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Nvidia RTX 3080 cards are selling for thousands on eBay, and people are pissed

The RTX 3080 has been a disaster, and eBay scalpers are now trying to cash in. Will be a long time until prices stabilise

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RazzerRedux1352d ago

I was ready to buy one this morning, but everything sold out in literally seconds. Between failing to purchase the 3080 and failing to preorder PS5, my bank account suddenly has more cash there than expected. Somehow....that makes me sad.

lonewolf101352d ago (Edited 1352d ago )

I went for a pre-order for October (fingers crossed) on the 3080 , hopefully either no-one buys these from Ebay and just waits, or Ebay do the decent thing and remove them, hopefully the bas****s get stuck with them. Bot sites gloating they got their users loads of them :(

https://uk.pcmag.com/graphi...

GottaBjimmyb1352d ago (Edited 1352d ago )

the pricing on these being so low per power compared to what is currently on market made this an inevitability. The only fix is for people to wait for stock resupply. Helps the userbase and helps Nvidia, double win. Nvidia gets extra sales from morons who bought hundreds, and users get the price that is attributed to them by Nvidia. If everyone still buys them on Ebay, we are screwed.

Sarcasm1351d ago

@GottaBjimmyb Agreed. The entire market has to collectively start ignoring the scalpers. People who cave in (idiotically) to buy from them is what keeps the scalpers alive and do what they do.

Also if any moron is willing to pay $1500-$2000 for a 3080, they should just wait for a damn 3090. Come on people.

Father__Merrin1351d ago

It's bot purchases. Curry's stock was In at 1pm and literally all allowance

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/...

3080 at £9000 bid

Thunder_G0d_Bane1351d ago

Hahahahahaha that actually made me laugh hard.

I ain’t buying either as it stands not at launch but will get both further down the line when there’s more titles to take advantage of both.

Toiletsteak1352d ago

It seems some consumers have had enough with scalpers on eBay lately, with reports of people heavily overbidding on 3080 listings and not paying to cost scalpers eBay fees and other inconveniences.

Look it up. It's hilarious and they deserve it!

OCEANGROWNKUSH1351d ago (Edited 1351d ago )

Hilarious? More like Sad and pathetic. Just sounds to me like people need a better use of their time... Be an adult, if you dont get one simply get it later. If you spend any amount of time sitting on ebay shill bidding on graphics cards because you are so salty about not getting one you need to take a long hard look at what your life has become.

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Lionsguard1351d ago

Sounds to me like you're a scalper.

MarkyMark891351d ago (Edited 1351d ago )

They did not sit on ebay to shill bid.. A guy created a bot that picks up on 3080 sales, create's an account that place's bids on 3080's ranging from $6k-20k to make sure the sellers have a hard time, but I am sure we have plenty of others who are salty like you stated and placing a bunch of $10k bids... But in all honesty I don't blame them, Its the same thing most of the buyers did to even purchase one..

I saw multiple people post receipts on PCMR claiming they only got one because of a simple bot they created, with no intention of using the card at all, just up selling it. I mean look at most of the sales before the up bidding starting, people posting 3080's for $1400. Sell the one now, buy another when stock is back in full force, essentially paying nothing for a GPU upgrade, slime balls. The real problem is people who buy from the scalpers thinking they are not scum like the folks they bought it from. They are both the problem.. Nvidia claims they will be constantly sending new stock to retailers everyday.. But we all know they want this, keeps the hype going when people cannot easily go purchase one. Newegg Tweeted that all 3080 sales went to humans.... 5 Minutes every card they had at 9am went poof lol, mean while Ebay Scapler post say otherwise, dozens and dozens with Newegg receipts.. Lol just don't get why Newegg even cares to state that, the job is done the product is sold nothing needs to be said by them, just a dumb move by the PR on that website.

Pyrofire951351d ago

Barely any time was spent actually, it's just a bot hiking the prices. Scalpers don't deserve to make money off this, it's technically price gouging which is illegal.

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Ghostbob1352d ago

Fuck the scalpers they need scalping!

elazz1352d ago (Edited 1352d ago )

This was obviously a paper launch. Anywhere between 10.000 and 30.000 cards globally means production just wasn't ready. We probably have to wait until December / January before supply gets much better. It seems they just wanted to release before the next gen consoled and new AMD cards.

-T9X-69-1351d ago

Agreed. Especially after Newegg's response on Twitter saying they sold out in 5 min (They sold out in 2min, and their website was down from 9:00 to 9:02) no bots got any cards and they were all human. Calling major BS on that one when Ebay has scalpers showing multiple receipts from Newegg.

Parasyte1352d ago

And NewEgg had the balls to say this wasn’t due to bots, they were all human orders. Considering how quickly they sold out, that is a flat out lie!

FlyingFoxy1352d ago

I was watching the Nvidia site for the Founders cards yesterday in the UK, it went from notify me to out of stock in a single quick refresh, there was BS for sure. Not that i mind now anyway as i have a better/cooler AIB card ordered for the same price.

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Can FSR 3 frame generation deliver the 120fps dream on PS5 and Xbox?

Frame generation technology has arrived on consoles, amplifying frame-rates and potentially transforming experiences.

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purple10121h ago

adds between 8.3-15.3 milliseconds of latency on the game they tested, - no thanks

darksky4h ago

Base latency is 130.8ms and frame gen takes that up to 139.1ms. A 7% increase in latency is hardly a deal breaker.

Zenzuu4h ago

That's hardly a deal breaker and not really noticeable. Even the folks at Digital Foundry said so as well.

darthv7221h ago

Impressive results... sadly I don't have a 120hz display. I was thinking this technique could increase fps on any game that supports it regardless of the display.

purple10121h ago(Edited 21h ago)

I have a vrr telly in the lounge,

On another point, what if it were the other way around where the developer aims for higher fps, then used something like pssr to make the resolution higher, that might be better?

Any which way, PS5 pro sure looks interesting now, being they have already doubled frame rate, with JUST just this fsr3.0

sagapo2h ago

It’s up to dev’s to implement FSR 3 support tho but most probably will I guess (hope).

andy853h ago

Now I've extensively tried it I'm not too fussed about 120 fps. Give me a locked 60 and more details and I'm more than happy

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YouTube Will Probe Employees Following The PlayStation State of Play Leak

YouTube is probing its employees following the PlayStation State of Play leak that revealed all announcements ahead of the presentation.

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gold_drake1d 4h ago

i didnt even know there was a leak ha.

Profchaos5h ago

Wasn't a short detailed leak about 12 hours prior it was hey there's going to be a astro bot a VR game and a few other things specified but massively underwhelming leak tbh

Goodguy011d 2h ago

Was it really worth it? Oof

Profchaos5h ago

For this state of play not at all

Relientk7723h ago

This is news to me. I had no idea the games from the State of Play got leaked.

Jin_Sakai15h ago

I seen the list posted and instantly got excited for Astro Bot. Everything else was meh.

CrimsonWing6916h ago

I’m pretty sure leaks or not, by the end of the show people will still be disappointed. The only highlight for me was MH: Wilds… everything else was mid to forgettable. Hope them HaaS games you got lined up really work out for you, Sony. Everyone asking for Bloodborne Remake, Wolverine, and, uh, well other games like that could’ve made this epic. Instead we get Concord, some derivative Souls-like games, that were fine looking, and a Silent Hill 2 Remake with horrible character designs and janky combat animations… great.

rayford1515h ago

I wasn’t disappointed it was a solid B

TOTSUKO13h ago

For a State of play it was actually alright. People are overshadowing it because they want to cancel Sony to high hell for Gaas which is not fair for the other devs who revealed great looking games that were just shown. I get it you don’t like gaas don’t buy it. If it sells well good for the people who had interest no big deal? If you are a PlayStation fan what’s wrong with PlayStation trying to cater every gamer? I don’t understand that smh

ravens5214h ago

Where Winds Meet and Ballad of Antara both looked good. Not to mention Astro Bot. It was a decent show. For me personally it was a 7. I'm sure to some people it was actually really good cause they'd play all those games. 🤷🏽 Personal taste

MrNinosan13h ago

I wasn't dissapointed.
And no, everyone doesn't want a Bloodborne Remake. There is probably very few who's actually asking for it, but the ones who do are loud on internet.

CrimsonWing6913h ago(Edited 13h ago)

Oh, my mistake. It’s definitely not one of the most requested games when it comes to remakes with news stories talking about it 🙄

https://comicbook.com/gamin...

https://www.gamingbible.com...

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/...

https://gamerant.com/fromso...

Silly me. It’s just a very few that are actually wanting it…

MrNinosan6h ago

@CrimsonWings69
And you just proved what I wrote.

If Bloodborne was remestered or remade, it would still sell less than Final Fantasy XVI or VII Rebirth, probably be called a great succes from it's core fans, but most wouldn't care.

I love Bloodborne, I want a new release of it, but it's niche and has sold crap compared to most of Playstation Studios bigger titles.

Astro Bot will sell and mean more to Playstation than a Bloodborne Remake.

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Get Ready to Armor Up in The Epic Games Store's Weekly Freebie

The Epic Games Store has yet another free game, and it's a pretty damn good one.

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