Just to clarify, Metaverse is an umbrella term for anything that is related to a simulated "real world" and NFT is just a part of the broad aspect of the Metaverse. If there's anything worth investing or trading in Metaverse, it's the big boys in the market such as Microsoft, Meta, Apple, Google, AMD, Intel and Nvidia that are continuously making these innovation possible and not those ponzi scheme play-to-earn games.

There is also a good read by Matthew Ball^[1] and Jon Radoff^[2] that explains Metaverse in depth and offers a fresh perspective on how these things actually work.

[1] https://www.matthewball.vc/all/themetaverse
[2] https://medium.com/building-the-metaverse/the-metaverse-value-chain-afcf9e09e3a7

There's no free lunch, let alone for a month.
To avoid this kind of dishonesty, then stop being greedy.

But how can you verify the actual condition of the GPU if you are just buying it online since most of the seller on item like this is from different country. Unless you can do meetup then it’s very hard to assure the condition of the mining rig without looking on it in actual performance. Buying this kind of rig even in salvage value is very risky because there’s a lot of scammer online that might sell you rig with hidden defects and just use this Ethereum merger hype as reason to sell his GPU.

Because Ethereum Classic mines a lot of ASICs, and it will take a long time to try to accumulate this coin with such a profit. ASICs are profitable because 1 ASIC mines like 50 1660 super video cards or more. I would probably mine Кaspa.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5414364.msg60979854#msg60979854

For most people it's worth risking everything since at the end of the day of the merge is successful then people can actually use it to gain loads of profits as well thus its equivalent to take that risk and actually try and buy some eth and store it as well, I do think that for most people it would be better to be cautious and that's what most wallets and trading platforms are following but it can also be a missed opportunity as well.

I do think for the eth there is high chances that it would not only be successful but at the same time it would also increase the value overall. Banning the trading of it would also help stabilize the price before it all happens.

Also please remember that the countdown is not written on rock, it can change and it has been changing do we can still expect some delays. Also the expected release date is from 13-15th this month, so hold your horses.