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Most graphics cards still sell well above MSRP, led by Nvidia's RTX 5080 and 5090 (www.techspot.com)
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[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 14 points 23 hours ago (5 children)

I'll confess, I'm part of the problem. I bought a 9070XT above MSRP.

[–] GrindingGears@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 hours ago

I'm not a big believer in customer shaming. This shifts the blame from the root cause.

[–] ObtuseDoorFrame@lemmy.zip 10 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Well, what else are we supposed to do? Our hands are tied. I live in the Seattle metro and for some insane reason we don't have a single retail option for graphics cards. I wasn't able to get one off Newegg on launch day before they were all gone to bots, so my only option was eBay.

I hate enabling scalpers but it was either that or risk paying 47's stupid fucking tariffs. I had a narrow window to skip the tariffs upcharge and I took it. I would rather pay the extra $200 to an asshole scalper than to the federal government so they can spend it on their gestapo.

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 6 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Oh I didn't buy from a scalper. Well, not a third party scalper, to preempt the comments saying retail is scalping as well.

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I also got a 9070 XT recently, but at MSRP. I’m done supporting NVidia.

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 5 points 19 hours ago

Yeah that's why I switched too. AMD is not perfect either but, lesser of two evils it felt like.

[–] taaz@biglemmowski.win 5 points 23 hours ago

I just got myself second hand xtx for about 650 euro

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Same. Hoping to not want or need a new gpu for at least 5 years, only reason i bought is because my 2080 TI was starting to go and i was not paying tariffs on top of already inflated GPU prices