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.

You can pry my 1080 from my cold dead hands.

This is key, I think, to Microsoft’s plan with the next gen Xbox. A consolized prebuilt pc with solid specs, no need to fuck with GPU shenanigans.

Makes sense. Been impossible to get an Arc B580 at MSRP.

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

Same here, and I don’t see myself buying a new card anytime soon now that we have frame generation for games, not just vids and TV

Well, raytracing. I fucking love raytracing, but yeah. I’m still using a GTX 960 on one machine.

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

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

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

It won’t go down by much either and then will magically disappear right before the next gen comes out making sure nobody gets a discount.

Let’s also remember that average GPU price tripled from 2019 to 2021, and still hasn’t returned, even adjusting for inflation.

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

Sure as shit would flip the PC market on its head. That’s needed.