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Second hand prices

scottomus0

scottomus0

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Can anyone recommend what a good second hand price is for the current gen cards below. Sorry if asking for a lot but keeping an eye out on market place and just have no clue what is a good price to potentially snap up!

3090
3090ti

3080
3080ti

6950xt
6900xt
6800xt


I have seen a 3080ti for £3080 which doesn’t seem legit? But also one for £550, considering they are 800+ is that reasonable?

Or is it too risky to buy second hand and just worth paying more for the warranty?

Thanks in advance
 
scottomus0 said:
Or is it too risky to buy second hand and just worth paying more for the warranty?
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For me personally, I'm not willing to sink £500 into something with no warranty, even if the discount is pretty big, but buying from the 1st owner who will support you if there are any issues is different to buying a card with no history.

A good starting point for the prices of NVIDIA cards would be the FE models. If the card is anywhere near half of an FE, I think we could agree that it's a good deal. They seem to be selling for about 70% right now (or a little bit more) on the MM.

If the Intel cards come in at attractive prices and AMD/NVIDIA start releasing the midrange cards, be aware that prices could drop unexpectedly.
 
The prices are all over the place depending on the price paid new (again, a complete mixture) the brand, cooler, power delivery, warranty if any and condition. Even new, prices make little sense.
 
FE have been in stock this week, prob best to look there first as the prices won’t be too far away from the second hand market anyway
 
scottomus0 said:
Can anyone recommend what a good second hand price is for the current gen cards below. Sorry if asking for a lot but keeping an eye out on market place and just have no clue what is a good price to potentially snap up!

3090
3090ti

3080
3080ti

6950xt
6900xt
6800xt


I have seen a 3080ti for £3080 which doesn’t seem legit? But also one for £550, considering they are 800+ is that reasonable?

Or is it too risky to buy second hand and just worth paying more for the warranty?

Thanks in advance
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if you post about 300 more times you can get access to the second-hand part of the forum on here
 
scottomus0 said:
Can anyone recommend what a good second hand price is for the current gen cards below.
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Rather than gather opinions which will vary, I suggest checking out what prices cards at auction have actually sold for in the past week.

You can do this by checking out the 'completed listings' option on the well known auction site. Then setting further sub options to UK only and auction and looking at the resulting listings with final prices coloured in green rather than black. Which show that the auction resulted in an actual sale. Though I should note that just because an auction finished with a 'sale' doesn't then mean the winner actually coughed up the money within 4 days.

After you get the results you can then start to look at why prices per card type vary wildly.
  • Sellers with past history ratings almost at 100% positive and also over about 100 total ratings get much higher sales prices.
  • The seller will need some history of actual sales (rather than just being a buyer of goods) to get the benefit. It will also need to be over a period of time. More than just 1 year.
  • The time of the auction listing makes a big difference. If it ends Friday night/Saturday and at the end of the month vs start there is a large difference over mid day Monday to Thursday.
  • The quality of the auction itself. No pictures results in a lower final price unless the seller history is spot on. I.e. a clear 'shop' seller with huge past history this will make no difference.
  • The type of card. Blower cards sell for less, though "founders edition" blowers suffer less from this (rightly or wrongly). Water cooled cards sell for massively lower prices - mostly due to the tiny fraction of prospective buyers with the capacity to hook up a water cooled card even more than the expected concerns that it will have been overclocked.
  • The card brand. E.g. Asus cards go for more 2nd hand than Palit. Rightly or wrongly.

I would suggest being (at least as) cautious with Members mart on OCUK. History is harder to check, strangely. The prevalence of no picture sales. No set in stone terms (eg time frames to sell/dispatch) and no intermediary that might give you your money back if things go wrong.

I believe the lower Members Mart final sale prices to be as a result of what I perceive to be lower buyer protection even more than the 12% 'tax' from the auction site. [The 2nd factor is they know they do not have the auction site history built up and don't want to go to the effort of getting that up over a long term]
 
I think given the fact the 30 series cards new with warranty will probably need to
Receive another discount in the next month or so, I’d undervalue currently sold prices.
 
Consider that used GPUs don't have warranty. Then decide the maximum amount of money you would be willing to loose if the GPU died within 6 months. That's what I think about when looking at used GPUs.

My used GPU cost £175 and if it died tomorrow, it wouldn't be so bad.
 
Call me stupid or whatever but I think a 3070 is reasonably worth 350 used.
The problem I see though is that the trickle down don't work as well on the second hand market, for example lets say you can get a RX 580 for 170, the RTX 2070 should be reasonably priced around 200... now the 2070 is massively faster than the 580 for 30 more and the 3070 is massively faster than both for 150 more.

The market is weird used.

So many GPU's holding value for no real reason.

A 7970 should be around 50 quid, the RX 580 / 290/390 80 quid.

Anything less than a 7970 should be priced accordingly.

So a nice old school rig?

Grab that 0.50 pence 9800GT, sadly though due to people valuing things subjectively, this is not how it works.

And in truth it works the way it should.
 
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Tetras said:
For me personally, I'm not willing to sink £500 into something with no warranty, even if the discount is pretty big, but buying from the 1st owner who will support you if there are any issues is different to buying a card with no history.
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I tend to agree with this. Spending £100 on a second hand item is one thing, but £500 is completely different. Some things I have bought off ebay there is a real reason they were sold on ebay! I always say that you should never buy anything on ebay unless you are willing to write the money off and put it down to experience. I don't know about you, but I am certainly not prepared to do that with £500.
 
SpellowHouse said:
I tend to agree with this. Spending £100 on a second hand item is one thing, but £500 is completely different. Some things I have bought off ebay there is a real reason they were sold on ebay! I always say that you should never buy anything on ebay unless you are willing to write the money off and put it down to experience. I don't know about you, but I am certainly not prepared to do that with £500.
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Yeah, don’t really want to be throwing money away!

Some prices seen on FB, just seem to cheap compared to what’s on there. Conversing with them, they seem ok, I guess? But goddam I’m skeptical and don’t think I can bank transfer and wait for a delivery. Nor pick up and have to wait to get home to test…
 
JediFragger said:
**** knows where this guy is livin' but it looks more like a wishlist...
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Yes I was going to send him to the land of make believe but reality will strike him soon enough, as it did to others right after the 4000 series was introduced and the price.

Well at least now people will realise the silly things that happen every time a new gpu or other hardware comes out and the dreamers and scaremongers come out to play and hope you give up your possessions cheap to them. I gave up really trying to explain how daft they are being, I'm starting to think some are kids now or just grown ups that never grew up and never lived in the real world.
 
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funny when you browse the ocuk members market and people turned down offers then weeks/months later are trying to sell their cards for less than the offer they refused, seems to be an ongoing theme in there.
Most recent is a 6700XT
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Purgatory said:
Well at least now people will realise the silly things that happen every time a new gpu or other hardware comes out and the dreamers and scaremongers come out to play and hope you give up your possessions cheap to them.
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indeed, LOL dreaming and wishing they sold their cards to offers they refused :cry:
 
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His prices may be a bit low but not by too much, maybe 15% at best. The fact that mugs paid scalping prices for their last gen GPUs will not change that fact that once 40xx and 79xx are released the last gen will not be that desirable. This scenario was easily predictable when people were paying almost £1k for 3080s there was no way they would hold anywhere near that value.

Just because someone paid well over £1k for a 3080ti does not make it worth anywhere near that used. The fact that used 3080s are already well under £600 means a 3080Ti, or even a 3090 are not going to be worth much more than that. You really think a used 3080Ti is worth hundreds more than a 3080?

The irony is you are doing a lot more wishful thinking than the person you are ridiculing.
 
arknor said:
funny when you browse the ocuk members market and people turned down offers then weeks/months later are trying to sell their cards for less than the offer they refused, seems to be an ongoing theme in there.
Most recent is a 6700XT
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indeed, LOL dreaming and wishing they sold their cards to offers they refused :cry:
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Ha I thought this, also though this user was mad to not accept the latest offer, have they not learnt their lesson, 6800 on there for not much different... Be dropped to £300 soon
 
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JediFragger said:
**** knows where this guy is livin' but it looks more like a wishlist...
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Is it though? Some of those are already achievable..

Looking at a certain second hand high st store where you can buy vouchers at 80% value...

3080 ZOTAC Trinity 10gb - £590 = £472.
3080ti PALIT Gaming Pro - £720 = £576
3090 PALIT Gaming Pro.- £750 = £600

Can't find any 12gb 3080s or 3090tis in stock, though.
 
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arknor said:
funny when you browse the ocuk members market and people turned down offers then weeks/months later are trying to sell their cards for less than the offer they refused, seems to be an ongoing theme in there.
Most recent is a 6700XT
qgmYan7.jpg


indeed, LOL dreaming and wishing they sold their cards to offers they refused :cry:
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Omg I'm here for years and didn't know about marketplace... Thank you.
 
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