The morals of selling used GPUs

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I recently got a lot of flak at work for "trading up" my graphics cards. It started last summer, when I sold my 1070 for the price of an open box 1080ti, then a few weeks ago, when I sold the said 1080ti and got a titan xp. Essentially, my coworkers think that instead of reselling gpus at the inflated prices to miners, gamers should sell them at or below MSRP, to other gamers. I feel like that would be charitable, and commendable, but it is really "bad morals" or greedy to take advantage of the market?
Naw, do what you got to do here.
 
What kinda wash women do you work with that they have a group discussion about this, over several days no less? Holy fak
 
lol, it's so funny when people are jealous because you took advantage of opportunities they frankly missed....then they turn around and make it a moral thing....yeah ok
 
The older you get, the less you listen to other people's opinion influencing your decision, and the less you GAF about it. Sell your card for what you want.
 
Well, everything I would have said has already be said.

So that leaves me wondering:
How is it that your co-workers know that you buy and sell video cards?
Is that part of your lunch room conversation?

And why would they care?
And if they do care, why would you care that they care?
 
Holy shit I do i feel old. I have been gaming so long people have turned graphics cards into money printers. Back in the day you bought a card and you were damn grateful you could turn anti-aliasing up a notch or increase the refresh rate on your CRT. Now the graphics card generates money. God damn kids get off my lawn.
 
I recently got a lot of flak at work for "trading up" my graphics cards. It started last summer, when I sold my 1070 for the price of an open box 1080ti, then a few weeks ago, when I sold the said 1080ti and got a titan xp. Essentially, my coworkers think that instead of reselling gpus at the inflated prices to miners, gamers should sell them at or below MSRP, to other gamers. I feel like that would be charitable, and commendable, but it is really "bad morals" or greedy to take advantage of the market?

So what is to keep them from guilting you to selling it at the lower price and they, themselves, going out and unloading it at the higher price?

It's called a free market :)
 
Holy shit I do i feel old. I have been gaming so long people have turned graphics cards into money printers. Back in the day you bought a card and you were damn grateful you could turn anti-aliasing up a notch or increase the refresh rate on your CRT. Now the graphics card generates money. God damn kids get off my lawn.
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Immoral? No. But does it make you a douche? Yeah, it pretty much does. I mean the whole crypto currency thing is a douche canoe idea, a libertarian wet dream of a joke, the block chain tech is the value, not the actual "currency". Basically they just look at you like any weenie commodity trader or stock jockey. It makes you money, but adds no value to society, no one really respects your profession, but they'll take your money.

So it's a question of what you value more, money or people's opinion. 9/10 you're probably better off with the money.
 
Regardless of right or wrong it'd be an ethical issue, not a moral one.

Past that to say you shouldn't benefit from market dynamics is selfishness and a socialist idea. Sleep well sweet prince.
 
Immoral? No. But does it make you a douche? Yeah, it pretty much does. I mean the whole crypto currency thing is a douche canoe idea, a libertarian wet dream of a joke, the block chain tech is the value, not the actual "currency". Basically they just look at you like any weenie commodity trader or stock jockey. It makes you money, but adds no value to society, no one really respects your profession, but they'll take your money.

So it's a question of what you value more, money or people's opinion. 9/10 you're probably better off with the money.

Damn. It's posts like this that make me wish we had a dislike flag.
 
Sell it for whatever you can get for it and keep the upgrades rolling. I'm going to bail on my 1080 whenever Nvidia's new card is announced. It'll go to whoever pays me the most without making me jump through hoops, too. I'm used to taking a 60+% loss on these, so it'll be nice to get a little more for once.
 
Damn. It's posts like this that make me wish we had a dislike flag.

Lol, some people don't have the stomach to be real with themselves. I do all these things, I'm exploiting people's labor with my capital and I'm not afraid to admit it.
 
I recently got a lot of flak at work for "trading up" my graphics cards. It started last summer, when I sold my 1070 for the price of an open box 1080ti, then a few weeks ago, when I sold the said 1080ti and got a titan xp. Essentially, my coworkers think that instead of reselling gpus at the inflated prices to miners, gamers should sell them at or below MSRP, to other gamers. I feel like that would be charitable, and commendable, but it is really "bad morals" or greedy to take advantage of the market?
My advice does not consider the current GPU market (which sucks ass).

I would sell the GPU at whatever price a used GPU is going for at that time then subtract the 'friend' discount (which could be 0). Depending on how good the friend is, the discount might be much cheaper than MSRP or nothing at all.

I'd rather sell hardware to someone I know at a decent discount than throw it up on the Internet. But if I did sell it online it would be for whatever the market bears at that time. Sometime it's an advantage to the seller, sometimes it's not.
 
Immoral? No. But does it make you a douche? Yeah, it pretty much does. I mean the whole crypto currency thing is a douche canoe idea, a libertarian wet dream of a joke, the block chain tech is the value, not the actual "currency". Basically they just look at you like any weenie commodity trader or stock jockey. It makes you money, but adds no value to society, no one really respects your profession, but they'll take your money.

So it's a question of what you value more, money or people's opinion. 9/10 you're probably better off with the money.

Your post is full of shit.

The world is full of douches, but selling a used GPU at market price and buying another one at market price is not a douche thing.

Also what's with profession comment, what a stupid tangent.

some people just have a hard time being 'real'.

Op sold old equipment at inflated prices and got better equipment because of it. Nothing morally or ethically dubious about that. Op peeps got mad at him because he should artificially undervalue his stuff to make them happy...
 
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It's easy for co-workers to think this way when it's not theirs to sell.

Do whatever you want with what you own.
 
The mining shenanigans will eventually taper off, and the world will be blessed with GPUs that cost the way they should cost.
 
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