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Second hand prices

The 3080 prices on eBay were lower in mid Sep before 4080 prices were announced, when they took a slight jump. They will drop lower again but £500 for a used 3080 right now is possible.
 
Just in the same vein as the topic here, but where is this "GPU flood" on the secondhand market that we kept hearing youtube influencers banging on about? I saw a vid from "classical whatever" and he stated that the reason (one of a few I suspect) that the penny hasn't dropped yet for a lot of people regarding coin mining value dropping like a stone.
So.......where are they then, this avalanche of gpus we were promised then?:p
 
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pieman109 said:
Just in the same vein as the topic here, but where is this "GPU flood" on the secondhand market that we kept hearing youtube influencers banging on about? I saw a vid from "classical whatever" and he stated that the reason (one of a few I suspect) that the penny hasn't dropped yet for a lot of people regarding coin mining value dropping like a stone.
So.......where are they then, this avalanche of gpus we were promised then?:p
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They maybe stayed mining hoping the coins go up in value at some point and then they will be at a profit when they sell them
 
pieman109 said:
Just in the same vein as the topic here, but where is this "GPU flood" on the secondhand market that we kept hearing youtube influencers banging on about? I saw a vid from "classical whatever" and he stated that the reason (one of a few I suspect) that the penny hasn't dropped yet for a lot of people regarding coin mining value dropping like a stone.
So.......where are they then, this avalanche of gpus we were promised then?:p
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Compared to when people where on stock trackers and Discord, this is an actual avalanche. You can get a RTX 30x0 or AMD 6x00 from actual online stores now rather than all the hoops and scalped prices from less than a year ago.
 
Disagree there mate, the impression given out by these youtubers was that we're gonna be inundated under a torrent of £400 rtx3080 (and I actually heard that figure from at least one youtuber), and there'd be absolute shedloads, whole mining rigs being broken down and sold as parts. That hasn't happened has it? least ways not on The Bay in my opinion, we've just had a reasonably slow reduction in prices which might give the impression of a deluge 'cos they're now stock, whereas a few months back, you couldn't get anything at all for anywhere near a decent price.
Its more the fact of influencers giving out misinformation yet again and building people's hopes up (not mine I hasten to add, I don't give a toss about this release, too expensive for Nvidia but I might consider AMD if cheap enough)
 
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Angilion said:
Maybe, if you're good at haggling and willing to haggle and knowledgeable about the current prices of stuff. The prices in the clearance section are very often wrong and it functions primarily as an invitation to haggle. Also, of course, the warranty is extremely short. 30 days IIRC.

Have a look, sure, but not in much expectation. I've bought from the OcUK clearance section half a dozen times and only lost out once (with a case that was battered and bent and broken and had the entire front completely missing). The motherboard I'm using right now was from OcUK clearance. £50 and I couldn't detect any difference from new at all.

I'm not advising against it, just that it's a lot more of a haggling market than it used to be. Personally I have neither the skill nor the desire to haggle.
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Yep, i totally agree, the prices on the clearance page are often daft, but they are open to offers.
The warranty period is 3 months, so not that long sure and there is risk in that, but that's why you can offer a hefty discount to the standard store price. So far I'm happy with the mid-range card I bought from there. And if the card does fail after the short warranty period, i'll be annoyed, but it might be repairable. If i'd bought it new with a full 2 year warranty it could still fail after the warranty period.
 
ICDP said:
If a 4080 12GB is ~£1000 (or less) and is as fast as a 3090 then that invariably means the 3090 will have to come down in price. This will in turn drive prices down on the lower tier 30x0 GPUs.

So RTX 30x0 prices will not drop significantly but they will drop.
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The 4080 12GB is really a 4060ti based on its performance relative to the 'real' 4080 and especially the 4090 based on what we know so far.

It's an Nvidia ruse so they can claim the 4080's 'starts' at a price below 1000 £'s / dollars/ euros to imyry and obscure the full brunt of the generation to generation price leap.


It has fewer cores and a narrower bus than the 3080 and so I expect that, despite it's higher clocks, that there will be some scenarios where it may struggle against a 3080 where DLSS 3 isn't coming to the rescue.

Essentially it's an insult of a card and ironically the top tier 4090 offers a more attractive bang for your buck proposition for your money which is traditionally the opposite or how the bang per £ chart went.

3080 prices are of course weird, a starting at rrp of £650 a and up. Prices which few peope actually paid. I think £500 is fair price for a MM 3080 10GB card with some warranty left.

The next step up is at least £400 more for an insult of a card that I suspect will have some performance 'issues' due to the way Nvidia have constructed and marketeted it
 
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pieman109 said:
Disagree there mate, the impression given out by these youtubers was that we're gonna be inundated under a torrent of £400 rtx3080 (and I actually heard that figure from at least one youtuber), and there'd be absolute shedloads, whole mining rigs being broken down and sold as parts. That hasn't happened has it? least ways not on The Bay in my opinion, we've just had a reasonably slow reduction in prices which might give the impression of a deluge 'cos they're now stock, whereas a few months back, you couldn't get anything at all for anywhere near a decent price.
Its more the fact of influencers giving out misinformation yet again and building people's hopes up (not mine I hasten to add, I don't give a toss about this release, too expensive for Nvidia but I might consider AMD if cheap enough)
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Aplogies, but my post was not arguing the influencers (as you call them) were correct (or you were wrong). I was sarcastically pointing out that compared to this time last year, this is an avalanche. I mean you can actually buy one online at what would class as almost normal prices. At this rate they will hit MSRP before Christmas :)
 
ICDP said:
Aplogies, but my post was not arguing the influencers (as you call them) were correct (or you were wrong). I was sarcastically pointing out that compared to this time last year, this is an avalanche. I mean you can actually buy one online at what would class as almost normal prices. At this rate they will hit MSRP before Christmas :)
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No offence taken at all mate, trouble with reading posts you can't judge the intent, (a little maybe with an emoji) .
 
rangor gubbins said:
Yep, i totally agree, the prices on the clearance page are often daft, but they are open to offers.
The warranty period is 3 months, so not that long sure and there is risk in that, but that's why you can offer a hefty discount to the standard store price. So far I'm happy with the mid-range card I bought from there. And if the card does fail after the short warranty period, i'll be annoyed, but it might be repairable. If i'd bought it new with a full 2 year warranty it could still fail after the warranty period.
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You're fine with haggling. I'm not. Not my cup of tea. As I said before. I know they're open to offers - that's what haggling is.

I'm also not convinced it's a good idea. I think it's far from obvious that the prices in the clearance section are intended to be meaningless and that having them there puts people off. I'd prefer them to be unpriced and the invitation to haggle made clear. But that doesn't matter as I'm not a potential customer for haggling anyway.
 
Been keeping an eye out on 3090 but they have to come a bit down in price as it's a bit of a lottery whether the VRAM was wrecked or not
 
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