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*Patience and luck and a willingness to pay way over MSRP for a display model Yeah there are ways to get cards, and I'm not gonna fault anyone for interacting

*Patience and luck and a willingness to pay way over MSRP for a display model Yeah there are ways to get cards, and I'm not gonna fault anyone for interacting with the laws of supply and demand, but it seems a bit disingenuous to heap praise and declare loyalty to MicroCenter for this. A scalper 5 minutes ahead of you would have been given the same "deal" and that card would have been on ebay within the hour and mining ETH inside of a week, just like the rest of that store's inventory.

egeozcan 6y ago
Linus from Linus Tech Tips said that he has insider information that the problems weren't caused by miners at all, it's just that more people are working from home and need new hardware: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A4yk-P5ukY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A4yk-P5ukY
- jaynetics 6y ago
  Very few people need a GPU for work. There might be a few, and there might be more gaming, but seriously? If I was a miner and could get RTX 3xxx at 100-150% MSRP, I'd be buying them non-stop. A 3070 at MSRP pays for itself via mining in, what, 10 weeks? And the risk of it being worth less than MSRP any time soon seems tiny.
  - egeozcan 6y ago
    TL;DW: GPUs are competing for chip production capacity of 2 producers, who seem to be already in stress because of generally increased demand caused by the current situation, so they can't handle demand even a tick above the previously reserved capacities.
  - raarts 6y ago
    I'm a teacher streaming from home. There's more of us.
- MR4D 6y ago
  Great suggestion! I watched it a few hours ago. Fantastic episode, and I highly recommend anyone interested in GPUs watch it!
MR4D 6y ago
> A scalper 5 minutes ahead of you... I’m not going to argue this point for obvious reasons, but short of the work that say, LLTstore is doing, what should MicroCenter be doing? You’ve got a valid point, which is probably why all of us gamers are so pissed off - we’re all helpless. It’s so insane that I’m actually considering trying to find a 3080, and then selling his Ti. It would take a bit of work, but if I could find one, it would be worth it, and we might have an extra year of life out of a more powerful GPU.
- gorkish 6y ago
  > what should MicroCenter be doing? I'm not suggesting MicroCenter should be doing anything other than moving product. If they can mark it up and still sell it, I can't fault them for it. They don't owe me anything. At the same time I don't think it's right to praise them for it which is what my reply was criticizing; they didn't do anyone any favors here.

egeozcan 6y ago

Linus from Linus Tech Tips said that he has insider information that the problems weren't caused by miners at all, it's just that more people are working from home and need new hardware: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A4yk-P5ukY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A4yk-P5ukY

jaynetics 6y ago
Very few people need a GPU for work. There might be a few, and there might be more gaming, but seriously? If I was a miner and could get RTX 3xxx at 100-150% MSRP, I'd be buying them non-stop. A 3070 at MSRP pays for itself via mining in, what, 10 weeks? And the risk of it being worth less than MSRP any time soon seems tiny.
- egeozcan 6y ago
  TL;DW: GPUs are competing for chip production capacity of 2 producers, who seem to be already in stress because of generally increased demand caused by the current situation, so they can't handle demand even a tick above the previously reserved capacities.
- raarts 6y ago
  I'm a teacher streaming from home. There's more of us.
MR4D 6y ago
Great suggestion! I watched it a few hours ago. Fantastic episode, and I highly recommend anyone interested in GPUs watch it!

MR4D 6y ago

> A scalper 5 minutes ahead of you... I’m not going to argue this point for obvious reasons, but short of the work that say, LLTstore is doing, what should MicroCenter be doing? You’ve got a valid point, which is probably why all of us gamers are so pissed off - we’re all helpless. It’s so insane that I’m actually considering trying to find a 3080, and then selling his Ti. It would take a bit of work, but if I could find one, it would be worth it, and we might have an extra year of life out of a more powerful GPU.

gorkish 6y ago
> what should MicroCenter be doing? I'm not suggesting MicroCenter should be doing anything other than moving product. If they can mark it up and still sell it, I can't fault them for it. They don't owe me anything. At the same time I don't think it's right to praise them for it which is what my reply was criticizing; they didn't do anyone any favors here.