I don't see retailers price gouging the Ps5, even though demand is huge. Nvidia could demand mrsp with the threat of removing supply. They just couldn't careless.
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I don't see retailers price gouging the Ps5, even though demand is huge. Nvidia could demand mrsp with the threat of removing supply. They just couldn't careless.
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Probably not the best time to start my pc gaming journey....What when the refresh cards are released.
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because as people have pointed out a few times, pc gamers seem to be a special group who will moan and moan but still part with money for the new shiny and drive them prices up even higher.
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Them prices keep on a'creeping up!
Sadly some 3070s are now more money than the 3080 you had in your basket at £650.
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I'm not entirely sure how supply and demand is effective when there's an MSRP, surely it should be in a state of 'this is £650, more people want to buy, well we either make more or we're out of stock', if the cost of manufacture etc has gone up then you raise the MSRP. Raising the prices just because more people want the card is as bad as me buying all the cards and reselling them on Ebay at a higher price just because I can. It's scalping but just at a company level instead surely?
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It's what happens at the extreme end of capitalism, free market good - corporate greed bad in short
Just need someone to save us all by sticking to bloody MSRP
when a company states NVIDIA in this case prices start at £649.99 they can do anything they want with the price after since nvidia haven’t set a price really. Plus whilst all cards use the same gpu chip and ram chipsets it’s down to the board partners to charge what they like.
the world isn’t fair and money makes the world go wrong. I’m not saying it’s right but it’s how it allways has been in my lifetime
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Well I think we all known that is utter BS, I was on their site on the 17th, and it was fine, it just went notify notify/ buy/ out of stock within 2 seconds. the site itself never flinched.
you're not sure when theres a manufactures SUGESTED (and thats the rub its a suggestion) retail price.
stores can charge whatever they like to be honest, yes gibbo can blame the pound being weaker but since last week its only just this morning dipped back under its lowest since launch, so the rises yesterday where pure profit unless card manufactures have all started charging more then theres nothing he can do.
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Exactly, those who are in a pre order queue might as well wait until big navi. Could be a lot of annoyed 10gb 3080 owners, if amd release a great card with 16gb vram. Nvidia will release a 20gb version as night follows day.
Those who say a 20gb 3080 will be £900. Well if the 6900xt is 600 quid, watch sales nose dive. Intel have had a taste, let's hope Nvidia do too.
Exactly, those who are in a pre order queue might as well wait until big navi. Could be a lot of annoyed 10gb 3080 owners, if amd release a great card with 16gb vram. Nvidia will release a 20gb version as night follows day.
Those who say a 20gb 3080 will be £900. Well if the 6900xt is 600 quid, watch sales nose dive. Intel have had a taste, let's hope Nvidia do too.
Agreed the site was accessable and fine all day. They simply got the order process wrong and the inventory was gone in a flash.
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Very true, I was looking at it in a very two shades environment, which of course we don't live in. I can't really complain as I seemed to get lucky with a £650 card at 15:23, but, with the current reports of GPUs crashing under gaming load a small part of me is thinking to just cancel the order and wait to see how things pan out, but I don't see the cards going back to the base price anytime soon... I purchased a 1650s to keep me going (I was running a 7950 that finally packed it in) in my new build which is hilariously overbuilt for the GPU I now have, but I was surprised how a 1650s really does most of what I need it to...
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This is wrong. nvidia is selling cores to AIB's. There's been NO indication of that price going up. The AIB's are then either directly or through a distributor selling these cards to the resellers like OCUK. It's in that transaction cycle the price is being fluctuated.
You inadvertently highlight a great point. These price hikes ultimately fall on nvidia's reputation as you're blaming them. Thus it's in their best interest to expand supply as quickly as possible to avoid this.
Pound down against the dollar, only reason I can think of
That made me laugh, I bet it’s the reason they give but we all know it’s rubbish.
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I have had the Nvidia site open today on Safari (ipad). I refreshed the page and am sure it said BuyNow. Reverted back to out of stock now. Anyone else see this
Well latest dollar pound exchange isnt good,. Its slumped today and expected to keep falling to $1.22 to the pound. That will put up the price of all 3080s by another £50 anyway.