So all these company's have created a perfect storm so to speak. Not enough production. No warehouse space. Loss of personnel to run these plants. The race to the bottom has started. We are promised so much in all the adverts , company spin but they have delivered so little. What got me annoyed yesterday was the adverts for the rtx 3060 card with no prices on them with a disclaimer they are waiting for a price to be shown later. In other words waiting to see what prices are out there before they scalp us. Terrible way to do business which i for one will not forget. I will deal directly with company's now and cut out the middleman. As said at start A PERFECT STORM .

 

bobmitch
Microcenter is actually scalping the 3060's that they have.  With  MSRP at $329.00 for some models...cheapest one at MC is $499.99.  Seems like everyone is getting in on this

That's disgusting. I would think that would be breach of contract with EVGA because it makes their brand look overpriced.
 
edit: I just checked out microcenter online - you must have been looking at the 3060 Ti prices... the 3060 XC Gaming is there for $389 which is correct pricing.
 
 
 

Nereus
 

bobmitch
Microcenter is actually scalping the 3060's that they have.  With  MSRP at $329.00 for some models...cheapest one at MC is $499.99.  Seems like everyone is getting in on this

That's disgusting. I would think that would be breach of contract with EVGA because it makes their brand look overpriced.
 
edit: I just checked out microcenter online - you must have been looking at the 3060 Ti prices... the 3060 XC Gaming is there for $389 which is correct pricing.
 
 
 

These are not TI's

Nereus
 
Thought you meant EVGA cards.
 

All stock completely sold out in most MC's .  Unbelievable!  There are lots showing up on Ebay.  I would love to see scalpers eat their cards!!!
 
 

Surprises me MC is doing that. There are plenty of places not doing that. Are you sure it’s not an MSI and Zotac problem though?

Daviddswenson
Also the scalpers are the worst.

 
They are down there with politicians and used car salesman

phantomshroom
My employees informed me last week  of some shady scalpers in our metro area downtown that were apparently advertising on various social media sites & Kijiji, etc. They advertised what appeared to be legit stuff from a normal person but in the end they chose random places to meet up with potential buyers that either texted or called them.
 
I looked into it & followed the bread crumb trail they left & then informed my friends in the local police. We went to various locations & nailed 4 of the bast*%ds & they were arrested & charged. When they searched their premises, they discovered hundreds of retail boxes of various items in each of the 4 criminal scalpers homes. Items ranged from Playstations, Xboxes, high end stereo equipment, computers, laptops, hdd/ssd & tons of various video cards from different manufacturers. My police friend said they were all recent video cards & all still had their store labels on them. This only happened last week & their investigations are still ongoing.
 
They are checking to see if any stores were robbed, or had shipments delayed/missing, or whether this was an inside job.
As I mentioned in my previous posts about scalpers, the charges can't be appealed because in Canada, every municipality has their own laws with regard to permits & licenses. You must have them else you face long prison terms. The main reason you need them is if you sell something, you must charge taxes & claim them to government. Scalpers don't charge you HST/GST so government is losing out :)
I hope this arrest places all those stolen goods back on the shelves such that regular folk can buy them :)
My employees & I are always actively on the lookout for scalpers & to-date, we've taken several hundred off the street & into prison. I hope to change that number to trillions of scalpers in prison :)

No real surprise to find a pile here and there
 
I am so despondent over the BS I have abandoned hope of a new video card. Maybe when the second coming happens......
 

veganfanatic
 
No real surprise to find a pile here and there
 
I am so despondent over the BS I have abandoned hope of a new video card. Maybe when the second coming happens......
 

Have faith & think positive because even though I am not religious, I truly have faith & believe that YOU & everyone else here in the forums will get their EVGA products soon enough :)
Take care my friend :)

New AMD card is now the scalpers new dream ticket. Never even saw them for sale but they are out on Fleabay for silly money. What gets me riled is this. So called buyers with zero feedback are now the normal on Fleabay. As long as they are shilling up the price the sellers do not seem to mind. On 1 sellers description he or she said zero feedback buyers will be blocked. THAT NEVER HAPPENED. They shilled up the price so why would the seller block them. Please Please boycott these sellers then just maybe we can get back to normality. Rant over.

so this is becoming the new trend?
 
scalpers now buy everything away?  and no stock anywhere forcing prices to almost/OR  indeed double?
 
we are now forced to buy from scalpers at double the price because:
there is no "legit" store with actual stock? and even IF the "legit" store had a few stock > then prices are AGAIN inflated because of high demand (from scalpers)???
 
so now we have to choose to buy everything double the price either from scalpers (sitting on a mountain of stock) or from "legit" stores (with no stock) ?  
 
who wins at the end of this story?
 
its a vicious cycle..  around and around we go!  it will never end at this pace

Even Amazon businesses are scalping.
EVGA GeForce RTX 3090 FTW3 Ultra Gaming, 24GB GDDR6X, 24G-P5-3987-KR
 
EVGA sells for $1869.99 https://www.evga.com/prod...aspx?pn=24G-P5-3987-KR
 
 
Amazon sellers going for as low as $3,399.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp...ncoding=UTF8&aod=1

replace "digital coins" with "Guns" and see how far you get in the USA with that idea
 
lots of legal commerce happens with bitcoin and will only be more so when it is accepted by Credit card companies and banks soon

phantomshroom

Xavier Zepherious
lots of legal commerce happens with bitcoin and will only be more so when it is accepted by Credit card companies and banks soon

Not going to happen anytime in the near future, as one of my family members that works in the anti-terrorist, money laundering division of one of the largest banks in Canada told me, crypto currency is NOT legal tender anywhere on this planet & they (the banks) are working with all countries banks/governments to ensure it stays that way forever plus as I alluded to in another post on these forums, they have a plan in place to eradicate crypto currency due to all the illegal transactions/terrorist activity world-wide.
 
As the banks stated the reason it is not legal tender anywhere is the simple fact that you CANNOT go into ANY bank on this planet & exchange physical paper money for crypto currency & vice versa. They work on instantaneous transactions which has never been achieved with crypto & never will be.  Thanks to the future with banks eradicating crypto currency, it will also eradicate scalpers as well :)

This is why I call it illicit. Ransomware is classic terrorism. 

Cryptocurrency is legal in the following countries
Morocco.Nigeria.Namibia.South Africa.Zimbabwe.Canada (banned by banks)Mexico.United States.
 
 
Top Countries Where Bitcoin is Legal 
Although Bitcoin and the entire cryptocurrency concept are not acceptable yet in most countries, some states have embraced it as a currency. Nevertheless, Bitcoin is struggling to be accepted in most countries globally. Here are the top countries where people can legally store, trade, and shop using Bitcoin.

• Japan
• South Korea
• The United States
• Germany
• Australia

Should cryptocurrency be legal tender? 44% of financial institutions say yes
 
Just Because Cryptocurrency Isn't 'Legal Tender' Doesn't Make It Illegal
 
https://complyadvantage.com/blog/cryptocurrency-regulations-around-world/
 
Asked about the prominent uses of cryptocurrencies, as a first-choice pick, financial institutions (FIs) reckoned that 50% of people use them for investment or speculation, with 35% for illicit purposes and the remaining usage as payments. In contrast, the crypto industry put investment at 81% and illicit use at 2%. Government respondents were in between with 62% thinking investment and 26% illegal purposes.
 
Perceptions about the traceability of cryptocurrencies also showed a gulf. Eighty-three percent of the crypto industry believes that cryptocurrency is more transparent than traditional transactions. Whereas 63% of FIs disagree. If you think about it from a crypto perspective, anyone can do the tracing, and then you need to speak to one exchange to convert pseudonymity into a real name (if an exchange was used). For a fiat transfer, banks already know real names. On the other hand, banks can only follow a payment trail with which they were involved. Anything more requires additional effort.
 
https://www.ledgerinsights.com/should-cryptocurrency-be-legal-tender-financial-institutions-say-yes/
 
meaning transactions are traceable now - because to handle Bitcoins you need exchanges which have to disclose and follow rules just like banks
it's not so anonymous as it once was
 
 
Legal tender cash is not as traceable and why drug cartels use cash and need money laundering techniques for it
 
https://www.loc.gov/law/help/cryptocurrency/world-survey.php
 
https://www.bis.org/speeches/sp210127.pdf
 
To date, countries that have issued their own cryptocurrencies include Ecuador, China, Senegal, Singapore, Tunisia, though these countries will not be standing alone for long with Estonia, Japan, Palestine, Russia and Sweden looking to launch their own national cryptocurrencies. Some of these countries are likely to take it a step further and replace paper tender altogether with China being one nation that is looking to take one step beyond a virtual and paper version.
 

phantomshroom
No, they will be eradicating it world-wide. USA inclusive. It is not going to happen over night as it will take time for all the banks & governments to work together to come up with the plan to eradicate it & what actions, etc. they will implement towards the violators.
Banks all work together world-wide because of transactions amongst themselves & interac/credit cards. Several countries are still permitting it as of 2021 because they can't panic the population with another nightmare during the pandemic issues.
 
I also found out that several agencies have been monitoring ALL forms of crypto mining & the owners wallets & transactions for many years now & can trace all activities. I don't crypto mine but some of my friends do & to see if my family member could locate stuff  I gave them my friends names (with their permission) & a few days later they got back to me with the data from the agencies with dates/times/locations of all their transactions & their crpto wallet balance. I kind of figured someone out there was keeping tabs on all this illegal stuff but had no idea until my friends confirmed the data that my family member passed on to me. Yes, the banks are working with these agencies to monitor & track stuff & NOTHING anyone can do about it :)

Digital coins are tracked closely due to the pervasive ransomware plague.