Crone
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NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
Hateyou
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He posts drops in this thread before they happen. I happened to click the thread right before a drop and got one.
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So a random thought for people scalping cards. It's been a long time since I've had to worry about it, but consider that Paypal will 1099 your ass so I would keep good records for tax purposes and think about how you might want to deal with that. I forget the amount you have to show incoming before they actually hit you with it. Memory says $20k or 200 incoming transactions. If you've done really well scalping it might be a thing
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spronk
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if anyone is desperate for a new PC HP is selling prebuilds that ship 2/12/21 with an intel CPU and a 3080 FE
Avatar of Nyx
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The way some of these retailers handle things you'd think that it's their first time selling stuff before. Asus decided to drop 3080s and 3090s at the same time on their storefront and it just completely imploded. Page wouldnt load, couldnt add to cart, when you could add to cart, checkout wouldnt load, when checkout would load, it would empty your cart. Now the site is just giving 503 errors. These morons just need to ship inventory to newegg or somewhere that can handle some traffic.
Barellron
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I'd be surprised if anyone has successfully purchased from ASUS in the last 4 months without a bot; their site is Geocities-tier shit. Really, EVGA is the only company that has made any effort to sell direct. And the big retailers aren't doing much better. Newegg still crashes regularly and Amazon has largely been a non-factor. I wouldn't have a card if it wasn't for signing up for notifications at EVGA on 9/16, completely by chance.
Big Phoenix
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Its everywhere man. Got the exact samething when trying to buy 9mm ammo today because theres a million tards all with their discords and reddit subs camping websites just salivating over their F5 key.
Avatar of Nyx
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That's pretty much what Ive been doing on a few sites. Just refreshing every so often, hoping I hit the button at the right time and get a few seconds jump before the notifications go out and the bot-tsunami arrives. Not too much seems to happen over the weekend, so I think Im just gonna be waiting hopefully for a Best Buy drop on Tuesday.
Xexx
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Soo i dont see myself as a scalper! I literally just do it because the cards are available lol - Most of those who complain at times arent even there for the drops - Half the time a drop happens from BB im at work and since i have 3 monitors open i have one with BB on it with a few GPU tabs.
Also i dont use paypal because i only do local deals. I assure you the locals do nothing but get pissy so i jut laugh and block them - I may sell 6-7 cards a month? I dont think this could be anything but side cash.
That aside this monday/tuesday (90% sure tuesday) watch BB from 9am-12pm like a hawk and you can "easily" get 2-8 cards if youre there at the start and queue up many cards
I could do finder fees of $100 without people being picky on cards - still a hassle and never a guarantee
Also i dont use paypal because i only do local deals. I assure you the locals do nothing but get pissy so i jut laugh and block them - I may sell 6-7 cards a month? I dont think this could be anything but side cash.
That aside this monday/tuesday (90% sure tuesday) watch BB from 9am-12pm like a hawk and you can "easily" get 2-8 cards if youre there at the start and queue up many cards
I could do finder fees of $100 without people being picky on cards - still a hassle and never a guarantee
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Xexx
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Thats where our thoughts differ - I do it because its easy and im sitting around with 3 monitors open anyways - when im not at work im reading or....well yeah reading
I dont go out of my way unless im doing it for a friend or coworker. I still need a PS5 and 3080 FE and its been like that for about a month
Ill see about a 5900x @ BB - i never look for CPUs but ive seen them drop on BB and newegg
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You're splitting hairs. The definition of a scalper is someone who buys something that is in high demand and resells it for a profit, which is exactly what you're doing. How difficult or easy it is for you to acquire the items you're selling is irrelevant.
I'm not throwing stones, there will always be people who are able to capitalize on a market for a profit where others can't but don't delude yourself, if you're selling what you buy at a mark up, what you're doing is scalping.
On another note, BB does do cpu's and they're worlds easier to get than video cards. I got my 5800x from Best Buy a few weeks back.
I'm not throwing stones, there will always be people who are able to capitalize on a market for a profit where others can't but don't delude yourself, if you're selling what you buy at a mark up, what you're doing is scalping.
On another note, BB does do cpu's and they're worlds easier to get than video cards. I got my 5800x from Best Buy a few weeks back.
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Hateyou
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Dude you are 100% a scalper. You’re more fair about it by doing it for friends and letting other people know about drops which causes you competition. Buying and reselling items for a profit (even if your reasoning is because it’s easy) makes you a scalper. You don’t suddenly switch from not scalper to scalper based on difficulty lolThats where our thoughts differ - I do it because its easy and im sitting around with 3 monitors open anyways - when im not at work im reading or....well yeah reading
I still need a PS5 and 3080 FE and its been like that for about a month
Ill see about a 5900x @ BB - i never look for CPUs but ive seen them drop on BB and newegg
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