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Second hand price insanity!

wunkley said:
In my experience most people on the MM are sound though, and I think we could and should be ‘trusted’ to charge what we bloody well like!

I think a bit of ‘modest’ scalping would be fine and expected at the moment. E.g. I’d have happily paid someone charging say £850 for a 3080FE on the MM, that they’d bagged for £650. I would hope the ridiculous scalping you see on eBay wouldn’t happen on the MM. And if it did, people can still simply choose not to pay it.
Freedom of choice ain’t it, you know, that thing we used to have before the world went generally ******* insane on many levels a few years ago.
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I got no offers at all for my 2070 Super up at £500. Eventually sold elsewhere for £450 which I would have been happy to accept here. I even invited offers!
 
wunkley said:
In my experience most people on the MM are sound though, and I think we could and should be ‘trusted’ to charge what we bloody well like!

I think a bit of ‘modest’ scalping would be fine and expected at the moment. E.g. I’d have happily paid someone charging say £850 for a 3080FE on the MM, that they’d bagged for £650. I would hope the ridiculous scalping you see on eBay wouldn’t happen on the MM. And if it did, people can still simply choose not to pay it.
Freedom of choice ain’t it, you know, that thing we used to have before the world went generally ******* insane on many levels a few years ago.
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You do have freedom of choice i.e. the choice to sell on ebay if you want to gain "profit". Clearly if you're wanting to sell on for a profit, then ebay is where you'll want to go as you'll obviously get far more than what you would ever get on here.

If you're happy to pay someone a profit then great but myself and a lot of people aren't willing to get bent over and let sellers take advantage of todays situation especially for a opened/used item....

i.e. take misschief 2070s as above for example, he was asking for £500, which seems high for a used 2070s but he bought it for £550+ so that's fair in todays market, however, had he been asking for more than what he paid, then it's just a **** take.
 
Nexus18 said:
You do have freedom of choice i.e. the choice to sell on ebay if you want to gain "profit". Clearly if you're wanting to sell on for a profit, then ebay is where you'll want to go as you'll obviously get far more than what you would ever get on here.

If you're happy to pay someone a profit then great but myself and a lot of people aren't willing to get bent over and let sellers take advantage of todays situation especially for a opened/used item....

i.e. take misschief 2070s as above for example, he was asking for £500, which seems high for a used 2070s but he bought it for £550+ so that's fair in todays market, however, had he been asking for more than what he paid, then it's just a **** take.
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I get what you’re saying bud. I’ve never used eBay and never would though.
This is why I think a spot of grown up, light profiteering would be ok on the MM at this unprecedented time of shortages.

“Gentlemen’s profiteering” it would be on here. And it would be policed not by the tyrannical despot mods of ocuk, but by the very moral fibre of we the people! ;)
 
wunkley said:
Is that for real?

So let me get this straight, ocuk themselves engage in blatant ‘profiteering’ at the moment whenever any stock arises for GPUs. Yet we can’t charge more for something in the MM than what we paid for it?

Capitalism for me but not for thee eh. Disgraceful. It’s no wonder I never actually buy anything from ocuk shop anymore. Haven’t for years and years now.
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We offer the members market as a service to our community, a safe, moderated, space for our members to buy & sell their second hand hardware. We're not taking a cut, unlike the traditional marketplaces. This service costs us money to operate and it's obvious from the current situation on the bay what unregulated pricing results in.

There's no perfect system but we try. If you have such a major problem with OcUK, you could leave our forum completely.
 
wunkley said:
I get what you’re saying bud. I’ve never used eBay and never would though.
This is why I think a spot of grown up, light profiteering would be ok on the MM at this unprecedented time of shortages.
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Rules are there to keep things in line. It's the only way to stop "gentlemen" turning into what you see elsewhere.
There are plenty of places for people to offer to sell their "spare" 3080 for £3000, our forum isn't one of them. I think, the mods do a good job, considering they are volunteers. They tend to be more calm and level headed that me.
 
ScottiB said:
We offer the members market as a service to our community, a safe, moderated, space for our members to buy & sell their second hand hardware. We're not taking a cut, unlike the traditional marketplaces. This service costs us money to operate and it's obvious from the current situation on the bay what unregulated pricing results in.

There's no perfect system but we try. If you have such a major problem with OcUK, you could leave our forum completely.
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you still sound like a politician Scotti :)

See my answer above. Gentlemen’s profiteering is what we should have. Test it out!....
 
wunkley said:
I get what you’re saying bud. I’ve never used eBay and never would though.
This is why I think a spot of grown up, light profiteering would be ok on the MM at this unprecedented time of shortages.

“Gentlemen’s profiteering” it would be on here. And it would be policed not by the tyrannical despot mods of ocuk, but by the very moral fibre of we the people! ;)
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Except how does one define "gentlemen's profiteering"? i.e. you said you would be happy to pay someone an extra £200 on top of the £650 they paid.... but to me, that is not light profiteering, anything more than £10 over what the owner paid is taking the ****, even more so for a used device and even more so if it is 1/2+ years old......
 
Nexus18 said:
Except how does one define "gentlemen's profiteering"? i.e. you said you would be happy to pay someone an extra £200 on top of the £650 they paid.... but to me, that is not light profiteering, anything more than £10 over what the owner paid is taking the ****, even more so for a used device and even more so if it is a 1/2+ years old......
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I’m not the how guy man. Morality will just take care of things.

lighten up bud, I’m mildly taking the **** for some light relief.

on a semi serious note here’s a question for you - would you buy a 3080 from ocuk for £850, when you know that’s £200 more than it should really be?
 
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Well, sold my Radeon VII yesterdayfor £1650, had already bought a XFX Merc 6800XT a week ago for £1175, hoping I'd get a decent price for radeon VII.

After deductions made a profit of £310.

This shouldn't happen.
 
MANFACE said:
Well, sold my Radeon VII yesterdayfor £1650, had already bought a XFX Merc 6800XT a week ago for £1175, hoping I'd get a decent price for radeon VII.

After deductions made a profit of £310.

This shouldn't happen.
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Wow that's crazy, hope you got cash for it? at that price would be a huge gamble on the auction place?
 
MANFACE said:
Well, sold my Radeon VII yesterdayfor £1650, had already bought a XFX Merc 6800XT a week ago for £1175, hoping I'd get a decent price for radeon VII.

After deductions made a profit of £310.

This shouldn't happen.
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Congrats, welcome to the new market. It only happens once every few years and it lasts a bit longer than the previous one.

Happy for your deal, well done. :D
 
MANFACE said:
Well, sold my Radeon VII yesterdayfor £1650, had already bought a XFX Merc 6800XT a week ago for £1175, hoping I'd get a decent price for radeon VII.

After deductions made a profit of £310.

This shouldn't happen.
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Absurdity but congratulations, those prices are insane.

It's funny though, had many chances of picking that card up for 800 not so long ago frustrating.
 
Tempted to sell my 3070 fe to Cex for £777. Since getting an xbox series x and spending more time gaming in living room I fired up my pc last night. Lasted aboit half an hour on it before wishing I was back on the xbox.

Strange really cos Id have maybe thought the Rtx would make me consider the xbox as the worse option. The opposite is true.
 
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