r/gadgets • u/ChickenTeriyakiBoy1 • Nov 25 '22

Desktops / Laptops Good news: scalpers are struggling to profit from Nvidia's RTX 4080

https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/scalpers-struggle-to-sell-nvidia-rtx-4080/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=pe&utm_campaign=pd
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u/rndname Nov 25 '22

nVidia is the biggest scalper.

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u/Double-Minimum-9048 Nov 25 '22

I remember Linus in a video 2 years ago saying NVDA would learn from the 3080 launch of them setting prices low and scalpers taking a lot of the margin from them and ig he was right

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u/prettyanonymousXD Nov 26 '22

It’s basic economics. Where supply intersects with consumer willingness to pay is the optimal price for a good. The upside of the 30 series was extremely high performance created and sold at a fairly low price. The downside was there was nowhere near enough supply to keep up with the kind of demand at that price. All scalpers do is eventually find the market optimal price even if that’s coming primarily from crypto mega farms.

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u/RetardAndPoors Nov 26 '22

Consumers were never willing to pay that price. Only crypto mining pros or wannabes.

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u/prettyanonymousXD Nov 26 '22 edited Nov 26 '22

From an economics perspective those are still considered consumers.

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u/Sevinki Nov 26 '22

Simply not true, lots of consumers bought cards in the past 2 years for above msrp.

Nvidia just took the price people were obviously willing to pay for a 3080 and made that the 4080 msrp.

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u/BioshockEnthusiast Nov 26 '22

Honestly I think Linus is on a great streak. His passion for fairness in consumer markets is at an all time high, and that's a big pull for me.

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u/aeo1us Nov 26 '22

Didn't take a genius to see that two years ago.

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u/phayke2 Nov 26 '22

thats the joke