A miraculous abundance of stock is around the corner, don't worry. It will take a month or so (February/March) or at least, we better hope the market restores itself to normalcy, scalper bots are scalping scalpers and reselling to scalpers scalping, and here we are, $10 000 GPUs.
Everyone had the launch dates for the new generation, AIB's etc didn't really give a good discount on their previous gen cards on Black-Friday/Christmas season, so people just waited for the new generation, unfortunately, to find out there wasn't a real generational uplift and now find themselves with a so-called "shortage." Enter the conundrum; most older stock wasn't bought, how could they "fix" this? Create a supply shortage with a healthy dose of FOMO, you can see the results today.
Don't fall for their ploy people, you should be older and wiser by now and recognize their tactics. Yeah, the wait time sucks, but alas, what else can you do if you want to see normalcy restored? This whole thing actually makes me question how addictive gaming is? It's not looking good. Would explain a lot of other metrics in other areas we see today.