The scalpers do golden jobs, reselling the new ones Nvidia GPUBy RTX 3080 to be for sale at prices above 2.000 dollars.
ΔUnfortunately, the continuing shortage of new desktop graphics cards is causing their prices to rise to unimaginable new heights in the eBay.
From mid-September, scalpers resell it RTX 3080 on eBay for about 1.300 to 1.500 dollars, which is almost twice the original cost of $ 699 to $ 869, depending on the model. In recent weeks, however, the pricing for newer graphics cards has gone even further.
To understand its full range scalping, a Chicago-based data engineer, o Michael Driscoll, monitors GPU sales on eBay using a computer program. On Tuesday, it reported that the average price for RTX 3080 reaches now 2.069 dollars.
The average price for all cards RTX 3000 on eBay started growing in February. In her case RTX 3080, costing increased to about 2.400$. And the RTX 3070, also climbed over 1.200$.
The numbers only started to fall last week, at the same time that Nvidia released its most affordable entry in the series RTX 3000, the 3060, which starts from 329 dollars.
«Prices stopped rising just when the 3060 was released, so this may not be a coincidenceSaid Drescol. «It's not a huge drop, but it's significant. As for the increases, I have no way of confirming it, but I know that many employers give bonuses at the end of the year, in February, and people start filing and receiving tax returns, which could lead to some price increase.».
This price absurdity has also been transferred to AMD's latest Radeon graphics cards. Now, scalpers on eBay sell them for about twice the normal cost.
Prices on eBay have also risen as GPU vendors themselves - such as Asus, EVGA and MSI - are pushing up prices for new graphics cards thanks to rising component costs and a 25% re-imposition of the Trump era tariff. in force for certain Chinese imports.
Another possible factor is the increase in cryptocurrency mining, which may generate more customers for scalpers on eBay. Even so, owning one is still beyond the reach of the average person.
In summary, it's a bad time to try to build your own PC. To improve your chances of buying a GPU at a regular price, we recommend that you use a free online inventory controller or, in the worst case, check the availability of the components you are interested in on a daily basis at major retailers.
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