I haven't been conned that bad by newegg, but they did royally piss me off three years ago when I paid for 3 day shipping on a cpu only to get it delivered FedEx SmartPost two weeks later. I also hate how they package their OEM hard drives. I had a couple of WD Blacks die in a year or two that I bought OEM from them but have never had problems with cheaper quality retail drives I got from the likes of Best Buy. I was kind of ready to move on from them even before reading your post, but your story makes it crystal clear how far that company has fallen off.
Here is a good chunk of them: https://www.reddit.com/r/gpumining/comments/7ozas8/they_cant_wait/
AMD took a stock disposal write off after the big Asic drop off back in the day that basically ate up all the increased profits they got from mining sales. This is why I caution everyone to not get to absorbed in stock issues with certain hardwre. To meet demand now it have them so far ahead of demand later they have to take large losses. Heck the Wii sold like a 100 Million consoles but to meet the demand of the first three years, once demand was met the ramped up production almost strangled Nintendo.That said, Nvidia and AMD will have to increase production somehow, because if every card that rolls out of a factory is immediately sold, it only makes sense for them to do so. At the same time, if they ramp up production and there is a mining dip where miners aren't buying them, they don't want the various retailers to have surplus stock where they have to offer some kind of discount/promotion.
AMD took a stock disposal write off after the big Asic drop off back in the day that basically ate up all the increased profits they got from mining sales. This is why I caution everyone to not get to absorbed in stock issues with certain hardwre. To meet demand now it have them so far ahead of demand later they have to take large losses. Heck the Wii sold like a 100 Million consoles but to meet the demand of the first three years, once demand was met the ramped up production almost strangled Nintendo.
There is a big difference between something like the GPU's or the Switch compared something like Coffee Lake where Intel as the de facto monopoly on PC CPU sales who has never had supply issues is doing a slow ramp on their CPU's. Certain supply issues make sense to prevent overreaching, others can be a sign of a larger issue.
knew i should have bought those 980Ti futures!
I am curious, those companies that had mining specific cards, did they actually sell out of them? Were people buying them instead of the "normal" cards?
Well i paid $1200 USD for my GTX 1080 Ti about a week ago and am not complaining cause well honestly if we want to game on our pc's then we have to just suck it up cause there is literally no other option. We cannot change the fact that mining has ruined PC gaming nor can we change the fact that the cards are literally out of stock all the time for the most of the time.
It really sucks but i see no other option, like what are we even going to do at this point other than moving to consoles?Which sadly isint an option for some of us cause well we just want to game on our PC's, mod our games and stuff
Well atleast with this card i/we can hold out for 5 years (look at GTX 780 ti's still doing okay'ish with high to medium settings) which will be enough time ( i am hoping) for the mining craze to die off and cards to get back to MSRP.
Return it and buy a Titan Xp instead:
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/products/10series/geforce-store/
not an option mate . I bought it from a local store cause that was the only place where the card was available for me. I could have bought it from Amazon or newegg (other models) but would end up paying about the same price and the Titan xp costs 2k after taxes and import duty.
EDIT - not to mention i just checked and they do not ship to where i live. It always sucks to live in such remote place where supply is low and prices are high.
Sounds like a serious case of Brazil syndrome
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidt...ice-in-brazil-is-bad-for-gamers/#f2d5c9c4311d
They didn't fail due to people stopping buying GPUs for mining, they failed because their GPUs sucked at everything other than mining.
It's important to point out the real problem instead of the purposefully obfuscated one.
INB4 the gamers of the nuclear afterscape have to scrape by on every 980 Ti they can find in the rubble of the miner's preemptive attack on castle 1080 (Ti).
EDIT:
Just checked ebay and 980 Ti is now 450 USD due to being the only thing left to purchase.
You can still occasionally catch a 1080 at the $500 mark, although it's worth noting I got mine for that about a year and a half ago, so the prices definitely haven't been dropping... Cheapest I see it for on pcpartpicker right now is $664 which is pretty brutal. Everything under that is very inflated though. Given how low the stock is everywhere I'm honestly blaming this more on volta spooling up than anything.Miners just bought all the Titan V's (RIP Machine Learning Developers/Researchers), all gamers have left is 980 Ti and Titan Xp for high end options at MSRP-ish.
OMFG, I just saw an MSI Armor GTX 1070 sell for $1125 on ebay. Not asking $1125, I mean actually selling the thing for that price. Used GTX 1070 selling for new Titan Xp prices.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/MSI-Gaming...aphics-Card-GTX-1070-ARMOR-8G-OC/122894553738
Wow.
I can't blame them for selling it though. If people are willing to pay that, more power to them! I mean the Titan XP is in stock at Nvidia's website, so the old saying of "A fool and his money are soon parted" rings true here.