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So where are miners listed in those revenue streams? Ones who actually bought mining cards clumped into "data centers" and every other card is "gamers" ?

Sure, and you wouldn't even be on the hook for mail fraud too since Amazon packages are not considered "mail" even when delivered the last mile by the USPS. That said, if you ever get caught could very well be on the hook for grand larceny

At least 50% of the time ...

wow and not even b-stock either, full on full warranty

There were other factors though, namely mining that became the biggest problem but also the whole pandemic of people needing it now which also helped push the scalper market. I dont see it as being anywhere bad as it was before

Hmm damn I just bought a 1TB 970evo plus to replace a drive that got a stuck head (probably, don't have the tools to open it and check), was looking into 2TB as a replacement just couldn't justify nearly $200 for it.

Girl assembling a PC? I just see two eyes staring at me.

Yeah it is quite a bit harder to justify with a wife and kid. I mean back in the day when I was single and gas hovered below 2 bucks a gallon I could possibly parlay with a trip to Disney or Universal but yeah... not these days Rent on...

See the worst I would do is copy a Commodore 64 game, leave some strong speaker magnets on the 5.25" floppy over night, and return policy always was return for money back if it was non-functional if it worked they simply gave you the game back...

And I remember returning stuff to Frys and the level of due diligence they do inspecting returns and that made me want to have nothing to do with discounted returns. I mean they are great with accepting returns but when you are 45 minutes of...

Dynamic/surge pricing isn't just an Uber thing, I'm sure they lower it and if they get a bunch of sales in rapid succession they raise it back up to nab the guys who "just missed but shoot I still want it!!"

I mean to be fair, the point is clearly listed in both the title and the thumbnail, everything else is for that sweet ad revenue/watch time money :D

Newegg...

No little window on the box to a unique code? I guess not since they tend to be static bagged.

During the pandemic 4 months just flies by like "wow has it been 4 months since I've done laundry?"

Slightly different model (not sure what exactly is the difference between all of them, probably inconsequential), but $789 + $20 gift card -> "$769" at Newegg...

I'd say it's a good chance, the "new price" is $298 as this gen is phased out. This was simply one of those opening salvos of price reductions to see if there is still much demand which is why it squeaked back up. Now when will it dip? who...

Ah yes, back when Fry's was something too you had a choice of two stores. Funny as it sounds I think my Q9550 was from there as well.

It's ok I live in the middle of the "tech capital of the world" (or at least that was the argument) and the closest one is 7 hours away.

There in lies the rub, it's a package, much like in the US there are great sounding bills but a bunch of useless or downright "destructive" crap gets added and poof shit bill incoming