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> It's still not cheap Its funny to me that some people complain about nvidia price gouging etc, but if the sales of 3080 are any indication then based on basi
by zokier 6y ago
> It's still not cheap
Its funny to me that some people complain about nvidia price gouging etc, but if the sales of 3080 are any indication then based on basic supply&demand idea if anything they are massively underpriced. Lowering the prices would seem to just mean that more people would be disappointed from not actually being able to get them because the supply is so limited. The little I know about chip manufacturing also suggests that its likely that fabs have been producing ga102s at full capacity and its not like you can just get another fab to produce more of them in blink of an eye, so availability is probably really just constrained by production.
- antiterra 6y agoI think this is a marketing problem, where selling the 3080 at $1200 would hurt future sales once supply meets demand, even if the price is lowered later. Maybe the optimizing solution would be something (awful) like a car dealership where the price is negotiable based on volatile local factors. As a complete layperson when it comes to economics, I’m curious if someone has extensively analyzed ‘market value’ vs MSRP over the lifecycle of a product rollout and come up with a workable formula for calculating the optimal price.
- zokier 6y agoI actually was thinking about this after failing to acquire 3080. Maybe for limited launches like this it would make sense to auction off the supply? It would be arguably fairer system for consumers than selling out in seconds, and potentially both more profitable and less stressful for nvidia. Of course the auction system needs carefully designed, but maybe something like uniform price sealed auction with last accepted bid pricing (with reserve) would work here? Sealed auctions seem especially well suited because they feel less timing critical.