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Date:
1/5/2021 7:46:45 AM
Subject:
State of graphics cards indefinitely
I have questions for you.
Considering the scarcity of new graphics cards, as well as the stupid gouging going on with last-gen ones, do you think
1. that the gouging and scalping will stop? (I don't. The only way this would happen is for Nvidia, AMD, and their partners to flood the market with magically available stock. I think this is the new norm for buying scarce tech, and I fear that scalping will become more organized and aggressive. It will also occur in other markets and with other products. If something is not scarce, organized individuals and companies will buy it up and make it scarce.)
2. that Nvidia and AMD intentionally put a completely unrealistic MSRP on products they knew they couldn't supply in any useful quantity? (I don't know about intentionally. I can't think of a reason for this, unless they wanted to make people foam at the mouth about value + power and thus go crazy trying to buy the things.)
Here is my assessment of where this is going:
Expect to buy these cards only from gougy scalpy resellers from now on. The only people who are buying them at or below MSRP are lucky resellers and cryptominers. The latter are buying them by the pallet-load directly from the manufacturers, thus maintaining the scarcity.
So the MSRP means nothing, as everyone should have expected. Why would you be able to buy a more powerful card than the 2080Ti for a fraction of its price? Getting something like this at its ridiculous MSRP is pretty much impossible, and it will remain so for the foreseeable future. Just hope these "resellers" don't start buying up warehouses full of food and bottled water.
