Will Scalpers buy all the 1080ti cards??

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I really hate this new trend of Scalpers I mean wow I just bought a card Amazon now I can flip the cards for a 150.00 profit.
 
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They buy the cards and sell re-sell them for a profit. Thus creating a fake demand that doesn't help anyone.
 
I doubt it. Rumor is the card may cost as much as $1,000.00 MSRP, which is just silly. The 980 Ti only cost about $650.00 MSRP when it was released.

This whole Nvidia 10xx generation of cards are way overpriced for what the are.
 
If it's that much I'll skip it I won't pay more than 800.00 for a hot graphics card.
 
Does this actually work? Must be region dependent I guess.
 
pendragon1 said:
what 1080ti?! are we talking about unicorns again?
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Doubt it. The margin will be too slim based on what I'm hearing from MSRP - if people were willing to pay the scalped price they pretty much might as well just go for the Titan X at MSRP......
 
delita said:
Doubt it. The margin will be too slim based on what I'm hearing from MSRP - if people were willing to pay the scalped price they pretty much might as well just go for the Titan X at MSRP......
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Well, that solves that problem then
 
I do actually think there will be some asshats buying and ebaying them to make profit but it wont be that big of an issue. and fuck scalpers in the ass with a xmas tree!
 
It's gonna be an 800 dollar card or in that range. That'll be some high roller scalpers. And if it gets too high, TXP is better anyways.
 
I think there are scaplers but honestly, there are lots of people who want the cards and not enough supply so it will run out and prices will rise, and some people might decide they can make profit on it and do so. Just gotta wait.
 
The problem for scalpers is that 1080ti production will not be that limited - scalpers only succeed in a limited availability market.

The scalpers have a very narrow window of opportunity to make money based on opening demand vs supply.

There is too much of a risk of a competing product like Vega coming out and dropping the price of 1080ti's unexpectedly, forcing them to sell at a loss.

The AMD cards like the 290x were different, it was miners not scalpers who bought them because they could make money from running the car, not reselling them.

From what I have read of current mining projects the risk/reward is too great to put in a major investment in new hardware to try, although a lot of rigs are being reprogrammed to more lucrative mining projects.

That means that short of some new application for GPUs (especially nVidia which were never the strongest at crypto mining) it is unlikely any shortages will be due to more than just the usual Day 1 limited availability.
 
I pretty much believe, no real knowledge that Vega will be faster then the 1070/1080 but the 1080Ti - maybe not. Would be nice if so. As for the 1080Ti I expect performance between the 1080 and Titan X. Nvidia hit it out of the park with separating their cards per each price and performance points.

For AMD it will be sustainable clock speeds and acceptable power values for the performance. If they are good in both - AMD will have a good card and maybe even a winner or two.
 
Why are you guys even worried about the 1080 or 1080ti or Titan Pascal?

I have a pair if 980ti's in SLI that stomps the crap out of a 1080 and Titan, all for under $500 dollars.

I never understood people spending more money for less performance.
 
thesmokingman said:
That'll be funny, go ahead. Vega will drop and force price cuts lol.
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Nah I was just trolling. These cards will not net anybody any profit as the poster above said ppl will just buy titan Xp if they have to pay more than msrp on these 1080ti's
 
Nvidia can price however the fuck they want because AMD hasn't got shit.

If Vega doesn't deliver, nvidia will keep gouging - simply because there's nothing stopping them.
 
Syphon Filter said:
Nvidia can price however the fuck they want because AMD hasn't got shit.

If Vega doesn't deliver, nvidia will keep gouging - simply because there's nothing stopping them.
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You think AMD will price it any different?
 
What do you mean?

Would AMD do anything differently if they were in nvidia's enviable position? I doubt it, it wouldn't make any business sense what so ever. Typically (loss leaders aside) products are prices as highly as the market (i.e. buyers) can stomach given relative performance / function.

If you mean "do I think will AMD price Vega differently to the nvidia product stack?". Well, that depends on the relative performance on offer.

Given their track record of late...I suspect they will come in under-performing and priced accordingly. Would love to be proven wrong - I've no allegiance to either side, I just want the fastest card going (Titan aside). Having said that, based on my limited experience, I've had less issues with nvidia drivers. Catalyst always seemed a bit wanky.
 
New trend? Of people moving fast and taking advantage of supply and demand and trying to make a profit? It ain't new.
 
I hope not, been holding out for this card for a while and could really use an upgrade !
 
SixFootDuo said:
Why are you guys even worried about the 1080 or 1080ti or Titan Pascal?

I have a pair if 980ti's in SLI that stomps the crap out of a 1080 and Titan, all for under $500 dollars.

I never understood people spending more money for less performance.
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Actually no, they don't. I had 980Ti in SLI prior and I get higher framerates with my single TXP than I did 980Ti SLI(stock clocks). Scaling FTL...
 
DarksidePC said:
Actually no, they don't. I had 980Ti in SLI prior and I get higher framerates with my single TXP than I did 980Ti SLI(stock clocks). Scaling FTL...
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You keep saying this but it just doesn't seem to be the case. At least not anywhere I can find that's documented.
 
Seeing new, supply limited cards on places like ebay or Amazon Market Place for hundreds above MSRP isn't exactly a new phenomenon.
 
Wag said:


You keep saying this but it just doesn't seem to be the case. At least not anywhere I can find that's documented.
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Now see if you can get that same scaling in oh... the other 99% of games?
 
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