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Scalpers Already Prepare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Listings, up to $7000 for "Guaranteed Slots"

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we should have a book to see who the first to post their 5090 is on TPU. But anyway, i'm sure there are enough rich gimbos who don't care about the cost who will buy these cards at the idiotic prices
 
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$7,000 lol I wouldn't even pay retail price for one of those Here those cards here retail for over 3 grand with taxes and that's the FE editions..
 
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All because they can't wait a couple of months - a fool and their money are soon parted.
 
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we should have a book to see who the first to post their 5090 is on TPU. But anyway, i'm sure there are enough rich gimbos who don't care about the cost who will buy these cards at the idiotic prices
Won't be me, I checked and pricing here in Australia is going to be just over $4,000 AU.
 
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All because they can't wait a couple of months - a fool and their money are soon parted.
A couple of months? for what?
4090s could hardly be found BEFORE they cut production.
I don't think 5090s will be a regularly available thing at anytime. You'll either have to get lucky online in a queue, get lucky at a physical store or pay a scalper. At retail price, I don't think most people will get more than 5 minutes to decide before it gets sold to someone with their mind made up.
 
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€7k? what about €10k?! the world is going crazy... :(

 

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Separating fools from their money is the cornerstone of consumerism.

While scalping food and water during disasters is rightfully frowned upon and outright illegal in most countries, graphics cards are just toys. Can be useful for other things, but still toys far from being essential for survival. If someone is willing to pay many thousands for a toy, I say give him the opportunity.
 
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Since we are talking about mass market non-essential toys, I argue that this is as pure as capitalist consumerism gets. There is no predatory action here, just supply and demand of scarce goods. Volenti non fit injuria.
 
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Since we are talking about mass market non-essential toys, I argue that this is as pure as capitalist consumerism gets. There is no predatory action here, just supply and demand of scarce goods. Volenti non fit injuria.
Yeah nothing to see here. People with too much money buy from scalpers. If the scalpers didn't exist there would be zero stock anyways..
Since I'm not that rich my only option is to wait for prices to go down, I will go elsewhere meanwhile
 

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Yeah its deffently a good card and less power hungry than 5090.

Further more upgrade to 5090 would also need a new platform. New cpu, motherboard and memory as my current 5950X would be a cpu bottleneck for a 5090.
You will need at least 9800X3D for that
 
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I remember a few guys who were paying massive bucks for hard to come by GPU's during the pandemic and then posting here.
Yep that was me with my 3090ti at launch.

I regret nothing, I work hard so I play hard, and compared to some hobbies this isn't even that pricey.

That said, I'd probably not spend on a pricey gpu this cycle. Am content.
 

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Yep that was me with my 3090ti at launch.

I regret nothing, I work hard so I play hard, and compared to some hobbies this isn't even that pricey.

That said, I'd probably not spend on a pricey gpu this cycle. Am content.
No not you, there was another guy posting one every other day I think, said it was for "customers"

Maybe..
 
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They can charge as much they want. If nobody's buying they reduce their prices. Buying something is always a two side story. ;)
 
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They can charge as much they want. If nobody's buying they reduce their prices. Buying something is always a two side story. ;)

Not necessarily. Since they don't care at all, they will simply stop producing the cards. The thing is stop buying anything from them
 

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Some people wont buy, but a lot will. Machines live and die, replacement parts will be needed.. Sure you can use old parts, but those will die too, if you can even use them.
 
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Not necessarily. Since they don't care at all, they will simply stop producing the cards. The thing is stop buying anything from them
I'm in need to buy a new graphics card this year. The GPU has to serve 2 monitors with a signal fine for UWQHD in 165hz. I don't think that i' willing to pay the price for a NVidia 5080. The brand is it not worth for. But i'm not in gaming. I only referenced to the rules of the market.
 
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€7k? what about €10k?! the world is going crazy... :(


Those are probably placeholder prices

 
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$7,000 lol I wouldn't even pay retail price for one of those Here those cards here retail for over 3 grand with taxes and that's the FE editions..
7000? The scalper is buying three, giving a 1000 to the “backdoor” distribution, selling one, and keeping the two leftover for free!
 
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