Lots of cards starting to pop up online second hand!
Still outrageously priced, but i'm sure there will be some bargains soon.
give it a few more weeks, I warned all those fools paying tripple retail price it was a bad idea
few people listened. The longer this blood bath lasts the worse it gets for idiots who paid $900 for a 1070
and $700 for 580s 🤦🏿♂️
Or $1300+ for a GTX 1080 Ti.... I sort of feel bad for them, but mostly for their families in the cases of people maxing out credit cards or taking loans thinking they could get rich quick without taking a peak at how history repeats itself over and over.
I blame all the utubers "How to make $15 a day mining on one gtx 1080 TI!! Print your own monies!"
I am glad I did not buy the expensive GTX 1080Ti. I think I can buy them for below $800 in a few weeks.
Keep dreaming lol... if this last huge drop wasn't enough to kill the GPU gouging market, not sure it will end any time soon... and overall market if already back up about 40% from the bottom a few days ago. Yes, there is more supply hitting the market now but even the ones that are "only" marked up $100-$150 (newegg & amazon) are gone instantly. The only ones i've seen stick available for more than 1-2 minutes are the $730-ish 1070ti's that came in at B&H. Sorry jokers, Im not paying nearly 50% above retail from a MF'ing retailer lol! but clearly a lot of people are. Dare I say those cards will never ROI? Or maybe in 1+ years IF the market really skyrockets again... a lot of ifs.
yeah $550 is my max for a 1070 or 107ti , $350 max for an RX 580 8GB
until prices drop to those levels ill just hold my coins and wait for the next pump
Yeah, my limits are close to your Marvell... in the last 2 weeks I've been lucky to get the following:
- 1 MSI 570 Gaming 8GB ($329 from NewEgg)
- 1 MSI 570 Gaming 4GB ($299 from NewEgg)
- 2 Asus Rog-Strix 1080 A8G Gaming ($540 from my employer's EPP store)
- 4 Asus Rog-Strix 1070ti A8G Gaming ($515 from my employer's EPP store)
Obviously, extremely happy those 6 Asus GTX popped up in my EPP store and at about regular retail to boot! Probably could have got a few more of the 1070ti's but I wasn't sure what the limit was (we have a self-policing limit, not the mandated limit such as newegg) and by the time I read in the fine print that there is apparently no limit on GPUs, they were gone. Oh well, Im happy to get the 4 i did as I was already running 2 of that model and really loved them!
About a week ago, I also sold off my 3 Vega 56's. Ended up getting about $900 each for them as ebay Buy-it-nows. So, came pretty close to doubling my money on them. Probably could have got a bit more if I listed them as auctions but didn't want to take that chance for 2 main reasons. #1 is that I listed 1 as an auction the week before and it ended at like $960 but the winner was an f'ing deadbeat buyer, never paid or communicated. In fact, at least half of the bids on that thing were from people with 1 or 0 feedback, which is not what i wanted to see. The other thing was that this was right in the middle of the big market correction, so I was fearful that demand was going to at least be reduced somewhat for these. Not the case though luckily for me. The first 2 sold within a few hours and the last one took about 12-13. First 2 went to miners and last went to a gamer.
IMO, the miner purchases are downright crazy, but I will take their money lol. Even now, after the market has recovered to about 50% above it's bottom last week, Cryptonite coins are still way down as far as profitability goes with those Vega's. Monero seems to essentially be mined out now... barely above $1 a day per Vega running at 1900. Electronuem and Sumo are better at close to $3/day but those coins are still fringe IMO. So basically, at current rates, it will take about 1 year to ROI a $900 Vega, which is exactly why I sold my 3 lol. Those proceeds almost funded my 6x 1070ti rig lol.