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Quote from: philipma1957 on October 26, 2020, 11:07:27 PM

Quote from: DrG on October 26, 2020, 10:25:56 PM

Quote from: btcgolong on October 26, 2020, 03:41:04 PM

Did anyone pick one up ?

I think it's become quite apparent that there is a significant reselling opportunity for the 3070. Anybody who gets their hands on one won't even bother breaking the outer seals and will instead flip the card for $200 profit - that's 0.5 ETH in just 1day of work. Are you looking for benchmarks or just curious if any of the retail channels have put any cards out yet? I expect 6800xt to be out before the 3070.

if you can turn 2 over with a 400 profit.

you can buy this for pretty much free

https://www.amazon.com/MSI-Gaming-Radeon-Boost-Clock/dp/B07WNSP41M/ref=sr_1_3?

Just think how tempting it is for a newegg employee to do that.

Or for a best buy employee.

or for an EVGA employee.

or amazon employee.

Frys did this to me summer of 2019 with amd ryzen 9 3900x cpu.

My credit rating is literally perfect 850 of 850 most months.
I got an order in and they said my cc was rejected due to my credit rating.

I figured it out about 30 minutes after the cancelled order.

I scream yelled shouted and told fry's I would never place an order from them again.

I then called my cc screamed yelled and shouted. Impressively they offered me 53.49 credit on my next purchase.
To make up for their error.

I was able to get the cpu 3 weeks later on a sale and get the 53.49 credit. So all in all the 3 week delay saved me about 100 dollars. And I have still not purchased from fry's since august or july of 2019.

That's so evil. I grew up buying electronics and motherboard combos at Frys back when they had those ECS combos - back again when AMD was tied with Intel haha. Credit rating my butt, as if the credit card terminal is checking your FICO at every transaction.

I stopped shopping at Frys after they retroactively changed their return policy on video cards after a sale was made back in 2017 (before ETH blew up so tons of cards sitting on shelves0. I bought 3 ASUS 1080s but only opened one and it ran so damn hot that it wasn't even suitable for gaming. Went back to Frys after 3 days and they refused to take the cards back after 1 hour fight with store manager. They said the policy on the receipt was outdated. I even asked a sales person about the return policy before buying which I do for any $100+ item. Manager said the sales person I spoke to was wrong and refused to budge, so I left on amicable terms leaving the items at the store, and called AmEx and told them about the issue. Got a chargeback (AmEx really punishes merchants) and I filed a complaint with the State department of consumer affairs. Changing terms after the fact is fraud.

It's only a matter of time before Fry's closes down. I haven't stepped foot in a Frys since that incident in 2017. I'm surprised they didn't die this year. I buy everything at Microcenter for the most part.

I sometime use microcenter as the one in Patterson NJ has a 3.5% tax rate vs rest of NJ at 7%