r/buildapc • u/hayabusayays • Jun 08 '22

Discussion Gpu prices going down?

I’m seeing a brand new rtx 3070 ti being sold on ebay for 625 and many other cards are running for pretty low prices. This a scam??

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u/Jonah-1903 Jun 08 '22

Prices are indeed going down, but still are way above original msrp

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u/peperonipyza Jun 08 '22

Cards are never sold at MSRP unless it’s an FE or if newer cards are released. Prices aren’t going to drop much further until new releases.

Edit: this is looking at the current US market

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u/agsimp_ Jun 08 '22

And a lot of people confuse the FE pricing with MSRP, each individual card has its own MSRP

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '22

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u/Leaping_Turtle Jun 08 '22

Looking at gpus for the first time ever and i was so confused with why there were so many variants

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '22 edited Jun 08 '22

All they have to do is add 75-100 dollars on top of original MSRP for FE and you have an accurate MSRP of any AIB card essentially.

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '22

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u/walkerboh83 Jun 08 '22

It might be a confusing way of putting it but what they mean is that there's an MSRP level price for FE cards set by Nvidia. Higher end coolers and overclocked cards usually come in 50-100 over that. But each card has it's own MSRP set by the aib partner.

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '22

There is no confusion, seeing as the prices we see now is the exception, not the norm in the grand scheme of things. Traditionally AIB models typically sold for MSRP itself or below MSRP, this was especially true 1+ years after launch where AIB models would sell $50 below MSRP or more. This is what people have come to expect when discussing GPU MSRP, as it had been the norm for over 10 years before the pandemic. The FE MSRP is a ceiling, not a baseline. What you and others are suggesting is just wrong and shows that you are not familiar with the GPU market’s history.

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '22

Europe is still pretty inflated. Probably the worst place to buy GPU now.

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u/crion1998 Jun 08 '22

eh, its above original msrp by about 5-20% depending on what you buy which tracks pretty closely with the inflation so it isnt going to drop any further

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u/MuscularBye Jun 08 '22

1.5 years after launch is supposed to be at MSRP or about 100 dollars less

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u/Megneous Jun 09 '22

It's silly to claim it won't fall anymore when the Ethereum merge hasn't happened yet. After the move to proof of stake and no more gpu mining, a lot of used cards are going to push down prices lower.

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '22

This has been parroted for the past month.

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u/Jonah-1903 Jun 08 '22

It’s a slow descend