Are videocard prices coming down finally?
They have been coming down over the past month, pretty steeply. A lot of ebay sellers are rattled. However that decline seems to have plateaued. Some of the panic whores on youtube have said that it's slowly going back up, but I don't know if that's the case.
One of the reasons I picked this generation however, instead of just waiting for 1.3 years, is because I do believe that NVidia/AMD will raise their MSRP next round. The people have spoken: they are retarded. And Nvida certainly wants a piece of that retarded pie. My thinking is, there's no way they let scalpers get 300% again.
Now that is just my forecast of things, I could be completely wrong. But having just come out of the race, scouring all channels of purchase, I can tell you for certain, right now:
1) StockX is the way to go usually. That is how I got my GPU at retail. Also you can buy Ryzen 7 5800X's for like $300.00 depending on the time of the week
2) Ebay is worth keeping an eye on. 90% of the time prices are ridiculous but there are people who put up stuff that is reasonable, sometimes you can get one for only $100.00 - $200.00 over MSRP. Of course that's not good, but relative to the market right now it's a lot better than most alternatives.
3) I have never, ever won a NewEgg shuffle. Take that for what you will. RNG is RNG. So maybe you'll have better luck, and you should of course always, always enter. Hell I got my card and I'm still entering every day. Because it can't hurt. You have nothing to lose
Remember not to lose hope. Statistically you have a better chance than I did- it's a chance that gets better every day as the market continues to move towards saturation. It sucks I truly empathize.
But I don't recommend buying a scalped price-- if prices do tank, you'll be left with a massive amount of regret. If that kind of thing just doesn't matter to you, you might be looking at a different situation
