Quote from: Metroid on January 29, 2018, 02:44:27 AM

Quote from: gotminer on January 29, 2018, 02:36:37 AM

Are you in the US or CA?

Neither, my point is, gpus go to whoever is paying more for them. For example, if a retailer in any location in the world is paying $600 to sell at $800, gpus will go to them first until that retailer don't need anymore. Manufactures and resellers are loving this, the idiots end users buying them will not be happy in few weeks or months.

My comments are USA related as far as prices that I'm quoting goes, but when I say reseller, I mean small time reseller ... Not major retailers like B&H, Fry's Electronics, Best Buy, New Egg, ect. Some of those major retailers do allow small time resellers to sell within their platform and those are the people who are price gouging out the ass in the United States. But for the most part in the USA, the major retailers that I speak of are not pumping prices. I've seen increases, but not an astronomical increase. None of them that I have purchased from in the past few months are even 15% higher than MSRP. You just have to be patient if you are buying gpu's at the moment.

I agree with you. People who are paying double or triple or more than MSRP right now are going to be very disappointed in the long run as opposed to just investing in the coin that they wanted to mine to begin with. Maybe those gpu's they paid too much for will eventually pay for themselves, if they make the right market moves and maybe they will not. That's total speculation that I'm not even going to get into right now, but the fact is that the longer it takes for the card to pay for itself, the less time you have for that card to generate a profit before it enters the ending days of it's life.