Question This is a joke right?

[aleader]

GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3080 GV-N3080GAMING OC-10GD [Ships Immediately]

Current bid:
US $60,300.00
Approximately C $79,436.17
[ 54 bids ]

https://www.ebay.ca/itm/GIGABYTE-Ge...sh=item1cf34d39a2:g:MpUAAOSwZ9VfYsDL&LH_All=1

 

[thesmokingman]

More money then brains I suppose?

 

[MrTeal]

Guess the likelihood of that guy getting paid...

 

[Hitman928]

I'm sure it's people trolling. It's kind of a way of protesting scalpers. People will create new accounts or use accounts they don't care about to drive up scalper prices to insane numbers and then never pay forcing the scalper to have to wait until the end of the auction, wait 2-3 days (or whatever the window Ebay gives for the buyers to pay), and then have to relist the card. It happens a lot for tech items that people feel scalpers are being ridiculous with their asking prices.

 

[mohit9206]

It must be 600 dollars. There must be a typo.

 

[aleader]

I'm sure it's people trolling. It's kind of a way of protesting scalpers. People will create new accounts or use accounts they don't care about to drive up scalper prices to insane numbers and then never pay forcing the scalper to have to wait until the end of the auction, wait 2-3 days (or whatever the window Ebay gives for the buyers to pay), and then have to relist the card. It happens a lot for tech items that people feel scalpers are being ridiculous with their asking prices.

That's what I figured, but 54 bids? That many people are 'in on it'?

 

[Kenmitch]

Read the description it includes one of JHH's autographed sweaty leather jackets! /s

 

[Hitman928]

That's what I figured, but 54 bids? That many people are 'in on it'?

It wouldn't surprise me but it could just be a handful of people going back and forth, the number of bids doesn't tell you the number of bidders and it's a private sale so you can't see who is doing the bidding.

Edit: Clicking on the bids it shows 23 bidders now. That doesn't seem unlikely to me and again, most of those could have been in it at the beginning with only a few driving up the price now.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Reminds me when apple releases a new phone. Same thing. People are retarded sometimes when it comes to making financial decisions just because they want something NOW and the official sources are out of stock. Wait a month or so and more will be available for purchase I'm sure. Basically the time it will take to pay off that credit will be longer than the time it would take if they had just waited to buy at retail.

Meanwhile I'm been looking at land in that price range and to me it feels like such a huge financial decision, I don't understand people who can spend that kind of money on something that will not last that long. In 5 years from now, will that card be relevant?

 

[Artorias]

Reminds me when apple releases a new phone. Same thing. People are retarded sometimes when it comes to making financial decisions just because they want something NOW and the official sources are out of stock. Wait a month or so and more will be available for purchase I'm sure. Basically the time it will take to pay off that credit will be longer than the time it would take if they had just waited to buy at retail.

Meanwhile I'm been looking at land in that price range and to me it feels like such a huge financial decision, I don't understand people who can spend that kind of money on something that will not last that long. In 5 years from now, will that card be relevant?

GPU's last a lot longer than ever before, and their life span can really be extended if you play anywhere between 1080 -1440. At 4K you may get 3 years top of the line performance, but even after that its not going to be lag behind if your standard is 60FPS. $1000CAD for 5-7 years isn't too bad for a top of the line card when all things considered.

 

[Red Squirrel]

GPU's last a lot longer than ever before, and their life span can really be extended if you play anywhere between 1080 -1440. At 4K you may get 3 years top of the line performance, but even after that its not going to be lag behind if your standard is 60FPS. $1000CAD for 5-7 years isn't too bad for a top of the line card when all things considered.

I'm thinking more about relevance. Will this GPU be relevant in 5 years from now or will there be something even better? Card ended up selling for $117,639.31. You can literally buy a house for that much. New auction now at 32k. That's a small car.

The actual retail price is decent for the card, what's insane is the people willing to pay that premium on ebay just to get it NOW. I'm assuming they all went out of stock?

 

[Heartbreaker]

That's what I figured, but 54 bids? That many people are 'in on it'?

54 bids doesn't mean 54 people or even 54 accounts:
During this video, you could see the bid page and it's pretty clear it's just a handful of bidders. They may even be using bots to troll them which seems like poetic justice, since apparently bots figure heavily in stock grabbing.

 

[A///]

GPU's last a lot longer than ever before, and their life span can really be extended if you play anywhere between 1080 -1440. At 4K you may get 3 years top of the line performance, but even after that its not going to be lag behind if your standard is 60FPS. $1000CAD for 5-7 years isn't too bad for a top of the line card when all things considered.

My GPUs last almost a decade. Any I've kept still work. I don't game much to go through enough hot cold to tax them, though.

 

[PlanetJosh]

And I thought I was hot stuff for contemplating getting the $20K+ Sony 55" Oled 4k monitor (not a tv.)

 

[PlanetJosh]

My GPUs last almost a decade. Any I've kept still work. I don't game much to go through enough hot cold to tax them, though.

And you probably have more to show for it financially than those of us who gamed a lot the whole time.

 

[A///]

And you probably have more to show for it financially than those of us who gamed a lot the whole time.

I wish! I waste my money on other stuff. My GPU purchases have always revolved around a new game I truly wanted to get sucked into. There's some cool games coming out in 2021 I want to get into, and I'm likely going to buy a PS5, too.

 

[PlanetJosh]

^ I'm ready and waiting for ones like Cyberpunk 2077, AC Valhalla, and Watch Dogs Legion. Although they are not quite 2021 games. Maybe all 3 get pushed back to next year.

 

[MrAceXPS]

It seems to be revenge on the scalpers...

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/iuy2oh

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/iuy2oh

 

[Red Squirrel]

Why can't online stores just set customer limits, and add a captcha? This is a problem that happens every time there is a major release of pretty much any product, can't be that hard to code a solution to stop it.

 

[Heartbreaker]

Why can't online stores just set customer limits, and add a captcha? This is a problem that happens every time there is a major release of pretty much any product, can't be that hard to code a solution to stop it.

If you have a decent local computer shop go there. Many are only doing in person back orders, so that will kill all the robots right there. Just go in, do a back order and wait. I never had any issues getting any parts this way.

Racing others online, just seems like a silly game to me, if you have a local alternative.

My problem now, is I moved to the wilderness, and there are no computer shops at all, anywhere near me.

 

[eek2121]

Why can't online stores just set customer limits, and add a captcha? This is a problem that happens every time there is a major release of pretty much any product, can't be that hard to code a solution to stop it.

Many stores do have order limits, however, that can be worked around. So can captchas.

 

[Fallen Kell]

True, but it also takes more time for the bot programmers to modify their bot in order to get it to work for the custom layout of the page with captchas and limits, giving actual people at least 5-10 minutes from when the sale goes live before the bot is working correctly to purchase everything. Unlike what happened here where people were sitting there refreshing the page and between when they could click on the purchase and actually fill in credit/shipping info all cards were sold out.

There are also other alternatives instead of captchas that can be implemented on a page, such as tracking the time it takes to put in the information for the sale. It is pretty easy to run some time tracking for test selling internally before you make the page go live to figure out how long it takes on average to type in all the information by hand as a person would do and the check to see if that informationwas input faster than a human could do so and block the sale... That at least would force the bots to operate on a similar playing field as the regular people who were there waiting for the sale to go live.