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Yeah. Its pretty meaningless. If you are buying a new sealed video card, never used sold on craigslist/ebay, I'm guessing your not very suspicious and probabl

Yeah. Its pretty meaningless. If you are buying a new sealed video card, never used sold on craigslist/ebay, I'm guessing your not very suspicious and probably not looking for a warranty.

14 5y ago
Now days PS5's and graphics cards are bought up quickly and sold by scalpers. So I am guessing some may not be suspicious at all but assume it is just a scalper and may even expect to pay a mark up on said items.
kadoban 5y ago
In the current market, you have essentially no way to buy from a manufacturer or primary retailer. You have to get _insanely_ lucky to be able to do so. So you're essentially saying nobody is going to be looking for any warranties on any cards, which is quite wrong.
- AnssiH 5y ago
  Around here (Finland) there is a moderate amount of various cards in stock at the biggest computer retailers, the prices are just high: https://www.verkkokauppa.com/fi/catalog/706b/Naytonohjaimet/products?filter=AvailableImmediatelyAllChannels%3Aimmediately_shippable https://www.verkkokauppa.com/fi/catalog/706b/Naytonohjaimet/... (in-stock cards) https://www.jimms.fi/fi/Product/List/000-00P/komponentit--naytonohjaimet?ob=5 https://www.jimms.fi/fi/Product/List/000-00P/komponentit--na... (cards sorted by stock)
  - kadoban 5y ago
    Yeah you're right, it does depend where you are. I can only speak for US market.
- xxs 5y ago
  in EU, you can just buy cards at amazon - the prices are what they are... 2100€ for 3080ti, sold by amazon, themselves. Being amazon you have the easiest returns ever, just send a complaint and send it back, they will return the money and both shipping costs.
- Animats 5y ago
  In the current market, you have essentially no way to buy from a manufacturer or primary retailer. It's not impossible. Central Computer, Silicon Valley's main chain of computer stores, has a buying office in Shenzhen. So a lot of stuff goes directly from factory to them. This avoids the detour through Alibaba to somebody's garage to Amazon.

Yeah. Its pretty meaningless. If you are buying a new sealed video card, never used sold on craigslist/ebay, I'm guessing your not very suspicious and probably not looking for a warranty.

14 5y ago

Now days PS5's and graphics cards are bought up quickly and sold by scalpers. So I am guessing some may not be suspicious at all but assume it is just a scalper and may even expect to pay a mark up on said items.

kadoban 5y ago

In the current market, you have essentially no way to buy from a manufacturer or primary retailer. You have to get _insanely_ lucky to be able to do so. So you're essentially saying nobody is going to be looking for any warranties on any cards, which is quite wrong.

AnssiH 5y ago
Around here (Finland) there is a moderate amount of various cards in stock at the biggest computer retailers, the prices are just high: https://www.verkkokauppa.com/fi/catalog/706b/Naytonohjaimet/products?filter=AvailableImmediatelyAllChannels%3Aimmediately_shippable https://www.verkkokauppa.com/fi/catalog/706b/Naytonohjaimet/... (in-stock cards) https://www.jimms.fi/fi/Product/List/000-00P/komponentit--naytonohjaimet?ob=5 https://www.jimms.fi/fi/Product/List/000-00P/komponentit--na... (cards sorted by stock)
- kadoban 5y ago
  Yeah you're right, it does depend where you are. I can only speak for US market.
xxs 5y ago
in EU, you can just buy cards at amazon - the prices are what they are... 2100€ for 3080ti, sold by amazon, themselves. Being amazon you have the easiest returns ever, just send a complaint and send it back, they will return the money and both shipping costs.
Animats 5y ago
In the current market, you have essentially no way to buy from a manufacturer or primary retailer. It's not impossible. Central Computer, Silicon Valley's main chain of computer stores, has a buying office in Shenzhen. So a lot of stuff goes directly from factory to them. This avoids the detour through Alibaba to somebody's garage to Amazon.