R9 290 Price Rant

[Slomo4shO]

8 Asus 290's for $499.
http://www.amazon.com/Asus-R9290-DC2...9E4T9G05Z0EMJC

Newegg has the MSI R9 290 GAMING at the MSRP price of $469.99 currently in stock.

 

[Kenmitch]

6 more as of right now. Wish it would drop back to $400.

4 left when I just posted this. Either nobody wants them or they are adding more stock....Simulated panic buy?

Don't think that card was ever $400

 

[Hauk]

4 left when I just posted this. Either nobody wants them or they are adding more stock....Simulated panic buy?

Don't think that card was ever $400

At launch I planned to wait on non-ref design for CF, was planning to pay ~$30 more per card. Never happened due to supply/demand (craze). Hundreds of dollars over that plan, I sit on 780Ti SLI. Oh well..

 

[Kenmitch]

Newegg has the Gigabyte for a decent price currently.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814125500

 

[Kenmitch]

At launch I planned to wait on non-ref design for CF, was planning to pay ~$30 more per card. Never happened due to supply/demand (craze). Hundreds of dollars over that plan, I sit on 780Ti SLI. Oh well..

That sucks! Being forced to buy a NVidia product to me is like buying a Apple offering....Not going to happen.

 

[mar4356]

I have noticed amazon has had more 290's in stock as of late...still at crazy prices of course. I nabbed an asus r9 290 for 463 through some luck. Just happened to visit the site late at night and snatched it up. I bought it for gaming

 

[AznAnarchy99]

That sucks! Being forced to buy a NVidia product to me is like buying a Apple offering....Not going to happen.

I've had both over the years buying whichever gives me the best price/performance. Honestly the only noticeable difference is where you download your drivers from.

Edit. 1 Left.

 

[Randum]

I pre-ordered when they first game out for 399 and I was recommending the card to a friend and he brought to my attention $600!?!? Are you crazy!?

 

[Atreidin]

Exactly, I don't see Amazon and Best Buy raising prices over MSRP on PS4s because those consoles were selling out as fast as they could get them. This was Newegg setting a precedent that other etailers followed.

Yep. Sometimes I use their site for their search feature but now I try to buy from anywhere else. This issue in addition to others convinced me that I don't like the way they do business so I don't patronize them anymore, simple as that.

Can you imagine how pissed off customers would be if stores decided to mark up the price of the latest Playstation 50% or more the day after release because they were selling out?

 

[VulgarDisplay]

Newegg has the MSI R9 290 GAMING at the MSRP price of $469.99 currently in stock.

See this right after buying a gtx780 for 510. Oh well I think I'll play the overclocking lottery with this 780.

 

[Puffnstuff]

Yeah I was going to go the 290/x route but I've got a 780 ti instead.

 

[bigi]

This bitching is just meh...

I dropped $600 for Sapphire tri-x. Card works. Will it drop in price? Probably.

Even if it is $450 soon, I don't care as $150 isn't that much to lose my sleep.

It is just a GPU people, either you need it or you don't. Get a life and stop crying over few bucks.

 

[B-Riz]

This bitching is just meh...

I dropped $600 for Sapphire tri-x. Card works. Will it drop in price? Probably.

Even if it is $450 soon, I don't care as $150 isn't that much to lose my sleep.

It is just a GPU people, either you need it or you don't. Get a life and stop crying over few bucks.

290 or 290x?

My thought was, why pay more for a card when the price increase does not carry extra performance versus its release price.

Picked up a 780 ACX for $430.

Might look at R9 290 in a few more months.

 

[greenhawk]

Can you imagine how pissed off customers would be if stores decided to mark up the price of the latest Playstation 50% or more the day after release because they were selling out?

not sure if that would be better than the people who walk into a store, buy up all the stock, then go out the front and hawk the recently bought items for a 50% mark up (on second hand goods).

(or ebay it for a marked up price).

 

[greenhawk]

My thought was, why pay more for a card when the price increase does not carry extra performance versus its release price.

I use to think that, but then when a card I wanted came out, it went to 50% more than rrp in a week. I had placed a order at the lower price, but when the store got more in at a higher price, the card was sold at the higher price and I was left waiting. I gave up after two weeks of waiting. If I had just gone looking around I might have gotten the card for a 10% increase on the day instead of waiting.

Though in this case, for this card, the price did not get to the initial rrp for 6 months.

It sucked paying more, but not having a working computer was far worse.

 

[Atreidin]

not sure if that would be better than the people who walk into a store, buy up all the stock, then go out the front and hawk the recently bought items for a 50% mark up (on second hand goods).

(or ebay it for a marked up price).

The store could always make a policy of "one per customer" to at least make it more difficult to do that.

 

[3DVagabond]

What you are asking for is the marketplace to artificially keep prices down through rationing. Not going to happen.

 

[Will Robinson]

The store could always make a policy of "one per customer" to at least make it more difficult to do that.

Try saying that to Lava or Karlitos
Hey wait...I bought 4x R 290s :wub:
So that would suck for me too ^_^