Gamers Nexus carried out its usual in-depth research into the current state of the graphics card market, looking at 420 listings across Amazon, Newegg, and Best Buy.
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.
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’ll confess, I’m part of the problem. I bought a 9070XT above MSRP.
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.
Oh I didn’t buy from a scalper. Well, not a third party scalper, to preempt the comments saying retail is scalping as well.
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.
I’m not a big believer in customer shaming. This shifts the blame from the root cause.
I just got myself second hand xtx for about 650 euro
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