Are you ready to UPGRADE!?!?
>still above msrp
nope
NO
I am not going to pay above MSRP for worn out hand-me-downs.
The free market system leads to the most optimal distribution of resources.
GPUs are currently sold by official distributors at a sub-optimal price, due to abnormal market forces due to a number of extraordinary externalities relating to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Scalpers provide a valuable service to consumers by selling goods at equilibrium price, enabling those with the greatest interest to obtain goods when at a time when they would otherwise be unavailable due to demand exceeding supply.
Those with the greatest interest and means are more likely than others to use their GPUs for productive enterprise, and scalpers provide them a means to obtain GPUs at equilibrium price.
Crypto miners provide a valuable service for dark money around the globe to profit from activities which are banned by overbearing central governments (a regrettable distortion of fundamental market forces leading to non-Pareto efficient distributions). By enabling money laundering and the trade of illegal good such as drugs, weapons, illicit pornography, sex slaves etc. crypto miners provide a valuable service by freeing market forces from parasitic statist institutions.
Remember, complaining about these prices is communism and will not be tolerated.
You have been warned.
>buy a 2 year old card that has a 2 year warranty and has been worked to near death
never go full retard
>still above msrp
and msrp is still up 300%
this
the cards are in demand because they use subsidized - socialized - electricity to create revenue without operating expenses.
>used GPU
What could go wrong.