Yea it’s so easy to get scammed out there. Gotta be careful. I was able to score a card at Best Buy so thankfully I can avoid a lot of the crazy out there now. Just trying to help my friend get one now.

I can't imagine ever buying something this valuable through a platform such as ebay.. scammers' paradise 

Pretty impressive that they can manage to collect 100 cards 

austin86

nikazz1993

SleepAgreeable
How are they able to bulk buy all those GPUs and how much are they paying per GPU. 

1.Pretend to be a business
2. Contact a distributor and purchase a pallet of GPU's
3. ???
4. Profit

At the scale they are selling they are more of less a business.
 
 
 
TBH I don't really see the problem here, it seems people are more then willing to pay the high prices and I'm sure "scalpers" bought the cards by legal means so they are 100% in their right to sell the cards at what ever price they want. Its not like GPUs are a necessity like food or gas, they aren't a regulated product so they are free to ask what ever price they want and sell them at what ever price the market is willing to pay. Dose it suck, sure, if you don't have the extra cash to buy the cards or time to get one from a more stander retail outlet. But its not like you have to have a modern GPU today. One buy a older card like a 5xx or 6xx or 7xx card and wait for the prices to fall if you don't like the market right now.

Pretty much eBay has become the go-to place for scalpers to make a quick buck, unfortunately like u said if there is a demand for it, then these scalpers will continue to do it. There are people who literally do not care about pricing and just throw money away, giving the scalpers the source of buyers every time. It sucks but it is what it is, nothing can be changed much now. 

With that many cards on hand, that store almost certainly is connected with distributors or other scalpers. The current global chip shortage and mass of people looking to upgrade their cards from 2 or more generations ago is scalper's paradise.

My worry is that this concept of "scalpers paradise" is just going to shift to the next thing after GPUs, and price gouging will become normal and accepted.

I wouldn't call that "ripped off" then actually.. you were kind of spared from receiving garbage and having to fight an uphill battle to get your money back, no? :P

This is why I never use Ebay. so much easier to use Offerup and only deal with people that have solid ratings and you don't get hit with fees.

anavik2
LOL same. When did PC hardware become a luxury item worth scalping?? I must be getting old...

I'd blame the mining industry.

anavik2

ClutchAutomatic

anavik2
LOL same. When did PC hardware become a luxury item worth scalping?? I must be getting old...

I'd blame the mining industry.

I do, but I also blame nvidia hiking its SKU prices to the moon on the upper end of its product stack. I question whether that was truly necessary, or just priming the market to accept higher prices. I strongly suspect the latter.

I mean lower prices make the incentive for scalping even higher.

I'm really surprised that anyone is able to get so many cards to scalp. If this person has done over 100 cards that means they've made solid 6 figures at this point. While it's not a good thing to do, I must say I kind of respect the hustle, it's impressive at the least.

I really hope that someday soon this all blows over. I don’t want to go through all this again in a few years when it’s time to upgrade the system. Hopefully GPU mining becomes less profitable and we can actually start seeing news about frame rates again instead of hash rates.

Scalpers are the worst thing ever using bots to take away products from people who actually want it, its crazy that sites allow that but for them its just money and not caring about who get them

Absolutely infuriating. I waited to buy a card and now I'm literally looking everywhere to get a gpu for my niece's pc for her graduation, and im not spending $450-600 on some 1050ti. I don't understand how or why the bots are still just rampant in the market taking absolutely everything in 5 seconds. 

nrpeyton
If everyone on this thread makes a commitment to report the scalper (seller) mentioned, then ebay would remove the account.

But we would all need to do it for ebay to pay attention. Not just 1 or 2 of us.

Ebay scalper username: Report URL:  (to report sellers - or in this case, scalpers)


RTX 3060 ...sold 116 at nearly $900 each
RTX 3080 ...sold 38 for $2200 each

Ban together!