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Have you been to a lot of auctions with a return policy?
Lol so you want regular consumers to buy a product they can't return? Next level bud.
Have you been to a lot of auctions with a return policy?
Have you been to a lot of auctions with a return policy?
Have you always had a GPU work for you out of the box?
Seems to be happening a bit:
I would just make bots that outbid everyone and then resell them. That's next level scalpchad.Wouldn't gamers also be bidding against the scalpers, as well?
If they're competitively bidding, and gamers bid up to the limit they're willing to spend, I'd think either the scalpers go higher and are then stuck with product they can't resell because they bid too high, or gamers bid higher than the scalpers and the scalpers just lose.
You know how many mexicans are down the street outside the home depot right this second?All sales final, must auction in person, limit one per customer. Checkmate scalpers.
I guess I don't get why that's an issue. Do it as "All sales final, except for manufacturing/design defect". Someone wanting to return product "because silly reasons" is their own issue, not the vendors. Then charge a restock fee if you're so inclined. So if you try to pull some buying/returning asshattery, that's on you. But return a card because it doesn't work...manufacturer verifies it's FUBAR...give customer a full refund.Lol so you want regular consumers to buy a product they can't return? Next level bud.
Until stock is gone and people are waiting for more "official auctions" at which point supply is 0 and demand is still there. Creating a market for the scalpers to capitalize on with what they bought at official auction. And as Kriptini said, they could just return it if they were wrong about what people were willing to spend.
Have you always had a GPU work for you out of the box?
If it doesn't work that's what warranties are for. That's not a return.
Sure, but instead of scalpers using bots to outwork consumers to pay NVIDIA/BestBuy/Newegg/Whomever $700 for an RTX3080 to resell it for $1300, they'll use bots (???) to pay NVIDIA et all $1300 and resale it for hopefully somewhere north of that.Humans are impatient Tuco, if someone wants the item and its available on eBay but no "official" auctions are happening (and the auctions are swarmed by bots) there will always be people willing to pay higher prices for immediate gratification. Your auction idea does not solve this. You're missing the point of the problem. Not enough supply. Auctions would have the same issues as the current online marketplaces do. It also doesn't solve the price gouging problem. In fact it would make it worse.
3080 and cash imoSo I have a Zotac 3090 coming to me on Monday, but I bought it before realizing that I don't really want it. As good ol' Mr. Goldbum said, I was so wrapped up in whether I could, I never stopped to think about whether I should!
So now I'm conflicted at selling it for what I paid, like on Hardware swap or something, or trying to trade it for a 3080 + cash? Not sure what to do with it.
Hardware Unboxed is pretty retarded. They hand-waved away benchmarking ray-tracing on a whim. They claim that not enough games include ray-tracing graphics despite the fact that Control, Deliver Us The Moon, COD Modern Warfare, COD Cold War, Fortnite, Metro Exodus, Minecraft, Quake II, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Watch Dogs Legion, WoW Shadowlands, and now Cyberpunk 2077 support ray-tracing graphics.
Hardware Unboxed is pretty retarded. They hand-waved away benchmarking ray-tracing on a whim. They claim that not enough games include ray-tracing graphics despite the fact that Control, Deliver Us The Moon, COD Modern Warfare, COD Cold War, Fortnite, Metro Exodus, Minecraft, Quake II, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Watch Dogs Legion, WoW Shadowlands, and now Cyberpunk 2077 support ray-tracing graphics.
They prioritized their own arbitrary preferences instead of providing all results to their audience so that their audience can decide for themselves. It's the same bullshit, lying by omission, fake new that permeates mainstream political news. Just give me all the information and let me make the decision. Stop gate keeping.
I'll still watch Hardware Unboxed for their monitor reviews but I won't watch them for the GPU reviews anymore. I used to think they were respectable but they're suspect now.
Hardware Unboxed is pretty retarded. They hand-waved away benchmarking ray-tracing on a whim. They claim that not enough games include ray-tracing graphics despite the fact that Control, Deliver Us The Moon, COD Modern Warfare, COD Cold War, Fortnite, Metro Exodus, Minecraft, Quake II, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Watch Dogs Legion, WoW Shadowlands, and now Cyberpunk 2077 support ray-tracing graphics.
They prioritized their own arbitrary preferences instead of providing all results to their audience so that their audience can decide for themselves. It's the same bullshit, lying by omission, fake new that permeates mainstream political news. Just give me all the information and let me make the decision. Stop gate keeping.
I'll still watch Hardware Unboxed for their monitor reviews but I won't watch them for the GPU reviews anymore. I used to think they were respectable but they're suspect now.
I didn't buy Cyberpunk yesterday because of that.Demand for GPU's probably jumped even more with Cyberpunk's release and people realize just how demanding it is.
Same here, my 970 won’t run it so no reason to buy yet.I didn't buy Cyberpunk yesterday because of that.