even that's not cheap enough considering you lose your warranty.

There is no shortages that's why and if you know where to look you can find 4090s at MSRP. I can see cards even today. Also some retailers are deliberately drip feeding their stock everyday if you watch. There is no shortages and soon they will all get more new stock too if not received this week.

Scalpers can go to hell really and they are only hoping for people abroad that don't have the cards in their countries yet to buy them, everywhere else that has the cards in their countries have no need to buy from scalpers on ebay.

 

[SpudMaster]

Then take off ebays 13% cut or whatever it actually is now and that £100 soon becomes a loss!

 

[Purgatory]

Then take off ebays 13% cut or whatever it actually is now and that £100 soon becomes a loss!

Yes and some selling at them at loss prices are sending a box with a brick in.

 

[JollyJamma]

Yeah and I don't have too much sympathy.

I did scalp sale my 3060ti for £650 but it was sold to a guy who was mining for ETH and he was hoovering up GPUs on the forum. I bought myself a 3080 FE and was very happy as the market started to crash about 2 weeks later.

The people buying and selling GPUs for profit on the daily can suck it.

 

[TangoEchoAlpha]

I love it. Hopefully they are salty tears being cried by the scalpers.

Going forward, I expect the "must have toy / gadget" for Christmas will be the item being hoovered up around end of November/early December. Maybe that will release whatever 'pressure' remains a bit, as the scummy scalpers move to something else.

 

[Freddie1980]

I guess it helps that Nvidia already took the liberty of pre scalping the cards for us.

 

[Murphy]

I notice on certain auction sites that the scalpers are having limited success this time. Cards are selling, but mostly way below what the scalpers no doubt expected. There are some that have sold at silly prices but honestly you wonder why when there seems to be a glut of cards at much more sensible prices. Some are even going at less than £100 over rrp. Still, even that's not cheap enough considering you lose your warranty.

I've also been wondering, as someone who doesn't use auction sites, if the cards that have sold for silly prices will actually go through. As in do people on auction sites have to go through with the purchase or could people just be bidding silly money on these cards and changing their minds or refusing to pay? Is that sort of thing common, something people do, IDK.

e: I guess what I'm asking is when i see a card that's 'completed listing' and 'sold' for £3k how likely is it that an actual card and money has changed hands.

 

[Darujhistan]

I guess it helps that Nvidia already took the liberty of pre scalping the cards for us.

Then th retailer pre-scalp on top, then the traditional "something something exchange rate" scalp, then the scalp in real-time for the few minutes cards are actually available...

 

[Mike 702]

I've also been wondering, as someone who doesn't use auction sites, if the cards that have sold for silly prices will actually go through. As in do people on auction sites have to go through with the purchase or could people just be bidding silly money on these cards and changing their minds or refusing to pay? Is that sort of thing common, something people do, IDK.

e: I guess what I'm asking is when i see a card that's 'completed listing' and 'sold' for £3k how likely is it that an actual card and money has changed hands.

There is a fair chance people are buying then not paying, maybe some doing it to annoy the seller. I have have seen some "sell" and then get relisted soon after.

You can insist for payment upon purchase as part of the buy it now option, so you have to pay to end the auction and win the item - so hard to tell which have actually sold and which have not

 

[jaycob]

I love it. Hopefully they are salty tears being cried by the scalpers.

Going forward, I expect the "must have toy / gadget" for Christmas will be the item being hoovered up around end of November/early December. Maybe that will release whatever 'pressure' remains a bit, as the scummy scalpers move to something else.

Doubt folks will bite given the state of UK right now. Least with Covid you had a lot of people stuck at home with money with nothing to buy. Bit different this time round

 

[andybird123]

Shops near me (non UK) started off listing AIB cards at $2400, stuff like the MSI trio and Asus TUF are now listed at $1800 and have stayed listed as in stock the whole time.

 

[MissChief]

I guess it helps that Nvidia already took the liberty of pre scalping the cards for us.

For your convenience!

 

[JK2022]

Not just 4090 but all those idiots scalping 3080 Ti / 3080s thinking it’s still 2021 and they can make easy few hundreds profit ,now selling new 3080 Ti’s at around £850 ,£70 bellow what they payed

and no one’s buying their scalped 3080 for £900-£1000 when on the same auction site some major retailers are selling 3080 for £700 and under with 2-3 years warranty

at least they still go to cex and get £1200 for their 4090,£490 for 3080Ti or £395 for their 3080

 

[B@Th*nG]

won't they just return them under the distance selling regs? not sure it will really affect them negatively. The ones selling for near MSRP on ebay are pretty stupid tbh as it's the fees that'll cost them.

 

[FlyingFish]

I must be missing something, I'd love to buy a 4090 FE at msrp, but can't seem to find any solid way to do that. I'm just randomly visiting Nvidia's website on the off chance. But always out of stock. Even the TUF card listed on Nvidia's site, I can't seem to find in stock.

Poor me, first world problems

 

[montymint]

Yeah and I don't have too much sympathy.

I did scalp sale my 3060ti for £650 but it was sold to a guy who was mining for ETH and he was hoovering up GPUs on the forum. I bought myself a 3080 FE and was very happy as the market started to crash about 2 weeks later.

The people buying and selling GPUs for profit on the daily can suck it.

you sold for profit here?

 

[Harlequin]

Sold cards on teh bay being up to £3500 , and stock in the UK now at zero at the big etailers. RTX 3000 series prices also going back up.

 

[pieman109]

Sold cards on teh bay being up to £3500 , and stock in the UK now at zero at the big etailers. RTX 3000 series prices also going back up.

I noticed that also, but there doesn't appear to be any takers other than a couple of purchases

 

[MissChief]

Stock will likely be back in this week, there shouldn’t be the continual shortages that plagued the 3000 series. Or the direct selling to miners.